self help with tarot cards

Building Influence

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Unfinished Business Tarot's Strength card and Halloween Affirmation CardsToday’s draw is the Strength card combined with the affirmation “Halloween mysteries unfold before me, offering keys to unlock my inner potential.”

It is not in your physical strength where you shine, but in your determination to do what needs done. This is true whether it is in your business and career, your relationships with others. or your faith and the goals you have set in this area.

Sit with what you want rather than pushing.  Sometimes, it’s in the stillness that your strength is the greatest.

Personal Note: Your mediumship abilities are greater when you keep up a regular meditative practice. This is yet another benefit of meditating regularly, and these cards are encouraging you to keep this up and make it a more regular occurrence, rather than something done just when you feel like it.

DECKS USED:  UNFINISHED BUSINESS TAROT AND SELF-MADE HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATION DECK

@Lionharts #TheOctoberTarot Season of the Witch Prompt
Question for October 29th : From wild beginnings to sacred hours, what seeds bloom from crumbled towers?

Tarot of Mass Extinction - Temperance, Four of Wands, Queen of Pentacles, The StarReading Summary: Have patience (Temperance) with your home life and your expectations on how it feels to come home (Four of Wands). At the moment, it’s more about faith than doing, or even expecting others to do  something about it (Queen of Pentacles Rx atop The Star).

Take Away: Your house being a mess makes it harder for you to appreciate and enjoy coming home. At the moment, though, it is not the time to work on this issue nor to inspire others to do so.

With the holiday rush a week away, leave the housework to the housekeeper and hold faith that she will do enough to keep these feelings of discontent at bay.

DECK USED: TAROT OF MASS EXTINCTION

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for October 29th : Samhain : As the last harvest approaches, what needs to be discarded from your life?

Unfinished Business Tarot - Page of Wands, Seven of Swords, Wheel of Fortune, Three of Wands, Two of CupsReading Summary: Move away from solo passion projects you’ve been toying with in your head (Seven of Swords atop Page of Wands) for there’s no good fortune for you waiting there right now (Wheel of Fortune Rx). Instead focus on strengthening your connections with those closest to you (Three of Wands atop Two of Cups).

Take Away: Being that the holiday rush is just a week away?  It isn’t surprising that it’s time to stop toying with “I should get this done, I should get that done” that’s going on in your head.

You need help from those you love, and it’s important to continue in building those connections and asking for help in those corners.  Make sure that you are moving towards them… and away from adding more to your plate right now.  Even the little stuff is too much to add on.

DECK USED: UNFINISHED BUSINESS TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I got some time to roleplay with Gideon tonight, which felt really good.

The Seeds We Scatter

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the Calm app.

The focus for today’s session was all about stillness, and finding that place within you where quiet lies. It can be difficult to sink that deep into meditation, especially when feeling restless and struggling with an overactive mind. The advice given here is that instead of allowing yourself to fidget or your mind to wander, seek something small to focus on in order to remain still and quiet through the restlessness.

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Halloween Affirmation Cards and Road to Equilibrium Tarot - Beginning of Materials, Ace of PentaclesToday’s draw is the Beginning of Materials (Ace of Pentacles) combined with the affirmation “I am a masterpiece of uniqueness, just like every pumpkin in a patch.”

Everyone of us is unique and important. Like cogs in the clockwork of life, each of us offers something to the world that no one else can.

It can be difficult to see our own uniqueness, but that doesn’t mean that our contributions doesn’t matter. Instead of disregarding your connection with the world and others, take time to sit and reflect on how the things you do connect you to others, and how the actions you take branch out from that single action to create reactions and new branches that stretch out into the world.

The cards for today are a reminder that the things we do in our life influence the future and those around us in some indispensable way.

DECKS USED:  ROAD TO EQUILIBRIUM TAROT AND SELF-MADE HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATION DECK

@Lionharts #TheOctoberTarot Season of the Witch Prompt
Question for October 28th : Through thorn and flame, through dark and death, what is born from the paths I’ve tread?

Garden of Lucid Daydreams Oracle by Patrick ValenzaReading Summary: You have learned over time that by consulting those who love you and are invested in your well-being (Consultation), you can counterbalance the negative whispers of the past and their harmful urges (The Odalisque), allowing you to step into a healthier future (The Butterfly).

Take Away: You are learning to trust more and that having others in your life isn’t so bad after all. This is not an easy lesson for you, but from the darkness of your past and your experiences with depression you’ve learned that you actually -do- need people.  Maybe not as much as an extrovert might… but you still need people to trust, no matter how hard it is to reach for it and change your ways.

DECK USED: GARDEN OF LUCID DAYDREAMS ORACLE

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for October 28th : Harvest : What gifts of the season are ready for harvest in your life?

Road to Equilibrium Tarot - Seven of Materials, Seven of Pentacles, Ace of Thoughts, Ace of Swords, The EmpressReading Summary: You have worked long and hard to get to where you are (Seven of Materials), putting many ideas into action and manifesting them into reality with your toil and stubborn mind (Act of Thoughts). The abundance of stability and caring people in your life is the results of that hard work (The Empress).

Take Away: You have built a life for yourself from scratch, and your accomplishments are many.

The message in these cards is one that visits often of late, these cards are an encouragement to take time to recognize and enjoy your accomplishments instead of disregarding them.

That includes appreciating those you have chosen to surrounded yourself with, for they are invaluable and nurture your soul.

DECK USED: ROAD TO EQUILIBRIUM TAROT

@HealingThruTarot’s #httOctoberTarotChallenge2024 Prompt
Prompt for October 28th : Curses or bad luck to break this Samhain.

Divination with the Grimm Game CardsCat and Mouse, Angel Mother – This is yet another warning concerning someone in your life who is a wolf and sheep’s clothing.  This person is playing with you with intended maliciousness, while they continue to wear the mask of someone who is being supportive and innocent of wrong doing.

Witch – This card was pulled with the question of how to break the “curse or bad luck” from the question above.

The witch card indicates that it is through your faith and abilities in that area that you will be able to break away from this person and their influences. Don’t forget that it’s time to reinforce your wards.

DECK USED: GRIMM CARD GAME

Daily Self Kindness

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

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.

❤️ Self Care Saturday (On a Sunday)

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These Saturday readings are (not usually) bearing in on any one thing or event in my life, as the question used is asking for a more general outlook. This is a self care exercise, and is not meant as a predictive reading… although that, too, happens on occasion.

The question is… What do I need to focus for self-care through the week ahead?

Self Care Saturday Tarot Reading with the Silver Acorn Tarot and Halloween Carnival Lenormand

Earth – Three of Pentacles – Help is good. You need help with getting your work done and all the last minute preparations taken care of for the upcoming holiday rush. Don’t avoid asking for that help. Just do it. Those that you ask are happy to lend their skills and abilities to your goals if you give them the chance to do so.

Air – Queen of Wands – Use your creative spark to inspire others. If you present something as a chore, it will be seen as a chore to them. If you present it as fun, it will become something fun and enjoyable for them to help you with.

Water – Knight of Cups – Pounce forward into those things that make you happy this week. You need a bit of joy and now is a good time to work on instilling a bit extra into your life. Try allowing your emotions to have the reigns for a bit and follow the whims of what you want and what you like instead of restraining yourself so much.

Fire – Six of Cups – This is yet another reminder to look back at the past for inspiration on moving forward and lifting you out of the ashes of the present situation.  This message has come through a few times of late, and is a reminder that you have skills developed in the past that can be carried forward to help you in what’s going on in the present.

Waning – Key and Fish – You need to step away from your current perspective concerning how you define success. Stop looking for the same markers of success that you’ve always looked for, and instead seek to redefine success into something that is more -you- and less what everyone else has expected from you.

Waxing – Dog, Ring, Snake – Be careful who you trust this week. Not everyone is as loyal and dependable as they appear.

Take Away – As with a number of the readings done over the past week, these cards are a reminder to ask for help, as well as not panic in the face of your jewelry business being slower than normal this year.  Pivot and adapt, and take others with you as you do.  Redefine success, and set your priorities to those new values.

Watch closely for the wolf posing in sheep’s clothing. They are closer than you realize.

DECKS USED: SILVER ACORN TAROT AND HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL LENORMAND

Raindrops Off a Slicker

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Gothic Literature Tarot's King of Torches or King of Wands and Halloween Affirmation CardsToday’s draw is the King of Torches (Wands) combined with the affirmation “I am confident and full of smiles.”

Today, I get to see someone that I really enjoy… and a bunch of other people that I absolutely do not.

The cards drawn for today are a reminder to keep your focus trained upon those things that inspire you and build you up, and let the rest slide off your back like raindrops of a slicker.

Smile.  Be confident.  Show those that are unkind that their opinions and snide comments don’t matter by allowing your  joy for those things that you actually like to shine through. By doing this, you make their own negativity feel small, petty, and insignificant as a result.  The bonus in this whole thing?  Not only do these behaviors become insignificant to you… but they will feel that insignificance as well.

DECKs USED:  GOTHIC LITERATURE TAROT AND SELF-MADE HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATION DECK

@Lionharts #TheOctoberTarot Season of the Witch Prompt
Question for October 26th : With roots that stretch through time’s old tree, what blessing is passed down to me?

Fortune Telling Playing Cards c.1931Reading Summary: You may not find the news that comes your way (4A) to be a blessing, but there is a boon to be had in the news to come.

Make sure when you go (8A) that you take the ferry (5E).  Note: These two cards came out together and felt like a change of subject.  Normally I would have read them with the first, but that didn’t feel right.

Take Away: Although you are not sure where you are going, as the “news” coming your way hasn’t reached yet arrived, these cards indicate that whatever this news is, at first glance it’s going to suck and you’re not going to be happy about it.

On reflection, though, you will see the benefit that the news holds.

Make sure that you take the ferry on the way home today instead of driving the whole way.

DECK USED: FORTUNE TELLING PLAYING CARDS c1931

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for October 26th : Creaky Hinge : What doors in your life need unlocked to open up for new opportunities?

Gothic Literature Tarot - Three of Ravens, Three of Swords, The Moon, The TowerReading Summary: Don’t despair (Three of Ravens/Swords) over the uncertainty you are feeling (The Moon) concerning recent changes that have recently landed in your lap (The Tower Rx).

Take Away: It may feel like the end of the world, but it’s not. Recovery will come. The chaos is temporary.  Take a breath and pull yourself out of the panic mindset.

In order to keep from lingering in the chaos longer than necessary, you have to let go of the catastrophizing going on in  your head so that you can move forward more easily.

DECK USED: GOTHIC LITERATURE TAROT

@HealingThruTarot’s #httOctoberTarotChallenge2024 Prompt
Prompt for October 26th : Where to direct the energy bubbling up.

Anne Stoke's Gothic Tarot - Seven of Wands, Eight of Swords, Queen of WandsReading Summary: Reinforce your wards (Seven of Wands).

Also, ensure that the focus you are putting on your business and passion projects is not being wasted (Queen of Wands Rx) by an effort to ignore the facts of the matter (Eight of Swords).

Take Away: Okay so business is in the shitter right now.  There’s really no other way to put it. You love making jewelry.  You love making beautiful things that people wear, and that in wearing make them feel more beautiful in turn.

But… business is slow right now and the economy is crap at the moment.  People are worried about affording food and other necessities, which makes buying pretty things more difficult at the moment. Don’t panic… just wait and pay attention to different opportunities to improve things when they come your way.  Keep your eyes and ears open.

Also, take some of that anxious energy and use it to your advantage. It’s time to reinforce your wards.

DECK USED: ANNE STOKES GOTHIC TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I took the advice of the card of the day above and smiled even when I didn’t want to.  I feel like it shouldn’t have helped, but… it actually kinda did.

Joining Forces

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Today’s meditation was 10 minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the Calm app.

The message in today’s session has been one that has been coming up quite  a bit in my cards lately. That is to say, it dealt with the fact that growth is painful.  As a kid, growth spurts hurt… especially for anyone gaining any significant height.  Puberty is a bitch and a miserable experience for everyone.

Growth doesn’t come any easier as we get older, it just becomes more individualized as we begin paving our own path through life. But, no matter how hard it is, it’s still better than the alternative. Stagnancy is not just unhealthy for the body, after all, but for our spirit as well.

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Incromancy 5 The Bizarre Carnival Tarot's Three of Pentacles and Halloween Affirmation CardsToday’s draw is the Three of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “I trust that the universe has my back, even when the path ahead is foggy.”

Remember that when you are feeling uncertain, you are never alone. This is the message in today’s cards.  You may -feel- alone, but you are never alone. Not really.

There are people there to support you, and the often possess skills that you lack.  When they contribute to your struggles, this means they contribute something unique that you do not possess on your own.

These people are willing, and in fact are delighted in most cases, to contribute those skills to what you need in your time of need. You just have to ask.

DECKS USED:  INKROMANCY 5 THE BIZARRE CARNIVAL TAROT AND SELF-MADE HALLOWEEN AFFIRMATION DECK

@Lionharts #TheOctoberTarot Season of the Witch Prompt
Question for October 25th : Through blood and bone, through thick and thin, who guides me now until Samhain?

Mother Mort's Carnival of Souls OracleThe Amazing Sluagh – Not all those who seek to guide you are interested in your own well-being.  There is one that comes through this Samhain that is of that ilk. Keep a close eye on those who reach through and be discerning and who you trust.

Ludas the Wag – Someone from your past who is generous and kind, and who inspired you to laugh and enjoy life rather than taking everything so seriously.

Mother Mort – A matriarch. This woman is the foundation of family, and seeks to keep everyone connected. Remember that a family can be a hodgepodge of different people who are unrelated, just as easily as it can be a collection of those who are connected by blood.

DECK USED: MOTHER MORT’S CARNIVAL OF SOULS

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2024 Challenge Prompt
Philosophical Question for October 25th : Do ghosts exist?

Incromancy 5 The Bizarre Carnival Tarot - Death, Three of Cups, DevilReading Summary: When the passing happens (Death), some stay to party (Three of Cups) while others just can’t move on (The Devil).

Take Away: The answer here is a clear “yes”. Ghosts do exist.

While some may stay simply because they don’t want to go, others linger on this side after death because they can’t go due to something that holds them here and refuses to allow them to move on.  The Devil card indicates that a lot of times, that “something” is their own issues, hang ups, and obsessions.

As I practice mediumship and am sensitive to energies, I always find this question to be interesting when it comes around.  I’ve yet to get a ‘no’ from the cards when asking this particular question.  What lies on the other side may vary from person to person, but the ability for some to linger after passing on never seems to be contested.

DECK USED: INKROMANCY 5 THE BIZARRE CARNIVAL TAROT

@HealingThruTarot’s #httOctoberTarotChallenge2024 Prompt
Prompt for October 25th : A haunting warning from the spirits.

Voxsilentii Tarot by Dominic MurphyReading Summary: By continuing to allow your mind to return to the past again and again to relive unpleasant experiences (Repudium), you lose the progress with the calm you’ve gained in your meditative practice (Noctis). Instead, reflect upon past experiences by looking at the good that has come out of them, rather than focusing on the pain you have endured (Ventri).

Take Away: Your painful experiences from the past are best looked at as learning experiences that provided you a boon, rather than something that you’ve endured and remembering only the pain of the experience. Make sure that you are looking at things through this lens of perspective rather than allowing your past to open up old wounds and drag you down.

DECK USED: VOXSILENTII TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I had myself a little crying tantrum when I dropped my phone in a puddle earlier today instead of holding it in and using that energy to beat up on myself.