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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 King of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of a projective alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s passions, drive, determination, principles, values, and willpower. The King of Wands often indicates themes that have to do with leadership figures or authority figures with the ability to rally others to their causes and draw them in to their own values, principles, and passions.

The King of Wands has then been combined with the Community card from the Create Brave Cards, which says, “I surround myself with people who desire my greatest good.”

Make sure when you are following the passionate leadership of others that they have your well-being at heart instead of merely their own selfish desires.

It’s important, when picking a leader, that there is a thread of altruism in their motivations. If everything is all about them, then you are on your own and less likely to come out ahead because they won’t have your back unless there’s a benefit to them in doing so.

The message in today’s King of Wands and affirmation card is a reminder that anyone can make pretty promises and raise up passions in others, but a true leader genuinely cares about those who follow them, and they show this not just with pretty words but also through their past actions.

DECKS USED:  TAROT THE GREEN CODEX AND CREATE BRAVE CARDS

September Prompts by @forgotten.dumpling & @ml.mecham
Prompt for September 29th : the anatomy of sunlight

scorched earth beaten into submission
where nothing can grow
is not the nature of sunlight’s rays
but the neglect of water’s flow
(Ten of Spades)

in dark caves where lichen glows
phosphorescence on display
not a single speck of sunlight
chases darkness away
(Four of Spades)

it’s in those places lush and green
where sunlight and water abound
we see the life in sunlight’s rays
wherever they touch ground
(Queen of Clubs atop Queen of Diamonds)

Other elements included in this reading:
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Flower Agate for Opening the Mind to New Possibilities
Garnierite for help in Releasing Anger, Anxiety, and Guilt
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: CUATRO VEINTE PLAYING CARDS

@lightningwildflower‘s September Self-Talk Challenge
Prompt for September 29th and 30th

Emergence – What new version of myself is emerging?

Ace of Wands Rx and Séparation Longue

You may find your creative passion and intense interests difficult to connect with in the months to come.

This may feel like depression, which tends to suck the joy out of everything and quash your inner curiosity, but in truth it is merely a need to rest and recover so that you can come back stronger when this temporary phase (that feels like an eternity) comes to an end.

Mercury enters Scorpio – What deep conversation am I ready to have?

Princess (Queen) of Swords and Expérience Douloureuse

Don’t turn away from sharing your pain with those that care about you. In doing so, it works like a release valve, easing inner emotional pressure caused by the pain, so that you don’t end up lashing out blindly later on.

Other elements included in this reading:
Bird Figurine for Encouraging Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Beech Pods for Realizations that Foster Personal Growth
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TAROT THE GREEN CODEX AND L’ORACLE DES RELATIONS KARMIQUES

I brought up something that was bothering me with Gid instead of keeping it to myself and risking letting it fester into something more painful.