Day: September 18, 2024

Pride Over Punishment

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Today’s meditation was skipped (again).

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Serpent and the Peacock Tarot's The Sun card and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate AllanToday’s draw is The Sun card combined with the affirmation “As much as you can, please try to act from LOVE rather than from FEAR.”

Alchemically speaking, the green lion is eating the verdigris and impurities off of the sun in this image. (I had to look at the guide book with this card, and it speaks of how the green lion eating the sun is a metaphor for acids eating away impure substances to leave behind pure gold.)

To me, this says that happiness and success aren’t luck. They aren’t happenstance.  They are the results of hard work and effort.  Thus, the message in today’s cards is that we shouldn’t fear or discount our successes.  Even the smallest ones are hard won, and should be appreciated for their worth, rather than degraded out of fear that if we take pride in ourselves and our work that we will be punished for it in some way.

DECK USED:  SERPENT AND THE PEACOCK TAROT ART VERSION AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

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Question for September 17th : What do you need to focus on for self-care this full moon?

Magical Spirit OracleReading Summary: It’s okay to have fallow points in your practice (Blessings and Curses; The Witch resting inside a teacup spa). It’s okay to take time away (Dark Night of the Soul) and come back to it later.

Take Away: This full moon is finding you a bit worn out and in need of a break. Make sure that you are taking the breaks that you need, even in your spiritual practices.

It’ll all still be there when you’re ready to return, and burning yourself out isn’t going to do anyone any good… most especially yourself.

DECK USED: MAGICAL SPIRIT ORACLE

Philosophical Question for September 18th : What is humanity’s greatest mistake?

Serpent and the Peacock Tarot - Page of Pentacles, Eight of Cups, Four of CupsReading Summary: Becoming emotional and turning away (Eight of Cups and Four of Cups) in the face of challenges (Page of Pentacles).

Take Away: These cards indicate that humanity’s greatest mistake is allowing our emotions to turn us away from what are otherwise important pursuits.

Frustration and despondency, specifically, cause many to step away from what projects and explorations  that could possibly lead to somewhere great and worth while in the end.

DECK USED: SERPENT AND THE PEACOCK TAROT ART VERSION

Daily Self Kindness

I made the choice to not work on orders today for Friday, letting myself have a breather because I’m feeling overwhelmed.

🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Different Scenarios

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Prompt: “The purpose of this activity is to practice interpreting small spreads by combining card meanings, symbols and intuition. We will all interpret the same cards based on a few different (imaginary) situations. A 3 card spread will be posted together with 2 more specific scenarios. It’s your choice which scenario you’d prefer to use, or if you’d rather do a general reading of these cards as for an imaginary querent.”

Fifth Spirit Tarot - Three of Pentacles, The World, Eight of Pentacles

Scenario 1 – Jordan is trying to get over their jealousy of their ex dating someone else. They know it’s irrational but keeps cycling back to their ex and they’re coming to you for guidance and advice.

Sometimes in order to move on from a particularly significant phase in our lives (The World) it takes not just hard work on our parts (Eight of Pentacles), but help from others as well (Three of Pentacles).  Make sure that you are including those around you in your pursuits for freedom from these feelings and the new beginnings you are trying to build in your own life.  Tell them you are struggling and let them help you in creating something new that doesn’t involve a constant focus on your ex.

Scenario 2 – There is a conflict at Joey’s workplace involving his manager and a coworker. Joey wants some guidance on how to navigate this situation.

Both of these people are important to your work, and it would behoove you to insert yourself into the situation (Three of Pentacles) and help them sort things out. Guide them toward turning over a new leaf in their working relationship with each other (The World), and remind them how important working together is in performing at their individual bests at their job (Eight of Pentacles).

DECK USED: FIFTH SPIRIT TAROT