Author: Twist the Leaf

🌕 Full Moon in Sagittarius – June 2025

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Tonight is the full 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 @authorannievazquez

Full Strawberry Moon Oracle Reading with the Pathwork Oracle

This is a completion stage. Look at how berry much you have blossomed. Honor you!

Granthita Mudra – Take time to truly acknowledge the stability you have created for yourself and those around you. Don’t play lip service to this accomplishment, but rather, use this full moon to shed light upon these things and truly appreciate them.

Envision what you’d like for your future + set sweet intentions.

Amitabha – “…desire: a want for sensory pleasure.” To bring the future you want for yourself to life, you need to connect more deeply with pleasure, and allow yourself to enjoy life and the world around you on a deeper sensory level.

Cut ties with what is holding you back.

Vairocana – Your addictive nature is always going to be a part of who you are. The key is in moderation and prioritizing the future over the temporary rush of dopamine provided pleasure that addictive behavior provides. There are healthier ways to seek out pleasurable moments.

Clean your space, place crystals to charge + pull a card message.

Namskara Mudra – Give yourself permission to love and be loved. It can be hard to allow this type of vulnerability, but it’s a part of your growth and essential to your true happiness.

This is your time to have your cake + eat, it too. Invite in experiences that bring you more pleasure, joy + fun.

Body – Get out of the cloistering enclosure of your head and go outside to spend time in nature. Use this time outside to exercise your body in order to achieve a greater sense of freedom and clarity.

Write 10 things you’re grateful for.

  • Spring flowers
  • Autumn’s eventual cool down
  • Air conditioning
  • A dependable vehicle
  • People I trust in my life
  • My partner and all he does for me
  • I’m still alive and mobile
  • Squishy soled sandals
  • Prozac
  • My confidence in what feels right for me

A new portal of opportunity opens for you now.

Sympathetic Joy for Self – Celebrate life more, and what you have less. You never believed you’d live past 20, then 24, then 30… etc and yet here you are. With your depression and suicidal tendencies mitigated, if not always completely under control, you enjoy life more. So make sure that you are celebrating it every chance you get.

Full Moon advice from the Minoan Goddess Amalthea.

Ahimsa – Lay down your defenses and make choices that foster a greater sense of community. There’s no need to be aggressive or defensive right now, so instead of acting out on those feelings, look at why they are there, and seek a greater understanding where these feelings are concerned.

Other elements included in this reading:
Flower Agate Moon for Opening the Mind to New Possibilities
Lemon Quartz Bowl for Clarity, Focus, and a Pocket Full of Joy
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: PATHWORK ORACLE

Gideon’s Challenge – Disenchantment

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The Perfect BrewDisenchantment 

Interesting teacups,
delicious
sugary treats
and different flavors
to try
sometimes
aren’t enough
to keep at bay
the jaded moments
when food
holds no meaning
and flavors
hold no shine
and I don’t want
to take
another bite.

Photo © ZenStatePhotography

The Freezing Point

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Tarot de Luz - Two of SwordsThe @GlitterbyInk #JuneSun25 Challenge
Summer Sunlight Prompt for June 9 : Storm

Today’s draw is the Two of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of crossroads, difficult decisions, needing more information, seeking inward for answers, weighing one’s options, and sometimes avoidance.

Don’t freeze. They all teach us about fight or flight, but no one tells us about the freeze. Maybe3 they think that if you have two options to choose from that freezing won’t happen? The thing is though; it does.

Fear, uncertainty, surprise, chaos, change… all of these can trigger that freeze response, making it difficult to move forward or make decisions.

It’s important that we recognize and acknowledge this natural tendency, as it can cause us to end up stuck in unpredictable or even dangerous moments and situations. When we are aware, it allows us to more easily move past that reaction and start making the choices needed to bring us back to (figurative or literal) safety.

Today’s message is to look at these places where indecision reigns and keeps us from moving. Look at why we are struggling, and recognize that the indecision or “freeze” we are experiencing very well could be an emotional response, and that it’s time to move past those emotions to make a decision.

DECK USED:  TAROT DE LUZ

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2025 Challenge
Philosophical Questions for June 4th and 25th

Tarot reading with the Tarot de Luz and Wyrd Sisters Deck of Spells and RitualsDo people need other people for true happiness?

Astral Help Sigil and The Chariot – Although people have a tendency to want to do things themselves and be the one leading the ship, sometimes everyone needs a little outside help. These cards indicate that yes, people do need other people in order to find true happiness. This doesn’t mean that they need other people all the time, but that having a trusted support system also supports happiness in the individual.

Are we ever morally obliged to take action?  If so, under what circumstances?

Fertility Sigil and The Hanged Man – Sometimes taking action looks like waiting to see what develops rather than stepping in. It also involves reflection.

These cards indicate that each person’s answer to this question will differ, depending on their personal perceptions of the world and whatever value they put in letting the other party go through the experience they’re considering interrupting.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Rosehips for Releasing Stress and Negativity
Foraged Red-Stemmed Feather Moss for Attentive Understanding
Clear Quartz for a boost of Intentional Energies
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TAROT DE LUZ AND WYRD SISTERS DECK OF SPELLS AND RITUALS

Daily Self Kindness

I spent time getting to know my new gems that I picked up at the gemshow, including photographing them to add to my “collection” app that helps me keep track of them all.

Stabilization Maintenance

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Floral Seeker Tarot's Queen of PentaclesThe @GlitterbyInk #JuneSun25 Challenge
Summer Sunlight Prompt for June 8 : Energy

Today’s draw is the Queen of Pentacles (Wax Begonia), which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s resources, financial stability, health, home, labors, manifestations, or other aspects of the physical realm. This often translates into a supportive or nurturing energy or entity in the areas of one’s health, home, and financial responsibilities.

When you take care of others you take care of yourself, and when you take care of yourself you take care of others.

Just because others depend on you doesn’t mean that you can neglect yourself and your own needs. To be the stable foundation in others lives requires maintenance of that stability and thus… self-care.

Self-care isn’t selfish when you are the stabilizing force in others lives. It’s also another way in which you are caring for them.

DECK USED:  FLORAL SEEKER TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2025 Challenge
Prompt for June 8th : Do Spread 2
Philosophical Question for June 18th : Why do people feel the need to distract themselves from reality?


Philosophical Oracle Reading with the Wildflowers of the West Oracle and Twist the Leaf's Gratitude Oracle

Reading Summary: The color in the Black-Eyed Susan card correlates with the list of creators in the anchor card. The speaks of drawing one’s attention to what is creating a need for distraction. What is pushing this behavior?

In the Wild Bluebell card and the Butterfly Bush card, there is a connection between the pink in each of these cards and the hands and face of the diver in the anchor card. This brings into focus that the control of these situations is in our hands, but is mitigated by our perception of what’s going on in the moment.

The blue hues in the Wild Bluebell card is reflected in the blue ocean background in the anchor card, although not as a perfect match. This connection reminds us that our perception of the world around us is often flawed and how it can sometimes be skewed by what’s going on right in front of us.

Take Away: These cards indicate that when we are distracting ourselves from reality, it’s because we are not seeing the whole picture, and what we are seeing is causing misconceptions on how to move forward. The cards also offer advice that says instead of jumping to conclusions, one should take a closer look around and try and see things from an outside perspective, or from the perspective of where these stressors are originating from… rather than just our own perspective on the issue.

Other elements included in this reading:
Lace Agate for Increasing Inner Stability
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration and Clarity

DECK USED: WILDFLOWERS OF THE WEST AND TWIST THE LEAF’S GRATITUDE ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

Although I didn’t take a nap today, I did take breaks and rest when I needed to.  I also stepped inside to cool down when I needed instead of pushing on in the heat.

Gideon’s Challenge – The Inner Ache

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Pluto Stuffed AnimalThe Inner Ache

I need a cuddle
and a little bit
of closeness
as the ache
at solar plexus
demands attention
and I want
to bury my face
in soft fur
or clean sheets
to simply
breathe in slow
and let it out
a little at a time

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❤️ Self Care Saturday (On a Sunday)

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These Saturday readings are (not usually) bearing in on any one thing or event in my life, as the question used is asking for a more general outlook. This is a self care exercise, and is not meant as a predictive reading… although that, too, happens on occasion.

The question is… What do I need to focus for self-care through the week ahead?

Self Care Saturday Tarot Reading with the Cards Drawn Tarot and Phases & Forests Oracle

Earth – The Moon atop Five of Swords – Don’t engage. Engaging in conflict this week is only going to lead to feelings of uncertainty. There will be no clear winners, no matter how hard you try, just lots of questions and relentless feeling of uncertainty that grows and intensifies as the conflict continues.

Air – Three of Cups Rx – Remember that it’s okay to not feel sociable sometimes. You’re not an extrovert, even if you can put on the shoes now and then when you need to, and pushing yourself in this area at the moment will just drain you, exhausting you mentally.

Water – Eight of Wands – Give yourself room this week emotionally, for your emotions have a tendency to run amuck now and then. This week is going to be one of those weeks where they’re swirling around, trying to overwhelm you with their speed and numbers. To keep the clamoring to a minimum, give yourself that extra emotional space.

Fire – Nine of Cups Rx – Don’t let the emotional upheaval of this week make you feel less than, nor that you don’t have enough or haven’t done enough. Remember that emotions create illusion, which can in turn cause feelings of dissatisfaction to rise up. Emotions, though, are not truth tellers. They are temporary impressions that come and go.

Waning – Summer Solstice – Don’t get ahead of yourself. There’s still plenty of time to get the things done you need to get done.

Waxing – Rest: Waning Crescent – Keep your eye on the prize and what needs to be finished, and consider what kind of reward you want to give yourself for finishing up and getting the job done.

Take Away – Stay on target this week with what you want and need to complete, and don’t allow your emotions to lead you astray into murky waters. You are more than capable of the tasks before you, even if self doubt occasionally causes you to not quite believe in yourself. Remember that emotions are temporary, and ebb and flow like ripples over water.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: CARDS DRAWN TAROT AND PHASES & FORESTS ORACLE