Intuitive tarot reading

Digging Deeper for Discovery

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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.

Solis Occasum Lux Bromalis - Ace of Wands and the Forest Bathing Cards

Today’s draw is the Ace of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of the seed, start, or new beginnings in the area of one’s passion projects, inspiration, drive, willpower, and determination. This often translates into themes that have to do with budding new interests and new passion projects.

The Ace of Wands has then been combined with a card from the Forest Bathing deck, which says, “As you stroll through the forest, I invite you to listen to nature’s musical tapestry. The big sounds usually overshadow the more subtle ones. I wonder what you will hear…”

What magic are you missing in the world around you by taking things at face value and not paying closer attention? What more can you see when you stop assuming, and instead truly listen and look deeper at what’s going on around you?

There is so much that is remarkable and passion inducing in the world that we pass by every day without even noticing. Worlds within worlds of sound and life we never see. Layers upon layers of depth within people that we never truly get to know.

The message in today’s Ace of Wands and affirmation card is a reminder of these layers, and an encouragement to look beyond just the surface level of not just other people, but of our experiences as well. In doing so, you never know what treasures you may uncover and what new passions you may discover.

DECKS USED:  SOLIS OCCASUM LUX BRUMALIS TAROT AND FOREST BATHING CARDS

One Card Tarot Journal Activity by @mariasofia_astro
Chapter 3 | Entry 18 – Family and Friends
Affirmation : “I welcome opportunities for fun.“
Prompt : Picture the card you draw as a friend you are going to spend the day with. What fun activities are you doing together? What are you talking about? Wearing? Feeling?

Tarot Activity from The One Card a Day Journal by Maria Sofia Marmanides - Gold Moon Major Arcana - The Moon card

What feelings came up when I pulled this card?

I felt myself slip into the “advocate” role that I am both familiar with and enjoy. I like to help people, and this Moon card gives me an opportunity to do that.

What elements of the card’s meaning resonate with me and this prompt?

The Moon is about uncertainty and the unknown, and often about how fears can cause our perception of something to blow out of proportion.

What in the artwork spoke to me?

The figure in this card looks a lot like the High Priestess. It spoke to me of the fact that the fears are rooted in perception and perspective instead of solid logic and fact. That tells me what is needed here is a good dose of stability.

My prompt response and reflections.

We are going to go hiking. (While wearing appropriate hiking attire, of course.)

Frankly, we would be going hiking with any number of the cards I might have pulled, because it’s what I want to do. This card’s fear and uncertainty wouldn’t dissuade me in this activity. Instead, it would inspire me to assist them in getting over their fears.

As we hike, we would talk about their fears and worries, and I would help them to see that these things aren’t as huge and insurmountable as they seem.

I would show them through encouragement and the stability in my presence that they are safe and help them to find enjoyment in the activity so that when they think back in the future they will have a positive memory to bolster them.

Other elements included in this reading:
Honey Resin D20 Die
Banded Agate D6 Die

DECK USED: GOLD MOON MAJOR ARCANA

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompt for May 22nd : What can you do today to assist in getting more out of life?

Tarot Reading with the Solis Occasum Lux Bromalis Tarot and Fractals of Nature Oracle

Wheel of Fortune, Eight of Coins, Ace of Coins

Work on seeing the cyclical ups and downs of life by the opportunities they present instead of what you feel like you want to run away from. Change is not your enemy, so stop treating it like one and see it as the catalyst for growth and betterment that it’s meant to be.

Prompts for May 23rd and 24th : Do Spread 2
Question: How can you better utilize your free time with yesterday’s question in mind?

Anchor Card : The Celestial Bloom

“The internal dawn requires no battle against the dark; it asks only that the mist of uncertainty be allowed to lift.”

Reading Summary: The coins in the Ten of Pentacles and the Anchor card echo each other in shape and form. This speaks to the key to successes you seek lying in the disbursement of fears and anxieties surrounding change.

In The High Priestess card, she holds above her head a cloud that connects in its design to the frosty petals of the Celestial Bloom in the Anchor card. There is promise here that even when things fall apart, wither and fall away, or otherwise meet to be discarded, stability will live on.

The Two of Swords resembles scissors coming to snip the Celestial Bloom‘s unseen stem. Decide what to cut away, but don’t go overboard.

Take Away: Today is “trim the lilac tree” day, which comes but once a year. My balcony garden needs some tending, and today’s a good day to get out there and get some of it done.

DECK USED: SOLIS OCCASUM LUX BRUMALIS TAROT AND FRACTALS OF NATURE ORACLE
Daily Self Kindness

I actually did trim the lilac tree on my balcony today, as well as deadheading the flowers and the weeding.

❤️ Self Care Saturday (On a Sunday)

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These Saturday readings are (not usually) bearing in on any one thing or event in my life, as the question used is asking for a more general outlook. This is a self care exercise, and is not meant as a predictive reading… although that, too, happens on occasion.

The question is… What do I need to focus for self-care through the week ahead?

Self Care Saturday Tarot Reading with the SHE Pioneers Tarot and The Cycle of Chaos Playing Cards

Earth – Three of Cups – Joy is sweeter when shared with others. You’re so close to finishing your taxes. Garner help from those around you to help get you to the end of the process, then celebrate with them when it’s over. The celebration will sweeter with all involved.

Air – The High Priestess – Look deeper for the answers you seek. Surface level observations aren’t enough.

Water – The Lovers – Make sure that you are consulting and prioritizing your heart’s needs this week. Connect to your emotions and to those around you that share in the tangle of heart’s threads with yours. Prioritize this above societal pressures.

Fire – The Hanged Man – When it comes to your personal pursuits and passions, step back this week, not forward. There is much to be garnered by observation, and much to be lost through impulse.

Waning – Nine of Spades and Seven of Spades – Fears and running away are not going to get you where you want to go. Instead of turning tail to run, pause and watch.

Waxing – Ace of Diamonds and King of Spades – There is great opportunity in practicality, just remember the advice in the Air position and be sure to look deeper than surface level to keep from being out-foxed.

Take Away – This week needs to focus on getting the practical things done and out of the way, with the help of those around you invested in the process as well as the end result. Take care with your impulses and lean into stepping back to treat new opportunities, ideas, and interests with caution instead of outright enthusiasm.

DECKS USED: S/H/E PIONEERS TAROT AND THE CYCLE OF CHAOS PLAYING CARDS COMPLETED EDITION

Finding the Positive for May 21 – 23

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The Fantasy Art Tarot's Page of Pentacles, The Fantasy Showcase Tarot's Knight of Pentacles, and Legends of Zelda Tarot's The Fool card

May 21 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was a ten minute #DailyCalm session in 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 Page of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive “omega” energy in the area of one’s finances, resources, health, labors, home life, and manifestations. This often translates into themes that have to do with work apprenticeships and learning a new ability or skill.

The Page of Pentacles card has then been combined with a card from the Pass Around the Smile Positive Guidance Cards For Kids, which says, “Love: Name the special people you love.”

Building relationships takes time. Whether it’s friendships or romantic relationships, family bonds, or any other type of relationship between people. It takes time to develop trust. It takes time to figure out if you connect on merely a surface level, or something deeper.

These things take time because it takes us time to lose our preconceived notions of who these people are, and actually explore and discover who they truly are. This type of thing isn’t something that you just know right off the bat, no matter how much you think you can or how much your emotions try to tell you that you do.

The message in today’s Page of Pentacles and affirmation card is a reminder that flash-in-the-pan friendships and romances can be fun, but they can’t stand the test of time if both parties aren’t willing to put in the work to actually learn about and understand the other person involved.

DECKS USED: THE FANTASY ART TAROT AND PASS AROUND THE SMILE POSITIVE GUIDANCE CARDS – FOR KIDS!

May 22 – 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 Knight of Pentacles, 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 card has then been combined with the Curious & Still card from from The Az Oracle, which says, “When you are curious and still you will see so much more of the story, in fact… you may even see your ability to change it, to re-write a more fun and playful script! And if you can’t, for any reason, or don’t feel that you can… then perhaps you can just re-write your *response* to the movie of life, and decide how you can alter *that* to how you want to feel. When your eyes are wide, and your heart is wide too, absolutely anything is possible.”.

Not everything has to be some big production that has to be completed right now. Sometimes the biggest difference we can make resides within the small things that are nudged along at a snail’s pace. Just as a kind word, or a smile, can turn around another person’s day from one of the worst in their lives to something far more able to be handled.

The message in today’s Knight of Pentacles and affirmation card is a reminder that grand gestures are not the only way to make changes in one’s life. Often, it’s the small things that matter most.

DECKS USED: THE FANTASY SHOWCASE TAROT AND THE AZ ORACLE

May 23 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was a seven minute #DailyTrip 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 Fool card, which is traditionally a representation of innocence, carelessness, carefree enthusiasm, and new beginnings.

The Fool card has then been combined with an affirmation from the LOBILAT Fluffy Advice Oracle, which says, “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”

It’s true that when we work hard for something, the prize tastes sweeter. Our blood, sweat, and tears make a difference in how much we value our accomplishments and successes. That said? There’s also something to be said for enjoying the journey.

Too much of life stuck striving for end goals leaves us feeling as if a good portion of our lives have been wasted, or have flow by. We end up with a deficit of joy and pleasure. A lack of fun and far too much stress take the place of those moments of enjoyment we discard in our ambition.

The message in today’s Fool card and affirmation is a reminder to make sure that no matter how high you aim or how hard you climb, you’re having fun along the way. The view at the top will never be worth it if you don’t enjoy yourself during the journey in getting there.

DECKS USED: LEGENDS OF ZELDA TAROT AND LOBILAT FLUFFY ADVICE ORACLE & AFFIRMATION CARDS

The Rugged Bouquet

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Today’s meditation was a nine minute long #DailyTrip 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.

WayHome Tarot's Seven of Pentacles and Forest Bathing Cards

Today’s draw is the Seven of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of slow growth, sustainability, domestic harmony, hard work, and practicing patience while the fruits of your labors develop and take form.

The Seven of Pentacles has then been combined with a Forest Bathing card, which says, “When visualizing a bouquet of flowers we often imagine a lovely arrangement of perfectly proportioned colorful flowers. I invite you to create a bouquet using the fallen bits and pieces of nature you encounter along your path. I wonder what will be revealed…”

Like the activity described in the Forest Bathing card, our lives are much like a bouquet of random things collected along the way from day to day. It’s not some perfectly arranged spray of flowers and ornamental greenery, but rather the beauty of something more rugged and natural that comes together over time.

Each experience picked up adds to the whole, and what at first may look like a mishmash of random things, when brought together ultimately creates something beautiful.

The message in today’s Seven of Pentacles and the affirmation card is a reminder that whether events in our lives are small and feel consequential, unpleasant, or beautiful on their own… When added to our lives as a whole, they create something unique and beautiful. Our lives are all unique and beautiful.

DECK USED:  WAYHOME TAROT AND FOREST BATHING CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompts for May 20th and 21st

Tarot Reading with Le Tarot Côme and Ask the Cats Oracle

Philosophical Question: What is happiness?

Three of Swords and In or Out

Happiness is savoring one’s life while step-by-step making the choice to lean into the positive instead of wallowing in the disappointments, painful experiences, victim mindsets, and the pessimism these things can create.

What path moving forward can help you attain more happiness in life?

King of Cups and The Dingus

Continue allowing your partner to help in teaching you how to have fun, and how to experience the positives that come from feeling your feelings instead of forsaking them.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TAROT CÔME AND ASK THE CATS ORACLE

@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 25th : A simple pleasure I want to protect

Tarot Reading with the Wayhome Tarot

Reading Summary: The banishment of unpleasant things (all three reverse cards – Justice, Hierophant, and Five of Cups) that have spending time with my partner creates for you (Father of Cups).

Take Away: You have a tendency to fixate on fairness, or rather the lack of fairness in the world around you. This makes it extremely difficult for you to see positive perspectives or connect with optimistic thinking.

Spending time with your partner allows you to connect to the world around you with a more positive outlook, and to see things from their perspective instead of the negative perspective you are used to. This doesn’t necessarily take away your own perspective, but helps to round it out so that it doesn’t all look quite so bad.

He is aware of this tendency in you to lean towards the pessimistic, and is always happy to not just accept how your mind works, but provide alternate perspectives for you to consider without trying to force anything upon you.

The blend of acceptance and guidance often goes unnoticed and underappreciated, but it’s something that you treasure a great deal.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Black Tourmaline for Grounding and Protection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: WAYHOME TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

I taught Ms B how to make recipe cards on the computer, and then created a “back up” file so that when she messes up the template I can just refresh it back to the original instead of trying to repair it later.

Reconnecting with Love and Trust

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Today’s meditation was a twelve minute long self-guided visualization session while listening to Tony Ann’s orchestra version of ICARUS on loop.

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

The Fairy Tarots - Six of Cups and Rumi Quotes Lobilat Cards

Today’s draw is the Six of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of nostalgia, joyful memories, childhood experiences, and revisiting the past in some way.

The Six of Cups has then been combined with an affirmation card from the LOBILAT Rumi Quote Cards, which says, “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”

Love comes naturally to children. With their innocence and their open hearts, it’s easy to love, and to seek out love as well. It’s only with age that experience begins to create barriers in place of openness.

As age and experience step in, we begin to see innocence as dangerous naïveté, and something to be shut down. With each hurt we harden more, trust less, and as a result become far less open to love… to the point where even loving ourselves can sometimes become difficult.

The message in today’s Six of Cups and affirmation card is an encouragement to open yourself up to love more. Those safeguards we learned when we were growing up restrict us from finding the happiness we seek in adulthood. These cards remind us that it is important to connect with this softer side of ourselves, as we can only connect in love and trust with others once we’ve connected with ourselves in this way.

DECKS USED: THE FAIRY TAROTS AND RUMI QUOTES LOBILAT CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompts for May 18th and 19th

Tarot Reading with the Florana Tarot and An Invitation to Forest Bathing Cards

In what area are you not practicing enough self-care?

Knight of Cups and Texture Walk

You are not spending enough time sitting with your emotions, which is meant to allow you to examine them more closely and get to know them better. Instead, you are trying to experience them quickly and get them “over with”.

In order to better understand your emotions and yourself, you need to have patience when you sit with your emotions instead of trying to push past them too quickly.

How can you improve upon your self-care at this time?

Ace of Cups atop Knight of Wands; Nature’s Movements atop Rooted to the Earth

Be eager to explore your emotions instead of simply rushing through them.

Remember that even trees move. There is no stagnancy, even while you were sitting with your emotions and exploring them. Keep moving. Stagnancy is not your friend, as both learning and healing require the circulation of fresh air and movement to accomplish.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Foraged Red Pine Cone for Inner Strength and Rejuvenation
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Calcite for Gently Calming the Mind and Stimulating Insights
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: FLORANA TAROT AND AN INVITATION TO FOREST BATHING CARDS

@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 24th : What this season is teaching me

Tarot Reading with The Fairy Tarots

Reading Summary: The biggest obstacle (center card) to your own happiness (The Lovers and Two of Pentacles) is your own negative self talk (Five of Cups).

Take Away: This season is teaching you that nothing and no one holds you back as much as you hold yourself back.

Listening to negative inner narratives and allowing your pessimistic nature to have free reign has the result of setting everything off balance and creating additional problems and obstacles in the way of connecting with those things that really “fit” for you.

When you aren’t actively counterbalancing these negative inclinations, they cake over. Thus why even when you are feeling discouraged, it’s important to reach for those positive and optimistic perspectives to help keep things on an even keel.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE FAIRY TAROTS
Daily Self Kindness

I paid too much for fresh chicken today instead of buying from the bargain bin or the frozen aisle.

Threading the Needle

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

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The @GlitterbyInk #MayMoon26 Rise Root Return Challenge
As Within Prompt for May 18th : Reflection
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Tarot 78 Kart & Kîtap - The Moon card

Today’s draw is The Moon card, which is traditionally a representation of uncertainty, illusion, anxiety, fear, the unknown, and the subconscious.

We can’t deal with our fears and overcome them if we are unwilling to confront them.

That feels like a monumental task steeped in uncertainty. The thing is, though, when we don’t confront our fears, the uncertainty surrounding them only increases. The shadows become darker and the path harder to see.

Think about when you’re learning to drive. If you’re afraid, the lane that you need to keep the car in feels impossibly narrow, as if the car can’t possibly fit in it; every little twitch of the wheel feels like a risk of going into the oncoming traffic or the ditch. And yet, years or decades later, if we look at this again the same lane that we drove upon when we were learning that felt so narrow is now much wider.

This is perspective that has been changed by fear, and then changed again by confidence. And that is how every fear is eventually overcome.

The message in today’s Moon card and the “reflection” prompt is a reminder that when we are dealing with uncertainty, what we see is not really an accurate reflection of the challenge that lies before us. This message encourages us to confront our fears rather than hiding from them, and in doing so change that perspective from one of fear into one of strength and empowerment.

DECK USED: TAROT 78 KART & KÎTAP

@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompts for May 21st thru 23rd

Tarot Reading with the Tarot 78 Kart & Kîtap and The Green Witch's Deck of Magical Herbalism

What I want more of that I already have

Dandelion and Two of Swords Rx

You would like the brain to lead less and intuition to lead more in your decision-making process and your life as a whole.

Your intuition is excellent, but you’d like more from it than you currently experience. The thing is, no matter how in touch you are with your intuition, it’s only through the trust you put into it that you can grow it into something greater.

Part of this process includes not allowing the brain to take over, but instead of listening to input from other areas such as your emotions and physical sensations that your intuition uses to nudge you in one direction or another.

A version of my life I’d miss

Caraway; Four of Pentacles atop Two of Pentacles

There is a certain feeling of stability and balance that comes with using your brain instead of depending on intuition.

In order to step past your dependency on this sense of stability and balance, you have to be able to trust that your intuition is leading you in the right direction even when it doesn’t look like it is.

Because this sense of balance and stability is familiar and comfortable, it becomes difficult for you to step away from it to utilize a method (trust rather than logic) that feels more uncertain.

Where I feel genuinely content

Lily of the Valley; Queen of Pentacles

Peace and contentment, for you, often comes in the guise of nurturing stability. This means that you feel genuinely content when things feel stable and secure, without feeling necessarily stagnant.

This balance is not easy for you to find, often illusive and just out of reach, when in truth what’s needed is more encouragement for it to flourish in your life instead of you trying to chase after it.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Deodar Cedar Cone for Fostering Clarity and Spiritual Connection
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: TAROT 78 KART & KÎTAP AND THE GREEN WITCH’S DECK OF MAGICAL HERBALISM
Daily Self Kindness

I planted oregano seeds on my balcony today to replace the plant that was destroyed the other day when the gutter people came to deal with a problem out there.