Daily Focus

Healthy Introversion

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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

The Alleyman Tarot

Today’s draw is the Three of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of friendships, revelry, celebration, and collaboration between those that are linked or alike not just in mind but also in heart.

The Three of Cups has then been combined with the It Tickles card from the Happy Little Things deck, which says, “Where words can’t reach, you can use hands. Or feathers. Tongues are allowed as well. One can bask in the moment and laugh with their body. And it could be helpful to remember that adults can be tickled, too. They have been kids, too, and not that long ago, if you ask them.”

Sometimes the best (and healthiest) fun you can have is the fun you have with others.

As a (primarily) introvert, I have a tendency to be drawn to, and even seek out, solitude. The issue with this is that no matter how comforting solitude is, it’s not always healthy for us.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it is. Sometimes alone time is the time you need to reflect or recover or de-stress. And yet, sometimes alone time is just time to stew in stagnancy and hide from the world in unhealthy ways.

The message in today’s Three of Cups and affirmation card is a reminder that even those who are fully and completely introverted need social contact in their lives now and then. It’s healthy, and if partaken of in ways that you enjoy, can also be a highlight in your day instead of a trial or tribulation.

DECK USED: THE ALLEYMAN TAROT w/ BOOSTERS 1-3 AND HAPPY LITTLE THINGS DECK

The @ambitiouslyalexa July Journal Prompts
Prompts for July 4th and 5th
Reading Note: I split The Alleyman into a 78 card tarot deck, a 22 card majors only deck, and the leftovers as an oracle deck. The cards used in this reading are the leftover “oracle” cards to be read not as a tarot, but off of the imagery instead.

Oracle Reading with The Alleyman Tarot

A truth you’re ready to name

Top Two Cards – The harsh judgments that you put upon yourself are cruelty and punishment rather than constructive feedback.

That negative inner voice insidious in its narratives in your head isn’t helpful or kind. It’s angry and mean, petty and cruel. Listening to it and absorbing what it has to say is not just habit, but a form of self abuse.

A version of you that’s emerging

Bottom Three Cards – You are learning not to dread change, but instead see it as an opportunity.

No matter how much you want to, change isn’t something that you can ignore and loss happens to everyone. Through these times of uncertainty, you are beginning to better understand the cycle of opportunity presented during these moments… instead of trying to hide away and/or brace for impact.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Foraged Purple Heather Sprigs for Independence and Luck
Dried Rhododendron Leaf for Fostering Confidence
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE ALLEYMAN TAROT w/ BOOSTERS 1-3

#DiscordTarotholicsJul2026 Challenge
3-Card Spread Prompt for July 4th : About opportunity…

Tarot Reading with The Alleyman Tarot

What opportunity is knocking on my door right now?

Six of Wands – Pay attention to what’s being offered to you by others where their expectations play a heavy role in the situation.

When considering these opportunities, make sure that you are also considering whether or not you want to take on those expectations that are attached to it, whether those expectations are reasonable or not, and whether or not those expectations will become overwhelming for you over time. Consider as well, whether or not you are even considering this opportunity simply as a way to please someone else.

Is this opportunity suited to me and where I am on my path at this time?

Five of Swords – This opportunity doesn’t particularly look good from the start and it’s not going to start looking any better the further you go on in your considerations mentioned above. It’s far too easy to find the pitfalls, and that should be a warning that it’s not a good opportunity for you.

What would change in my life if I were to jump on this opportunity?

Nine of Cups – Self satisfaction and contentment. The problem lies in the fact that due to the double-bulb nature of these cups, not only does the card offer the traditional meaning of self satisfaction and contentment, but also overwhelm.

Combined with the Five of Swords, this indicates that although this opportunity is not suited to you, and you won’t enjoy the journey it takes you on, there is still potential to find comfort and satisfaction at its end. This lies more in your ability to adapt, though, rather than whether or not this opportunity was suited for you in the first place

Other elements included in this reading:
Handcrafted Sigil for Healthy Sustainable Energy
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Clear Quartz for boosting Mental Clarity
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE ALLEYMAN TAROT w/ BOOSTERS 1-3
Daily Self Kindness

I took a walk around Ms B’s neighborhood after dinner to get a little distance while she was watching the news.

Hollow Acts vs Enriching Activities

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Tarot Murmure de la Forêt - Six of Wands

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

Oracle Reading with the Faerie Pathways Oracle

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…

Tarot Reading with the Tarot Murmure de la Forêt

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
Daily Self Kindness

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

Transformations Through Trust

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Today’s meditation was a ten minute #DailyCalm session from the @Calm.

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Storybook Tarot - Seven of Pentacles

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

Today’s draw is the Seven of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of slow growth, sustainability, domestic harmony, hard work, and practicing patience while the fruits of your labors develop and take form.

The Seven of Pentacles has then been combined with a prompt card from the Animantras Chakra deck, which says, “Be Delicate.”

Accepting that it is okay to be vulnerable is one of those things that has been extremely difficult for me to process. It can be hard to let go of control…

[pauses for a moment of thought and reflection]

It just occurred to me why we may not be using violence as foreplay as much as we used to in my relationship with Gideon. These cards make me wonder if the reason we don’t need as much violence in our foreplay these days is because I am more willing and/or it has become easier for me to let go without it.

In the beginning of my relationship with Gideon, it often took violence to get me into a place of submission. Not because I didn’t want to be there, but because psychologically speaking, I had a hard time letting go of control. The violence helped with that (and was hot for both of us… really hot).

Overtime, though, it has become easier and easier for me to drop into the drown (subspace). I don’t need the violence as much to get there, and Gideon became hesitant in using it to get me there because my drowns were going so deep and the (sub)drop that came after was becoming more intense.

Over time, I allowed myself to be more vulnerable and more delicate around him. In response, he became more careful with me.

I mean, to be fair, I’m not complaining. I’ve just wondered sometimes where that violence had gone, and why it disappeared when it was something that we both enjoyed. I think that my mind was trying to find a way to “take the blame” for this change, and that I was depriving Gideon of something he wants or needs in the process.

The message in today’s cards speaks about vulnerabilities and how trust can make these vulnerabilities something far easier to expose and accept. This relates to to areas of life and ourselves that go far beyond sex and preferences in that area; trust takes time. You can’t expect people to just hand over that kind of trust… it has to be built.

DECK USED:  STORYBOOK TAROT AND ANIMANTRAS CHAKRA ORACLE

The @ambitiouslyalexa July Journal Prompts
Prompts for July 1st and 2nd

Oracle Reading with The Cat Witch Akashic Records Oracle

A feeling you’re leaning into

Fire – After your talk with your shrink the other day, you are feeling a new spark of your hope and creativity.

You feel like you have a bit of an idea on which direction you want to go in order to try and make things better with your business, and are feeling the motivation to get started in that area on those things that have been discussed.

A standard you’re releasing

Purpose and Diet – Expectations of perfection for perfection’s sake. Recently, you have been encouraged to look at your relationship with perfection and how it connects to self abuse.

Your third quarterly reading indicated that now is a good time to look at the options available to you and start weeding out the ones that don’t fit, aren’t suited, or aren’t healthy for you. This includes your attachment to perfection and the unreasonable expectations you put upon yourself in this area. With this relationship brought to light you are beginning to let go of these expectations and work on seeing your efforts in a different (more positive) light.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE WITCH CAT AKASHIC RECORDS ORACLE

#DiscordTarotholicsJul2026 Challenge
3-Card Spread Prompt for July 2nd : About fun…

Tarot Reading with the Storybook Tarot

Why does guilt plague your moments of carefree fun?

Nine of Cups – Guilt plagues your moments of carefree fun because you want to show measurable success in your happiness.

It often feels like it’s not enough to just be happy. Instead, you feel the need for there to be an actual measurable success to show for your efforts rather than just a feeling of happiness or contentedness in the moment.

How can you release this guilt to enjoy these moments more?

Seven of Cups – There was recently an article published about how newer generations are prioritizing experiences over possessions. They spend their money on things that they want to experience like live music, festivals, and travel, instead of on material expenditures that show your wealth or accomplishments. They live light and experience more.

Letting go of your guilt to enjoy more of these moments guilt-free is a matter of choice and priorities. You have to choose what you prioritize and choose what you value most. Do you actually value most the fact that you can amaze others with what you’ve accomplished? Or is your own enjoyment more important?

What would guilt-free fun look like?

King of Pentacles – It’s the stability you’ve been looking for all along, you’ve just been looking in the wrong places.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Shiva Shell Heart for Wisdom and Discernment
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others

DECK USED: STORYBOOK TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

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

The Self Abuse of Perfectionism

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Today’s meditation was a ten minute #DailyCalm session from the @Calm.

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The Everyday Enchantments Tarot - Ace of Pentacles

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 Coins, which is traditionally a representation of the seed of new beginnings and new opportunities in the areas of one’s finances, resources, health, labors, manifestations, and the physical world.

The card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Soul Seedlings deck, which says, “I strive for progress, not perfection.”

In my opinion, the expectation of perfection is a form of self abuse. This is coming from someone who has spent the majority of their life in pursuit of perfection at all costs, including whatever personal costs are involved. This kind of mindset means that your best is never good enough, and you tear down your best again and again to do more until it’s better than your best. Even then, you finally have to concede that this is the best you can do, but it’s probably still not perfect.

See the abuse in there? It’s all over the place from the actions taken to the mindset to the fact that no matter how good you do it’s never going to be enough.

Years after having discovered this, I still catch myself, falling into the old pattern of expectations of perfection. Not from others, but from myself. I am working to be kinder to myself, though, and this is a part of that journey.

The message in today’s Ace of Coins and affirmation card is a reminder that demanding perfection from yourself is unhealthy. It is abusive. These cards encourage us to instead focus upon progress rather than perfection, for it’s not in perfection where we find growth and betterment, but in the small steps of progress we make from day-to-day.

DECK USED:  QUEER CROW DEATH MAGIC TAROT AND SOUL SEEDLINGS AFFIRMATIONS FOR KIDS

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2026 Challenge
Prompt for July 1st : Do the Third Quarter Spread

Third Quarter Tarot Reading with The Everyday Enchantments Tarot, Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot, The Skybound Traveler Oracle, and Soul Seedlings Affirmations for Kids

Year Ahead Theme : The Devil

The Devil card is traditionally a representation of temptation, struggles with moderation, harmful excesses, addiction, and self-harm. Temptation is not always bad for you, but neither is it always good. It’s through grounded and sound judgement that we are able to make healthy decisions when choosing what temptations we indulge in and which ones we leave behind.

Theme for July : Seven of Cups

There’s a lot of choices, directions, and options laid out in front of you this month. Make sure when you are looking at all of these options that you first weed out the ones that are impractical or unhealthy for you. They don’t need to be in the mix causing extra confusion with their presence. This weeding process is the first step in making the best choices possible.

Focus / Advice for July : The Crux

“… suffering and its cure are written into our DNA. Any unrealized goal is a form of dissatisfaction“

Make sure when choosing which opportunities you moved towards and which ones you step away from, that you are also considering which of those opportunities will be too heavy to carry over the long run.

Ray of Hope for July : My Voice Matters

Consider discussing these options with others rather than making the decision alone and on your own. By bouncing your options off of others, you gain a perspective on these options that you would not otherwise have, as well as a better understanding of yourself as those you trust to consult with offer you honest advice based on what they know about you. Not to mention, sometimes they are more likely than you are to take into account and add value to the things that will make you happy.

Theme for August : The Tower

Make sure whatever choices and deliberations needed to be made are done in July, because in August it’s time to start moving on the destruction and restructuring needed to make room to bring these new opportunities you’ve chosen to pursue to life.

Focus / Advice for August : The Benighted

Make sure to leave room for lots of cluster fucks. Just because things feel like they aren’t going as planned doesn’t mean that you’re not getting something out of the process. It just means that you need to give yourself more time to get where you want to go. Feelings of uncertainty are natural during this time. Tenacity is needed.

Ray of Hope for August : My Mind is Being Filled with Fantastical Ideas

Instead of falling into “what if” thinking where your brain begins to fill up with all of the catastrophic issues that could turn things awry, use that creativity in your mind and imagination to consider all of the ways that things could go even better than planned because of these obstacles and delays.

Theme for September : Temperance

Slow down. Explore and consider where you are pushing too hard, to the point where it can be detrimental to you, your health, or your well-being. Don’t ignore the warning signs that you are overexerting yourself through excess and lack of moderation.

Focus / Advice for September : The Ethics

Remember that how you go about doing something is just as important as getting it done. You may be tempted this month to try and bypass your own personal ethics in order to foster expediency. Don’t do this. Make sure that you are checking in with yourself and your moral compass and following where they lead, regardless of what extra difficulties or delays that may entail.

Ray of Hope for September : I Am Doing My Best

Don’t forget that “your best” it’s not about perfection or self-abuse. It’s about doing what you can in the moment without harming yourself in the process. Some days you are going to be more capable than others, and that’s perfectly okay.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Clear Quartz for boosting Mental Clarity
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: QUEER CROW DEATH MAGIC TAROT, EVERYDAY ENCHANTMENT TAROT, THE SKYBOUND TRAVELER ORACLE, SOUL SEEDLINGS AFFIRMATIONS FOR KIDS
Daily Self Kindness

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

Future Scenarios

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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

Fungjai Tarot - Six of Wands

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 the Reversed Sirens card from the Nowbits Oracle, which says, “When you leave your body and go into the future in your mind… it might feel pleasant at first (depending on the future you’re visiting), but soon enough you may start to feel quite uncomfortable… almost to the point of hearing sirens. Not to worry, this is just your body saying: “come home please, I need you here with me”. And I KNOW you’re the kind of love that will come running to that call. Visit the futures that excite you! Visit the ones that make you come alive! But don’t forget to come back home. Travel out, Travel in. Repeat. This way what you’re actually doing is pulling your future INTO you, a little closer and closer each time, melding little pieces of it with your present self all the while. Reversing those sirens until they feel like CELEBRATIONS.“

When you imagine the future and daydream about your goals and ambitions, are you imagining a future where you are accomplishing and experiencing the things that you want to experience? Or are you imagining accomplishing goals and ambitions others have put upon you?

When considering these scenarios, which do you think will result in a happier and healthier you?

The message in today’s Six of Wands and Reverse Sirens card is a reminder that the things we set our sights on in the future are the things we end up moving towards in our present. Make sure when contemplating these future scenarios and your goals that you’re focusing on what will make you happy in the future, instead of just what others are expecting of you.

DECKS USED:  FUNGJAI TAROT AND NOWBITS ORACLE

The @lightningwildflower June Inner Journey Challenge
Jupiter enters Leo Prompt for June 30th : How can I step into the most radiant version of myself?

Tarot Reading with the Maruco Animal Tarot

Reading Summary: Put some passion and enthusiasm (King of Wands) into getting your house (Four of Wands) in order (The Emperor).

Take Away: Your house is a mess. In it’s current state, it drags you down and creates a deep sense of dissatisfaction for you. That means that it’s time to do something about it.

To step into the most radiant version of yourself, this is the first step. Get going on putting your home to rights, and enlist others to this goal because it’s a big job and is going to take some time.

Note: In this reading the Aquarius result on the spin of the Zodiac Wheel is an indication concerning who you need to engage most in assisting with this endeavor. (That would be J.)

Other elements included in this reading:
Zodiac Wheel in Aquarius (indication of person in one’s life)
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Carnelian Agate Mushroom for Focusing On Aspirations
Moonstone for Fostering Emotional Stability
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: MARUCO ANIMAL TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2026 Challenge
Prompt for June 30th : Grab a spread of your choice you’re curious about… and give it a go!
Spread: Figure Out the Feeling Spread by JuniperDivination
Feeling: Increased Anxiety and Restlessness

Tarot Reading with the Fungjai Tarot

What is triggering this feeling?

Three of Wands Rx – Immobility. You’ve had a number of false starts this spring and summer, but no true momentum. Although things aren’t necessarily stagnant, it feels like the water just churns and churns but never flows.

What this feeling is trying to tell me?

King of Swords Rx – You are expecting too much and being too hard on yourself. Unrealistic expectations are at the root of your restless anxiety.

One thing that might help right now

Wheel of Fortune atop Five of Wands (tipped left) – Look at the times in your past where you have struggled and fought against fate. This is not the type of force you can fight against, as your past has proven. Work at opening up to go with the flow instead. At least half of that churning in the water is just you thrashing around instead of swimming with the current.

Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
Gneiss Wishing Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: FUNGJAI TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

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

Creating Balance Through Small Joys

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Arcana Malleus' Tarot - Two of Pentacles

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

Today’s draw is the Two of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of juggling responsibilities, work/life balance, and prioritization.

The card has then been combined with an Elie Wiesel quote from the Gratitude Insight Cards, which says, “For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

Take care that you are being mindful to notice and enjoy the good stuff going on around you. That good stuff can be as big as a success or surprise, or it can be as small as someone else’s smile or a pretty flower. When we allow ourselves to see these small joys instead of ignoring them, it can help balance out the influences of the more negative aspects of life that come our way.

The message in today’s Two of Pentacles and affirmation quote is an encouragement to include more of these small joys in your life to help balance out both shitty moments that can’t be avoided is an encouragement to include more of these small joys in your life to help balance out both shitty moments and experiences that can’t be avoided.

DECKS USED:  ARCANA MALLEUS’ TAROT GOLD EDITION AND GRATITUDE INSIGHT CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2026 Challenge
Philosophical Questions for June 17th and 24th

Oracle Reading with the Cast of Characters Deck

Are we ever morally obligated to take action?

“My life has never allowed much opportunity to travel. I dream of…”

No. But that doesn’t mean that doing so, or not doing so, doesn’t create its own situation or have a hand in creating the person you are to become.

By holding back instead of taking action, it can mold you and/or your life in directions that are not the ideal you were hoping for for your future self.

Under what circumstances are we morally obligated to take action?

“I received a gift for 23andMe. I was so surprised to find out…”

When something within us tells us it’s important to act, we should listen. We each have our own inner sense of right and wrong that I refer to as our “moral compass”.

If we feel something is wrong, and we do not want to turn our future into more consequences than dreams, then when our moral compass twinges it’s important for us to act instead of staying disengaged.

Why do people feel the need to distract themselves from reality?

“I want to write plays, but it turns out poetry has…”

Distractions are often how we discover new passions and things we enjoy or are interested in, as well as discovering those things that we don’t like or don’t want to experience or be involved with.

The world would be a less interesting and far more uninspiring place without the distractions that allow us to see the potential for something different and something more.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
River Rock for Resilience within Life’s Flow
Clear Quartz for boosting Mental Clarity
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: CAST OF CHARACTERS DECK

The @lightningwildflower June Inner Journey Challenge
Mercury Retrograde, Full Moon in Capricorn Prompt for June 29th : What message from the past is resurfacing?

Tarot Reading with the Arcana Malleus' Tarot

Reading Summary: If you refuse to follow your heart (The Lovers), you will fail both in your efforts towards creating stability for yourself and others (Ten of Pentacles Rx) , and will instead continue to repeat the past (Six of Cups).

Take Away: It may seem counterintuitive, especially considering your upbringing and past achievements, but if you really want to create stability for yourself and those around you, it will require something else besides just hard work and determination.

Instead, in order to find that stability and sustain it, it needs to be grown from a place of love and authenticity instead of from just doing what you need to do to get things done.

It’s in changing your bad habits and unhealthy patterns, and reaching for something better for yourself, that you can then create the kind of balance and stability you really want to achieve.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Carved Bamboo Latticework for Positive Outcomes
Beech Pods for Realizations that Foster Personal Growth
Foraged Red Oak Leaf for Fostering Unconditional Love
Garnierite for help in Releasing Anger, Anxiety, and Guilt
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED:  ARCANA MALLEUS’ TAROT GOLD EDITION

@de_tarotjuf’s De Zomer In! #detarotjufjunitarotchallenge
Prompts for June 27th through 30th

Oracle Reading with the Sacred World Oracle

This is the kind of silence I want to experience

Spider – You wish to be able to sit in the splendor of your creative efforts and be happy with their completion.

Although the accolades from others are nice, and appreciated, they are not needed when it comes to your creativity and those things you create. Instead, you desire to enjoy and appreciate these creations on your own and feel a form of self satisfaction from the experience.

How can I lighten my sense of responsibility?

Snake – Stop taking the responsibility on your shoulders for things that are not yours to deal with or claim.

Like the snake Nidhogg and Yggdrasil’s tree roots depicted in this card, these responsibilities that are not yours to deal with can end up depleting the resources that you need to be healthy and happy.

What intention do I want to sow?

Crab – You want to work on connecting more with your inner self, and in doing so better understand your emotions as well as your vulnerabilities.

How do I celebrate the end of this month?

Carp atop Dove – Allow yourself to trust in serendipity. Not everything has to be planned out peace by peace with every ending guaranteed. Sometimes trust in the universe is the only answer, and the only path to happiness and success.

Other elements included in this reading:
Handcrafted Sigil for Healthy Sustainable Energy
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Carnelian Agate Mushroom for Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: SACRED WORLD ORACLE
Daily Self Kindness

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