Day: November 2, 2025

At the Threshold

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Today’s meditation was a ten minute long#DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.

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The Kinner Tarot - Four of PentaclesThe @GlitterbyInk #NovemberWhispers25 Liminal Dreamland Challenge
Deam-Weaver Prompt for November 2 : Portal
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Four of Pentacles, which is traditionally about stability and gratitude (sometimes to excess, which can turn miserly) for what you have. This is a stagnant sort of appreciation that speaks of not reaching for more, but instead being focused on what you have in the now.

Miserly behavior can be the threshold to security and stability… it can also be the threshold to greed in the need to hoard. There’s a fine line between the two sometimes, and it can be really easy to cross over from one into the other.  That line is often defined by fear, and whether we allow our anxieties to seize control, or we do what is needed to face and control our fears.

Today’s message is a reminder that fear causes healthy behaviors to turn into unhealthy ones. The message in today’s Four of Pentacles combined with the “Portal” prompt is an encouragement towards self awareness, and knowing which side of the threshold you stand on… and to begin exploring how to get back to the healthy side of things if you’ve stepped over the edge to the other side.

DECK USED:  THE KINNER TAROT DECK

#DiscordTarotholicsNov2025 Challenge
Prompt for November 2 : Do Spread 1

Tarot Reading with Bard's Arcana The Tarot of Shakespeare

What influence does each of these themes have in your life?

Fate – Ace of Cups atop The Sun – You are happiest when you have a direction, but the freedom to choose your path for yourself. This, somehow, doesn’t take away from the feeling of success or accomplishment when you reach the end of the road, because the journey was about the journey… not about reaching its end.

Destiny – The Devil Rx – You see this viewpoint as extremely unhealthy. It can be so easy to just give in and allow yourself to be the train running endlessly on tracks set out before you. This lack of choice, though, is unhealthy for you and makes you feel as if life isn’t worth it in the end.

Chance – The Moon – Chance is like Change… filled with uncertainty. You struggle with uncertainty and, like in the shadows cast by the moon, you often need to use instinct and intuition to guide you in these moments. The uncertainty makes chance feel like it is not your friend, and yet it is through chance and the uncertainty it brings that your intuition grows stronger… and so do you.

Other elements included in this reading:
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: BARD’S ARCANA – THE TAROT OF SHAKESPEARE

@thetruthinstory #embracethemagical2025 Challenge
The Descent Prompts 11 thru 13 :

Tarot Reading with The Kinner Tarot and The Storm Cloud OracleShadow (Reflection) – What in me is cast into shadow and wants to be seen?

Justice and Three of Swords – You are willing to self-sacrifice for fairness. Some people want everyone else to behave and follow the rules while they themselves fuck off and do whatever they want. This is not how you work.

Although it’s not something that is often seen or recognized by others, it’s one of those things that you wish people would see more often and try to follow by example… even if you’ve given up on that happening.

Descent (Surrender) – What am I being pulled down toward, asked to yield into?

Two of Cups Rx atop Page of Cups; The Crescent Moon – It is uncomfortable for you to share your emotions, especially those that you find new and uncomfortable. If you give into sharing, though, it will get easier with time as you gain momentum in this area.

Labyrinth (Uncertainty) – Where am I wandering without clear direction?

Ace of Pentacles and The Poisoned Chalice – New opportunities are all well and good, but only if you’re not already standing there with a full plate and nowhere to add more on.

If you want to take advantage of a new opportunity, that’s fine; just make sure it’s going to be a good one and that you let go of something else so that you can make room for this new thing. Otherwise, it will just result in overwhelm and burnout, which will suck the life (and enjoyment) right out of that new opportunity you’re interested in exploring.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Rhododendron Leaf for Fostering Confidence
Orange Aventurine Leaves for Pause and Reflection
Montana Moss Agate for Connecting Self to the Divine
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE KINNER TAROT DECK AND THE STORM CLOUD ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

I slept in this morning.

Gideon’s Challenge – Misty Morning

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Morning MistMisty Morning

The sun rises
but the clouds
linger
clinging
to the hills
and rocky peaks
as they thread
through treetops
linger on
well after dawn
and into the day
promising
raindrops

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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 Visions of Life Tarot and Story Time Lenormand

Earth – Seven of Swords – Take extra care to not be too naïve this week. Validate all information that comes your way rather than just believing it out of hand. This includes listening to those that you would normally trust with providing you with information. You need to ground all incoming info with solid fact. This added foundation is necessary for you this week.

Air – The Hierophant – Think first before you act as expected. Following the party line can be okay sometimes if it goes with your own goals and values. More often than not, though, being a sheep to expectations means sacrificing these things. Don’t sacrifice your values and goals just to be part of the herd.

Water – Knight of Pentacles – Make sure you are moving slow on your wants and desires this week or you may find yourself jumping the gun. Although not necessarily detrimental, it will definitely be awkward if you do.

Fire – Four of Wands – Take time to appreciate just how happy you are with what you have in your life at this time. Appreciate these moments in life when you can say that you’re truly happy with your lot.

Waning – Bouquet and Birds – Gossip is not your friend this week, no matter how lovely it may seem or what good news it may be trying to present you with. As mentioned in the Earth position of this reading, make sure you are validating anything and everything before getting excited or taking action.

Waxing – Fish and Tree – Focus on your physical health and making choices that bolster you physically. Give yourself the gift of abundance and good health.

Take Away –  Fill your pill box, and stay on top of those things that foster your mobility.  Take care to validate all news with facts, whether it’s good news or bad news. Think for yourself instead of allowing others to take the lead, and prioritize what’s important to you over the expectations that others may have for you.     And… take your time.  Don’t rush.

DECKS USED: VISIONS OF LIFE TAROT AND STORY TIME LENORMAND