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

Today’s draw is the Six of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of public accolades, societal expectations, people pleasing, and peer pressure.

The Six of Wands has then been combined with an affirmation from the Miracle Mantras Affirmation deck, which says, “I am abundant in love, time, and possibility.”

If people pleasing for loved ones is something that you are drawn to, make sure that you are doing things that you enjoy in that endeavor. It should be pleasurable for both, not just for them.

These activities need to be more than just the pursuit of praise or another’s happiness. They need to also give something to you through the pleasure you take in the activity, the pride you feel in the results that stem from a job well done rather than another’s praise, or the joy such activities create within you.

Without these personal rewards, people pleasing becomes hollow and unhealthy.

The message in today’s Six of Wands and affirmation is a reminder that people pleasing doesn’t have to be unhealthy. By finding your own joy and pleasure in what you do, it can transform an unhealthy and hollow experience into something bonding and magical. These cards, therefore, encourage us to choose our people pleasing activities wisely based on our own interests and enjoyment rather than solely on the desire to please others.

DECKS USED: TAROT MURMURE DE LA FORÊT AND MIRACLE MANTRAS AFFIRMATION DECK

The @ambitiouslyalexa July Journal Prompts
Prompt for July 3rd : A need you’re finally honoring

Reading Summary: Instead of ignoring your weaknesses and trying to find ways to bypass them (Align), you are working on (Practice) utilizing your courage, and the confidence built from it (Confidence atop Courage), to acknowledge and accept them instead (Align).

Take Away: Confidence often follows in the steps of courage. When we allow ourselves to face our fears and acknowledge our weaknesses, it builds courage within us and with that courage? Confidence as well.

You are learning how to acknowledge and accept your weaknesses rather than trying to berate yourself for them or bury them out of sight. In honoring these weaknesses and the need to accept them, you foster space for new growth and fostering a greater strength within yourself that includes both courage and confidence to flourish.

Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Gneiss Wishing Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: FAERIE PATHWAYS ORACLE

#DiscordTarotholicsJul2026 Challenge
3-Card Spread Prompt for July 3rd : About comfort…

What key element of comfort are you refusing to provide for yourself?

Two of Swords – You aren’t making choices; you’re just sitting back and letting the choices make themselves or pass you by entirely. Without a proactive attitude, you end up languishing instead of doing the things you really need in order to help in “leveling up” your comfort.

Why are you withholding this comfort?

The Hermit – Your craving for alone time holds you back from participating in the needed activities that often have to involve others in one way or another. You’re avoiding social interaction and time with others, and as a result it is withholding from you this greater level of comfort you -could- be experiencing.

What is needed to release this blockage or pattern of neglect?

The Hierophant – If you incorporate teaching others into your time spent with them, you will enjoy these interactions more and be more open to doing them. This can both enrich their experiences with you, and create a greater sense of enjoyment and comfort for you in the social aspects of these activities.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Calcite for Gently Calming the Mind and Stimulating Insights
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TAROT MURMURE DE LA FORÊT

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