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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 6th : Guidance
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Ace of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of the seed, start, or new beginnings in the area of one’s passion projects, inspiration, drive, willpower, and determination. This often translates into themes that have to do with budding new interests and new passion projects.

I’ve been getting a lot of guidance from the cards lately on how to find more joy in life and enjoy life more over all.

Here we see another one of those messages as the guidance in today’s card is that it’s the things that we find enthusiasm in and fascination with that create spark in our lives. They are the things that ignite enthusiasm and spark new ideas, new passions, and eventually new projects and endeavors… if we decide to pursue them.

The message in today’s Ace of Wands and the “guidance” prompt is a reminder to allow our curiosity, fascination, and kindling spark of enthusiasm to carry us away now and then. In doing so we make our lives more interesting and enjoyable.

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@de_tarotjuf’s De Zomer In! #detarotjufjunitarotchallenge
Prompts for June 2nd through 7th

What invites me to go outside today?

The Good Girl Curse, White Rose, Silk Moth

There is a wildness within you that is feeling trapped, cut off from nature, defanged, tamed, separated and kept apart. This trapped feeling, isn’t there all the time, but the fact that it’s there at all means that you aren’t listening to (let alone fulfilling) that need within you to be outside in nature.

What kind of resistance is keeping me inside?

Roles Unchosen, Wisteria, African Grey Parrot

You are carrying too many responsibilities and trying too hard to be “human”.

The heavy weight of responsibilities and obligations make it difficult for you to tap back into your “wildness” and connect with nature in the way that you could before all of these obligations became a part of your life.

This is an unexpected and unintended consequence of the responsible part of your nature taking things too far.

Which experience can change my mood?

Grace, Bleeding Heart, Mourning Dove

Gentleness. Too often, you confront challenges and struggle with a hard shell and a warrior spirit.

You can more easily change the narrative, though, if you approach such experiences, not with a show of strength, but with the inner strength to be calm and gentle, even during the harshest of storms.

The seed I may plant

Severing, Black Cohosh, Raven

Remember that the strength you have gained in life comes from the struggles you have experienced. The transitions and changes that happen in life are there to make you into a better and stronger person. Fighting against them only prolongs the suffering, but won’t change the eventual outcome or lesson learned in the process.

Seek to tap into your adaptability and flexibility, instead of standing rigid in your stubbornness to keep things as they are.

What does my body want to feel and experience?

Silence Compliance, Sweet Pea, Hoverfly

Break free of toeing the line of “acceptable” and allow the caged wildness within to come free.

This means getting out in nature more, taking the hikes you need, and communing with the trees and the soil more often. It is only when you connect to those things that you break free of the trappings of mimicry you are trying to project to the world.

Your body needs to break free of these bonds, just as much as your spirit does.

Which old belief can I let go of outdoors?

The Great Protector, Camellia, Rooster

The freedom of being in charge of no one but yourself is something you need and can only get if you pursue activities that allow you to experience it.

Despite your determination to the contrary, it’s not good for you to be in charge all of the time, nor healthy for you to be the one keeping everything together for everyone. It is too heavy a burden, especially if you are not getting any time away from it to seek out relief from these pressures.

By getting outdoors, you are able to shrug off these pressures and responsibilities, obligations and heavy burdens. As a result, for a short while you can just be responsible for yourself and no one else. This is something you need.

Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

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The @lightningwildflower June Inner Journey Challenge
Understand Prompt for June 6th : What am I beginning to understand about myself this month?

Reading Summary: Your downfall (Five of Swords Rx) resides in your stubbornness and demand for stagnancy as a type of stability (Queen of Pentacles). Seeing this means that you are finally ready to make a change (Death).

Take Away: You are beginning to realize that the safety you feel like you find in stillness and stagnancy isn’t actually the stability that you crave. The stagnancy is only a facsimile of stability, but holds no true value. Instead, it merely creates a breeding ground for unhealthy festering and decay.

Trees that cannot bend with the wind will break during a storm. In discovering you are bracing too hard and ending up in this situation, you’re being given the opportunity to dig your roots deeper into the soil and allow yourself to bend more when the chaos of storms in your life come calling.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Purple Heather Sprigs for Independence and Luck
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Foraged Red Pine Cone for Inner Strength and Rejuvenation
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  I TAROCCHI DELLA FORESTA

I took a nap at Ms B’s today before driving home.