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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 Eight of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of willful ignorance, self-imposed restrictions, turning a blind eye (especially when it can be harmful to self), and entertaining a victim mentality.

The Eight of Swords has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Pass Around the Smile Positive Guidance Cards For Kids deck, which says, “Your gifted. Think of all the things you admire about other people… they admire things about you too!”

Too often we are blind to our own positive traits, too busy focusing on our flaws that we forget there are good traits to be loved and admired.

In many, this becomes a continuous negative inner narrative, obliterating the good we could see in ourselves as well as the world around us. This litany of negative input drags us down and blinds us to the good we could be experiencing as well as the good within ourselves that we could be sharing with others.

The message in today’s Eight of Swords and affirmation card is a reminder that those negative inner narratives are not half as significant as they make themselves out to be, and are overshadowing the other half of the equation… which is the good side, the good traits, the positive attributes, and wonderful parts of you that you’re not acknowledging. Search out these qualities and give them a little bit of attention so that they can shine brightly, and in doing so dampen and defang that negative inner narrative’s voice.

DECKS USED: THE STOLEN CHILD TAROT AND PASS AROUND THE SMILE POSITIVE GUIDANCE CARDS FOR KIDS

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2026 Challenge
Prompts for May 25th thru 27th

What are you ignoring that needs to be dealt with?

Queen of Swords and Balance

Mind your tongue. It’s far too sharp for your own good lately. Take care to balance out that sharpness with an extra bit of tenderness and a good dose of awareness.

How can you best begin dealing with what’s being ignored?

Knight of Cups and Justice

First admit you’re wrong to yourself, and then to others. Own your words and actions.

Then tap into emotional warmth and share what you enjoy with those around you in order to balance out that harsh and negative tone. Appeal to the love others feel for you and you for them in order to balance the scales.

Philosophical Question: Is mankind going in the right or wrong direction?

The Fool and Burden

Too much time spent playing the fool (self-centeredness, greed, lack of caution, etc) has heaped more and more burdens not just upon mankind, but upon the world is a whole.

I would personally consider this the wrong direction.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Scots Pine Cone for Purging Negative Influences
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: LADY BLACK CAT TAROT AND TUĞÇE’S CAT ORACLE

@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 27th : What I want to remember about this time

Reading Summary: Boundaries (Onyx) are not meant to cut you off from your joys (Nine of Cups) or nor create obstacles between you and your goals (Ten of Pentacles).

Take Away: Boundaries are made in order to protect your health and happiness, ensuring you take good care of yourself and are able to instill joy into your life in healthy ways.

Boundaries are not meant to be used as punishment, nor as a way to inflict self-harm upon yourself or otherwise create unhealthy treatment that is harmful for your well-being.

When you are using boundaries in unhealthy ways, that means that it’s time to sit down and do some examining (and reorganizing) of your priorities. It won’t get better on its own.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: THE STOLEN CHILD TAROT AND ENCHANTED GARDEN ORACLE

I battled with my printer today to get it working again so that I can get my tax papers printed to take with me tomorrow and give to the accountant. It was frustrating and took about 2 hours, but it was worth it to not have to go buy another one (which was the other option).