Förhäxa Tarot

How Brightly We Shine

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

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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

The Infinite Tarot of Hekate 100 - Prince of Pentacles

Today’s draw is the Knight of Pentacles (Prince), 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 Prince of Pentacles has then been combined with the Expressing Free Will card from The Healing Mantra Deck, which says, “My choices determine how brightly I shine.”

Do you want to be a comet that shines bright in a sudden flash in the sky and is then gone forever? Or do you want to be a star in the heavens burning bright night after night for generations to come?

Both shine, but the former burns out far too fast for me personally, here and gone in an instant. The latter is steadfast, steady, and dependable… energy far more compatible to my own.

I feel that it’s become far more prevalent that people seek these days to fall into the mindset of the comet than the star, or perhaps it’s just that as I strive to embrace the mindset of the star, I am noticing the comets more and more?

Today’s Prince of Pentacles and affirmation encourages us to considering mindset we prefer, why we prefer it, and to be mindful in alighting ourselves to embrace both sides within ourselves even as we try to strengthen one over the other in our day to day lives.

DECKS USED:  THE INFINITE TAROT OF HECKTE 100 AND THE HEALING MANTRA DECK

#DiscordTarotholicsAug2026 Challenge
Prompts for August 6th and 7th

Tarot Reading with the Förhäxa Tarot and Forces of Spirit Tarot

What inner injury from my childhood needs healing?

Temperance atop The Empress; Courage

You crave nurturing mother energy because this was something you didn’t get your fill of as a child.

While the lack of this energy gave you a strength of courage and determination to be independent and fight your own battles, it has left your inner child feeling neglected and bereft.

How can I begin working on healing that injury?

Four of Air and The Return

Consider putting to rest the differences that have created a chasm between yourself and your mother.

Try connecting again with who brought you into this world. Even if the effort doesn’t work out, your inner child feels the need to try after so long separated from her.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Moonstone for Fostering Emotional Stability
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: FÖRHÄXA TAROT AND FORCES OF SPIRIT TAROT [oracle deck]

@lightningildflower‘s August Reflections Challenge
Prompts for August 6th through 8th

Tarot Reading with The Infinite Tarot of Hekate 100

Venus enters Libra, Venus trine Saturn – How might strengthening a boundary create relationship harmony?

Wheel of Fortune and Nine of Pentacles

There is truth in Rita Mae Brown’s adage that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.

Success comes from changing things up and adapting your approach, not doing things by rote just because that’s always how they’ve been done.

Beating your head against stone will not break the stone. Don’t wait for that to change on its own. Be proactive. Get a hammer.

Equilibrium – Where can I practice more patience?

The Moon and High Priestess

Listen to your gut when it comes to determining when something doesn’t seem right tor feels dangerous. Don’t berate yourself as a coward or worrywart, instead seek out that gut feeling and trust what it’s trying to tell you. Pause and listen.

Harmony – How are beauty and harmony showing up in my life?

Four of Cups and Eight of Cups

Instead of ignoring the help others offer you, and as a consequence having to deal with anxieties that trigger your need to run, you are choosing to communicate these fears and anxieties with those closest you that you trust to listen and take you seriously.

Other elements included in this reading:
Tree of Life Raku Medallion for fostering Balance and Harmony
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Moss Agate Tree for Attracting Opportunities for Growth
Kayanite for helping Balance and Communicate Emotions
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE INFINITE TAROT OF HEKATE 100
Daily Self Kindness

I shifted drinking my tea to earlier in the day today. Sometimes it’s hard for me to feel the inspiration to make a cup at night before bed. Earlier in the day might be the answer.

Getting a Move On

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

Förhäxa TarotToday’s draw is the Eight of Fire (Wands), which is traditionally a representation of swifts action, alacrity, immediacy, and speed.

Sometimes you have to “move it or lose it”, and that’s what today’s card is all about. Not everything can be done at a sedate and slow pace. Flying, for example, as what is seen in the illustration of today’s card, requires lift provided by speed, whether it be the speed of the wind, the speed of the bird, or a combination of both.

In today’s card, we are invited to look in our lives for those things that are requiring our immediate attention. What needs started or done now? What can’t be put off? The Eight of Fire invites us to examine these things, but also to take action to deal with them as well.

DECK USED:  FÖRHÄXA TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsSep2022 Challenge Prompt
Questions for September 16th and 17th

Dungeons & Dragons Tarot and Woven Wisdom OracleYour Addiction – Medusa – You have a habit of using your alone time in unhealthy ways. Although there is a true need for alone time in your general make-up, it’s not healthy to isolate yourself too much, no matter how tempting that may be.

How to Introduce Moderation – Izanagi & Izanami – Spend more time with those it feels good to be around. Even just allowing them to chill as a part of your life has a positive impact.

You – Page of Swords – You love to learn new things and explore. Imagination has no limits for you and your curiosity is boundless.

Your Annoyance – The Moon – Delays and uncertainty sometimes can get in the way of all you want to explore and pursue. These roadblocks often self inflicted and always frustrating.

What To Do About It – Seven of Coins atop The Chariot – Work on staying enthusiastic through the long haul. Just because you can learn new things (reflects back to the Page) quickly doesn’t always mean that you should. Sometimes it’s better to take your time.

DECK USED: WOVEN WISDOM ORACLE AND DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TAROT

The #ConnectWithYourDeckChallenge Prompt by E Roebuck-Jones
Questions for September 11th, 13th, and 14th

Förhäxa TarotHow do I grow from my mistakes?

Eight of Earth – You grow from your mistakes by getting beat over the head by them again and again until you get it right. You’re stubborn, and sometimes that means it takes more than once to learn a better way. There’s nothing wrong with that, it just means you end up with more experiences than most.

When do I trust myself?

The Chariot atop Elder of Water – You trust yourself to guide other’s tempers back to grounded when normally emotionally balanced people tip over into the energy of being stubborn and unreasonable. (Taming Gideon’s inner Grumpus, for example.)

What can I do about the fear of being wrong?

Death – Being wrong is something universal; it happens to everyone eventually. Take these moments when you are wrong not as roadblocks, but as opportunities for change, transition, and/or transformation.

DECK USED: FÖRHÄXA TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I made cornbread to go along with my chili.  I really like cornbread and I’ve been craving it for over a week, but the store hadn’t had any until I checked earlier today.

Weekly Creativity Prompt – The Sun

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Prompt: “Pull the card from your deck(s) that matches the card posted below. Compare the imagery between the card provided below and the card(s) from your own decks). How would you read them differently and why?”

Tarot of the Hidden Realm - The Sun CardTarot of the Hidden Realm – Children touch upon an innocence that is often depicted in the Sun card in tarot, and here we see two that play together, a flower in full bloom and abundance of green giving an impression of success that is about happiness and the butterfly above their heads lends a carefree atmosphere to time spent together.  This card speaks of happiness being about those you spend time with and the joy found in abundance, camaraderie, and sharing rather than monetary values.

The Sun Card - Lonely Dreamer Tarot, Förhäxa Tarot, Autumn Miss Tarot

The Lonely Dreamer Tarot – Here in the imagery of this card that is a serenity provided in the pool of water the figure stands in and the reflection of her form upon its surface.  The pool is calm and smooth, and the form of the woman graceful as the sun overhead turns the water into pure gold. The imagery in this card speaks to me of success in its many forms.  Not everything has to be about excitement, optimism, and positivity. Sometimes it’s in our most calm and serene moments where we discover true value in ourselves and the world around us.

Förhäxa Tarot – In this imagery, an angel appears to reap energy from a forest fire’s blaze below.  This speaks to me of there being no energy ever wasted.  Even forest fires have their purpose, and that energy is not wasted either. There is mystery here, but also hope.  Strength, too.  This card says that failures are not always failures at all, but rather a plan that is simply beyond our ken put into action.  It encourages, optimism and asks us to reject pessimistic viewpoints for a more positive perspective.

Autumn Miss Tarot – This card’s imagery is the closest to the traditional RWS imagery, and it speaks to me not of fun… not of joy or of peace (for who in their right mind can be peaceful, optimistic, and joyful when riding a horse while without paints?)  Instead, it speaks to me of success earned through tenacity and hard work, and the celebration of that success (as seen in the flying of the red banner the figure holds and the clenched fist of the other hand).

DECK USED: THE LONELY DREAMER TAROT, FÖRHÄXA TAROT, AUTUMN MISS TAROT