July 4 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Today’s card is the Milkshake Monster combined with the affirmation “Even while you feel rotten to the core, your light shines bright.”
I wouldn’t consider the Milkshake Monster to be rotten to the core, but he’s definitely messy. Like all milkshakes? He also probably tastes pretty delicious. There’s lots of foods like that, yeah? Barbecue wings, melty ice cream cones, juicy Hawaiian chicken burgers… all messy. All delightful.
So are you. Even when you’re a mess. Even if you’re tired or struggling, snotty or overwhelmed by chaos. Even when the chaos of what’s going on around you splatters all over you. You’re still someone’s shining light.
DECK USED: DRAGONS AND OTHER RARE BEVERAGE BEASTS AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN
July 5 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Today’s card is the Jasmine card combined with the affirmation “You have conquered every single bad day of your entire life. Today will be no different.”
Jasmine is well known as an aromatic plant, and is used in aromatherapy to reduce stress, improve mood, and reduce food cravings. In fact, in my home, I use a slight hint of jasmine oil inside the front door to help ease people’s stress when they step over the threshold.
That said, though, this plant has a lot more to offer that people don’t often realize. It has medicinal properties that lend it to use as a topical agent for helping to reduce breast milk production, ease some skin disease symptoms, and speed up wound healing. It can also be used to flavor beverages, candy, baked goods, puddings, and frozen dairy desserts, for one. (If you haven’t had frozen jasmine custard? Oh my god, you’re missing out.)
The one property that this plant has in common throughout all of it’s different uses? Is its gentleness. It is light and delicate on the senses, and in all the ways that it can be incorporated into use in our lives.
The message here between the Jasmine card and today’s affirmation is a reminder to be kind with yourself. Be gentle with yourself when things go awry. You’re a survivor and you’re going to make it through. There’s no need to make the experience worse than it already is by being rough with yourself or cruel in your thoughts to yourself. Be gentle instead, and you’ll make it through those difficult days just a little bit easier.
DECK USED: MARI MALI ORACLE AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN
July 6 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was fifteen minutes long (or possibly a few minutes shorter than that, since I dozed off at the end before the chime brought me back). It was a self-directed meditation that focused upon the graphic included with today’s cards that states “Anything you lose by speaking your truth isn’t a loss: it’s an alignment.”
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Today’s card is the Peacock card titled “Beauty” combined with the affirmation “It’s completely okay if you cry today.”
In the book for this deck, the passage for this card is all about the beauty and peace all around you, it talks about harmonious energies and how the beauty of the world around us can lift our spirits. When this is combined with the affirmation for today, what I am drawn to is that feeling of peaceful ache that comes after you cry.
I mean, at least that’s what happens when I cry, usually. There’s the big emotion and the clashing chaos of tears and hiccuped breaths and snuffles. Like a pressure cooker letting out its steam, the cry pushes the emotions up and out, spilling them everywhere and making a mess.
And, after all that? There’s a moment of silence. A moment of peace and tranquility.
The cards for the day are a reminder of that moment of tranquility, and that even if you don’t -want- to cry? Sometimes that moment of peace that comes afterward makes it all worth it.
Twisting the Leaf 