What Is a Boundary? Tarot Reading

What is a Boundary Tarot Reading with the Tarot of the Owls

Be awareKnight of Wands – It’s important to stay aware of the situation at hand without charging forward without thought, riding on the wings of your passion. Observation does not always require action. As Ms B becomes stronger, this is especially true. You need to let her struggle a bit while you watch on, instead of being right there to do for her every moment.

Of what isFour of Swords – The recuperation process is well underway. Just make sure that even during rest times you are encouraging small progresses and plotting for larger ones. Give yourself down time when you can so that you can help motivate her later when she’s flagging.

Unacceptable andFive of Swords – Butting heads gets no one anywhere right now. Instead of pushing your agenda and the things you want to see happen, and getting push back in return… choose your battles.

Normalize saying noJustice – That way when you do actually speak up and say no about something? It’s listened to without objection, instead of seen as something that can be argued against.

Do what is best for youPage of Cups – It is a challenge for you to identify your emotions and emotional needs. This is something you’ve been working on and developing over the past few years, but you are still just at the beginning of this journey. Just do what you can to stay in touch with these things.

And know that it’s not yourThe Hanged Man – It’s not always necessary to see things from everyone else’s perspective. Sometimes your own is all that’s needed.

Responsibility to sacrificeThe Moon – When you sacrifice too much of yourself, you lose yourself in the process.  Losing your way in the dark because you’ve let too much of yourself be taken over by others is a bit of a risk right now. Make sure that you are not sacrificing your own needs too often or you could fall into this trap.

Yourself for othersThe Hermit – Don’t forget your alone time and how important it is to you and your well being. Stay in touch with yourself and what’s going on inside (as encouraged in the Page of Cups above). These things are needed right now.

DECK USED: TAROT OF THE OWLS

Mercury In Virgo Retrograde Oracle Reading

Mercury in Virgo Retrograde Oracle Reading with the Water Temple Oracle

Mercury is in retrograde from August 23rd thru September 14th this year. For more information on this phenomena, check here.

How is perfectionism affecting my life?

Rebirth – You are in the process of reevaluating the value of perfectionism, and how placing so much value upon it is affecting you emotionally. This is a time of rebirth for you, allowing you to see what needs changing in your behavior and begin the process of acceptance that change needs to happen and begin thinking about how to go about making those changes. Awareness truly is 9/10ths of the battle.

How can I rectify being overly critical, especially when communicating with others?

Endings – Remember that others have the option of walking away if they don’t like how the conversation is going. Therefore, if you want them to value what you have to say, it needs to be presented in a more palatable manner. Otherwise, you have lost before you even truly have had a chance to begin.

What is the perceived gain of being hyper critical? What is the reality?

Growth – The perceived gain in being hyper critical of yourself is that that demand for perfection creates opportunities and room for growth. That by being a perfectionist it helps advance your goals.

Preservation – The reality is, though, that it instead creates stagnation. Instead of moving forward, perfectionism slows things down to the point that you remain within the range of the status quo instead of advancing.

A message from Mercury.

Fate – Your struggle with perfectionism is a lesson you need to experience and learn from in this life cycle. Don’t ignore it, or you will have to repeat it the next time around.

A message from Amalthea.

Detachment – You are on the right track in your method of detaching yourself from the perfectionist inclinations when you identify them rising up in unhealthy ways.

DECK USED: WATER TEMPLE ORACLE

Weekly Creativity Prompt – Scavenger Hunt

Prompt: “Draw three cards. Find something around your home (or where you’re currently staying) that you feel represents each of the cards. Draw, paint, artistically photograph, collage, or otherwise depict these items in some way. Then tell us about the connection you see between each item and the card you matched it with.”

Universal Fantasy Tarot - The High PriestessA crystal ball made of glass,
an orb in which to gaze and ponder,
where faces swim into view
and then slip away to wander.
Images whispered through the glass
speak of secret things
and words flow forth to offer up
warnings and hopes and dreams.

A crystal ball perched upon its tree stand and the High Priestess card. Secrets on a pedestal.

Universal Fantasy Tarot - Seven of CupsA pile of stones clustered close,
diversity offered freely.
To choose the one
that fits our needs
involves soul searching deeply.
Don’t get overwhelmed by choices
just reach for the one that sings most clearly.

A selenite bowl full of crystals, and the Seven of Cups. Choices can be overwhelming, but if you prioritize inner wisdom, the options laid out before you and which ones are suited to your needs become more clear.

Universal Fantasy Tarot - The EmpressAn idol carved and sanded smooth,
a reminder of sweeter things.
Of mothering touches and tender care
of support and mothering
Amalthea represented here
a goddess long forgotten
that visits my dreams happy warmth
and a wreath of flowers among her horns.

A carved wooden idol used as a representation of the Manoan goat goddess Amalthea in my practice, and the Empress card. Amalthea is the embodiment of gentle mothering, nurturing, and nourishment.

DECK USED:  UNIVERSAL FANTASY TAROT

Cleansing Breath Lenormand Reading

Cleansing Breath Lenormand Reading with the Gwai Lenormand

What do you take in?

Masculine and Mice – “The best laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry.” Hold close to your heart the knowledge that things -will- go awry and changes will happen, and that you are capable of riding out these changes because you are strong, capable, and adaptable.

What do you hold?

Rider and Clover – Keep moving and things will continue to look up. Slow down and get comfortable, and the positive progress stops. As much as you want to get comfortable, it’s much better to steer your own progress rather than allowing fate to step in when it feels you’ve gone stagnant and make movement happen in your life.

What do you release?

Birds and Mountain – Don’t trust or depend on gossip. It will only get in your way of you do. Word of mouth is great for a lot of things, but don’t allow it to stand in your way or hold you back from doing the things you want to do.

DECK USED: THE GWAI LENORMAND

Relationship Check-In Tarot Reading

Relationship Check-In Tarot Reading with the Witches Tarot

How are things going between Gideon and myself at the moment?

Six of Wands atop King of Swords – She’s trying to keep the realm going by plating the lead with others in writing and storytelling. He is, in fact, a wordsmith, and does very well at keeping everyone happy and entertained.

Two of Pentacles atop Six of Pentacles – While you juggle being far too generous with your time and energy. You are trying to juggle your responsibilities and this generosity, and it is taking a lot out of you to do so.

Eight of Wands Rx – Your relationship is currently in a slowdown time as a result. You both have to cool your jets right now, no matter how much you wish it could be otherwise.

DECK USED: WITCHES TAROT (TRIMMED)

Strength Lenormand Reading

Strength Lenormand Reading with The Sirens' Song Kipper Cards

A Strength You Remember

Change and Military – Some friends come and go, and that’s okay. You are able to cut them loose as needed and you weather well the process of letting them go when needed without it upsetting everything else in your life in the process.

A Strength You’ve Buried

Unexpected Money and Sorrow – The ability to find what you need when things are at their worst. Even when you feel like you are out of resources and there’s no way out… you find what you need to make it through.

A Strength That Is Building

Marriage and Great Fortune – The ability to commit to opportunities that arise that could help you in creating stability for yourself and others. You don’t hem and haw about it, but commit to making it happen. This ability is in a stage of growth right now, and being exercised strenuously at the moment.

DECK USED: THE SIRENS’ SONG KIPPER CARDS