Listen to Your Gut

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka's High Priestess Card and Sinister Affirmation CardDaily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is The High Priestess (Le Papesse), which is traditionally a representation of intuition, secrets, sacred knowledge, mystery, the subconscious mind.

The High Priestess card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Sinister Affirmations deck, which says, “Don’t let other people try to change you. Real change comes from a horrifying near-death experience with a werewolf under a full moon.”

Only you know what is right for you. It comes from knowledge in your gut, deep down within yourself. Not from others.

Today’s message is a reminder to listen to your gut and prioritize its messages above what others say or think. It’s important to remember that other people have their own motivations and interest at heart.

You need to focus on your own interests and motivations, instead of allowing others to use you for theirs. This means listening to that inner self that tells you when something is right or something is wrong, either in general or for you specifically.

DECKS USED:  TAROT DE MARSEILLE PAR POLE KA AND SINISTER AFFIRMATIONS

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2025 Challenge
Prompt for October 19th
: Do Spread 3

Oracle Reading with the Oracle of Play and the Oracle of Secrets

Smoky Quartz – How can you best clear negativity from your life and in turn gain greater stability?

Heart of Bunnies – More friends, more time with loved ones, and less solitary time. Alone time is great and comfortable, but if you’re looking to clear negativity from your life, it’s true connection with those around you who love you and you love and turn.

Apple – What insight is needed to improve your physical health at this time?

Prosperity – You are functioning under the assumption of scarcity. Hoarding resources is just taking up space instead of serving a purpose at this time. If you clear out some of the mess, you will feel just as prosperous as you do now, and that anxious edge of scarcity will ease back a bit.

Chrysanthemum – Where do your defenses and boundaries need some bolstering?

No! – Say no more often. It’s the most powerful word in your arsenal when it comes to building boundaries and forcing others to respect them. Stop trying to people please, and instead say no when you need to.

Aquamarine – In what ways can meditation promote more calm and confidence in your life?

Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern – When you do not meditate, stress and anxiety have a tendency to build up within you. This causes a jumble of emotions and greater reactivity as a result. Meditation allows this miasma of stress and emotions a chance to try and unravel a bit, so that you can suss out different aspects of the whole and deal with them.

Mint – What factor in your relationships needs some reevaluation and perhaps adjustment?

Bigfoot / The Hermit – The factor in your relationships that needs a bit of reevaluation or adjustment is yourself. Your outlook on spending time with others sucks, and you need to start trying to look at it from a different perspective that holds a value and enjoyment.

Carnelian – In what ways can including more creativity in your life brighten your daily outlook?

Spire: The City Must Fall – Creativity allows you to shine a light on what you truly enjoy instead of what is expected of you.

Pomegranate – What wish of yours is ready to be manifested into reality at this time?

Curson’s Contract – Everyone always wishes for happiness, but perhaps it’s time to reevaluate what happiness really is for you. Not the societal standard or unrealistic values of your youth, but what it truly means for you now and how that aligns with your values.

Other elements included in this reading:
Black Tourmaline for Grounding and Protection
Orange Aventurine Leaf for Pause and Reflection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: ORACLE OF PLAY AND ORACLE OF SECRETS

Daily Self Kindness

I treated myself to going out for spicy cha-shu ramen.  I haven’t eaten out in a long time as prices have just skyrocketed recently. It was a nice change of pace.

Vengeance is Mine… or Not

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

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Le Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka and Sinister AffirmationsThe @GlitterbyInk #OctoberMagic25 Challenge
Crone Prompt for October 15th
: Peace
Daily Mental Health Prompt
: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is The Tower card (La Maison Dieu), which is traditionally a representation of sudden change, chaotic transformation, destruction, and the tearing down of something within one’s life or beliefs that leaves room for something new to take its place.

The Tower card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Sinister Affirmations deck, which says, “The best revenge is living well-connected to powerful supernatural forces hell-bent on the destruction of your adversaries.”

Sometimes the vengeance you want or need has to be delivered by forces outside yourself.

Bad things can happen when we decide to take such endeavors as revenge into our own hands. Mishaps like in the picture, for example. Perhaps they pushed the first person off the window only to have someone they care about go diving after them. Or, just as possibly, we go too far due to our emotions, and then the debt to balance the scales is back on us and we must experience misfortune again as a result.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that vengeance does not provide peace. It creates chaos, and much like sending a set of scales swinging, it can come back and punch you in the face.  On the other hand, if we wait and watch? We may find that that natural need for balance in the universe is going to deliver that blow of revenge for us, we just have to be patient and wait for it to happen naturally. No reason we can’t enjoy it when it does, though.

DECK USED:  LE TAROT DE MARSEILLE PAR POLE KA AND SINISTER AFFIRMATIONS

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2025 Challenge
Prompts for October 14th and 15th

WIsdombyKK's Halloween Tarot ReadingMummy – What thoughts or feelings are you getting tangled up in and struggling with?

Justice atop Two of Cups – You know that it’s time, but you are struggling to reach out and make peace with someone that hurt you deeply. You want to return to the trusting and copacetic relationship that you had before, but all that’s happened makes that unlikely.

Crypt – What secrets are you hiding tucked away in the dark?

Queen of Cups and Page of Pentacles Rx – You crave emotional nurturing from a mother-like figure. The problem is that the times you’ve experienced this have been fleeting and never seem to stay the course. This disappointment is making it harder for you to deal with the above mentioned feelings you are struggling, and putting forth the effort to make peace with the person that hurt you.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking

Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: WISDOMBYKK’S HALLOWEEN TAROT

@thetruthinstory #embracethemagical2025 Challenge
Prompt for Gathering (community)
: Who or what is gathering around me now?

Le Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka and Gothica I Playing Cards Nocturnal EditionReading Summary: Don’t allow yourself to become overly focused on protecting yourself right now (Ten of Clubs and Nine of Wands). The direction you’ve chosen (Three of Wands) is stable and well thought out (Queen of Diamonds atop Ace of Spades).

Take Away: You chose to let yourself go with the flow of things this season when it comes to your mediumship practice. That means allowing yourself to stay open instead of raising defenses at each new experience.

Stay on course, and ground yourself well. There’s potential here if you allow it to play out, and don’t let your feelings of uncertainty (and/or fear) interfere.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Yew Tips for Ancestral Connections
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration and Clarity
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: LE TAROT DE MARSEILLE PAR POLE KA AND GOTHICA I PLAYING CARDS NOCTURNAL EDITION

Daily Self Kindness

I didn’t really want to spend the money, but I bought myself a new pair of work boots today because the old ones have been falling apart for a while now.

Weekly Creativity Prompt – The Emperor

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

The Emperor Card - Tarot of the Hidden RealmTarot of the Hidden Realm – The imagery in this card makes me think of Odin and his two ravens.  I’m not -sure- if that’s intended (although I bet it is), but that’s where my mind goes. His expression and the depth of of darkness he sits in speaks of a man with a great weight of responsibility on  his shoulders. This translates, for me, into an energy, personality or person with a great deal to tend to, deal with, and a lot of responsibilities that take deep thought, solid reasoning, and the whisper of informants to help him stay upon the pulse of what’s going on around him.

The Emperor Card - Tarot Nuages, Garbage Pail Kids Tarot, Le Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka

Tarot Nuages – Here we have a king, stooped and aged, that sits on a throne among the clouds high above all that he rules over. Untouchable, the figure sees everyone and everything.  The size of this figure and its lofty perch bring to mind the Christian God and his omnipresence.  So very far above the world and looking down, can anyone really understand what he thinks or where he comes from?  Probably not.  They follow him blindly and trust he has their best interests at heart.

Garbage Pail Kids Tarot – On a throne of mice with a leopard’s pelt as his robe, this emperor’s head explodes in a mushroom cloud as he pushes the button.  This card, to me, asks the question of where are you overwhelmed in your responsibilities… and how is this overwhelm affecting your judgements and actions?  How could you make better choices if you take a moment to stabilize rather than simply reacting?

Le Tarot de Marseille par Pole Ka – Dude looks like he’s looking over at the guy next to him thinking “this motherfucker’s an idiot”.  Highly decorated for honor, valor, and more, this general rules with a tight fist and demands excellence from all those around him.  It speaks of demands for perfectionism… and demands that you do more than just follow… but think.  As his gaze clearly says… Don’t be an idiot.

DECK USED: TAROT OF THE HIDDEN REALM, TAROT NUAGES, GARBAGE PAIL KIDS TAROT, AND LE TAROT DE MARSEILLE PAR POLE KA