We Are All Freaks

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

“While a certain amount of worrying may be necessary, worried thoughts (generally) become more worried thoughts. What we pay attention to can become our whole life.”

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Under the Bed Tarot's Knight of Wands and Halloween Affirmation CardsThe @GlitterbyInk #OctoberMagic25 Challenge
Crone Prompt for October 16th : Wisdom
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Engager of Wands (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 Knight of Wands has then been combined with a Halloween Affirmation card that says, “Halloween reminds me to be my unique self.”

Be you… enthusiastically and unapologetically.

We are all freaks.  All of us.  And, that it’s those of us that embrace this and make it our own that find the confidence to show our true selves to the world at large.  This takes courage and enthusiasm, and a willingness to be different.

Today’s message is an encouragement to lean into your differences instead of trying to “fit in” with the crowd.  Embrace those things that make you unique, and don’t be shy about them.

DECKS USED:  UNDER THE BED TAROT AND TWIST’S HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATIONS

@LightningWildflower October Tarot Challenge
Fire and Air “The Sixes” Prompts for October

Tarot Reading and Lenormand Reading with the Under the Bed Tarot and Lenormand della LunaSix of Wands

What is a creative way to celebrate a recent accomplishment?

Clouds, Death, Lady – Take some time to examine how you really feel about the recent changes taking place. Your emotions need to be brought out and sorted through rather than just brushed under the rug. Give yourself the gift of listening to them with nurturing engagement rather than disregarding them outright. Just because it seems you are trapped into the changes taking place, and as a result are working on adapting, doesn’t mean how you feel about it all doesn’t matter.

Six of Swords

What is a gradual change that’s taking place in my life?

House, The Tower, Garden – The restructuring going on in your life right now affects a number of areas of beyond just your business, spilling over into house and home, your friends and acquaintances, and even your tolerances where others are concerned. It’s not so much the obvious change that needs  your attention so much as these smaller ripples outward that it has caused, which manifest in a more gradual and less obvious ways.

How can I move more easily through times of transition?

Fox, Enactor (King) of Cups, Lily – Keep in mind that wearing your heart on your sleeve doesn’t have to be a weakness. It can also be a strength and a strategy depending on how it’s used. It allows others to see your intentions and the values that drive your decisions clearly, leaving no room for misunderstandings.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Red Oak Leaf for Fostering Unconditional Love
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Mandala for Foresight and Predictive Veracity
Orange Aventurine Leaves for Pause and Reflection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: UNDER THE BED TAROT AND LENORMAND DELLA LUNA

Daily Self Kindness

This post is a catch-up post, and I can’t remember what my self-kindness might have been for this day.

Gideon’s Challenge – I See You

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Yellow OrchidI See You 

With his face
concealed
within the face
of a flower
and his head
cocked
curiously
to one side
the old man
squints out
at the world
in wonder

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Vengeance is Mine… or Not

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Today’s meditation was a ten minute long #DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.

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Le Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka and Sinister AffirmationsThe @GlitterbyInk #OctoberMagic25 Challenge
Crone Prompt for October 15th : Peace
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 (La Maison Dieu), 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.

The Tower card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Sinister Affirmations deck, which says, “The best revenge is living well-connected to powerful supernatural forces hell-bent on the destruction of your adversaries.”

Sometimes the vengeance you want or need has to be delivered by forces outside yourself.

Bad things can happen when we decide to take such endeavors as revenge into our own hands. Mishaps like in the picture, for example. Perhaps they pushed the first person off the window only to have someone they care about go diving after them. Or, just as possibly, we go too far due to our emotions, and then the debt to balance the scales is back on us and we must experience misfortune again as a result.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that vengeance does not provide peace. It creates chaos, and much like sending a set of scales swinging, it can come back and punch you in the face.  On the other hand, if we wait and watch? We may find that that natural need for balance in the universe is going to deliver that blow of revenge for us, we just have to be patient and wait for it to happen naturally. No reason we can’t enjoy it when it does, though.

DECK USED:  LE TAROT DE MARSEILLE PAR POLE KA AND SINISTER AFFIRMATIONS

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Prompts for October 14th and 15th

WIsdombyKK's Halloween Tarot ReadingMummy – What thoughts or feelings are you getting tangled up in and struggling with?

Justice atop Two of Cups – You know that it’s time, but you are struggling to reach out and make peace with someone that hurt you deeply. You want to return to the trusting and copacetic relationship that you had before, but all that’s happened makes that unlikely.

Crypt – What secrets are you hiding tucked away in the dark?

Queen of Cups and Page of Pentacles Rx – You crave emotional nurturing from a mother-like figure. The problem is that the times you’ve experienced this have been fleeting and never seem to stay the course. This disappointment is making it harder for you to deal with the above mentioned feelings you are struggling, and putting forth the effort to make peace with the person that hurt you.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: WISDOMBYKK’S HALLOWEEN TAROT

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Prompt for Gathering (community) : Who or what is gathering around me now?

Le Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka and Gothica I Playing Cards Nocturnal EditionReading Summary: Don’t allow yourself to become overly focused on protecting yourself right now (Ten of Clubs and Nine of Wands). The direction you’ve chosen (Three of Wands) is stable and well thought out (Queen of Diamonds atop Ace of Spades).

Take Away: You chose to let yourself go with the flow of things this season when it comes to your mediumship practice. That means allowing yourself to stay open instead of raising defenses at each new experience.

Stay on course, and ground yourself well. There’s potential here if you allow it to play out, and don’t let your feelings of uncertainty (and/or fear) interfere.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Yew Tips for Ancestral Connections
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration and Clarity
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: LE TAROT DE MARSEILLE PAR POLE KA AND GOTHICA I PLAYING CARDS NOCTURNAL EDITION

Daily Self Kindness

I didn’t really want to spend the money, but I bought myself a new pair of work boots today because the old ones have been falling apart for a while now.

Gideon’s Challenge – Autumn Forests

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Rainforest MushroomsAutumn Forests

The rainforest
is full of
moisture and rot
and things
that feed off
other things;
life abounds
alongside decay
and the scent
of autumn
is one of
squishy wet soil
and evergreen boughs

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Without Waders

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

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The Halloween Tarot's Knight of Pumpkins (Knight of Pentacles) and Halloween AffirmationsThe @GlitterbyInk #OctoberMagic25 Challenge
Maiden Prompt for October 14th : Acceptance
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 Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of an active, projective beta energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s finances, resources, health, home, labors, and manifestations. This often translates into a slow moving but determinedly forward moving energy, personality, or person that has their eye on the prize regardless of the slow and steady speed they may be moving at.

The Knight of Pentacles has then been combined with a Halloween Affirmation card that says, “Some days are awful, but they always end.”

One step at a time. Just keep your eye on the ball and you’ll get through it. Sometimes to get where you’re going you have to wade through the sewage in your sandals.  It sucks. It’s gross. It’s a bad f’ing day all the way around and feels like a slog through hell that takes forever.

The message for today is that regardless of how miserable it is? You get through it. You come out the other side.  Time marches on, and so do you. And maybe, just maybe? Tomorrow will be better. So don’t give up.

DECK USED:  THE HALLOWEEN TAROT AND TWIST’S HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATIONS

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Philosophical Questions for October 8th and 15th

Tarot reading with The Halloween Tarot and Autumn Night LenormandWhy do the living feel a desire to connect with their ancestors?

Clover, Six of Ghosts, The Gate – It’s about belonging and connection. People don’t like to feel like they’re being left out, and they crave a feeling of belonging. Memories gathered that they think can be of value are treated like treasure. This is especially true when those memories make them feel like they belong, and provide a taste of connection to something that they otherwise wouldn’t have as a part of their own personal history.

Is there an afterlife? (dig deep for a detailed answer)

Caged Heart, Five of Imps, Star – These cards indicate that for those that are trapped on this side of the veil by love or conflict; absolutely. As for whatever comes next beyond the veil, it’s all about hope and faith and finding a way forward beyond these things that hold us trapped within the “afterlife” previously mentioned.

These cards seem to be referring to what I see as “ghosts” as the afterlife, and that what comes beyond that “afterlife” as something else.  I didn’t at first understand what I was reading here in these cards, but when I consider it in the scope of reincarnation, it makes sense that only those that linger would be considered in an “afterlife” type state.  This is a bit of food for thought for me today.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Yew Tips for Ancestral Connections
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE HALLOWEEN TAROT AND AUTUMN NIGHT LENORMAND

Daily Self Kindness

I managed to borrow a charging cord at work to charge my phone enough to check in with Gid.

Gideon’s Challenge – Time and Place

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Autumn LeavesTime and Place

Some places
just feel right
with the sun warm
but not too hot
and the
neighborhood quiet
with the distant
sound of children
playing
and for a moment
everything feels
right
in the world.

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