Day: March 30, 2025

All the Hidden Things

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long and a self-directed session based on a graphic by @FredwardFall

This graphic really touched me in a deep and pretty pervasive way. It made me spend time considering what in life directs my actions, reactions, thoughts, and perceptions that perhaps I’m not even aware of.  This train of thought then wandered into thoughts of inner child work and shadow work, both of which explore parts of your inner paradigm that are not clearly seen through the lens of everyday life, but function beneath the surface, usually suppressed and ignored.

And yet even as we ignore them?  They continue to hold influence over us that we often don’t even realize or acknowledge.

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Fox Fairy Goddess Tarot - The High PriestessToday’s draw is the High Priestess card, which is traditionally a representation of intuition, secrets, sacred knowledge, mystery, the subconscious mind.

The message in today’s card is an encouragement to listen to that secret inner knowledge that only you are privy to, because it’s in dipping into the unknown within ourselves that we learn and grow.

Combined with the meditation done today, we carry this theme further in understanding that means not just listening to our intuition, but also to the other suppressed voices within us as well, like our inner child and our shadow.

This is how we deepen our understanding of self, and at the same time of others.  This is how we learn to become whole and connected to the deepest parts of ourselves, and through that connection then can deepen our connection to our spirituality, our path, and the world around us as a whole.

DECK USED:  FOX FAIRY GODDESS TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMar2025 Challenge
Prompt for March 30 : Do Interrobang Tarot’s Spring Spread

Spring Tarot Reading with the Bad Ideas Lead to Better Ones Cards and Amethyst Oracle

This spread goes from bottom to top. We begin with the underground, with death and decay.

Death/Passage: What died for me in the past season?

Pack All the Things and Passivity – You have successfully managed to pull yourself out of the cycle of stagnancy you’ve been experiencing over the past few months without overloading your plate with too many extra responsibilities.

Decay/Fertilizer: How does that passage fertilize what comes next?

Feeling Overwhelmed and Collection – The passage of this time of stagnancy allows you to more easily identify and acknowledge where you are still feeling overwhelmed or weighed down, and then begin working on finding a better balance in these areas.

Next, we consider the perennial, and turn our attention to any old growth due to renew.

The Perennial (Rebirth): What renews or rekindles for me now?

Eat While They’re Busy and Fear – It’s time to allow yourself the space you need to care for yourself properly, without allowing the fear of something going wrong to keep pulling you back into unhealthy caretaker habits.

Tending & Cultivation: How can I best greet and tend to this?

Clean the Body and Poison – Identify and reflect on what is perpetuating “sickness” within your life and it’s flow. Spend some time familiarizing yourself with those unhealthy patterns and cleansing them from your life.

Finally, we look above ground to consider the annuals, the unplanted seeds, and our garden plans.

The Annual (New Life/Seed): What do I plant next or start afresh?

Competitive Online Gaming, Spring, and Precarious – Work on establishing a better balance between those non-productive activities that you enjoy and the productive ones you need to get done. Now that you have broken free of that cycle of stagnancy, it’s the ideal time to establish better balance between these two areas.

Planning & Plotting: How can I best prepare to make sure that it thrives?

Uses a Wheelchair and Perspective – Use your ability to “put yourself in others shoes” to foster greater patience for yourself and others.

Other elements included in this reading:
Sigil: Sustainable Healthy Energy
Dried Rhododendron Leaf for Fostering Confidence
Foraged Norway Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Kambaba Jasper for a sense of Peace and Tranquility
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: BAD IDEAS LEAD TO BETTER ONES CARDS AND THE AMETHYST ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

When Gid asked me to take a moment to really consider if I was okay with drowning today, I actually did it instead of just jumping in right away because it’s what I want and was craving.

❤️ Self Care Saturday (On a Sunday)

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These Saturday readings are (not usually) bearing in on any one thing or event in my life, as the question used is asking for a more general outlook. This is a self care exercise, and is not meant as a predictive reading… although that, too, happens on occasion.

The question is… What do I need to focus for self-care through the week ahead?

Self Care Saturday Tarot Reading with the Enchanted Forest Felines Tarot and Minimalist Japanese Lenormand

Earth – Page of Saucers – Don’t let boredom create stagnancy this week while you’re off work. Dabble in creativity and have some fun instead. Not work… fun.  Imagination.  Play.  Bring back that enthusiasm for creativity that has a tendency to be smothered out when too much gets put on your shoulders at once.

Air – Three of Saucers – Invite others in not just to help you in creating balance in your life, but to have fun with as well. Focus on those that help in lifting your spirits and making life interesting.

Water – Seven of Branches –  Remember that whether or not others expect you to defend yourself and how you feel? There’s no need to actually do so.  They can’t reach you anyway, so why bother entertaining their pressure and threats?

Fire – Wheel of Fortune – Look for the boon in upcoming “spilled milk” situations. It’s not all bad, and you need to make sure that you are adapting easily to the whims of fate when they put shit like this in your way.

Waning – Man and Fox – Let go of that responsible leader who’s always on top of everything and always strategizing the best way forward. Sometimes you just have to step back and let things take their own course instead of trying to direct everything to the letter.

Waxing – Child and Letter – It’s okay to be irresponsible and “dial it in” this week instead of being on the ball and ready to roll. Play time is just as important to your well-being as times of work are.

Take Away – Don’t go back to work early because you are feeling pressure to do so.  Take your time and take it easy. Have some fun.  Make sure when unpleasant surprises arise that you deal with them through adaptation and humor instead of getting upset or frustrated.

Other elements in this reading:
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: ENCHANTED FOREST FELINES TAROT AND MINIMALIST JAPANESE LENORMAND