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The @GlitterbyInk #MayMoon26 Rise Root Return Challenge
As Above Prompt for May 5th : Resonance
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is The Magician card, which is traditionally a representation of capability, potential, resourcefulness, action, and manifestation. This often translates into themes having to do with being in possession of all of the skills, abilities, and tools necessary to reach one’s goals and accomplish one’s ends. It’s about being capable and skilled, resourceful and gifted with what is needed to get the job done.

Everything goes a little bit more smoothly when you follow what fits for you, rather than trying to conform yourself to what doesn’t.

When we try to conform ourselves to other’s standards and ideals, we aren’t just not going with the flow, we’re fighting against the current. This makes everything more difficult. You may still reach success, but all that extra hard work involved often doesn’t feel worth it in the end… because where you end up isn’t where you truly resonate with the world around you and those in it.

The message in today’s Magician card and the “resonance” prompt is a reminder that authenticity is one of the greatest tools in our arsenal when it comes to navigating life and our path through it. Being authentic to oneself, and carrying that authenticity forward into the world with us, allows us to find those things, people, and endeavors that truly resonate with who we are.

DECK USED: PERSONA 3/4 TAROT CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompts for May 4th thru 6th

What in life lights fire to your creative spark?

Two of Swords and Be Generous

Seeing the world and those in it in a positive light.

It’s extremely difficult for you to see bad people without trying to search for the good you think is within them as well. You have no problem accepting that there is bad in people in the world… it’s just that you want to see the good as well.

When you see that good shining from others through their choices and interactions, it inspires you in creative ways, sparking your creativity and allowing you to believe more fully that there is as much good in the world (or more) than there is bad.

How can you connect more strongly with that creative spark?

Master of Cups and Self Acceptance

When you see others like Gideon, who have a clear understanding of their emotions and the emotions of those around them, it’s important to accept that although you’re not there yet, you’re working on it.

Part of this journey is of self discovery, which requires accepting yourself in this moment as you are so that you can then improve upon yourself for the future. Allow yourself to be a novice, not just in your emotional journey, but your creative ones as well. As a result, this mindset will continue to spark that creativity within you again and again.

Philosophical Question: What is the biggest waste of human potential?

Eight of Swords atop Master of Disks; Listen to Your Unmet Needs atop Heal Your Rejection Wound

Trying to fill the emptiness within us with pursuits based in greed, and believing that that is going to solve the problem and make us feel better about ourselves, others, or the world around us.

This is about greed, and about using greed as a form of self-medicating for those things in our lives that we feel that we lack and/or crave. Not only does this not solve the issue that we’re trying to self medicate for in the first place, but this pursuit encourages humanity to be selfish and cruel.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
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: TAROT OF TRANSFORMATION AND INNER CHILD HEALING ORACLE

@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 10th : Where I’ve been waiting to feel happy

Reading Summary: When conflict arises around you again and again (Five of Wands), instead of engaging you’ve been sitting back and not getting involved (Four of Cups) in the hopes that you will learn something long lasting and valuable (The Hierophant) from the experience by being detached from it.

Take Away: Part of the reason you step back instead of stepping in to make choices for others when they ask what you think is because you want them to learn how to able to deal with these situations on their own.

Whether this is looking at a solution to a problem or something as simple as deciding where to eat, what you’re actually doing is simply ensuring that you don’t get what you want out of the situation.

Choose to speak up instead. Let them choose to follow your lead or not once you do.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Raidho Cedar Rune Die for Encouraging Movement and Progress
Deodar Cedar Cone for Fostering Clarity and Spiritual Connection
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing on Aspirations
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: PERSONA 3/4 TAROT CARDS

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