Whimsical
Turtles
and elephants
catch my eye
and we pause
as I ask
“can we eat
out there?”
because
I long
for the whimsy
offered
and
the waitress
goes
to find the key
Gideon’s Challenge – Whimsical
Finding the Positive for May 26 – 28
May 26 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was a ten minute long #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 Swords, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s knowledge, education, logic, ambitions, or communication. This can often translate into themes that have to do with the people that foster you through tough love and sharp-tongued advice.
The card has then been combined with a card from The Az 2 Oracle, which says, “Are you reaching for something right now? What is it? Whatever it is… it’s reaching for you too. Perhaps you can meet in the middle? 😉 You know which middle I’m talking about.”
Often, when we want something, it feels like the only way to get there is through sheer determination and grit. We forget that sometimes, all that grit and determination can push us past what we wanted, and cause us to lose out in the value that lies in getting there in the first place. Instead, we charge forward like a bull, determined and single minded, knocking people, things, and experiences out of the way as we barrel towards out goals.
The message in today’s Queen of Swords and affirmation card is a reminder that you don’t have to charge in like a bull to get where you want to go. Instead of plowing ahead, slow down. Allow others to help you, advise you, and be a part of the process. In doing so, you trade the forced rage of the bull for the strength of community, which will get you where you’re going just as efficiently, but with far more value gathered along the way.
DECKS USED: CELTIC TAROTS (trimmed naked) AND THE AZ ORACLE 2ND EDITION
May 27 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was a ten minute long #DailyTrip 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 Knight of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of a projective beta energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s drive, passions, willpower, principles, inspiration, or enthusiasm. This often translates into themes that have to do with rash behavior and a go-get’em attitude toward the things that matter to that person.
The card has then been combined with a card from the LOBILAT Rumi Quotes deck, which says, “Submit to love without thinking.”
I think this is a rare thing; to just submit to love instead of mentally picking it apart. I know it was for me when it came to Gideon, and to a lesser extent when it comes to the rest of my loved ones as well. (I say “to a lesser extent” because in Gideon’s case I was very much against having a romantic partner in the beginning. It took him some time to convince me.)
It’s hard to trust. It’s hard to put our suspicions, vulnerabilities, defense mechanisms, and pessimistic tendencies aside to just accept love. Maybe, I think, it’s sometimes even harder than giving love.
The message in today’s Knight of Wands and affirmation card is a reminder that love is something to be enthusiastic about. It’s something to dive into, wallow in, and not just give but also accept unconditionally. Today’s message encourages us to not let our past hurts and traumas jade us to love, but to instead accept it with open arms and gratitude.
DECKS USED: SECRET TAROTS AND LOBILAT RUMI QUOTES CARDS
May 28 – Mental Health Card of the Day
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.
Today’s draw is The Hierophant card, which is traditionally a representation of traditions, spiritual guidance, long standing institutions, teachers and guides, and themes that deal with conformity and social norms.
The card has then been combined with a Forest Bathing card, which says, “Do you know the trees in their breathing cycle release oxygen and water vapor through mini openings in their leaves called stomata? Leaves can have up to 1000 of these pores on one square millimeter. I invite you to explore the variety of leaves and contemplate our similarities as a permeable living system. I wonder what you notice”.
Permeable means allowing liquids or gases to pass through it; acting as a filter rather than a solid barrier by letting materials seep in or out. That is to say that trees, and leaves, and even we are not truly stagnant and solid. We breathe in air and exhale carbon dioxide. Water flushes through our system, replenishing and cleansing as it goes. Life and living means we are never truly still, stagnant, or completely “solid”.
When we look at the Hierophant, it often indicates traditions. The thing is? Even traditions change over time. Nothing stays exactly the same from one generation to the next. To me, that means that traditions are also a living, breathing thing. They flex and bend, evolve and change. Sometimes over years, and other times over centuries… but it happens all the same.
The message in today’s Hierophant and affirmation cards is a reminder that life isn’t meant to stagnate. It’s meant to move and flow. Sometimes that flow is quick, and other times it’s a glacier’s pace… but it’s still movement. Stagnancy is not the answer, flexibility and movement is.
DECKS USED: CROSSED DESTINIES TAROT AND THE FOREST BATHING CARDS
Gideon’s Challenge – Unwinding
Unwinding
Light shimmers
through clouds
like sheets
of rain
skimming
the surface
of the water
and our senses
both
as the peace
of evening
allows for
deeper breaths
and
quieter thoughts
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Gideon’s Challenge – Impatience
Impatience
Sometimes
waiting takes
every shred
of self restraint
as patience
wears thin
while others
dawdle
while work
needs done
and you want
to scream
at them all
to just stop
fucking around
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Gideon’s Challenge – Community
Community
Seeking shelter
from the storm
we cluster
in close
with arms
wrapped tight
and heads
ducked
to stay safe
as a world
full of dangers
waits
for a sign
of weakness
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Seeing Only Half the Picture
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.
Today’s draw is the Eight of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of willful ignorance, self-imposed restrictions, turning a blind eye (especially when it can be harmful to self), and entertaining a victim mentality.
The Eight of Swords has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Pass Around the Smile Positive Guidance Cards For Kids deck, which says, “Your gifted. Think of all the things you admire about other people… they admire things about you too!”
Too often we are blind to our own positive traits, too busy focusing on our flaws that we forget there are good traits to be loved and admired.
In many, this becomes a continuous negative inner narrative, obliterating the good we could see in ourselves as well as the world around us. This litany of negative input drags us down and blinds us to the good we could be experiencing as well as the good within ourselves that we could be sharing with others.
The message in today’s Eight of Swords and affirmation card is a reminder that those negative inner narratives are not half as significant as they make themselves out to be, and are overshadowing the other half of the equation… which is the good side, the good traits, the positive attributes, and wonderful parts of you that you’re not acknowledging. Search out these qualities and give them a little bit of attention so that they can shine brightly, and in doing so dampen and defang that negative inner narrative’s voice.
DECKS USED: THE STOLEN CHILD TAROT AND PASS AROUND THE SMILE POSITIVE GUIDANCE CARDS FOR KIDS
#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompts for May 25th thru 27th
What are you ignoring that needs to be dealt with?
Queen of Swords and Balance
Mind your tongue. It’s far too sharp for your own good lately. Take care to balance out that sharpness with an extra bit of tenderness and a good dose of awareness.
How can you best begin dealing with what’s being ignored?
Knight of Cups and Justice
First admit you’re wrong to yourself, and then to others. Own your words and actions.
Then tap into emotional warmth and share what you enjoy with those around you in order to balance out that harsh and negative tone. Appeal to the love others feel for you and you for them in order to balance the scales.
Philosophical Question: Is mankind going in the right or wrong direction?
The Fool and Burden
Too much time spent playing the fool (self-centeredness, greed, lack of caution, etc) has heaped more and more burdens not just upon mankind, but upon the world is a whole.
I would personally consider this the wrong direction.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Scots Pine Cone for Purging Negative Influences
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: LADY BLACK CAT TAROT AND TUĞÇE’S CAT ORACLE
@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 27th : What I want to remember about this time
Reading Summary: Boundaries (Onyx) are not meant to cut you off from your joys (Nine of Cups) or nor create obstacles between you and your goals (Ten of Pentacles).
Take Away: Boundaries are made in order to protect your health and happiness, ensuring you take good care of yourself and are able to instill joy into your life in healthy ways.
Boundaries are not meant to be used as punishment, nor as a way to inflict self-harm upon yourself or otherwise create unhealthy treatment that is harmful for your well-being.
When you are using boundaries in unhealthy ways, that means that it’s time to sit down and do some examining (and reorganizing) of your priorities. It won’t get better on its own.
Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECKS USED: THE STOLEN CHILD TAROT AND ENCHANTED GARDEN ORACLE
I battled with my printer today to get it working again so that I can get my tax papers printed to take with me tomorrow and give to the accountant. It was frustrating and took about 2 hours, but it was worth it to not have to go buy another one (which was the other option).
Twisting the Leaf 