Supported
You shelter me
even
when I fight
to stand tall
on my own
I know
you are there
leaning in
to offer
support
if I need it
ready to catch me
should I fall
Author: Twist the Leaf
Individuality and “The Flow”
Today’s meditation was an ten minute long #DailyCalm session from the @Calm app.
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The @GlitterbyInk #JanJourney26 Embark to Renewal Challenge
The Journey Prompt for January 7th : Flow
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Temperance card, which is traditionally a representation of moderation, balance, slowing down, practicing patience, and can at times represent a connection between the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
There’s a difference between going with the flow or being a doormat. It’s a balance between your own personal motivations, and those of others.
If, for example, you lean too far into your own motivations (wants, needs, values, beliefs), then you become rigid and unable to “go with the flow”. On the other hand, if you lean too far into others motivations, to the point you are sacrificing your own? You are then swept up into a current beyond your ability to stay afloat.
The message in today’s “flow” prompt and Temperance card is that it’s okay to relax and go with the flow, just make sure you aren’t sacrificing pieces of yourself and your values along the way. This balance creates the opportunity to experience new things without losing yourself in the process.
DECK USED: SEELENREISE TAROT
One Card Tarot Journal Activity by @mariasofia_astro
Chapter 1 | Entry 11 – Self Care and Personal Development
Affirmation : I am hoping to reparenting my inner child.
Prompt : Draw a card and use its keywords or imagined persona to write a short letter to your inner child from a time you wish you had more comforting words or wise perspective to help you cope or understand a challenging time. What kind kindness would this card offer to your inner child?
What feelings came up when I pulled this card?
A little girl doing “the man spread” sort of tweaks my “ew” button of inappropriateness. That said? It definitely fits the card that it’s on, so I reasoned it out to feel better about it.
What elements of the card’s meaning resonate with me and this prompt?
Manipulation. The Strength card is often about persuasion, rather than brute force. It speaks of our inner strengths, and using them to our advantage.
What in the artwork spoke to me?
The “man spread” pose of the figure in the card speaks of dominance, as I mentioned above.
The horns on her head stood out to me second, representing stubbornness and determination to get one’s way.
Third, my attention was drawn to the weighted chains and the bowl she holds in her left hand. That bowl is perfectly balanced, no spills, regardless of the tug and pull of those weighted chains. This speaks to me of protecting one’s emotions so everything stays on an even keel, regardless of outside influences.
My prompt response and reflections.
Dear Young L
You have more power over your situation (and him) than you think you do.
Remember that he is reacting to you. He may be the authority figure in your life, but in truth? You are calling the shots here.
If you are more mindful of how you react, as well as what you say and do around him, you will be able to control his reactions.
You can’t change his mind. Consider, instead of trying to force him to accept you as you are and throwing that in his face, using your influence over him to make your life easier and better.
After all, there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
Your Elder L
Other elements included in this reading:
Lace Agate D20 and D6 Gemstone Dice
DECK USED: TOUHOU TAROT BLOOMING CHAOS II
#DiscordTarotholicsJan2026 Challenge
Philosophical Prompt for January 7th : Is it always better to have more choices?
Reading Summary: Choices are empowering (The Magician). The problem comes in only when you decide to look back on the ones you’ve made that didn’t work out (Three of Swords) with recriminations and disdain (King of Swords Rx).
Take Away: These cards indicate that yes, it’s always better to have more choices. It’s what you do with them that makes the situation bad. Remember that if you choose wisely and things don’t work out, that doesn’t necessarily mean you chose wrong.
It’s in picking on yourself and beating yourself up over the choices you -didn’t- make that creates a problem.
Other elements included in this reading:
Scotch Pine Cone for Purging Negative Influences
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: SEELENREISE TAROT
I decided to take a break and -not- ship out tomorrow. Instead, I napped in the time that I would have been working on orders, and woke up feeling much better afterward.
Gideon’s Challenge – What Big Teeth
What Big Teeth
The question is
who do you feed
when you forget
mindfulness
and just
become
what comes
Is it the
savage wolf
full of anger
and hunger
or the calm wolf
full of community
and pack?
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Rekindling Motivation
Today’s meditation was an ten minute long #DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.
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The @GlitterbyInk #JanJourney26 Embark to Renewal Challenge
The Departure Prompt for January 6th : Resilience
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 Swords, which is traditionally a representation of the seed of new beginnings in the area of one’s thoughts, intellect, education, logic and reason, ambition, or communication.
It doesn’t matter how rough the road is, as long as you keep your eye on the prize.
When you set your eye on a prize, and your ambitions are flying high, it’s easy to work through obstacles and keep going. It’s harder when you’re enthusiasm is flagging. At these times, it’s important to keep your eye on the prize. What are you aiming for? What inspired that ambition in the first place?
The message in today’s “resilience” prompt, and Ace of Swords card is that you can breathe fresh air into your flagging motivation by revisiting the inspiration that started you out on the journey in the first place. What was it the triggered your ambition and flared your motivation to life? When you revisit through memory how you felt in the beginning, those feelings can then be rekindled in the present.
DECK USED: INVERSION TAROT
One Card Tarot Journal Activity by @mariasofia_astro
Chapter 1 | Entry 18 – Self Care and Personal Development
Affirmation : I am a consistent work process.
Prompt : Focusing on your perceived weaknesses can create limiting thought patterns and behaviors. Draw a card to see how the cards positive attributes can help you to find something that you perceive as a weakness to see how it’s actually one of your strengths.
What feelings came up when I pulled this card?
Fascination. The imagery in this card really caught my eye. I was immediately pulled into the weirdness and chaos as my eyes were drawn to the small details.
What elements of the card’s meaning resonate with me and this prompt?
The Moon is often about fears, uncertainties, and the illusions that the mind and emotions use to play tricks on us.
On the positive side of these attributes is learning how to identify these illusions as the trickery that they are, and the choice to keep going through dark and chaotic moments with trust that you’ll come out the other side instead of becoming lost forever.
What in the artwork spoke to me?
The classic RWS dog and wolf creating a sense of conflict. The pill on the tongue of the Moon in the sky feels like an indication of buying into illusions (like the choice of the red or blue pill in the Matrix). The lobster foaming at the mouth speaks to me of emotions in overdrive.
My prompt response and reflections.
When you look beneath your emotional reactions and the chaos and uncertainty you’re experiencing, you find that the path forward is still there. Your feet follow that path intuitively, even when you are distracted by the uncertainty of you emotions.
Other elements included in this reading:
Labradorite D20 and D6 Gemstone Dice
DECK USED: JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE TAROT & The Nine Gods of Egypt 5TH GENERATION
#DiscordTarotholicsJan2026 Challenge
Prompt for January 6th : How can you bring more of what you want into your world?
Reading Summary: Align yourself with the kind of person you want to be first (Judgement), then push yourself past tendencies to languish (Strength atop Page of Wands Rx). Just do it (Three of Wands).
Take Away: You know what you like. You know what you want. It’s not about identifying these things. It’s about actually getting off your ass and doing them.
You have a tendency to languish a little too long when you allow yourself to indulge in the behavior, and it goes from a healthy treat into unhealthy behavior as a result.
Use your time of languish to reflect on what you want out of your life, and out of yourself. Then push yourself out of that moment of stagnancy and get moving again instead of continuing to linger “just a bit longer”.
Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: INVERSION TAROT
I went back to grab my earbuds after I’d forgotten them in the house, instead of saying “fuck it” and leaving them behind.
Gideon’s Challenge – Begin Again
Begin Again
Letting go
doesn’t mean
the end of
what you seek
but only
that you pause
to breathe deep
realign with
your purpose
let your roots
find their grip
and then
grow
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Life’s Tool Box
Today’s meditation was an ten minute long #DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.
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The @GlitterbyInk #JanJourney26 Embark to Renewal Challenge
The Departure Prompt for January 5th : Adaptability
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is The High Priestess (La Papessa), which is traditionally a representation of intuition, secrets, sacred knowledge, mystery, the subconscious mind.
What do you know that no one else knows? How can that knowledge help you adapt to changes and stay surefooted as you move along your path?
This includes the information that your intuition provides you, absolutely; but also is referencing much more than that.
Each of us is unique, and our experiences as well as our personalities make us each that much more so. This uniqueness provides each us with knowledge and cognitive reasoning that others around don’t have. A toolbox of adaptability and survival, personalized just for us.
The message in today’s “adaptability” prompt and High Priestess card is a reminder that these tools exist within you, and that if we use them to adapt to the shifting sands of change under our feet, we will stumble and/or fall far less often.
DECK USED: ANCIENT ITALIAN TAROT
One Card Tarot Journal Activity by @mariasofia_astro
Chapter 3 | Entry 15 – Family and Friends
Affirmation : I honor my friendships even as they evolved.
Prompt : Maintaining friendships takes work – just as much as romantic relationships do. As friendship change, you might have to put in even more work. Based on the card you draw, what is something you can do in the next month to invest more time, energy, or effort to show your friends how important they are to you?
What feelings came up when I pulled this card?
When I first saw this card, I heard the words “just be yourself” in the back of my head down near the nape.
I then had myself a little snort and “okay mom” semi-amused moment of response. Not that this is anything that my mother would ever utter, mind you, but it’s such a Hollywood trope “mom” kind of thing to say.
What elements of the card’s meaning resonate with me and this prompt?
The Judgement card is often about where we’re going. Not in the area of one’s monetary accomplishments, but about our own self-development. Especially self-development with the awareness that life is short and we all pass on at some point.
What in the artwork spoke to me?
I really like the colors in this card. With the setting moon in the background, they speak of calm transitions and the possible approach of a sort of serene enlightenment.
The skeleton obviously connects for me with death, the angel Gabriel above about ascension. I also found the veiling of the skeleton significant, speaking of each of our individual paths being different up to death’s door, making the advice in this card applicable to not just me but to everyone.
My prompt response and reflections.
Just be yourself.
Not just the self you are now, but the self that you are striving to become.
Other elements included in this reading:
Lace Agate D6 and D20 Gemstone Dice
DECK USED: EX ANIMO TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsJan2026 Challenge
Prompt for January 5th : What are you clinging to that can be let go of without repercussions?
Reading Summary: Just because you have the tools and the knowledge needed to do it on your own (La Papessa), doesn’t mean that you should avoid reaching out for others (Re di Coppe Rx) when emotions become difficult, uncertain, or inscrutable (Fante di Coppe Rx).
Take Away: These cards encourage you to let go of your need to hide your emotions and the vulnerabilities they create from time to time from others.
You have a tendency to keep your emotions to yourself, especially when you’re feeling uncertain or confused. The thing is, though, there’s a large amount of benefit to sharing these things with others. In doing so, you allow yourself to get their input and learn from them how to process these emotions in more healthy ways. On the other hand, when you don’t share, the only references you have to go by are the unhealthy methods you’ve used int he past.
Other elements included in this reading:
Black Wood Kitsune Carving for Cleverness and Ingenuity
Dried Rhododendron Leaf for Fostering Confidence
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: ANCIENT ITALIAN TAROT
I took a nap. Even though I really didn’t want to. I was starting to cough so I did it anyway.
Twisting the Leaf 