Curiosity
Beautiful
jeweled tones
concealed
beneath
bone white
only seen
when seagulls
come
to crack open
the seams
and steal away
what resides
within
Gideon’s Challenge – Curiosity
Gideon’s Challenge – Groggy
Groggy
Early morning light
a splash
of golden white
upon bleary eyes
unable to focus
first thing
make the risk
of stubbed toes
and bruised shins
climb
until cold water
splashed
on the face
brings everything
into focus
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
What Resonates… and What Doesn’t
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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The @GlitterbyInk #MayMoon26 Rise Root Return Challenge
As Above Prompt for May 5th : Resonance
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is The Magician card, which is traditionally a representation of capability, potential, resourcefulness, action, and manifestation. This often translates into themes having to do with being in possession of all of the skills, abilities, and tools necessary to reach one’s goals and accomplish one’s ends. It’s about being capable and skilled, resourceful and gifted with what is needed to get the job done.
Everything goes a little bit more smoothly when you follow what fits for you, rather than trying to conform yourself to what doesn’t.
When we try to conform ourselves to other’s standards and ideals, we aren’t just not going with the flow, we’re fighting against the current. This makes everything more difficult. You may still reach success, but all that extra hard work involved often doesn’t feel worth it in the end… because where you end up isn’t where you truly resonate with the world around you and those in it.
The message in today’s Magician card and the “resonance” prompt is a reminder that authenticity is one of the greatest tools in our arsenal when it comes to navigating life and our path through it. Being authentic to oneself, and carrying that authenticity forward into the world with us, allows us to find those things, people, and endeavors that truly resonate with who we are.
DECK USED: PERSONA 3/4 TAROT CARDS
#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompts for May 4th thru 6th
What in life lights fire to your creative spark?
Two of Swords and Be Generous
Seeing the world and those in it in a positive light.
It’s extremely difficult for you to see bad people without trying to search for the good you think is within them as well. You have no problem accepting that there is bad in people in the world… it’s just that you want to see the good as well.
When you see that good shining from others through their choices and interactions, it inspires you in creative ways, sparking your creativity and allowing you to believe more fully that there is as much good in the world (or more) than there is bad.
How can you connect more strongly with that creative spark?
Master of Cups and Self Acceptance
When you see others like Gideon, who have a clear understanding of their emotions and the emotions of those around them, it’s important to accept that although you’re not there yet, you’re working on it.
Part of this journey is of self discovery, which requires accepting yourself in this moment as you are so that you can then improve upon yourself for the future. Allow yourself to be a novice, not just in your emotional journey, but your creative ones as well. As a result, this mindset will continue to spark that creativity within you again and again.
Philosophical Question: What is the biggest waste of human potential?
Eight of Swords atop Master of Disks; Listen to Your Unmet Needs atop Heal Your Rejection Wound
Trying to fill the emptiness within us with pursuits based in greed, and believing that that is going to solve the problem and make us feel better about ourselves, others, or the world around us.
This is about greed, and about using greed as a form of self-medicating for those things in our lives that we feel that we lack and/or crave. Not only does this not solve the issue that we’re trying to self medicate for in the first place, but this pursuit encourages humanity to be selfish and cruel.
Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
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: TAROT OF TRANSFORMATION AND INNER CHILD HEALING ORACLE
@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 10th : Where I’ve been waiting to feel happy
Reading Summary: When conflict arises around you again and again (Five of Wands), instead of engaging you’ve been sitting back and not getting involved (Four of Cups) in the hopes that you will learn something long lasting and valuable (The Hierophant) from the experience by being detached from it.
Take Away: Part of the reason you step back instead of stepping in to make choices for others when they ask what you think is because you want them to learn how to able to deal with these situations on their own.
Whether this is looking at a solution to a problem or something as simple as deciding where to eat, what you’re actually doing is simply ensuring that you don’t get what you want out of the situation.
Choose to speak up instead. Let them choose to follow your lead or not once you do.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Raidho Cedar Rune Die for Encouraging Movement and Progress
Deodar Cedar Cone for Fostering Clarity and Spiritual Connection
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing on Aspirations
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: PERSONA 3/4 TAROT CARDS
This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.
Gideon’s Challenge – The Pause
The Pause
Hidden cracks
and crevices
promise adventures
to be explored
in a world
natural
and alien
when we look
close enough
to see minute
fascinating details
often overlooked
as we pass by
on our way
to nowhere special
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Purpose Behind the Pain
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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The @GlitterbyInk #MayMoon26 Rise Root Return Challenge
As Above Prompt for May 4th : Expansion
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is The Tower card, which is traditionally a representation of sudden change, chaotic transformation, destruction, and the tearing down of something within one’s life or beliefs that leaves room for something new to take its place.
Like a germinating seed, you can’t grow unless you’re willing to crack the shell that protects you in order to reach beyond it.
I often wonder if the plagues and pandemics that have stricken humanity over the centuries aren’t a form of population control. After all, the Earth can only sustain so many, and humans are resource hogs. Just like thinning seedlings allows the ones left behind to grow and flourish, perhaps these plagues and pandemics are a way of doing the same for humanity. Wildlife culls itself, after all, but humanity simply grows and grows.
That doesn’t make the suffering in the moment any less, though. Nor the grief and loss that follows.
The message in today’s Tower card and “expansion” prompt is a reminder that even growth requires balance. You have to let go of certain things in order to allow room for new things to take their place. You have to weed out the things that would otherwise become an obstacle to your growth… even when that weeding hurts. Instead of focusing on the pain during these necessary times, try seeking out and focusing on the purpose.
DECK USED: ART HISTORY TAROT FOR PAST LIVES
@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompts for May 5th, 6th, and 9th
Something I’m genuinely proud of
Jellyfish : Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield, but to my own strength.
Your independence and resilience. You are able to navigate life’s hurdles and obstacles on your own steam with your own strength and determination.
Although you are learning how to ask for help and depend upon others, you have the confidence and strength to handle things on your own when you need to.
This self-reliance is something that you are proud of.
Just keep in mind that the self-reliance you take pride in is not diminished when you ask for help. Asking for help is merely another tool in your “self-reliance toolbox”.
What abundance looks like in my life
Wood and Vine : He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the door open.
The love and caring you feel for others gives you a natural “in” when it comes to being a part of their lives and influencing them through your words and actions… and even through your mere presence.
For you, the concept of abundance includes this soul-deep caring within you, and the connections that it fosters between you and others. It creates authenticity in your relationships, allowing you to connect with others on a deeper level when they are open to recognizing and receiving that caring from you.
It’s about love, authenticity, and the connections they grow from these things.
Where I keep missing the moment I’m in
Lichen : When the moon fades, the ocean does not grieve it; it waits for another pull.
It’s easy for you to forget the cycles of nature and life when you are too busy pushing for success and accomplishments.
If you are willing to ease up and sense the natural flow of things, trusting it to carry you along through its natural cycles instead of trying to fight it’s currents, you will be able to stay more in the present and miss less of what’s going on in the moment.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Scotch Pine Cone for Purging Negative Influences
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: FRACTALS OF NATURE ORACLE
This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.
Gideon’s Challenge – Depleted
Depleted
Sometimes I feel
like a husk
of my former self
all sharp edges
and intricate bones
with no substance
left
to hold everything
together
and like
a mere breath
could crumble
what’s left of me
into dust
Twisting the Leaf 