January 21 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was a ten minute self guided session wherein I visualized my lower body tangled in the roots of a tree as my upper body floated beneath the surface of a lake. The meditation focused on the languid movement of the water around me as I floated suspended in its embrace.
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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is The Empress card, which is traditionally a representation of the nurturing, female strength and empowerment without losing that “softer side” in the process, abundance, fertility, the divine feminine, and Mother Earth.
The Empress card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Language of Letting Go Deck, which says, “Accepting my imperfections.”
Everyone makes mistakes now and then and has things about themselves they don’t like. Perfection is a myth.
In my opinion, perfection cannot be reached -without- imperfections included, which in turn then means that it can’t exist at all. Still, we all strive for it. Okay, maybe not everyone, but I know that I do. I know many others that do as well.
Busting our asses and breaking our backs to achieve something that doesn’t even exist, though, then beating ourselves up for it when we don’t reach it? How is that healthy?
The message in today’s cards is a reminder that it’s not. Healthy, that is. It’s not healthy to expect perfection from yourself or others, and it’s not healthy to beat yourself up over it when you don’t achieve perfection, either. The encouragement here in this card combination is a reminder to lean into more nurturing behavior. Allow yourself to accept that perfection doesn’t exist, and cut yourself some slack when you need it instead of beating yourself up about it.
DECKS USED: SAILOR’S ARCANA TAROT AND THE LANGUAGE OF LETTING GO CARDS
January 22 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Seven of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of themes having to do with having a plethora of options to choose from, all of opportunity’s doors being open upon one’s path, and at times being overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices available in the moment.
The Seven of Cups has then been combined with an affirmation card from The Little Yogi Happy Notes deck, which says, “Healing is like art. It needs time, it needs practice. It needs a whole lot of love.”
It also needs you to make a -choice- to pursue healing rather than focusing on defense. Healing requires vulnerability, because in order to heal our wounds, we have to expose them and clean them out, give them attention and the medicine they need. It’s unpleasant and it’s painful, and requires you to actually choose this path and process.
The message in today’s cards is a reminder that if we want to heal from past wounds, we have to choose to heal from them. That means choosing to confront that pain and be vulnerable enough to give it the attention it needs instead of burying it away and ignoring it.
DECKS USED: CHIBI TERATO TAROT AND THE LITTLE YOGI HAPPY NOTES
January 23 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Ace of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of the seed of new beginnings in the area of one’s emotions, relationships, creativity, and intuition.
The Ace of Cups has then been combined with the Mica card from the Lavish Earth Crystal Affirmation deck, which quotes, “Forgetting that which is behind, I pressed toward the mark which is my high calling.” – Philippians 3:13
I am on a journey of learning when it comes to my emotions. That means that a lot of times? I don’t know how to explain what I’m feeling. Emotions overflow sometimes, and I don’t have the words to name them or describe them because I was never taught the words for these feelings, nor what those feelings -mean- exactly.
It’s frustrating.
The message in today’s cards is a reminder that new things aren’t meant to be easy. Beginning something new, whether it’s a project or a new journey of self-discovery, is confusing and comes with the innate struggles that newness brings with it. That doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re learning.
Twisting the Leaf 