Month: March 2026

Unrecognized Wealth

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 1st : Threshold
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

The Numinous Tarot - Ten of Pentacles - Ten of Tomes

Today’s draw is the Ten of Pentacles (Tomes), which is traditionally a representation of satisfaction and stability in the area of one’s finances, resources, home, health, manifestations, and the physical world. This often translates into themes that have to do with hard earned success, accomplishments, abundance created through patience and hard work.

I love myself a good library. It’s full of so much potential and so many things that I don’t know, but that are right of my fingertips to find out.

For me, libraries are magical places, and books on paper are magical things. Don’t get me wrong, I think digital books and audiobooks have their place. For me that place is in the fiction category for audiobooks, and the deck guidebooks category for digital.

When it comes to actual research, non-fiction, and learning new things, though, it’s all about the print books. There is a tactile sensation to learning things in books that you cannot get through digital or audiobook. If I read a physical book on a subject, that tactile experience allows me to reference different parts of the book, depending on how many pages are on each side, where in a page something appears, and how many pages it feels like I’ve turned. This means that later on down the road (even years later) if I need to reference this material, my tactile memory will be able to help me find these particular sections and excerpts. Because of this, I can usually find what I’m looking for within seconds, or minutes at most.

In a digital book however, there is no tactile memory involved. If I need to go back later to find an excerpt or to reference a particular portion of the book, I have to guesstimate where in the book it was because there’s no tactile guidance to help me find it. This process then takes at least twice as long for me… and sometimes much longer. Especially if I cannot remember the exact wording of what I was looking for, so there’s no way to search it.

This is one of the many reasons that in my opinion, libraries represent a wealth that we cannot get through any other source. A wealth that is shared with others in our community. It can be enhanced by digital offerings, but it shouldn’t be replaced by them.

Today’s Ten of Pentacles card combined with the “threshold” prompt asks us to consider where in our life are we taking for granted a source of wealth in our lives, and why aren’t we stepping forward to take advantage of that opportunity?

DECK USED:  NUMINOUS TAROT

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Prompt for March 1st : Do Spread 1
With Spring approaching, it’s time to start cleaning out the old energies of hibernation and stagnation that Winter can often bring. In this spread, look for those thoughts and things that need to be let go in order to allow yourself to flourish this Spring.

Tarot Reading with the Numinous Tarot

What do I need to let go of to…

Ease My Mind – Mystic of Vials (King of Cups)

Instead of allowing your emotions to overwhelm you and make you retreat into your shell, work on reaching out to those that help you in your journey to learning about your emotions and allow them to guide you when you are feeling vulnerable and uncertain.

When you do so all of the anxieties and “what if” thinking becomes much quieter and easier to deal with, instead of overwhelming you. Control isn’t the answer.

Lighten My Heart – Eight of Bells (Swords)

Stop hiding. Turning a blind eye and pretending something doesn’t bother you doesn’t make it go away. Nor will it solve the problem. Yes, now and then it will resolve itself. Unfortunately, more often than not all it does is allow things to grow and become worse before you have to deal with them, creating more work and stress for you in the end.

Free My Creative Spark – Mystic of Tomes (King of Pentacles) atop Dreamer of Candles (Page of Wands)

Accept that it’s okay to make mistakes and not have all the answers.

Let go of the concept that you need to be right all the time. You know that’s not true. A part of learning and growing is accepting that you don’t know everything, and accepting the challenge of seeking those answers.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Chinese Silver Grass for fostering Grounding and Nurturing Stability
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  NUMINOUS TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

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

Gideon’s Challenge – Hug Me

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Boo Boo Bunny Stuffie Doll

Hug Me

The ache inside
is a knot
that lives
deep within
at solar plexus
radiating
fissures of red
outward
along nerve endings
to set alight
stinging tingles
in the soft flesh
of inner forearms
and palms

Photo © ZenStatePhotography

❤️ 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 Enchanted Tarot and Dreamflow Lenormand

Earth – Three of Pentacles – Make sure you aren’t trying to deal with everything all on your own. Remember that just because others don’t do things the way that you do or it takes them longer to do it than it would you, doesn’t mean that it’s not helping… because you’re still not the one having to do those things.

Air – Queen of Pentacles – Combat your pessimistic thoughts and negative inner narratives by leaning into those things that help to nurture a greater sense of stability in your life.

Water – Five of Pentacles – Remember that an upheaval in your emotions and experiencing uncertainty (as you often do during subdrop) have a tendency to exacerbate your feelings of scarcity. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the scarcity in your life has increased, only that it feels like it has.

Fire – Four of Hearts (Cups) – Skipping your meditation is not helping you in any way, shape, or form. Give yourself the self-love that you need right now by working on stepping back into the practice.

Waning – Key and Moon – Although it’s often easy for you to say “I don’t know”, some people don’t take that well and try to bring you down in those moments. Rather than handing them the key to your emotions and how to influence them, allow your “I don’t know” to stand as a strength instead.

Waxing – Child and Man – There is maturity in looking back at what has worked and what hasn’t, and learning from those experiences so that you don’t repeat them.

Take Away – You’re flirting with subdrop at the moment, and that makes all the bad things feel a little worse. Keep in mind that these are emotion driven sensations, not a shift of reality. Give yourself the loving kindness you need to find stability during this struggle, and invite others to help you in keeping up with your responsibilities.

DECKS USED: ENCHANTED TAROT AND DREAMFLOW LENORMAND

📆 Transitioning from February to March

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Month End Check In Oracle Reading with the Witch Whispers Oracle

Here and Now I Exist – Who you are now, in your entirety.

Oracle Power – You have lots of questions right now, and very few answers. Use your intuition and the tools that you disposal to help illuminate the path forward, so that you don’t feel like you’re wandering blind and alone in the dark.

The Slough – What is to be left in the past as you move forward.

Soul Whispers – Stop with the soft doubt that keeps you from listening more closely to your intuition. Hold your chin high and pay attention, instead of ducking your head to ignore the changes that are going on not just around you, but within you as well.

What Lies Ahead – An ideal state or ideal self you are seeking at this time.

Invite Love – You’re seek to connect in a more tender, loving, and nurturing way with others. You are aware that this is outside your norm, but you’re seeking to develop a new norm that allows for love and connection with a greater sense of ease.

Limitations – Negative influences, opposition, or ill will.

Moon Bathing – Too much alone time is not your friend right now, and will lead to a greater sense of uncertainty instead of the grounding stability you’re looking for. You need to do the activities that help you to be empowered within times of uncertainty, not exacerbate the issues you have during these times.

The Boon – Positive influences, higher guidance, or divine intervention.

Cleansing – Fresh air and a good cleansing will do you and your environment good right now. Take time to assist the flow of air in its clearing out stagnant energies left, ignored and forgotten for too long.

The Wound – An unpleasant past experience or event that is ripe for some support and healing.

Teatime – Remember that not everyone understands culture and traditions that are not their own. You can’t expect people to follow the paths that are well-known to you, when they have never been on them before.

Nostalgia – A positive past experience or event to acknowledge, reflect upon, and enjoy.

Blossoming – Take time this month to remember your past awakenings. Not just the glowing success of finding the light, but also the struggles that got you there in the first place. After all, every daffodil must first breakthrough ice, brave the frost, and thrive within the frozen ground before it can grow tall and bloom.

A Warning – Something coming that can be prevented or overcome.

Potential – Don’t lose sight of where potential lies. If you’re not paying attention to it, the opportunities that presents for you will pass you by. Remember that not everything has to be achieved against the grain. Sometimes you can just go with the flow.

Empowerment – A future opportunity to work toward.

Green Witch – Spring is coming, and with it is the opportunity to get out in nature and connect with the green once more. Get your ass outside, and revel in the new life stirring in every moment of the month ahead.

Message from the Spirit World – Part of the cleansing that happens in the Spring is the potential for you to get out in nature and let it cleanse you within. It’s not all about housework all that sort of thing, but rather the fresh air that Spring offers to your spirit as well.

Message from the Mind’s World – There’s more to life than logic and strategy. Make sure that you are allowing your heart as well as your intuition to weigh in when you make decisions.

Message from the Physical World – Share those times that you would usually go alone with someone else, and allow them to see the benefits you reap from this time in nature. In turn, they will be more likely to help in pushing yourself to go when you are feeling otherwise uninspired to do so.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Western Hemlock Cones for Balance During Disruptions
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Ferruginous Quartz Crescent for Enhancing the Evolution of Self
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: WITCH WHISPERS ORACLE