Tranquility
Ass parked
on wooden slats
warming
the damp wood
beneath
with body heat
as the sky
shifts
from blue to pink
and darkness
falls
and I don’t
want to leave
this spot
of fresh air
and softly
lapping waves
Spirit of Exploration
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Shape-Shifter Prompt for November 14 : Morph
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Three of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of depression, grief, and disappointments. This theme often seems strange to people, being that it is seated in the Swords suit (which is often all about intellect and the mind), but it is important to remember that how we react emotionally is often rooted in how we think and what expectations we create for ourselves before everything falls apart.
People often see practices towards positivity as an either/or situation. Either you deal with the bad stuff and be weighed down with negativity when disappointment happens, or you ignore the bad stuff and pretend it doesn’t happen and try your best to always be positive.
In truth, a healthy positivity practice is neither of these things. It involves meshing one’s disappointment and disenchantment with a bit of hope and optimism, so that they balance each other out.
I didn’t discover or understand this concept until I had started doing this daily card practice each day. Over time, my perspective morphed and changed to realize that doing a positivity practice doesn’t negate the bad, nor does it allow you to ignore the bad, it just allows you to deal with (and survive) the bad in healthier ways.
Today’s card combined with the “morph” prompt is a reminder that first impressions are not always correct, and first assumptions are often mistaken. If you’re confronted with an opportunity to try and better your life in some way, but it looks “lame” or otherwise at odds with what you’re currently doing… don’t write it off out of hand. Sometimes it’s worth giving it a try, and your opinion may change over time.
DECK USED: DRUIDIC TAROT
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Wheel of Fortune Spread
What cycle are you moving through?
The King’s Gifts – You are seeking to find a balance between doing things your own way, and toeing the line with the will of the authority that you can’t avoid. This is difficult for you not just because of your authority issues (which are significant), but because you have a tendency to live your life doing things your own way, lead by your moral compass far more than by the rules and regulations of others.
What is shifting beyond your control?
The King’s Throne and The Dancing Ninnies – There’s a lot going on now that you need to stand back from and not take part in. Lots of rumors and lots of “let’s try this or that”. Instead of participating, sit back and watch and see what works and what doesn’t. You don’t have to be part of the trial and error. Let other people do the fumbling for you.
How can you align with the turning of the wheel?
Grandpa’s Courtship – Be open to the unexpected. Look for the benefits of what may come. Even if the situation at hand is possibly not exactly what you’re looking for, there’s a boon in there to not take for granted if you’re willing to step past your initial negative reaction and look deeper.
Where can you find stability within change?
The Bonfire – Have a little fun wherever you can find it. There’s lots to celebrate, if you’re willing to look for and appreciate the small wins. Not everything has to be about the finish line, nor about the big picture.
Other elements included in this reading:
Zodiac Wheel for Understanding Cycles and Rhythms
Deodar Cedar Cone for Fostering Clarity and Spiritual Connection
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Aragonite for Truth and Understanding
Picture Jasper for Sense of Proportion and Grounding
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: TAROT OF DRUIDS (trimmed naked)
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Future Prompts for November 14th : Pick a topic and pull a card for…
Topic : The Sun – Exploring past happiness and successes. (The horse and rider are heading off to the left/into the past.)
Tomorrow – Druid of Stones atop Druid of Cups – Lean into the connection you have between yourself and your partner. Where has he created stability for you in the past? In relation to these experiences, how can he assist you in doing the same in the present?
Next Week – Seven of Stones – Consider how long it has taken you to get where you are. Let these memories remind you that the journey holds far more value than the final destination.
Next Month – Four of Cups – Remember the times in the past where too much alone time has been detrimental to you. Examine what this says about how to better care for yourself moving forward.
Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Dried Rhododendron Leaves for Fostering Confidence
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: DRUIDIC TAROT AND TWIST’S GRATITUDE POSTCARDS ORACLE
I didn’t take the extra hours offered today. My stomach has been upset, so I chose to go home instead.
Gideon’s Challenge – Lost
Lost
Sometimes
healthy growth
looks like
a tangle
of chaos
and knots
instead of
linear progress
one can gauge
easily
and those tangles
cause anxiety
as we worry
we’ve become
lost
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Listening to Self
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Shape-Shifter Prompt for November 13 : Wings
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Lovers card, which is traditionally a representation of love and relationships, long term contracts, harmonious unions, and making choices that are geared toward what is best for you.
I wandered across a video recently on IG where someone was going off about how if anything in your life isn’t a “hell yeah!” then it should immediately be a “fuck no”. They indicated that this should be across the board from work to people, relationships to hobbies, etc. They said that if you think about spending your time on it and it’s not a “Hell yeah” inner response, then it’s got to go, because life is too short to waste your time on things you don’t enjoy.
While in broad strokes, I agree with this sentiment, I also disagree with it a great deal. Just because you might not be in the mood doesn’t mean someone or something is not for you. Just because we feel in a slump, doesn’t mean abandoning people or things that (during the slump’s duration) don’t light us up. Hell, I deal with episodes of severe clinical depression. If I followed what this influencer was saying? I’d self destruct my life at least once a year, and probably be a coke or heroin addict.
The message in today’s card, combined with the “wings” prompt, is a reminder that a lot of times the messages that influencers put out there are an effort to lift you up and encourage you. That doesn’t mean that you follow their advice to the letter.
The video that I watched was uplifting and encouraging and empowering; and while I enjoy those emotions as I watch the video, I have the good sense not to follow the advice verbatim.
Today’s message is a reminder that it’s okay to let things lift you up for a moment of experience. To let them send you aloft with a draft of hope and empowerment under your wings… just don’t lose your common sense and the knowledge of what’s right (and healthy) for you along the way.
DECK USED: THE WHEEL OF CHANGE TAROT
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The Hermit Spread
What guidance do you seek?
Ten of Pentacles – You seek ways to find a greater sense of security. You struggle a great deal with scarcity issues, both real and imagined. As a result, you are constantly seeking a greater sense of stability in your life. A perspective where the fears that drive your feelings of scarcity are divorced from your sense of stability and security.
What light helps you find an answer?
Eight of Pentacles – The answers you seek lie in applying yourself to learning new techniques to build that stability in your life. You won’t get there by sitting on your laurels. Instead, you need to work at trial and error to develop what will work for you, then hone that into a skill you can use.
What message do you receive?
The Emperor Rx – Remember that it’s okay to let someone else take the reins now and then. Instead of worrying about the greater good, focus more on what lies within and what you need.
What inner truth becomes illuminated?
Death Rx – Stagnancy is not your friend, no matter how comfortable it may seem. Don’t ignore the subtle changes going on around you, as they prepare you for the larger ones to come.
What insight comes in stillness?
Nine of Wands Rx – There’s no need to take on change with a defensive approach. There’s no need to be on guard all the time. Use moments of stillness to take a breath and release the tension, instead of seeing them as the silent pall in which to brace for impact.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: FABLED CLOUDLAND TAROT
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Past Prompts for November 13th : What from the past is…
Blocking My Way – Queen of Cups and The Old Cabin – Your emotional attachment to security and safety is an obstacle in your path. This includes your introverted tendencies and urges to hide away instead of connecting to others that can nurture you emotionally.
Distracting My Attention – Knight of Swords and The Almighty Mountain – You have a tendency to take on challenges without considering if they may become too heavy for you to comfortably carry on your journey.
Tying My Hands – Queen of Wands atop The High Priestess; The Dead Tree – Although the pied piper of inspiration calls your name, you first have to discard what’s no longer working. If you weren’t holding on to those things so tightly and let them fall away naturally, you’d have an easier time dancing to the tune of your inner calling.
Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Foraged Acorns for Protection during New Beginnings
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Desert Rose Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECKS USED: THE WHEEL OF CHANGE TAROT AND BOB ROSS ORACLE
Due to the veterans day / remembrance day holiday, orders were all messed up this week. I managed to get them done tonight, though, which which feels like it has taken a huge amount of pressure off.
Gideon’s Challenge – Momentary Fugue
Momentary Fugue
Laughter
blooms
as a moment
of clouded
confusion
clears
and thoughts
of a
bathroom break
turn into a
mistaken
impression
of
segregated
trash bins
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Balancing the Scales
Today’s meditation was an eleven minute long #DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.
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Truth-Teller Prompt for November 12 : Dream
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Justice card, which is traditionally a representation of balance, cause and effect, repercussions and consequences, give and take, and can often indicate the law or legal system.
What comes around, goes around. Or… so we hope.
I’m a big fan of balance and fairness. It has often been proposed to me that this is part of my Taurus nature. I also like to see people get what’s coming to them when they screw me over in some way. It’s been suggested to me that this is a part of my nature in having a Scorpio moon.
Whatever the reason, sometimes it’s really hard to wait for what I see is justice’s retribution as the scales of balance swing back in their direction and hit them in the face.
The thing is? I don’t want to just believe that it’ll happen, I want to see it happen. (Again, Scorpio moon anyone?) Sadly, that’s not always possible.
The message in today’s card and “dream” prompt is a reminder that although we cannot always witness these moments when others receive their comeuppance, it can still be fun to daydream about retribution without actually acting on it ourselves. After all, if we act on it ourselves, who’s to say that we don’t go too far and end up having to get hit in the face as well.
So, go ahead and dream about it… just don’t act. Let the scales balance themselves out instead.
DECK USED: LOUIS ART’S CAT TAROT
@LightningWildflower November Tarot Challenge
Earth and Water “The Fives” Prompts for November 13th thru 15th
Five of Pentacles
What story am I telling myself about worth or belonging?
The Hierophant and Self-Reliance – A piece of fiction that was sold as fact that the values of self-worth you were raised with are valid. This story insists that self-worth is based upon performance and self-reliance, hard work and success. Although these factors can play a part in self-worth, they should not be its foundation, nor its sole focus.
Where am I feeling scarcity, and what help might I be overlooking?
The Star; Shape-shifter atop Mysterious Guide – You are depending too much on your own perspectives during times when your mentality of scarcity is taking over. During these moments when your hope and optimism is at its lowest, you need to lean into messages of support from others instead of trying to stand strong and alone upon the shifting sands of your perceptions.
Five of Cups
What grief or disappointment am I carrying, and what healing might begin if I acknowledge it?
Ace of Pentacles and Self-Worth – You’ve lost a lot lately in the area of opportunities for your business, your entrepreneurial efforts taking a harsh blow. Focusing on pulling back from equating your successes to your self-worth will help immensely in beginning the healing needed in this area.
Other elements included in this reading:
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Foraged Beech Pods for Realizations that Foster Personal Growth
Desert Rosefor Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: GRIMALKIN CURIOUS CATS POCKET TAROT AND CAT MYTHOS & MAGICK ORACLE
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Strength Spread
What are you wrestling with inside yourself?
Eight of Cups – Seeing your business involuntarily downgraded from your main source of income back to a “side job” has been a significant blow to your confidence. With the factors involved out of your control, you’ve been tempted more than once to walk away since things detonated in the last week of August. This is still a theme that returns now and then through your mind, even though you’re starting to sort things out a bit now.
Where do you need to apply compassion?
Four of Pentacles – It’s okay to feel like you are on the defensive and need to hold on tight right now. Where often that tight grip of control can be a detriment, during this time when things are uncertain, being a bit of a control freak and more miserly than usual can be a boon.
How can you find strength in spirit?
Page of Cups – Let your emotions run their course and observe what they do. Just don’t give into the “what if” scenarios that your imagination may bring rise to. Instead, lean into creative endeavors that make you happy, regardless of if you’re good at them or not.
How can you find strength in body?
Six of Swords – Weigh what you consider to be a success against what others consider to be success… and find a happy medium, where you can both enjoy the fruits of your efforts as well as the journey. In efforts collaborating with others, your opinion is just as valuable as theirs.
How can you find strength in mind?
The Moon atop Ten of Cups – Don’t allow your (current and temporary) feelings of uncertainty to distract you from what is good in your life. Those moments of uncertainty are difficult to ignore, so don’t ignore them. Just find enjoyment where you can regardless of their presence.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Foraged Ponderosa Pine Cones for Resilience and Adaptability
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: LOUIS ART’S CAT TAROT
This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.
Twisting the Leaf 