Today’s meditation was a ten minute self-directed session based upon the affirmation “It’s okay if you need a break. It’s okay if you need a hug. “It’s okay if you need help performing an occult ritual that will enthrall a dark unspeakable evil. Don’t be afraid to advocate for yourself.”

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Prompt for August 21st : Feels Like Home | #FMS_FEELSHOME25

Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the King of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of a projective alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s passions, drive, determination, principles, values, and willpower. The King of Wands often indicates themes that have to do with leadership figures or authority figures with the ability to rally others to their causes and draw them in to their own values, principles, and passions.

When you build upon your passions and personal values, life becomes your home.

The King of Wands is all about personal values, passionate endeavors, and using both to create a stable foundation to lead from. He is the epitome of the phrase “the world is your oyster”. Not that the journey he’s on is new, but that he has made it uniquely his and special. His perfect fit.

Today’s message asks us where are we sacrificing our sense of comfort and belonging in the world by not following our dreams and our inner compass? How can we turn this around so that it’s not just where we rest our head that feels like “home”, but our lives as a whole?

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Seven of Wands – Courage Prompts for August 20th thru 22nd

Where am I guided to stay rooted in my truth and unshakable in my presence?

Valet de Coupe and Orchid/Yellow Tiger Swallowtail – It’s difficult to teach our brains to reject negative narratives. As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman, “The bad stuff is easier to believe.”

Remember to touch base with the beauty in the world around you. In doing so it can help teach your emotions to follow suit and more easily accept the beautiful things that reside within you as well.

How can I protect or honor what matters to me right now?

Juno (La Popess) and Sedum/Apollo – Keeping your reading space clean and tidy will help in allowing your intuition and spiritual practices to flourish. Seek out and get rid of those things that have no use and are simply creating clutter. Tranquility without helps to promote tranquility within, and it’s in that tranquil place where your inner ken can flourish.

Where am I invited to stand firm in faith and act with courage, even when the path ahead is unclear?

Reine de Coupe and Honeysuckle/White Admiral – You are only able to give to others if you have something to give. Make sure that you are taking care of yourself and treating yourself well, visiting the things that make you joyous in your day-to-day life, and providing yourself the self-care you need.

Only when you give yourself these things are you able to also generously give to others of yourself. Remember that When you are lacking in what you need and not taking care of yourself, helping others becomes not an act of generosity, but a chore of obligation.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

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I claimed all of the leftover Chinese food in the fridge as mine and had it for dinner.