Breakfast
Peppermint leaf
and chamomile
licorice root
and cinnamon
blue lotus extract
and kanna root
blended together
sweet and pure
giving
mornings
a bit of happy flavor
to slide
over the tongue
and warm the belly
Author: Twist the Leaf
Healing the Wound Lenormand Reading
The Tender Core: What actually hurts?
Man and Birds – The scars left behind by your ex. These cards very clearly describe the agitated and scattered behavior that he displayed just before things went off the rails… or rather, he went off the rails.
Embedded Sword: Why is it hard to release the source of the pain?
Letter and Star – It’s hard to speak about what happened, and difficult to purge the emotions involved when it’s a struggle to actually get in touch with the emotions involved… even if it would help lighten the weight you still struggle with.
Bloody Bandage: Once that’s released, what will help stanch the wound left open?
Tower and House – Structure and a sense of security at home. When you feel safe at home, your wounds are given a chance to scab over and begin to heal.
DECK USED: MYSTERY’S HALLOWEEN LENORMAND
A Slow Rake of Claws
Today’s meditation was skipped.
Today’s draw is the Five of Oceans (Cups), which is traditionally a representation of a negative mindset, closed mindedness, pessimism, and “sour grapes”.
The imagery in this card makes me think of drowning. Not the good kind of “drowning” that is actually subspace that I’ve renamed to fit how it feels to me personally, but more the bad emotional type of drowning where you sink and sink and sink… and it feels like there’s no bottom. The kind of drowning that starts by secluding yourself to find a little peace and quiet… and end up pulled down into the depths of a depression.
Today’s card is a reminder not to withdraw down deep into yourself. That’s where the monsters live. They lure you in with the promise of peace and quiet, then sink their claws into you and make you miserable. The temptation is a lie… a promise lain out as a trap. Don’t allow it to tempt you into waters you can’t swim in or navigate safely or well.
DECK USED: THE LOST FOREST TAROT 2ND EDITION
HealingThruTarot’s October Shadow Work Challenge Prompt
Questions for October 17th: What irrational fears lurk below the surface?
Fear –The Path and Le Monde – That you will lose your way along your path and end up on the wrong side of growth. After all, bacteria and infections can also experience growth if allowed to fester in the dark.
What can I do about this fear?
Remembrance and Sept de Miroir – Pick and choose the memories that you carry forward with you. Populate your memories with positive experiences and cherished moments, and let go of those that were painful.
Fear –Exile and l’Étoile Rx – That others will consider you a lost cause and write you off, ostracizing you due to your depression driven pessimistic tendencies.
What can I do about this fear?
Death and Commandant de Pieu – Share with others your passions and those things that light up your spark of inspiration. In doing so, you light a fire within them as well as adding kindling to your own spark.
Fear – Melting and Deux de Pieu – All your plans, strategizing, and good intentions will be for naught.
What can I do about this fear?
Foresight and Neuf de Pieu – Don’t let this fear keep you from looking ahead and working on creating the boundaries needed to protect what is important to you. This fear is merely a perception that grows from your fear, and your efforts are not in vain.
DECK USED: LES TAROT INTERDIT VAMPYRIA AND SPIRITS & SHADOWS ORACLE
#DiscordTarotholicsOct2022 Challenge Prompt
Question for October 17th: Samhain – As the last harvest approaches, what needs to be discarded from your life?
Reading Summary: It’s time to let go of your focus on slow growth (Seven of Earth), and the emotional reassurances that you use to keep yourself moving slowly (Queen of Oceans). Instead, use this time to begin a quick growth spurt (Page of Skies) towards the speed, precision, and alacrity that will be needed in the weeks ahead (Eight of Skies).
Take Away: With the holiday rush just around the corner and only a couple of weeks off, it’s time to start gearing up and getting moving at a quicker pace. You can return to developing that slower pace once more after the holiday season has drawn to a close, but for now? Toss it on the back burner and give yourself permission to surge forward instead of moving at an ambling pace.
DECK USED: THE LOST FOREST TAROT 2ND EDITION
I’ve decided to accept Ms B’s help. She offered to do some of the extra “helper tasks” that are involved in the holiday rush preparations. I wasn’t sure about accepting, but the cards keep pushing so I’ve packed up a few things for her to see if any of them are something her eyesight will allow her to assist with.
Gideon’s Challenge
The Lost Fall
Indian sumer
stretches on
and trees
refuse to turn
as smoke rolls
with the east wind
and we’re left
unable to see
our nose
while summer heat
drags
on and on
as if
it will never end
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Rallying the Troops
Today’s meditation was skipped, although I did do a sort-of one while chilling at the hospital this morning.
Today’s draw is the King of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of a projective alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s passions, drive, determination, principles, values, and willpower. The King of Wands often indicates themes that have to do with leadership figures or authority figures with the ability to rally others to their causes and draw them in to their own values, principles, and passions.
In my life, today is the day that I officially go back to work after taking a few days off. The shops were open during my small vacation, and thus there are orders that need to be caught up on. The card, therefore, is a reminder that I’m the conductor on this train… the general in this army. It’s time to rally the troops and get them going on helping in getting things done, on getting orders set on track, and making sure everyone is on board with not just help in this moment… but in the weeks to come as the holiday rush rises up to greet us.
The card today asks us all… what do we need to “rally our troops” to help us with? Where is it that you cannot accomplish your goals without others? And in those areas, how can we best inspire others to our cause?
DECK USED: MIO IM’S TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsOct2022 Challenge Prompt
Topic for October 16th: Do Spread 3
Smoky Quartz – How can I best purge negativity from my life and develop greater stability?
Six of Wands – Stop looking to those in your past for approval. They are long gone, and it is only the memory that you seek approval from. You can’t change the past, so look forward instead and, if you feel the need approval from others, seek it from those in your present and future… not your past.
Apple – What insight is needed to improve my physical health at this time?
Knight of Wands Rx – Take care in where you leap forward and act impulsively. A bit of restraint is needed to keep things moving in the right direction. In other words? Just because your leg is feeling a bit better doesn’t mean the problem is solved. Take things slow and make sure this issue isn’t something that’s going to reoccur later on.
Chrysanthemum – Where do my defenses and boundaries need some bolstering?
Three of Wands – You’re going to have to be more realistic about your plans and take things at a different pace than usual. A bit of extra care and a bit of extra time is going to be needed. Don’t allow your inner narrative to step in and make things ugly for you just because you have to take things a bit slower. A slow burn is best, so you don’t set the bridge ablaze and the entire forest along with it.
Aquamarine – In what ways can meditation promote more calm and confidence in my life?
Queen of Swords – Meditation can provide you the balance to foster your own strengths. You don’t have to be ruthless, but sometimes you can feel that urge when you don’t have enough balance in your life.
Meditation gives you that balance that allows you to choose between being your own Queen of Swords… or being the kind of domineering and self-centered Queen that you’ve observed from others with similar qualities used in less kind or generous ways.
Mint – What factor in my relationships need some reevaluation and perhaps adjustment?
Ace of Swords – You have received a lot of advice from the cards lately about turning over a new leaf in your communication with others. Here we see this message again in your relationships. Use your voice to communicate what you need instead of staying silent.
Carnelian – In what ways can including more creativity in my life brighten my daily outlook?
Ten of Swords – Creativity helps you avoid feeling as if everything is lost and nothing is going your way. In participating in creative endeavors, you then shine a touch of light to the darker corners of your life and make everything a bit better.
Pomegranate – What wish of mine is ready to be manifested into reality at this time?
Knight of Hearts (Pentacles) – You want more time to explore a slower pace in your life. This card indicates that there is boundless potential here, but you’re going to have be patient. The holiday rush is not a time of slowing down and a measured pace. But, the holiday rush won’t last forever.
DECK USED: MIO IM’S TAROT
I’m continuing to work on keeping my foot elevated, and treating things gingerly, even when my patience is stretched a bit thin.
Gideon’s Challenge
I’m Here
Your heart beats
heavy and hard
as you drag on
and fight
the good fight
showing others
you are strong
while inside
your heart bleeds
and I reach out
to cover your soul
and help keep
everything in
that is trying
to spill out
Twisting the Leaf 