Ethereal Dreams Tarot

Finding the Positive for June 10 – 12

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June 10 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Three of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “You deserve good things.”

The combination of today’s affirmation and the Three of Pentacles is a reminder that you deserve help, and that when you accept a helping hand from others, the results turn out even better than when you do everything yourself. 

That is because even if you might be more controlled in your personal approach and more exacting in the execution? Involving others brings different perspectives and expertise to the table, not to mention allowing you to step back and really enjoy the process instead of having to stress out over it.

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

June 11 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Ten of Blades (Swords) combined with the affirmation “This is just one day in a huge string of days. If today is trash, it’s just a blip in the span of your life.”

Some days?  You just have to get through it. Look at that guy on the right in the imagery of this card.  Exhausted and struggling for breath, he definitely didn’t come in first and although he might have had a good time at one point or another?  He definitely doesn’t look like he is by the end of the journey.

Some days are like that too.  Sometimes, you just have to push through and get to the end and accept that it’s not going to be a great day, and that your greatest accomplishment comes in just making it through to the next one.

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

June 12 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Ten of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “Trying your best is all that matters. The rest will fall into place.”

Okay so, I hate this affirmation card so goddamned much. It took me a very long time to accept that trying your best is not what matters.  If I try my best, that means I am neglecting my self care and my personal needs all for the sake of whatever project or goal is currently in my sights.  It means that I don’t sleep until its perfect, and I don’t stop until it’s f’ing spectacular (what ever “it” might be at the time.

This affirmation, for that reason, does not work for me.  The latter part, though, has merit.  It speaks of the ability to let go and let things actually fall into place instead of having to control every single element of the process.

The Ten of Pentacles speaks of long-term success, so for me, the combination of this affirmation (interpreted in a healthy way) and the tarot card is a reminder that you don’t have to control every aspect of what you’re working toward for it to come together just how you’re wanting it to.  You just have to keep going, and have a little patience along the way to your goal.

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

Finding the Positive for June 7 – 9

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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.

DECK USED: TAROT OF THE MAGICAL FOREST AND LOOK UP LOOK IN CARDS BY MARI ANDREW

Finding the Positive for June 4 – 6

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June 4 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Two of Wands combined with the affirmation “I know you’ll make it through this. You have You.”

It is paperwork season for your business and, yes… it’s horrible.  It’s horrible every year, because each year you plan to keep up on it all from month to month, and every year you fall off the wagon two months in and then have to play a massive catch-up effort in the spring.

Don’t forget, though, that you are an extremely organized soul. You have contingencies in place, lists of what needs to be done and concerning each step in the process.  You are your own advocate in this, and because of your organized nature and planning, things will go much more smoothly than the might have otherwise.

DECK USED: TAROT FROM A DISTANT KINGDOM AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

June 5 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Strength  card combined with the affirmation “You belong here just as you are. You are wonderful as one, and you’ll find more lovely people with time.”

Friendships and social obligation has been on your mind a lot lately. It’s hard, sometimes, to believe that people actually -like- you and want to spend time with you.  It’s hard to get past the belief that you are unlikable and an annoyance to others.

Remember that although these feelings are deeply ingrained, they aren’t real.  They are what you have been taught to believe by a small handful of others and a huge amount of negative inner talk.

Don’t let that negative inner narrative force you into being alone.  Use a positive inner voice to help keep it in check and allow you to see more than the small box it tries to put you in.

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

June 6 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Three of Cups combined with the affirmation “It feels impossible to continue on without hope, but the world is incomplete without you in it.”

Do not shrug off this affirmation with indifference.  Just because you are not currently in a depressive episode, and your suicidal idealization is under control through the medication you take, doesn’t mean this isn’t something you don’t need to hear and internalize.

There are people who love you and enjoy your company that would see the world the same without you in it by their side.  You make a difference in their lives, just as they make a difference in yours.

DECK USED: FANTASY CAT KINGDOM TAROT AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

Finding the Positive for June 1 – 3

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June 1

Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions in the Calm app. Honestly? I’ve been using this app since it first came out, and I have to say that I was really leery of subscribing to it (it’s not cheap, after all) for  years, but it’s one of the best investments I’ve ever made as far as apps are concerned.  They’ve put a -lot- into the app over the years and it’s hands-down my favorite app to use for meditation… even on days like today when I can’t for the life of me remember a single thing that was said during the session.

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Today’s card is the Ten of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “Hey friend, I know the self loathing feels productive, but life is just too hard to justify you being a butt toward yourself today.”

Right, so… Growing up, perfectionism was something to be expected. And that expectation then became internalized… which in turn turned into self-loathing, self-cruelty, and a really vicious negative inner narrative whenever you don’t live up to what are essentially impossible expectations.

The cards today are a reminder that those expectations are, in fact, impossible.  And that instead of spending your time poking and prodding yourself into trying to satisfy them, you need to take more time to look around at what you’ve accomplished in your life and how you have built a life that includes others who love you and depend on you as well as a foundation that is steady beneath not just your feet… but theirs too.

Does it look like that impossible expectation you try to berate yourself into accomplishing?  No.  It’s better… because it’s all yours.  A perfect fit for you and those important to you, which is much better than trying to wear a shoe that belongs to someone else.

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

June 2

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Page of Cups combined with the affirmation “You deserve a good life.”

The affirmation in today’s cards begs the question… what -is- a good life?

I feel that the answer to this is different for everyone. It’s entirely subjective, and is up to our imagination to explore and define.  Together with the Page of Cups, the message in today’s cards is about going after one’s dreams and allowing yourself to dream of the future instead of plugging along in the monotony of constant struggle.

We can achieve what we dream for ourselves, and have our own personal version of a good life… but only if we’re actually willing to dream it, and allow ourselves to see those dreams as something we deserve.

DECK USED: MANA-FEST TAROT LIGHT WEAVE EDITION AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

June 3

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Ten of Wands combined with the “Evening” card that speaks of taking time to unwind from hard days and let yourself relax and recover.

The Ten of Wands is about overwhelm.  It’s about taking on so much that we just cannot take on any more, and the burnout that can come from that overwhelm.  It’s that last straw… the one that breaks the camel’s back.

The combination of the Evening card with the Ten of Wands is a reminder that to stave off burnout, we need down time.  We need time to unwind and take a breath, to set down our burdens and let ourselves recover from the overwhelm.

These cards are an encouragement to do just that, and a reminder that we’re all human… we all have only two arms and two legs.  Don’t put so much on your plate that you can no longer take the recovery time you need, or pretty soon you won’t be able to carry any of it at all.

DECK USED: I AM THE ARTIST TAROT AND LOOK UP LOOK IN CARDS

Finding the Positive for May 29 – 31

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May 29

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Seven of Cups combined with the affirmation “Being overwhelmed doesn’t mean you’re weak or incapable. We just need a long while to recharge sometimes.”

You may insist in your heart of hearts that you do not need rest and recuperation, but the truth of the matter is that it is a universal fact for all humans.  The more you ignore it, the worse it will get, until the need for rest is so intense and has grown so great that those short rests you could have taken will no longer cut it, and a longer rest is needed.

This is the consequence of ignoring your needs and choosing to see those needs as an obstacle instead of an intrinsic part of being human.  Instead, take care to rest when you need to and give yourself the time you need to recover from life’s trials.  These needs aren’t really up to you, and ignoring them will just make things worse.

DECK USED: THE GAY MARSEILLE AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

May 30

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Two of Pentacles combined with the affirmation ” You aren’t ‘too much’ of anything. You are just right as you are.”

I do not usually struggle with the feeling of being “too much” for others. In fact, I swing the other way entirely and struggle with feelings of inadequacy and being not enough.  Either way, though, the “You are just right as you are” part of the affirmation hits home, and combined with the Two of Pentacles is a reminder that you can only juggle so much in life before things fall out of balance.

You don’t have to constantly strive to be more and do more.  People will love you just as you are, without all that “extra” that you are always pushing so hard for.  Don’t let those feelings of inadequacy, (that are actually all in your head, mind you) upset your balance.

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

May 31

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Today’s card is the Seven of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “There’s no room for any self-hate today; you are too beautiful and too precious.”

Today’s cards are a reminder that learning to not listen to your negative inner narrative is a type of growth, and like most growth that really matters?  It’s going to take time. You’ve had decades to learn how to be cruel to yourself, and it’s going to take decades to learn how to be kind to yourself.  Just keep going, every day, one step at a time, one millimeter at a time.  You’ll get there if you keep working at it instead of giving in to those negative thoughts every time they crop up.

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

Finding the Positive for May 26 – 28

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May 26

Today’s meditation was skipped.

Today’s card is the Two of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “Float. Feel the air around you. Let the universe cradle you for a while.”

Sometimes, the constant juggling of responsibilities and “things to get done” can be exahusting. During those times, it really doesn’t matter how many things are involved. It could be just one small thing, a dozen small things, two big things… it doesn’t matter.  It all starts to feel like too much, growing into this huge undertaking.

The cards in today’s pull are a reminder that it’s okay to ease up on the reigns now and then, especially when feeling overwhelmed.  If you let go and just “float” for a while? It won’t be the end of the world, and you’ll not just feel better for having done so, but return to those responsibilities refreshed and far more capable of dealing with them.

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May 28

Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyTrip sessions from the Calm app.

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Today’s card is the Seven of Wands combined with the affirmation “No negativity today; You’re gettin’ stuff done!”

Don’t let other’s naysaying and obstructive behaviors cause you to steer off-path.  You have certain things you need to get done today, and their negativity will only be a distraction that makes everything more difficult and take that much longer to accomplish.

Instead, just keep your head down and fight for what you want to accomplish and what’s important to you.  Let the rest slide off, and only push back as much as needed when it’s necessary to do so.

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