April 13 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions in the @Calm app.
The session for today discussed how when we meditate, we find over time that we are more easily able to connect authentically with ourselves, and through that increase in authenticity, connect more authentically with others as well.
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The @GlitterbyInk #AprilFinds25 Challenge
Lost and Found Prompt for April 13 : Wonder
Today’s draw is the Six of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of public accolades, societal expectations, people pleasing, and peer pressure.
Take pride in yourself not because others admire you, but because you acknowledge your own accomplishments.
It’s easy to fall into a pattern of looking to others for approval and praise. What’s harder to do for many, myself included, is taking time to look at and truly appreciate our own accomplishments instead of mentally picking them apart or looking at them through a skewed perspective of “not good enough”.
Today’s card invites us to look at our accomplishments (big and small) with the same lens of wonder and celebration with which we view the accomplishments of others, instead of holding ourselves to a higher (and always just out of reach) standard.
DECK USED: LAZY AFTERNOON TAROT
April 14 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyTrip sessions in the @Calm app.
The session for today dealt with the idea that when we look at others, we see not their true selves, but our perception of who they are. It was an exercise that included looking intently at a photograph of a person and seeking to see beyond that perception to reach for more.
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The @GlitterbyInk #AprilFinds25 Challenge
Lost and Found Prompt for April 14 : Clarity
Today’s draw is the Six of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of charity, generosity, sharing the wealth, asking for or accepting help, and balancing the scales between the “haves” and the “have nots” in life.
It’s hard to look outside our own experiences and circumstances. If one has always been rich, it’s nearly impossible to accurately imagine what its like to be poor and how poverty shapes one’s views on… everything really. The worries and fears, the struggles and small hardships of everyday, the emotions involved, etc. Someone that has not experienced these can only guess or try to imagine, but it will only be a small and shallow simulation of the real thing.
This is also true of the poor imagining the lives of the rich. It’s true of many various facets of life… male vs female, rich vs poor, healthy vs ill, neurodivergent vs not, etc.
Today’s card combined with the “clarity” prompt for today is a reminder that we need to be generous with each other and our judgements of others. We can’t know what they are experiencing or what all in their life has created their views and expectations. We can’t see things clearly from their perspective no matter how hard we try.
So maybe we need to cut them a little slack and accept perhaps they’re coming from a perspective that we aren’t quite able to relate to, even if we think we can.
DECK USED: APOSTLE OF DESTINY TAROT
April 15 – Mental Health Card of the Day
The @GlitterbyInk #AprilFinds25 Challenge
Lost and Found Prompt for April 15 : Wisdom
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Today’s draw is the Six of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of charity, generosity, sharing the wealth, asking for or accepting help, and balancing the scales between the “haves” and the “have nots” in life.
Sometimes, you need to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Learn from history and the past experiences of others so that you don’t fall victim to their follies. If they have had bad experiences with others? be wary instead of giving those same others the benefit of the doubt.
There is truth to the adage that leopards cannot change their spots. Once a predator… always a predator. And when that predator comes calling with a newly polished halo and a gift of some sort as a peace offering? You absolutely should be wary of that generosity and take a closer look at their motivations instead taking everything at face value.
These daily messages are about instilling positivity and optimism into everyday life. Today’s card and prompt combo is a reminder that due diligence is not you failing at this effort, but rather practicing balance and practicality.
Twisting the Leaf 