Spirit Keeper’s Tarot

Adding Kindling to the Spark

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As Within Prompt for May 15th : Integration

Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Spirit Keeper's Tarot Revelation Edition - Queen of Wands

Today’s draw is the Queen of Wands (The Golden Shield), 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.

It is through fostering our inner spark, that we find a clear path forward and protect ourselves from darker influences and urges.

A lot of people don’t understand what I mean when I say “inner spark”. This is that fire within you that lights the way, illuminating your passions and giving you the motivation and inspiration to pursue them. It’s the spark within our chest that flares to light when something strikes our interest and draws us in.

The more we foster this inner spark within us, the more interesting our lives become… not to other people, but to ourselves.

The message in today’s Queen of Wands and the “integration” prompt is an encouragement to seek out that spark within and allow it to flourish. Give it a place in your life instead of something that just sits in the periphery and is ignored. As a result, your life has the potential to become far more interesting and enjoyable.

DECK USED:  SPIRIT KEEPER’S TAROT REVELATION EDITION

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Prompts for May 14th

Tarot Reading with The Scrying Poetry Tarot and The Found World Oracle

What loss do you fear the most?

Air and Six of Wands

Your mind and intellect. There’s a lot of things that you can lose, and then recover from that loss. Losing your mind in your intellect, though, would not be as easy to recover from… perhaps not something you could recover from it all.

Everything in your life is supported by the foundation of having a well functioning mind. The things you do, the things you enjoy, those things you value. It’s all dependent upon this one fragile thing.

Your greatest fear, although one that you’re not struggling with currently, is that someday something like dementia or Alzheimer’s will steal your mind away. Even without people to take care of you, this is a terrifying situation for you to consider as a future possibility.

How can you begin to deal with that fear?

Fern; The World atop Two of Cups

Remember that you do have people around you who love you and will support you. You’re not as alone as you sometimes feel.

Not only that, but it’s important to also keep in mind that the universe works in mysterious ways. Even if this is an issue that may arise, it’s something that’s going to arise far off in the future. There’s lots of research and medical discoveries going on each and every day in this area, and just because you don’t know about what’s going on in that sphere of things doesn’t mean you won’t benefit from those discoveries at some future date if needed.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Parmeliaceae Lichen for a “Breath of Fresh Air”
Foraged Purple Heather Sprigs for Independence and Luck
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Foraged Acorns for Protection during New Beginnings
Flower Agate for Opening the Mind to New Possibilities
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE SCRYING POETRY TAROT AND THE FOUND WORLD ORACLE

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Prompt for May 14th : Where I feel most at peace

Tarot Reading with the Spirit Keeper's Tarot Revelation Edition

Reading Summary: A place that you go to in order to foster your intellect (Knight of Swords/The Shining Gale), that instills limits upon its visitors (Temperance/The Angel), and provides a balm to your emotions (King of Cups/Archangel of Healing).

Take Away: The library.

I was expecting the answer for this to come up as something to do with being in nature, as I am often at my most peaceful when I am relaxing in nature alone and on my own.

This answer isn’t wrong, though. It’s just something I hadn’t thought of in a very long time, as I usually obtain most of my reading material through Libby instead of stepping inside the library.

This feels like a call to action, encouraging me to actually visit the library and soak in its atmosphere for a while.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Moss Agate for Attracting Opportunities for Growth
Clear Quartz for boosting Mental Clarity
Mookaite for Help with Weighing One’s Options
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  SPIRIT KEEPER’S TAROT REVELATION EDITION
Daily Self Kindness

I picked up some more of that nasty tasting yogurt that worked so well on my stomach when I was taking antibiotics.

Decks that Intimidate Me – (non) VR to BoyDiviner

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The BoyDiviner on YouTube did a video that, although it is not a hashtag, I really enjoyed a lot and decided to do a (non)VR to anyway.

This is about tarot decks that intimidate me in some way or another.  I don’t have many, but there are a few in my collection that fit the bill.  Here is an outline of what these decks are, and how I feel about them.

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Secret Tarot by Dominic Murphy

I absolutely love the artwork in this deck.  I love the concept, the originality, the expressiveness in the cards.  I love it.

But, at the same time?  I find it very intimidating.  I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that after the major arcana, the deck is an entirely different structure.  I’ve had more luck with the Lost Tarot by the same artist, as there seems to be a bit more structure in that one than this one.

Still, I keep it because I love the artwork.  And, at some point, I plan on doing a depth study of this deck to help me (hopefully) become more familiar and comfortable with it and its unusual system.

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Thoth Tarot by Aleister Crowley

I used to think that it was just the Thoth system that intimidated me, but after working with the Gill Tarot and a few others, I think in this case it’s the artwork, not the system.

Something in the artwork for the original Thoth deck just makes me want to ‘shield and retreat’ in much the same way that I feel when I come across someone radiating abusive vibes.   I bought this deck to delve deeper into the Thoth system, but every time I pick it up, it turns me off.   Not just emotionally or aesthetically, but even my intuition turns away from this deck and will refuse to speak.

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Wild Wood Tarot by Mark Ryan, John Matthews, and Will Worthington

I genuinely adore this deck and its earthiness, although I find the energy of this deck just a but too heavy.   I love the artwork especially.  But, for some reason I have a hard time reading this deck intuitively, and many of the cards do not follow the RWS system, so I then struggle with reading it logically as well.

I did a depth study on this deck for an entire year, but I still find myself unable to read with it confidently, even after a year of serious study.

DG

Dreams of Gaia Tarot by Ravynne Phelan

It’s the faces.   I mean, yes, it’s an entirely different system from any other deck out there, but I think I would be more inclined to learn that system IF it wasn’t for the FACES.  They just bug me for some reason.  I don’t like them.

That said, I do use this deck, but I use it as an intuitive oracle instead. Usually when harsh truths are required.

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Spirit Keeper’s Tarot by Benebell Wen

This one is purely all about information overload.  I’m kind of wondering if this deck isn’t more suited to the logic-style of readers rather than the intuitive style?  I’m not entirely sure.   I just find there is SO MUCH information in each card that I feel overwhelmed by them when I try to read with them.

I think they’re amazing, and I think Benebell Wen (who drew each of these cards by hand) is brilliant.  I have the study books that go along with this deck and intend on doing a depth study with it at some point.  But, at the moment, I find it a bit too much and the cards make me feel like the crossed wires between my logic and intuition are about to blow a fuse.