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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 9th : In-Between
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Nine of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of themes that have to do with contentment, accomplishment, and satisfaction in the area of one’s emotions, relationships, creativity, and intuition.

I love spending time in the forest. Especially when I can get far enough out that there are no other people and I can really relax and enjoy myself.

I have a tendency to walk off-trail and explore where others have not tread. (Yes, I’m skilled with a compass and bring one with me.) This isn’t because I want to find something that they haven’t, but rather because it feels like these places are places where I connect more deeply with nature and the trees and the roots within the soil.

These are my happy places. Wet and green, quiet, and yet loud with the sounds of nature, and only the sounds of nature.

Liminal spaces (The In-Between Spaces of the world) make a lot of people uncomfortable. I get that in a way, but for me, these places in nature that are liminal spaces draw me in and welcome me home. I visit them to wallow in that feeling, soaking it in so that it is part of my breath and blood and every cell of my being.

Today’s Nine of Cups card and the “in-between” prompt ask us… where is it that you find pleasure and calm and that wonderful sense of peace and home? Where is it that you feel happy and like to wallow? And why aren’t you visiting that place more often?

DECK USED:  SMALL MYSTERIES TAROT

@silkandsonder’s Journal Prompts to Feel Like Yourself Again 
Prompt No.1

When was the last time I felt fully like me?

Cuddle and Discipline – The last time that you felt fully “like you” was when your vulnerability was hidden behind a tough exterior, and you punished yourself for that vulnerability existing at all.

What was different then?

Flora and Sleepwalk – Your eyes were closed to how damaging this behavior would become, and how lonely being so solitary can be. It was an unhealthy cycle that needed to stop.

Take Away: These cards bring up that perhaps it’s time to look at redefining what feeling “like me” actually means. Especially considering the last time you truly felt “fully like me” was during a time when you were abusing yourself and not allowing your vulnerabilities the space needed to breathe.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Moss Agate for Attracting Opportunities for Growth
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: NICOLETTA CECCOLI TAROT (trimmed naked)

@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Mercury trine Jupiter Prompt for March 9th : How can I speak from a place of wisdom rather than reaction?

Reading Summary: Slow down (Eight of Matches and the fact they’re not all facing the same direction) and take time to unwrap what’s really going on (Cloak) instead of assuming the worst (Nine of Knives).

Take Away: When you act quickly, you jump the gun and don’t allow enough time to really see what’s going on. Wisdom takes time and thought, consideration and pause. Not immediacy and snap judgements.

In order to solve the issues at hand (no matter what those issues are) and speak from a place of wisdom instead of just reaction, you need to slow down. Take the time to pick things apart and consider all the angles invoved, rather than letting your emotions and fears prompt you into leaping immediately into the fray.

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
Turtle Figurine for encouraging Slow and Steady Progress
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  SMALL MYSTERIES TAROT

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