Setting Expectations

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

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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Before Tarot - Queen of Wands

Today’s draw is the Queen of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s passion, drive, willpower, determination, values, and principles. This often translates into themes that have to do with being supportive of others projects and passions, or searching for inner truth within your own values and principles.

The Queen of Wands has then been combined with an affirmation from the Pass Around the Smile Positive Guidance Cards, which says, “Congratulations. Something exciting is coming, and you deserve it!”

You experience more enjoyment in life when you expect more enjoyment out of life. If you’re always stuck, expecting the worst, you end up losing out on the good stuff that could’ve happened because you were too focused on what might.

When we bring enthusiasm into our lives, it helps lighten our experience of life as a whole. In this way, our expectations helped to mold our reality.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder to create the reality that you want to experience by anticipating the arrival of good things to come with eager enthusiasm. This doesn’t mean you can sit on your ass and just expect things to fall in your lap, but it makes the hard work you need to do along the way far more enjoyable.

DECKS USED: BEFORE TAROT AND PASS AROUND THE SMILE POSITIVE GUIDANCE CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Prompt for March 31st
: Grab a spread of your choice you’re curious about… and give it a go!

Tarot Reading with the Diary of a Broken Soul Tarot and Show Me Cards

Show Me…

The Present – You are struggling under the weight of your responsibility towards others. Too many people look towards you in order to keep everything they value safe and alive. Better boundaries are needed, even if there’s a good deal of resistance when making them.

Show Me…

A Message from Spirit – This battle you are embarking on is too big to deal with on your own. Allow others to help you plot and strategize your way forward, and when it’s time to take cation, invite them to help carry the load.

Show Me…

Relationship Challenges – Your silence when you are feeling vulnerable isolatea you from others… and isolate them from you. Communication is extremely important in relationships, which you already know. Connect more during these times of vulnerability to strengthen your bonds with others.

Show Me…

Past Influences – Don’t allow your past experiences with betrayal to keep isolated and distrusting of everyone. Paranoia might feel like it keeps you safe, but it also keeps you distanced from others and the potential they may hold to improve your life as a whole.

Show Me…

What to Leave Behind – Leave behind the uncertainty of everything you don’t know or can’t grasp, and instead narrow your focus on what you deem truly important. By narrowing your focus, you can cut out those things that are tapping away your energy with little to no return. This will give you more energy for those things that you truly deem worth putting time and effort into.

Other elements included in this reading:
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: DIARY OF A BROKEN SOUL DECK AND SHOW ME DECK

@silkandsonder’s Journal Prompts to Feel Like Yourself Again 
Prompt No. 10 : What is one small change I could make this week that would help me feel like a healthier happier me?

Note: I had to rephrase this question because, as was established in an earlier reading this month, I need time to redefine what the phrase “feel like me” actually means.

Tarot Reading with the Before Tarot

Reading Summary: Allow others to help you choose (The Lovers and the fact one figure reaches to help the other up) positivity and optimism (The Star and her abundant pitchers) over cynicism and stagnancy (King of Pentacles Rx and his jaded, brooding expression).

Take Away: Today’s readings (and not just this one) are a reminder that you are not alone and you do not need to treat yourself as if you are.

Life’s experiences are better and brighter when you share them with others, allow them to help you, and invite them to come along with you on your journey instead of trying to do it all by yourself.

Look at the endeavors that matter to you and seek out ways to invite others in and encourage their participation. In doing so, you don’t just share the work load and stresses involved, but open yourself up to their influences, ideas, and support. That, in turn, helps make everything feel just a bit easier.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: BEFORE TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

I managed to get caught up on orders, which I wasn’t sure was going to happen until Thursday.

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