No Snow
I want to go
where the snow is
and breathe in
the sharp sting
of crisp air
while footsteps
crunch
and little bits
of fluff
fall to join
the glacier
covered ground
I stand upon
Gideon’s Challenge – No Snow
Author: Twist the Leaf
Setting Expectations
Today’s meditation was a ten minute #DailyCalm session from the @Calm app.
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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 Queen of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s passion, drive, willpower, determination, values, and principles. This often translates into themes that have to do with being supportive of others projects and passions, or searching for inner truth within your own values and principles.
The Queen of Wands has then been combined with an affirmation from the Pass Around the Smile Positive Guidance Cards, which says, “Congratulations. Something exciting is coming, and you deserve it!”
You experience more enjoyment in life when you expect more enjoyment out of life. If you’re always stuck, expecting the worst, you end up losing out on the good stuff that could’ve happened because you were too focused on what might.
When we bring enthusiasm into our lives, it helps lighten our experience of life as a whole. In this way, our expectations helped to mold our reality.
The message in today’s cards is a reminder to create the reality that you want to experience by anticipating the arrival of good things to come with eager enthusiasm. This doesn’t mean you can sit on your ass and just expect things to fall in your lap, but it makes the hard work you need to do along the way far more enjoyable.
DECKS USED: BEFORE TAROT AND PASS AROUND THE SMILE POSITIVE GUIDANCE CARDS
#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Prompt for March 31st : Grab a spread of your choice you’re curious about… and give it a go!
Show Me…
The Present – You are struggling under the weight of your responsibility towards others. Too many people look towards you in order to keep everything they value safe and alive. Better boundaries are needed, even if there’s a good deal of resistance when making them.
Show Me…
A Message from Spirit – This battle you are embarking on is too big to deal with on your own. Allow others to help you plot and strategize your way forward, and when it’s time to take cation, invite them to help carry the load.
Show Me…
Relationship Challenges – Your silence when you are feeling vulnerable isolatea you from others… and isolate them from you. Communication is extremely important in relationships, which you already know. Connect more during these times of vulnerability to strengthen your bonds with others.
Show Me…
Past Influences – Don’t allow your past experiences with betrayal to keep isolated and distrusting of everyone. Paranoia might feel like it keeps you safe, but it also keeps you distanced from others and the potential they may hold to improve your life as a whole.
Show Me…
What to Leave Behind – Leave behind the uncertainty of everything you don’t know or can’t grasp, and instead narrow your focus on what you deem truly important. By narrowing your focus, you can cut out those things that are tapping away your energy with little to no return. This will give you more energy for those things that you truly deem worth putting time and effort into.
Other elements included in this reading:
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: DIARY OF A BROKEN SOUL DECK AND SHOW ME DECK
@silkandsonder’s Journal Prompts to Feel Like Yourself Again
Prompt No. 10 : What is one small change I could make this week that would help me feel like a healthier happier me?
Note: I had to rephrase this question because, as was established in an earlier reading this month, I need time to redefine what the phrase “feel like me” actually means.
Reading Summary: Allow others to help you choose (The Lovers and the fact one figure reaches to help the other up) positivity and optimism (The Star and her abundant pitchers) over cynicism and stagnancy (King of Pentacles Rx and his jaded, brooding expression).
Take Away: Today’s readings (and not just this one) are a reminder that you are not alone and you do not need to treat yourself as if you are.
Life’s experiences are better and brighter when you share them with others, allow them to help you, and invite them to come along with you on your journey instead of trying to do it all by yourself.
Look at the endeavors that matter to you and seek out ways to invite others in and encourage their participation. In doing so, you don’t just share the work load and stresses involved, but open yourself up to their influences, ideas, and support. That, in turn, helps make everything feel just a bit easier.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: BEFORE TAROT
I managed to get caught up on orders, which I wasn’t sure was going to happen until Thursday.
Gideon’s Challenge – Quiet Moments
Quiet Moments
Dusk slips in
quiet and still
turning skies
into
blushing hues
as light
begins to fade
and we
don’t realize
how late
it’s become
until shadows
blend
into darkness
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
🌕 Full Moon in Libra – April 2026
Tomorrow 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 @spiritdaughter
Where have I been saying yes when I mean no?
The Hanged Man – When you are being given a chance to pause and consider, or the opportunity to seize that chance, a lot of times you end up just shrugging and going along rather than even checking in with yourself beyond your moral compass to see if you actually have a preference.
Instead, consider if you actually -have- a preference and there’s something you want out of the situation or options available. You did a bit of this on your trip last week and they adjusted for you. Keep it up!
What do I need from my closest relationships that I haven’t asked for?
Six of Cups – You need more nostalgia time. You depend on those around you to help you with keeping your memories from disappearing due to head injury/memory loss issues. Prompt them to talk about your shared past more, and wander down memory lane together more often.
Even those memories that are only stories now, and you can no longer access in your mind’s eye as actual memories, are valuable and allow you to see yourself and your growth in a different light.
If I loved myself the way I love others, what would I do differently?
The Fool – Allow time for more fun and frivolity. Let yourself be less serious, and seek out the things you enjoy more. Allow responsibility to take the back seat now and then without guilt or self-recrimination.
You spend too much of your time “keeping yourself in line” when what you really need is to let go and just enjoy life more.
Full Moon advice from the Minoan Goddess Amalthea.
Seven of Pentacles atop Ten of Swords – Sometimes things don’t work out, no matter how much time you put in or how hard you work at them. If the roots are dead… then the plant is dead, and there can be no resuscitation, just replacement.
You can’t squeeze blood from stone, no matter how hard you try. You can start over, though, and grow something fruitful from the ashes, if you’re willing to try again.
Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: CUCOLORIS TAROT REGULAR EDITION
Endings and New Beginnings
Today’s meditation was an eleven minute #DailyCalm session from the @Calm app.
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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 Ten of Swords (Air), which is traditionally a representation long journeys coming to an end, painful endings, lessons learned the hard way, deep wounds, and sometimes can indicate loss or betrayal.
The Ten of Air has then been combined with an affirmation from the Affirmators! Evening Mantras deck, which says, “it doesn’t matter how old I am or what’s going on in my life — epiphany is always waiting just around the corner (which is why I guess it’s good to sleep with the night-light).”
It’s important to remember that all endings are also new beginnings. When we let go of something that has been a part of our life, it opens up room for something new to take its place.
This is where new ideas and epiphanies take root and are given the space to grow.
Consider, for example, the aloe plant. It propagates by “birthing” babies at its base. Too many babies at its base means that the main plant may die off, creating a cluster of plants that essentially kill off its past to make room for future growth.
The message in today’s cards is a reminder that it’s okay to mourn what you’re losing, as long as you don’t hold onto it past its usefulness. You have to let it go in order to make room for something better to slip in and take its place.
DECKS USED: DENIZENS OF EARTH TAROT AND AFFIRMATORS! EVENING MANTRAS
@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Prompts for March 30th and 31st
Venus enters Taurus: What brings me comfort, pleasure, and joy?
Percolate, Two of Wands, Straight Ahead
It brings me comfort to have time to percolate (think things over and consider in-depth).
It brings me pleasure to be offered choices, instead of being backed into a corner where it feels that there are none.
It brings me joy when the path that feels right for me is clear and easy to discern, without winding turns that create moments of self doubt.
Looking Back: What am I proud of myself for navigating in the past month?
Ace of Swords atop Ace of Wands Rx; Off Season
Allowing myself the time and space to think and plan, and work on the strategic part of things, instead of jumping into new projects to distract myself from the issues at hand.
I’ve taken this business slump as an opportunity to study, learn, and improve instead of an opportunity to hide from my problems.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Ponderosa Pine Cone for Resilience and Adaptability
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
Carved Jade Japanese Kitsune for fostering Wisdom and Cunning
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECKS USED: THE BONE TAROT AND THE SUPREME’S SMALL CITY ORACLE
#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Prompts for March 29th and 30th
How can you connect more strongly with the invigorating energy of Spring’s arrival?
The Empress atop Ten of Earth; Ten of Water
If you foster a nurturing attitude toward your needs and wants, you will in turn feel like you have everything you could need or want at your fingertips.
Abundance comes from a place of grounded nurturing, not self directed cruelty or abuse.
What do you need to focus on for self-care for the upcoming full moon?
Six of Water and Four of Air Rx
Look back on those things in your past that have brought you joy, and instead of falling into new habits of languishing in your free time, revisit these past activities and rekindle your passion for them.
Walks and photography with real camera. Time in nature and visits to stony beaches, digging in the dirt and noticing the little details of nature like the intricacies of moss and lichen. Rest isn’t always about sleep, it’s about those things that rekindle your inner spark.
Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: DENIZENS OF EARTH TAROT
I made sure to get some time with Gideon today. The day felt like a big ass exercise in frustration, but I managed to get some time with him, which helped balance things out a bit.
Gideon’s Challenge – Poe
Poe
The concept
of a dream
within a dream
was once foreign
but over time
reality becomes
ephemeral
and the world
becomes fuzzy
instead of
firm
and clarity
becomes
a concept
instead of
an experience
