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.

Today’s draw is the Hierophant card, which is traditionally a representation of traditions, spiritual guidance, long standing institutions, teachers and guides, and themes that deal with conformity and social norms.

The Hierophant card has then been combined with the Rosy Bonnet affirmation card from the Mushroom Affirmations deck, which says, “Look closer at the finer details. What are you not seeing?”

Sometimes, traditions are traditions for a reason. Before you discard something that has been done for years, decades, or centuries, take time to really get a closer look at what it is you’re discarding and why it’s persevered for as long as it has.  What value are you missing in your previous observations?  Look again, and see if that value isn’t worth more than you possibly thought the first time around.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that traditions and “old ways” of doing things hold value. We’re always so eager to move on to the “new and better” that sometimes we lose sight of the value that resides in the old.

DECK USED:  THE STAR STRING TAROT AND MUSHROOM AFFIRMATIONS

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The Deep Prompts 23 and 24

Flame (Spirit) – What spark refuses to be extinguished?

Sun, Queen of Cups, Clouds – Your desire for emotional support and craving for a mother figure in your life continues to burn bright both in good times and bad.

Mask (Revelation) – What truth lies behind the mask I or others wear?

Mice, Six of Cups, Snake – Everyone has shit from their past that eats away at them, poisoning the well of goodness in their lives in the process. Some just hide this better than others.

Take Away – These questions and the cards that came from them presented some harsh truths that although unpleasant, need to be revisited now and then. They are reminders of places where stagnancy lingers, even while everything else in life around you changes.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Deodar Cedar Ceramic Impression for Clarity and Spiritual Connection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: THE YAKUZA TAROT AND YAKUZA LENORMAND

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Hopes Prompts for November 21st

A Wish For the Future

Six of Cups and Bright Being – You seek to connect to your past in healing and healthy ways, where the scars and trauma no longer drag you down, but instead lend a buoyancy to your outlook on life without the pain and defense mechanisms you currently employ.

Next Step In Getting There

The World and Supermoon – Seek out the empowerment that endings can provide. There is strength within the completion of things and in letting go. You currently have a tendency to avoid these things instead, which holds you back from connecting with that hidden strength the resides there.

Home of My Hope

Nine of Wands Rx and Exhale – You believe you can, in fact, let go with greater ease, making way for the new. You are merely hung up on the execution. What should come easily, you’re instead complicating with outdated defenses that are no longer needed.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Rhododendron Leaf for Fostering Confidence
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Aventurine Goddess for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: THE STAR STRING TAROT AND IRREVOCABLE WHOLENESS ORACLE

I relaxed at Ms B’s today and watched a movie instead of doing a bunch of chores.