June 3 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneSun25 Challenge
Summer Sunlight Prompt for June : Shine
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
I have now managed to pull the Five of cups three days in a row, this time combined with the Judgment card.
- The Five of Cups is traditionally a representation of pessimism, regrets, doomsday thinking, disappointments, and occasionally, failure (or at the very least, the perception of failure).
- The Judgment card is traditionally a representation of judgements, one’s inner calling and chosen life path, and looking back on one’s life to consider how they feel about the path they’ve taken and who they have become.
SO, because it’s clear that this card has a message for me that I’m missing, I went to the deck’s guidebook this time for a little guidance. The key points taken away from the guidebook’s input are…
- Whatever it is that is creating this feeling of defeat for you is now in the past and can’t be undone.
- Think creatively about how you respond and react so that not all is lost.
- Don’t beat yourself up for struggling with this.
- There is no prescribed answers sometimes, and in those moments you just have to wing it to gain better understanding through experience.
- Expect the unexpected, even if you think you know what’s about to happen.
The message that I see here is to ride it out. Ride out these feelings of struggle and disappointment, discontent and unhappiness. Look for the positive spin and let things move at their own pace while taking little sips of joy where you can.
Just make sure that you are staying alert to opportunities to turn things around moving forward. You can’t change the past and the decisions you made. They say that hindsight is 20/20, and that’s true. Instead of looking back, look forward and seek out opportunities to change things for the better.
DECK USED: MAGIC PANTRY TAROT
June 4 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneSun25 Challenge
Summer Sunlight Prompt for June : Bright
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Wheel of Fortune atop the Chariot card. This means that they came out of the deck together, and the Wheel of Fortune card was on top, and this the dominant card of the pair.
- The Wheel of Fortune card is traditionally a representation of luck (both good and bad), changing circumstances, the ups and downs of life, and the cyclical nature of life and the world.
- The Chariot card is traditionally traditionally a representation of control, determination, direction, and autonomy.
Some days, things are going to go how they’re going to go, and you can’t always have a lot of control over that. What you do have control over is your own reactions.
Make sure you are using that creative mind of yours to look on the bright side. Not being in control has a tendency to make you cranky and unreasonable. Be aware that today, it’s only you and your own reactions you are going to have control over. Ride the wheel and enjoy the ride, no matter what it brings your way.
These cards are a reminder that some days all we can do in our lives or control is our own reactions an dhow we perceive a situation. Everything else is out of our hands, and any efforts to seize control will be overkill.
DECK USED: THE STUDENT TAROT v2
June 5 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was fifteen minutes long, and self-directed. It was based off of the graphic included in the image with today’s card. It was about something called “Window Light Theory”, and the concept that light itself is healing. It doesn’t require you going out into the sun to feel those healing effects, either. How this small touch of natural light can do so much, if we take a moment to savor it… and so can other little things like appreciating a moment of quiet beauty in the world.
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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneSun25 Challenge
Summer Sunlight Prompt for June : Outside
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Judgement Card, which is traditionally a representation of judgements, one’s inner calling and chosen life path, and looking back on one’s life to consider how they feel about the path they’ve taken and who they have become.
Last night, I saw a video of a polar bear just wandering through an Alaskan town, and it struck me that I never really grasped just how large these animals are. It meandered its way past a standard sized sedan, and… the car was smaller than the bear. In fact, the car was dwarfed by the bear’s size. And yet? It still looked like a warm and fuzzy white teddy bear in need of a good petting.
It’s funny, because I see these memes all the time that say, “If not friend, why friend shaped?” and here it is!
The message in today’s cards is a reminder to not judge a book by its cover. That bear may be cute, but he could also kill you with a hug. What we see on the outside is not enough. It’s not enough for our safety, and it’s not enough to make decisions and actions concerning. Beautiful flowers can be poisonous. Cuddly looking bears can be hungry killers. People are even more complicated than plants and animals, and their covers just as difficult to interpret.
Make sure that you aren’t judging them by “their covers” alone. Actions are important, and so is digging deeper.
Twisting the Leaf 