Day: October 26, 2025

Not a Sell Out

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Of Folk & Fable Tarot's Three of Wands and Halloween Affirmation CardsDaily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Three of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of the first active step in a journey, progress towards a goal, and the seizing of opportunities.

The Three of Wands has then been combined with a Halloween Affirmation card that says, “I am full of laughter, not just spooky sounds.”

Instilling positivity into your life is a choice. When I started on this journey of pulling a daily mental health card to provide a positive message for the day, I was skeptical at best. In fact, I think when it was brought up by my therapist that I might’ve rolled my eyes.

I felt stupid, and like a sellout to the whole “toxic positivity” thing.

What I found, though, is that my shrink was right. You can use a tool like this to help balance out your negativity, instead of take it over. And that is the goal here in this daily exercise.

It didn’t get rid of my depression and it sure as hell didn’t get rid of my pessimism or negative inner narrative. It doesn’t allow me to ignore the bad or dangerous things in life, or pretend that they’re not there. It just gives a little tip to the scales to even things up so that everything isn’t negative or pessimistic all the time.

The key?

I had to take the first step. I had to take that first step even though I felt it was stupid, and had absolutely no confidence whatsoever that it was going to work.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that when you want to do something to better your life, sometimes it takes a leap of faith. Or… maybe it just takes taking that first step even when you have no faith that it’s going to work. Sometimes, in these instances, the results can surprise you.

DECKS USED:  OF FOLK & FABLE TAROT AND TWIST’S HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATION CARDS

@thetruthinstory #embracethemagical2025 Challenge
Prompt for Watcher (awareness) : What watches me from the edges, asking for acknowledgement?

Tarot Reading with the Of Folk & Fable TarotReading Summary: A figure filled with judgment (Judgement) and negative feedback (Queen of Air Rx). You can choose to acknowledge them at your peril, but remember that this is always a choice (Ten of Earth Rx atop Two of Air).

Take Away: Your abuser.

He has been gone for a number of years now, but he’s still looking for a way in.

This is where the additional protections come in for you at this time of year, and where asking your ancestors and guides can assist you in staying safe and healthy during this time when the veil is thinning.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Yew Tips for Ancestral Connections
Black Tourmaline for Grounding and Protection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: OF FOLK & FABLE TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

This post is a catch-up post, and I can’t remember what my self-kindness might have been for this day.

Gideon’s Challenge – In the Garden

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Lion StatueIn the Garden

So many
nooks and crannies
beneath leaves
and between
swaying stalks
where a heavy head
can settle
for just
a little while
and eyes close
for just a bit
of bathing in
Autumn sunlight

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❤️ 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 Wonderland Adventure Tarot and Haunted Wonderland Lenormand

Earth – Six of Pentacles – Make sure you are focusing on being generous this week. Generous to yourself. Generous to others as well. Give people the benefit of the doubt, and be kind to yourself.

Air – Ten of Wands – Ambition is a healthy thing until you get too far in and become overloaded. Make sure that your thoughts and actions, plans, and strategizing all allow you for time to rest. If you overwhelm yourself, it’s going to force you to rest anyway, so make sure that you give yourself the space to do it on your own before you’re forced into it at a more inconvenient time.

Water – Ace of Swords – Don’t get so much in your head that it starts to screw with your emotions. This also reflects back to the Ten of Wands in the Air position, in that if you are too much in your head, you will also quickly become overwhelmed. New ideas are great, but give yourself a break by writing them down instead of jumping on them right away.

Fire – Death – Changes are coming with your business yet again. You saw a preview of what might be to come just last night, which is giving you the heads up to prepare for what’s coming. Don’t ignore it. Instead face it head on.

Waning – Child and Clover – The faith that everything is going to turn out great has its place, but right now what you need is empowerment, not faith. This week is not the time to just sit back and hope everything works itself out.

Waxing – Lady and House – Mind your heart at home this week and cherish the time you have there. Take this time to put things in order to suit you and your comfort zone.

Take Away – It sounds like you’re going to have some pretty great new ideas this week. Too many of them to act on all of them at once, definitely. So make sure you’re writing everything down to act on later, which will allow you to be kind to yourself by giving yourself more space and time.

That space is going to allow you room for changes, as well. Because when you get too many things going at the same time, your “wiggle room” diminishes and you’re less able to pivot when you need to.

DECKS USED: THE WONDERLAND ADVENTURE TAROT AND HAUNTED WONDERLAND LENORMAND