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

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The @GlitterbyInk #JanJourney26 Embark to Renewal Challenge
The Arrival Prompt for January 14th : Expansion
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Three of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of teamwork, collaboration, working together, and themes to do with bringing in help and/or outside expertise in order to get something done.

Not only is the saying correct that “it’s better together”, but you also get more done. Sometimes you struggle with watching others do things that you are used to doing on your own, primarily because they do them slower than you do.

The thing is though, that even if they’re doing them slower… because they are doing them instead of you, that frees you up to do other things instead. That means you get more done.

The message in today’s cards is that it doesn’t matter if they can’t do things as quickly as you can. They’re still taking things off your hands, which gives you more time in the long run. This allows for not just a better job done overall, but the ability to reach further and do more in the same amount of time.

DECK USED:  RAMSES TAROT

One Card Tarot Journal Activity by @mariasofia_astro
Chapter 1 | Entry 10 – Self-Care and Personal Development
Affirmation : “I am my own best friend and personal cheerleader.”
Prompt : if you have an inner critic inside your head, it can block you from accomplishing your goals. Use one of the positive keywords of the card you draw to help reframe what your critic is saying and release any blocks to your success.

What feelings came up when I pulled this card?

“Is that a fuckin’ grasshopper?”

I was expecting it to throw me a primarily “negative” card that I would need to translate into a positive. So The Sun card, which is usually quite positive in its interpretation, took me by surprise.

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

The Sun card is often about success and joyful moments. This lands in the exact polar opposite of my negative inner voice, which often makes it clear that no matter how hard I work or how much I do, I don’t deserve these things.

What in the artwork spoke to me?

The grasshopper, obviously. It spoke to me about just how annoying positivity can sometimes be. Crickets and grasshoppers make this chirping noise that outside can be relaxing, but when ends up inside or excessive, can become extremely annoying. (This is a Gideon problem, and something that happens to him yearly during late summer and early autumn.)

The champagne glass also caught my attention, drawing it as well to how dapper the figure is dressed. This clearly indicates to me not just success, but celebration of those successes.

My prompt response and reflections.

It’s important to recognize, appreciate, and even celebrate your successes. In doing so you combat that negative inner voice that keeps telling you that you’re not enough, and never doing enough.

By discounting your successes to instead simply move onto the next thing, and then the next, you end up reinforcing that negative inner voice and what it has to say.

Other elements included in this reading:
Laboradite D6 and D12 Gemstone Dice

DECK USED: DARK SPHYNX TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsJan2026 Challenge
Philosophical Prompt for January 14th : Would life lose meaning if we could live forever?

Reading Summary: Not as long as we could achieve a balance (Justice) by focusing on our connections with others (Two of Cups) and a version of personal happiness and satisfaction that includes them and our awareness of them (Ten of Cups).

Take Away: These cards say that as long as we have things -in- our life that give our life meaning (and make sure that we are acknowledging them), then the length of life would have no impact on whether life has meaning for us or not.

In my personal opinion, I have a feeling that even if you fill your life with things that matter, there’s always going to be times of boredom and disenchantment. I don’t think that this has to do with longevity, though, but rather with human nature as a whole.  We experience these in our short lives, and we would experience them in an immortal life as well.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: RAMSES TAROT

I took J with me on my trip north, and I’m very, very glad that I did.