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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 an affirmation from the Love Affirmations deck, which says, “I savor the richness of our shared moments, creating lasting memories.”

Loving someone involves spending time together in the ways that matter. This is how you build a relationship with others that stands the test of time and all the trials that time brings with it.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that it’s important to be mindful about spending time with those you cherish in your life. Shared time and the memories we create are the building blocks to long lasting friendships and relationships.

Disregarding this instead of being mindful of it may cause these people to fade out of our lives, lost to the past instead of a part of your present.

DECK USED: THE ART OF LOVE TAROT AND LOVE AFFIRMATIONS

One Card Tarot Journal Activity by @mariasofia_astro
Chapter 5| Entry 16 – Health and Body
Affirmation : “My imagination is vivid and fun.”
Prompt : If the limits of the human body did not exist, what would you want to be able to do and why? Use the card you draw to open your mind up to imaginative possibilities.

What feelings came up when I pulled this card?

I was immediately struck with amusement and an impression of play. A flying merry-go-round in the sky.

What elements of the card’s meaning resonate with me and this prompt?

My answer to the question part of this was that I would like to be able to chase my hedonistic tendencies. (Give in to my addictions and enjoy them thoroughly, one after another and back again.)

Seeing the Wheel of Fortune appear in answer to this both encourages the imagination to stretch farther into the land of possibilities… and reminds me that there are always going to be ups and downs in any endeavors, even if there would be no bodily consequences.

What in the artwork spoke to me?

The Wheel in the image, tilted the way it is and clearly spinning, immediately draws to mind the old playground merry-go-round. I loved that thing as a kid and spent hours on it exploring the spinning and its influences depending on where you were positioned on the thing.

Note… the further out from the center you go, the harder it is to hold on and more potential to get thrown off and possibly hurt.

My prompt response and reflections.

Being able to explore my addictive tendencies to my heart’s content would be wild and fun, scary and painful… and it would be very easy to lose my center and become ungrounded, perhaps permanently. My addictive personality traits are far from just physical, after all.

Other elements included in this reading:
Sodalite D20 and D6 Gemstone Dice

DECK USED: POTION HUNTER TAROT

@ambitiouslyalexa’s February Journal Prompts
Prompt for February 19th

How I know when I need space

Four of Swords and Creative Power – When you are feeling tired and feeling uninspired, it’s time to rest and recuperate.

It’s in these down times in which you give yourself the space to rest that inspiration sparks to life once more.

How to best create the space I need during these times

Five of Pentacles and Sameness – It’s in doing the things that feel like recuperation to you personally that give you the space.

Not everyone recuperates and rests in the same way, and if you try and model your methods after others, it will always feel like you’ve come up short and aren’t getting the recuperation you need, nor bouncing back as strongly as you otherwise could. Seek out those things that are uniquely your own in how you restore yourself and your energy.

Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: THE ART OF LOVE TAROT AND THE LANGUAGE OF ATTRACTION CARDS

This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.