Peanuts Tarot

Finding the Positive for June 27 – 29

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Gaian Tarot's Queen of Wands, Pop-Up Tarot's Strength Card, and Peanuts Tarot's Six of Cups

June 27 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long, and was a self guided session focusing upon a little piece of affirmation art by @ve_kiss_klech that said “Wishing you a good day free from whatever hell you’re brain says should be happening.”

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Today’s draw is the Guardian of Fire (Queen of Wands), which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s passion, drive, willpower, determination, values, and principles. This often translates into themes that have to do with being supportive of others projects and passions, or searching for inner truth within your own values and principles.

I know what I’m supposed to be doing to day, but it turns out? I’m not doing it.

It turns out, in fact, that the world is not going to fall apart if I step away for a moment from what has to be done to enjoy something else that heals the ache and feeds the soul.

Sometimes? Structure is smothering, and without an occasional swirl of fresh air to feed our inner fire? That heavy structure can start to suffocate our inner spark.

The message here in today’s draw is a reminder that sometimes we need to break free from duty and structure in order to nurture that spark of inner fire within us all.

DECK USED: GAIAN TAROT REDFEATHER 2ND EDITION (trimmed)

June 28 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the @Calm app. Today’s session dealt with grounding, and using the sensations in your hands as a focus in order to draw yourself back in when you’ve started to become distracted by thoughts or other stimuli.

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Today’s draw is the Strength card, which is traditionally a representation of inner strength, persuasion usually through means of compassion, influence and/or manipulation, and courage.

Play to your strengths… but not to the expense of trying something new.

We all have our own unique talents. The world is a vast kaleidoscope of differences among humanity, and its that variety of differences that make life interesting. That means that the skills, abilities, knowledge, and interests you hold make you unique. A piece of the massive puzzle that is humanity as a whole. You fit into this puzzle not by being the same as everyone else, but because of your uniqueness… just like jigsaw puzzle pieces.

We are all seeking that “perfect fit” in the grand scheme of things. The more we explore and learn about ourselves, the closer we come to finding that “perfect fit” in the world.  Today’s message encourages us to explore our strengths. Not just the ones we know about already, but also those we’ve yet to discover. Don’t be afraid to experiment, explore, and try new things. You never know what’s going to fit until you give it a try.

DECK USED: THE POP-UP TAROT

June 29 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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

When I was growing up, TJ (my parent’s pagan parenting mentor’s best friend) used to tell me wild stories about all the things that Z (my parent’s pagan parenting mentor, turned my spiritual mentor) got up to in  her youth.

Z has taught me a lot of things over the years, and has been integral in my (and my sister’s) development into the people we are today. But it was TJ that did the lion’s share of teaching me about “authenticity of self”.

All his walks down memory lane with me as his audience taught me the value of letting who we really are shine against all odds.  Because Z is an amazing woman. She’s strong, intelligent, empathetic… but even she made mistakes along the way. Even she had a wild side. And, despite her wild side being completely different than how everyone else was rebelling at the time? Even she experienced peer pressure as well.

Yet, through all of that, she became the amazing woman who has been my sister and I’s guide from a young age of 9 or 10 right through to today, decades later.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that without the past, there is no future. Don’t try to erase the past. Within it resides not just how we’ve gotten to where we are, but how we’ve become who we are, as well as the foundation we need develop into the person we want to become.

DECK USED: PEANUTS TAROT

The Liar Inside

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Peanuts Tarot's The Hermit and Halloween Affirmation CardsToday’s draw is The Hermit card combined with the affirmation “The voice that tells you that you aren’t good enough apparently doesn’t know you at all. You’re amazing.”

That negative inner narrative in your  head? It’s a fucking liar.  It just is.

The problem with being an introvert then? Is that we spend so much time with ourselves listening to that voice that sometimes, it becomes easy to forget that it’s a liar.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder to not listen to that liar, no matter how much time you spend with it or how well you think you know it… it’s still a liar. If you’re going to listen?  Listen with the knowledge that it’s a liar and take action to counterbalance it’s influence on you.

DECKs USED:  PEANUTS TAROT AND SELF-MADE HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATION DECK

@HealingThruTarot’s #httOctoberTarotChallenge2024 Prompt
Prompt for October 27th : Ghosts from my past still haunting me.

Felix Nacht's Gallery of Hallucinations OracleEphemera – Impermanence. You hold within you a fear that you have squandered your time instead of enjoying it more.  As time flies by month by month, you wonder if you couldn’t be enjoying your life more, and if you aren’t missing out on opportunities to do so with each day that passes.

Onslaught – You fear your depression, and the hopelessness it brings with it.  That deep, dark pit of depression swallows everything. Every shred of pleasure, every motivation and bit of stability, and even time itself.  You fear the Major Depressive Episodes… and understandably so.

The Conundrum – You have a fear of incompetence, helplessness, and loss of control. You are fiercely independent, which combines with issues from your past that create a “I am never enough” mentality. In that collaboration is born a fear of losing control through incompetence, and having no ability to stop or slow the decline.

DECK USED: FELIX NATCH’S GALLERY OF HALLUCINATIONS ORACLE

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2024 Challenge Prompt
Prompt for October 27th : Do Spread 2
@Lionharts #TheOctoberTarot Season of the Witch Prompt
Question for October 27th : Ancestors watching, witch and wise, what lesson lives behind my eyes?

Halloween Postcards Oracle and the Peanuts Tarot - Queen of Cups, The Devil, Ace of WandsReading Summary: The connection between hands and bat in the Ace of Wands is reflective of the connection of arms and hands in the anchor card. Same with the curve of the smoke in the Ace of Wands reflecting in the back-bowing curve of the women in the anchor card on the left side. These correlations speak of a need to lean into your passions and new interests with others involved in the process in order to find balance in untenable situations.

The Queen of Cups is reversed and solitary, which causes her finger to point down to the ground in the anchor card, speaking of a need to keep your mouth shut and not speak of your emotions, and in doing so create better grounding in your life.

In The Devil card there is also a connection to the stretched arms and clasped hands that are in the anchor card through the chains that connect Charlie and Peppermint Patty in the shadows. The darkness of this card also reflects into the darkness present in the anchor card. This is a reminder that although connection to others is necessary, too much of a connection can become codependent and thus a problem.

Take Away:  The lesson that lives behind your eyes and that you struggle with each and every day is that you cannot trust everyone to connect with you in healthy ways, and thus you have a habit of keeping people at an arms length out of a worry that not doing so will cause instability in your life.  You need people, but you fear them at the same time.

DECK USED: PEANUTS TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

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