The Teeth
They have teeth
weirdly realistic
anatomical
and yellowed
teeth
blunt
and bared
for all to see
all the way
back
to the molars
and I shudder
Gideon’s Challenge – The Teeth
Month: March 2026
Bringing Issues to Light
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 17th : Subconscious
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Four of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of one’s passionate love for the security and welcoming energies of home. This often translates into themes that have to do with homecoming, celebrating home and stability, as well as relaxation in comfortable spaces.
Home should be a place of celebration and happiness. A place where you return to a sense of safety and welcoming. If this isn’t how you feel when you walk through the door of your home, perhaps it’s time to look a little deeper and figure out why that’s the case.
What is it that you’re not acknowledging that’s keeping you from seeing your home in this way, and what can you do to change things to make that better?
The message in today’s Four of Wands card and “Subconscious” prompt is a reminder that our discomfort has a source. We may not be able to tell what’s causing these feelings at first glance, but with a little digging we can suss out what the subconscious is trying to tell us is needed. Once we have that knowledge brought out into the light, it’s far easier to make the changes needed to solve the problem.
DECK USED: TAROT FOR KIDS
@recoverytrauma_’s Know Myself Questions for Self-Discovery
What Do I Need to Heal? Prompts (Part 2)
What does forgiveness (toward others) look like for me?
The Tower Rx atop Death Rx – For you, forgiveness towards others looks like choosing to stay and not walk away when things get hard or the path is troubled.
Because you have a low tolerance for those things that require forgiveness in the first place, the fact that you stay is a demonstration of the forgiveness that you are willing to give. Otherwise, you would just walk away.
What does forgiveness (toward myself) look like for me?
Two of Wands – You demonstrate forgiveness towards yourself in that you keep moving forward and making plans instead, of allowing yourself to be stymied into stagnancy.
This, in turn, means that often your moments of stagnancy are caused by a lack of self-forgiveness. Perhaps this is something to look at more in depth.
What do I need to hear more often from myself?
Ten of Wands – You need to remind yourself more often that you don’t have to carry all of that on your own, nor plow through until you’re finished. Put it down, take a breath, and take a break. Ask for help. Delegate.
Remember that the adage “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself” is not necessarily true… especially if you’ve taught others the “right way” so that they can emulate your own efforts. Remember, as well, that sometimes there is no “right way” as long as it gets done… and these tasks are the first to begin handing off, which frees you up to give more attention to those things that actually need your personal touch.
Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Prompts for March 17th
How are you doing emotionally at this time?
The Tower and The Hierophant – You’re a mess, and trying to hold things together to appear as if you’re fine and all is at status quo, because that’s what you always do.
You are very good at pretending everything is fine when the world is burning to ash around you, and that’s exactly how you feel emotionally at this time.
How can you improve on this in the week ahead?
The Hanged Man and The World – Remember that it’s temporary. You are in subdrop and, with a little patience, you will come out the other side of it.
Close your eyes, take a breath, and wait.
Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Labradorite for a Focus on Mental and Emotional Healing
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: TAROT FOR KIDS
This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.
Gideon’s Challenge – The Return
The Return
Green is the color
that has been
missed
in the long months
of winter
as the cold
nips at skin
and gray
covers the sky
in a heavy blanket
while waiting
for Spring
to arrive
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
🌑 New Moon in Pisces – March 2026
Tomorrow is the new moon, and like all new moons and full moons, I did a spread aligned to the moon’s current themes as a part of my recognition of the moon’s cycle and influences upon us. Today’s spread is courtesy of @sistersvillage
What does emotional peace look like for me right now?
Le Balet d’Epee atop Le Dix de Baton Rx – Peace right now looks like security. It’s essentially what you feel like you don’t have right now… and it’s worth considering that maybe that is what it -always- looks like; that thing you quietly long for that you don’t have in the moment the question is asked.
That is to say that in this moment, peace looks like everything going well and lots of resources to go around while you sit on the sidelines and supervise from a place where you can go unnoticed.
What needs to change in my life?
Le Diable Rx – You need to take a more active roll in brushing off the languor and desire to languish that your last depressive episode has left behind. More movement is needed. Allowing the depression to linger by indulging in behaviors that promote stagnancy is going to keep you stuck in that haze you are struggling to escape from.
What in my life feels like it’s coming to an end?
Le Sept de Denier – Long fought for stability.
You feel like the efforts of your past and the rewards garnered along the way are crumbling beneath your feet. You worked long and hard to get where you are, but even all of that work and effort that you’ve put in can’t save you from moments of instability and uncertainty.
How can I show myself more self love and compassion?
Le Huit de Denier Rx – When you don’t change up how you do things, you just set yourself up to repeat the same mistakes and re-experience the same frustrations all over again. Look at past patterns that don’t serve you (with people, with methods and/or techniques, with practices) and move in a different direction instead of repeating them.
New Moon advice from the Minoan Goddess Amalthea.
Le Neuf d’Epee Rx – You are allowing your fears to have too much sway over your emotions and your actions. Confront your fears and break free.
Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Purple Heather Sprigs for Independence and Luck
Goat Figure as Sympathetic Representation of Amalthea
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: TAROCCHINO ARLECCHINO
Conscious Alignment
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 16th : Conscious
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 Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of slow growth, sustainability, domestic harmony, hard work, and practicing patience while the fruits of your labors develop and take form.
Personal growth takes time and effort. It also takes self reflection and thought. There needs to be some idea on where you want to go and who you want to become, or growth can become stinted or take you in a direction you’d prefer not to go.
In my opinion, this is the key to personal growth. You have an idea on the type of person you want to become, and then you make the conscious choice to align you behavior and decisions to that idea.
Over time, you then transform more and more into that person.
The message in today’s Seven of Coins and “Conscious” prompt is a reminder that true personal growth comes through consistency over time. Yes, we all slip up from time to time. That’s not failure, it’s merely a rock we stumbled over along the way. Keep your choices aligned with the kind of person you want to be, and over time you’ll slowly discover you are becoming that person.
DECK USED: THE ANIMISM TAROT
@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Prompts for March 16th and 17th
Mental: Where can I soften my inner dialogue?
Six of Cups and The Devil – Looking back at the shit shows from your past causes you to relive their emotional pains again and again. It’s habitual emotional abuse that you inflict upon yourself without even realizing it most of the time.
Instead of digging up past hurts for punishment and pain, seek out the positive memories. In doing so, you hurt yourself less, and encourage yourself to welcome in more potentially positive experiences.
Physical: What does a sense of calm feel like in my body?
Page of Cups Rx and Knight of Cups Rx – Numbness.
This is why you like floating beneath the water’s surface. To you, a sense of calm involves a lack of emotion and thought. A pause spent in limbo. A tranquil moment of numbness.
So many things create physical sensation for you. Emotions. Sounds. Intuition. Mediumship. Energy. All of these things create a cacophony of physical sensations that no one else can “hear”. Moments of numbing give you a kind of peace and calm you are unable to find in your day to day. This is why that “beneath the water” limbo feels so calming to you both physically and mentally.
Other elements included in this reading:
Scotch Pine Cone for Purging Negative Influences
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Garnierite for help in Releasing Anger, Anxiety, and Guilt
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: ALICE IN TAROTLAND TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Prompt for March 16th : What do you need to focus on for self-care for this month’s new moon?
Reading Summary: Make choices (Two of Swords) that bring people together (Three of Pentacles) and put everyone on the same page (Six of Wands).
Take Away: When everyone is united in a goal to work towards together, things just go smoother as a result, and everyone involved feels a sense of pride and accomplishment.
You try too hard to take everything on your own shoulders, and you’ve been doing it so long that this means your first instinct is to cut others out and continue doing everything yourself.
Make sure you are working on catching yourself in those moments and making better decisions. Decisions that -include- others instead of excluding them. When you get everyone on the same page and moving in the same direction, the outcome is more satisfactory and you’re not left as exhausted in the end as you would be if you’d done it all yourself.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: THE ANIMISM TAROT
This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.
Gideon’s Challenge – Mornings
Mornings
No energy drinks
no coffee
no caffeine
no pain pills
no hot showers
just protein bars
and lots of pain
is how
each day starts
in the
pre dawn morning
while everyone else
sleeps
and I rise
to start the day
Twisting the Leaf 