Alexander Daniloff's Orient Tarot

Finding the Positive for June 7 – 9

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ORIENT Tarot 2022, Under the Oak Tarot, Tarot of the Magical Forest, Look Up Look In Cards, and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate Allan

June 7 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Star combined with the affirmation “You’re handling it all well. You’ll be okay.”

The Star card is about hope, and even more specifically, it is about faith.  Today’s cards are a reminder that you can’t push back against that negative inner narrative in your head and it’s influence on your life if you’re not actually pushing back.

Positivity and optimism do not come easily to you, but in using them as a tool to push back against those negative thoughts, they make a difference.  Don’t allow anxiety to take control and spiral you into darkness. Instead?  Lean into positive thinking and allow it to help lift you up and keep you afloat.

DECK USED: ORIENT TAROT 2022 AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

June 8 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the Calm app. The topic of today’s meditation was about enlightenment, and how it’s not when we seek enlightenment that we find it.  Rather, it’s when we go about our everyday lives and begin to acknowledge the sacred in the every day that our journey to enlightenment begins.

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Today’s card is the King of Swords (Odin) combined with the affirmation “There is no one perfect way. You’re doing just fine.”

Clever comes in all shapes and sizes, and is filled with innovation and new ideas.  When you build the lore of your own life, are you going to want to look at all you’ve done and say “I colored inside the lines” or, alternately, are you going to want to look back and say “I did it MY way and it was brilliant”?

The cards for today are a reminder that coloring inside the lines is boring.  Break the mold and do things your way.  Show the world just how clever and innovative and original you are, instead of trying to conform to what you think everyone else wants.  Be a trail blazer instead of another of the sheep.

Even the greatest of leaders sometimes have moments of uncertainty.  That doesn’t mean that they back down and fall in line among the masses, but rather that they continue to walk their own path despite those moments.

DECK USED: UNDER THE OAK TAROT AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

June 9 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s cards are the Two of Pentacles combined with the “Overcast” affirmation card.

The Overcast affirmation card is all about the moody comfort of days  in the comfort of overcast skies, and time taken to evaluate one’s life and oneself.  The card asks you to examine how things are going in your relationships, your work, your hobbies and home life.  To look at these areas of importance in your life and focus on what’s going -well- in them as well as what could be improved upon.

The Two of Pentacles combined with this card brings in the aspect of balance into this examination and evaluation.  Where are you pushing too hard?  Where aren’t you pushing hard enough and need to ease up?  How do these different aspects of your life play against each other.  Are you balancing them well? Or is something being neglected… or perhaps over-attended to?

Balance is not easy, and it’s a constant challenge of change and adaptation.  Balance, though, is easier to obtain and maintain if you’re willing to take a step back every once in a while to look at the big picture, and how different parts of your life are interacting with each other.

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Energy Management

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Thera-Pets Emotional Support Animal Cards and Alexander Daniloff's Orient TarotToday’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was mantra based with breathing exercises. The mantra was pulled from the Thera-Pets Emotional Support Animal Cards.

I realized something about this mantra about half way through my meditation. It doesn’t say you’re doing the best you can, it says you’re managing the best you can. There’s a big difference between the two, for when we do our best on every little thing in our lives, there’s not enough of us to go around.

What’s better is to manage out efforts and energy wisely, so that we can save our energy to do our best in those things that actually matter, and still do just fine with the rest.

Today’s draw is the Ten of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of the end of a painful journey and other painful endings, the pain of betrayal, and moments of loss or defeat.

There’s something in the angle of the head that speaks to me of this figure’s situation being self inflicted.  Not in that he tied himself up and put these swords in his own back, but rather that he was the catalyst of how this situation came about.   The message in today’s card is that sometimes shit falls apart, because you are unwilling to give yourself the rest you need, so the universe forces you into that position where you must rest whether you want it or not.

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@TheTarotDiagnosis #TTDMentalHealth Prompt
Prompts for June 3rd and 4th

Alexander Daniloff's Orient Tarot and The Language of Flowers OracleI can be …

Four of Coins and Tuberose – Miserly to the point of outright greed.

and still…

Six of Cups and Star of Bethlehem – reconcile with your inner child and connect with their wants and desires.

Take Away – Your inner child doesn’t care about expensive gifts and toys, they just want your attention. You can’t bribe them, so it’s okay to be greedy with your funds and resources… just don’t be greedy with your time and attention.

A way I can invite creativity into my day…

Six of Swords and Lunaria – when escaping into play tonight, make sure that you were honest about your knees, and true to what you are most in need of.

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#DiscordTarotholicsJun2023 Challenge Prompt
Question for June 3 : What do you need to focus on for self-care for this full moon?

Alexander Daniloff's Orient TarotReading Summary: Remember that no matter how unpredictable life becomes (Wheel of Fortune), you have your hands on the wheel  and the ability to plow forward (The Chariot) in whatever direction you’ve decided to go (Two of Wands).

Take Away: Sometimes when the unexpected happens, it feels like it derails you, taking you off track. These cards indicate that even during those times when things feel uncertain and go awry, your qualities of stubborn determination give you the ability to stay on track no matter what. Don’t allow the inconsequential shifts of fate to steer you off your chosen path.

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Daily Self Kindness

I did some organization stuff today that I’ve been procrastinating on for a while. It feels good to have things sorted and put away instead of stacking up in the background.