Gratitude Insight Affirmation Cards

Creating Balance Through Small Joys

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Arcana Malleus' Tarot - Two of Pentacles

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

Today’s draw is the Two of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of juggling responsibilities, work/life balance, and prioritization.

The card has then been combined with an Elie Wiesel quote from the Gratitude Insight Cards, which says, “For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

Take care that you are being mindful to notice and enjoy the good stuff going on around you. That good stuff can be as big as a success or surprise, or it can be as small as someone else’s smile or a pretty flower. When we allow ourselves to see these small joys instead of ignoring them, it can help balance out the influences of the more negative aspects of life that come our way.

The message in today’s Two of Pentacles and affirmation quote is an encouragement to include more of these small joys in your life to help balance out both shitty moments that can’t be avoided is an encouragement to include more of these small joys in your life to help balance out both shitty moments and experiences that can’t be avoided.

DECKS USED:  ARCANA MALLEUS’ TAROT GOLD EDITION AND GRATITUDE INSIGHT CARDS

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Philosophical Questions for June 17th and 24th

Oracle Reading with the Cast of Characters Deck

Are we ever morally obligated to take action?

“My life has never allowed much opportunity to travel. I dream of…”

No. But that doesn’t mean that doing so, or not doing so, doesn’t create its own situation or have a hand in creating the person you are to become.

By holding back instead of taking action, it can mold you and/or your life in directions that are not the ideal you were hoping for for your future self.

Under what circumstances are we morally obligated to take action?

“I received a gift for 23andMe. I was so surprised to find out…”

When something within us tells us it’s important to act, we should listen. We each have our own inner sense of right and wrong that I refer to as our “moral compass”.

If we feel something is wrong, and we do not want to turn our future into more consequences than dreams, then when our moral compass twinges it’s important for us to act instead of staying disengaged.

Why do people feel the need to distract themselves from reality?

“I want to write plays, but it turns out poetry has…”

Distractions are often how we discover new passions and things we enjoy or are interested in, as well as discovering those things that we don’t like or don’t want to experience or be involved with.

The world would be a less interesting and far more uninspiring place without the distractions that allow us to see the potential for something different and something more.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
River Rock for Resilience within Life’s Flow
Clear Quartz for boosting Mental Clarity
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: CAST OF CHARACTERS DECK

The @lightningwildflower June Inner Journey Challenge
Mercury Retrograde, Full Moon in Capricorn Prompt for June 29th : What message from the past is resurfacing?

Tarot Reading with the Arcana Malleus' Tarot

Reading Summary: If you refuse to follow your heart (The Lovers), you will fail both in your efforts towards creating stability for yourself and others (Ten of Pentacles Rx) , and will instead continue to repeat the past (Six of Cups).

Take Away: It may seem counterintuitive, especially considering your upbringing and past achievements, but if you really want to create stability for yourself and those around you, it will require something else besides just hard work and determination.

Instead, in order to find that stability and sustain it, it needs to be grown from a place of love and authenticity instead of from just doing what you need to do to get things done.

It’s in changing your bad habits and unhealthy patterns, and reaching for something better for yourself, that you can then create the kind of balance and stability you really want to achieve.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Carved Bamboo Latticework for Positive Outcomes
Beech Pods for Realizations that Foster Personal Growth
Foraged Red Oak Leaf for Fostering Unconditional Love
Garnierite for help in Releasing Anger, Anxiety, and Guilt
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED:  ARCANA MALLEUS’ TAROT GOLD EDITION

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Prompts for June 27th through 30th

Oracle Reading with the Sacred World Oracle

This is the kind of silence I want to experience

Spider – You wish to be able to sit in the splendor of your creative efforts and be happy with their completion.

Although the accolades from others are nice, and appreciated, they are not needed when it comes to your creativity and those things you create. Instead, you desire to enjoy and appreciate these creations on your own and feel a form of self satisfaction from the experience.

How can I lighten my sense of responsibility?

Snake – Stop taking the responsibility on your shoulders for things that are not yours to deal with or claim.

Like the snake Nidhogg and Yggdrasil’s tree roots depicted in this card, these responsibilities that are not yours to deal with can end up depleting the resources that you need to be healthy and happy.

What intention do I want to sow?

Crab – You want to work on connecting more with your inner self, and in doing so better understand your emotions as well as your vulnerabilities.

How do I celebrate the end of this month?

Carp atop Dove – Allow yourself to trust in serendipity. Not everything has to be planned out peace by peace with every ending guaranteed. Sometimes trust in the universe is the only answer, and the only path to happiness and success.

Other elements included in this reading:
Handcrafted Sigil for Healthy Sustainable Energy
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Carnelian Agate Mushroom for Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: SACRED WORLD ORACLE
Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.

Finding the Positive for June 23 – 25

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The Venus Morningstar Tarot's King of Pentacles, Asceticism Tarot's Page of Cups, American Renaissance Tarot's Six of Wands

June 23 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was a ten minute #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.

Today’s draw is the King of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of a projective alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s financial security, resources, health, home, labors, manifestations, and other elements of the physical realm. This often translates into leadership that creates a grounded sense of stability for others.

The card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Pass Around the Smile Positive Guidance Oracle Cards, which says, “Balance: Take a closer look at where your energy is going. Prioritize and balance what is important to you.”

Where does stability actually matter, and where is it simply indulgence hiding behind a mask of stability and comfort?

I have found that I like to languish. That is to say I like to “bedrot” or just sit around fucking around on my phone and letting the time slip by as I do so. I feel like at one point this was actually considered just “relaxing with a book”, except that these days I don’t think the content we consume on our phones or the games we play on there really count as enriching in the same way a book would.

Instead, this languishing really holds no enrichment value and is simply a wasting of time. Time that could be used to relax in ways that are enriching such as going outside to take a walk, reading a book, etc.

The message in today’s King of Pentacles and affirmation card is a reminder that sometimes what’s comfortable isn’t as stabilizing as we want it to be. Are our go to methods of relaxation really relaxing us and allowing us time to rest and recover? Or are they simply causing us to hover in a moment of suspension?

These cards encourage us to examine more closely our indulgences and prioritize those of quality over those that aren’t. Consider which ones foster healthy stability in our lives, and which ones are simply wasting our time and energy without giving us anything we need in return, then lean into the former and do less of the latter.

DECKS USED: THE VENUS MORNINGSTAR TAROT AND PASS AROUND THE SMILE POSITIVE GUIDANCE ORACLE CARDS

June 24 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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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 Page of Cups, which is a representation of a receptive omega energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s emotions, relationships, creativity, or intuition. This often translates into themes that have to do with emotional growth, second chances relationships, or exploring one’s creative pursuits.

The card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the deck, which says, “To receive what I want, I must not push against (the) unwanted. This is an expanding Universe, and all things must be allowed. In other words, for you to understand and experience what you desire, you must understand that which you do not desire, for in order to be able to choose and focus, both must be present and understood.”

The affirmation pulled for today bugs me. I both agree with the concept and disagree with the sentiment expressed within today’s affirmation card.

Yes, experiencing both sides of an experience, not just the good but also the bad, can absolutely create a greater depth of understanding. This is undeniably true. One can never truly understand the depths of clinical depression, for example, without having experienced it and come out the other side, or the torments of an abusive relationship without having been on one, etc.

At the same time? This affirmation seems to be saying you shouldn’t try to avoid these experiences, but lay down and let them happen instead of doing what you can to avoid or escape them. That is the sentiment I disagree with.

So, how does the Page of Cups factor into all of this?

It’s all about learning how to see others with empathy and kindness, and accepting that we can’t know how others feel, no matter how much we might intellectually understand the issue. Not everyone needs to experience every bad thing to give others the space and validation for what they’ve gone through. All it takes is a little kindness.

The message in today’s Page of Cups and affirmation card is a reminder that we can’t know what others have gone through or are going through. We can’t feel what they feel and know what they’ve endured. We can only approach them with the same kindness that we hope they would approach us with, and with the understanding that each of us has our own trials and tribulations, struggles and past with which to learn and heal from.

DECKS USED: ASCETICISM TAROT AND ASK AND IT IS GIVEN CARDS

June 25 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was a ten minute #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.

Today’s draw is the Six of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of public accolades, societal expectations, people pleasing, and peer pressure.

The Six of Wands has then been combined with a Denis Whitley quote from the Gratitude Insight Affirmation Cards, which says, “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Just as happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, worn, or consumed… it also cannot be purchased. Not with money, nor through acts of people pleasing. Allowing others’ praise and admiration to be the foundation of your self worth means that you are depending on others to supply you with the pieces of happiness that should already be yours.

The message in today’s Six of Wands and affirmation is a reminder that joy and happiness are our right. They aren’t something others can own and dole out to us, nor something we can “purchase” from others through people pleasing. Happiness is in validating ourselves, celebrating ourselves and our accomplishments, and taking joy in the present and those things we enjoy. It has nothing to do with who does or doesn’t approve. Only your own approval truly matters in this regard.

DECKS USED: AMERICAN RENAISSANCE TAROT AND GRATITUDE INSIGHT AFFIRMATION CARDS

Rust Removal

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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

The Wild Wisdom Tarot - The Devil

Today’s draw is The Devil card, which is traditionally a representation of temptation, struggles with moderation, harmful excesses, addiction, and self-harm.

The Devil card has then been combined with a Dalai Lama quote from the Gratitude Insight Cards, which says, “The roots of our goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”

Sometimes it’s far easier to ignore the good things and focus on the bad ones. It becomes a habit that reaches beyond pessimism and starts to bleed negativity into our outlook of life as a whole.

From this lack of appreciation for the positive and good things in life the roots of negative outlooks and pessimism begin to spread and grow until they permeate every aspect of our lives.

The same process is true in reverse. When we focus on the positive and appreciate the goodness around us, it is those roots that grow and spread instead of the negative ones.

The message in today’s Devil card and affirmation are a reminder that we have control over how we see the world. Just like rust can eat way at metal, negativity can become a habit that eats away at the good in our lives. These cards encourage us to look at those places in our lives where this has begun to happen, and consider how to stop the spread by creating new habits that are healthier to replace the old unhealthy ones.

DECKS USED:  THE WILD WISDOM TAROT AND GRATITUDE INSIGHT CARDS

@Lionharts #TheJuneTarot Follow Your North Star Challenge
Prompt for June 21st : Summer Solstice Spread

Oracle Reading with the Tarocchi Celtici

Thrive: What is ready to thrive during the second half of 2026?

Rovo / Bramble – You have the opportunity to spark a new sense of enthusiasm for the parts of your life feeling a bit lack luster of late. Just have a care that you don’t go overboard. Dopamine is a wonderful thing, but it runs the risk of addiction without a bit of caution in regard to your excesses.

Lead: What part of myself is meant to lead this phase forward?

Frassino / Ash – Focus on being prudent and cautious when it comes to your finances. It’s often far too easy to toss money around when enthusiasm sparks, but you need to act in this area with good judgement and care.

Will: What holds the most promise for the months ahead?

Quercia / Oak – Following the advice above offers you the opportunity to grow your sense of security while still instilling in your life the chance to delve deeper into your experiences and emotions.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Carved Bamboo Latticework for Positive Outcomes
Moss Agate for Attracting Opportunities for Growth
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TAROCCHI CELTICI

The @lightningwildflower June Inner Journey Challenge
Sun enters Cancer Prompt for June 21st : What part of my home and family needs my attention right now?

Tarot Reading with The Wild Wisdom Tarot

Reading Summary: Your home and family needs you to show them what it means to stand strong (Strength) in the middle of chaos (Lightning Strike), and come out the other end still thriving (Strength), regardless of what life throws at you in the moment (Wheel of Fortune).

Take Away: The cards have been warning against the arrival of chaos and destruction for a few days, pumping you up for its arrival and providing you with advice on getting through difficult times.

These cards continue with this theme, encouraging you to tap into the survivor energy that lives within you and “show them how it’s done” as you move through the upcoming difficulties and chaos.

Turn your time and attention to making sure your confidence is being bolstered and you’re shoring up your reserves of stubborn determination and perseverance.

Other elements included in this reading:
Black Wood Kitsune Carving for Cleverness and Ingenuity
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
English Elm Seeds to Encourage Flexibility During Growth
Clear Quartz for boosting Mental Clarity
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE WILD WISDOM TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2026 Challenge
Prompt for June 21st : Do the Midsummer Spread

Midsummer Oracle Reading with the Herb Notes Flash Cards

Horse: What can I do to build up my inner courage to live life with more honesty and integrity?

Lavender – Work on staying calm. If you want to build up your courage, part of doing that is ensuring that your anxiety is under control. You have the tools that you disposal to help keep your anxiety under control, but only if you’re willing to use them. Whether that courage is used to live life with more honesty and integrity, or to confront fears you’ve long carried, finding that calm in the first place is the answer.

Daisy: How can I insert more innocence and purity into how I view the world?

Raspberry – Stop looking at everything from the lens of “here we go again”. Remember that a fresh perspective can always help in clearing out the dust and cobwebs of a jaded mind. Open yourself up to seeing things from a new angle.

Lapis Lazuli: How can I be more honest with myself about my good and bad traits?

Mullein – Stop trying to ignore them. Things like this don’t go away just because you refuse to acknowledge them. Instead, it’s through your attention and an effort toward control that you can find a more honest view of both your good and bad qualities. Tighten down a little in this area for more clarity.

Citrine: In what ways can I work at expressing my creativity more?

Hops – Use creativity time as a cool down activity instead of holding the expectation that it’s something that will ramp you up. Creativity doesn’t always have to be an excitable activity or an exhausting someone. Sometimes it can just be chill and relaxing… if you let it.

Snake: How can I use my creativity to help foster fresh energies and a sense of rebirth?

Oregano – Creativity, even when used in the calming ways mentioned above, helps get your “juices flowing” in gentle ways, stirring up within you energy and enthusiasm that has become stagnant. Just do the creative things, even the little ones, and it will help kindle new energies within you and bring old ones back to life.

Heather: How can I invite more good luck into my day to day life?

Linden – Stop bracing for what might happen. There’s too much tension in trying to brace for impact. Instead, allow for awareness without seizing control in an unforgiving fist to try and protect yourself and others. You’re suffocating everything that way. Ease up.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Calcite for Gently Calming the Mind and Stimulating Insights
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: HERB NOTES DECK
Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.