tarot and psychology

Finding the Positive for May 26 – 28

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Wisdom of Pooh Tarot, Mythical Creatures Tarot of the Orient, and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate Allan

May 26

Today’s meditation was skipped.

Today’s card is the Two of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “Float. Feel the air around you. Let the universe cradle you for a while.”

Sometimes, the constant juggling of responsibilities and “things to get done” can be exahusting. During those times, it really doesn’t matter how many things are involved. It could be just one small thing, a dozen small things, two big things… it doesn’t matter.  It all starts to feel like too much, growing into this huge undertaking.

The cards in today’s pull are a reminder that it’s okay to ease up on the reigns now and then, especially when feeling overwhelmed.  If you let go and just “float” for a while? It won’t be the end of the world, and you’ll not just feel better for having done so, but return to those responsibilities refreshed and far more capable of dealing with them.

DECK USED: WISDOM OF POOH TAROT AND I”M HERE EMOTIONAL CARE DECK

May 28

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

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Today’s card is the Seven of Wands combined with the affirmation “No negativity today; You’re gettin’ stuff done!”

Don’t let other’s naysaying and obstructive behaviors cause you to steer off-path.  You have certain things you need to get done today, and their negativity will only be a distraction that makes everything more difficult and take that much longer to accomplish.

Instead, just keep your head down and fight for what you want to accomplish and what’s important to you.  Let the rest slide off, and only push back as much as needed when it’s necessary to do so.

DECK USED: METAPHYSICAL CREATURES TAROT OF THE ORIENT AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

Finding the Positive for May 23 – 25

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Vacant House Tarot, Once Upon a Time Tarot, Elf of Heaven Tarot, and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate Allan

May 23

Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the Calm app. The topic of the meditation for today was how to deal with repressed emotions, including those that might become repressed if not dealt with in the moment.  The advice in this session really boiled down to not allowing yourself to push said emotions away, but rather sitting with them and dealing with the situations that create them in the moment instead.

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Today’s card is the Page of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “The negative voice in your head isn’t worth your concern. No need to care. Haters gonna hate.”

My progress on learning the skills needed to combat my negative inner narrative has been slow going.

Really. Slow. Going.

That isn’t to say that I haven’t made progress. I have!  Just not at all the type of progress I’m used to managing when working on something.  The Page of Pentacles today is a reminder that sometimes things have to be taken slow, and that in taking them slow, they become far more permanent than if you’d rushed at putting them in place.   Patience is important, and taking things at a slower pace does not equate with failure, no matter how hard those that raised you tried to teach you otherwise.

DECK USED: VACANT HOUSE TAROT AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

May 24

Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the Calm app. The topic of today’s meditation was a story about a man in a hut with no door that is trying to meditate, and a stray cat keeps coming in and climbing into his lap. Every time, he gets up and puts the cat back out, and every time he sits down the cat comes back again. This goes on for a half hour or more. Eventually, he gives up and decides to just sit with it.  The cat comes in, sits in his lap for perhaps a full minute, then gets up and wanders off on its own.

The lesson here being that sometimes meditation is about just sitting with it, whatever “it” might be. Not pushing it away or trying to ignore whatever “it” is, whether it be emotions or discomfort or… even a cat.  Rather, to allow it to exist in that moment with you.

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Today’s card is the Two of Cups combined with the affirmation “You could fail a million times over and you’d still be worth knowing and loving. You’d still belong here.”

These cards are a reminder that those who love you are going to love you no matter what. It’s not about what you can do for them or how good you are at something. It’s not about your successes or failures, or any of those things. They love you.  They want to be around you regardless of your struggles and moments of strife.

DECK USED: ONCE UPON A TIME TAROT AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

May 25

Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyTrip sessions from the Calm app. Today’s session was about how meditation is not always about finding time to make your environment and situation perfectly conducive to a meditation session, but rather about taking those times you’ve found that “sweet spot” with you into the times when there isn’t one.  It’s about taking a pause during a stressful situation and just… relaxing your shoulders while focusing on a slow inhale.  It’s about using the skills learned in the day to day, even when things are at their most stressful or inconvenient, but taking ten seconds.  One breath.  Finding center in that moment, then continuing on.

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Today’s card is the Seven of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “Hey, you are enough as you are today.  You don’t need to prove anything.”

Slow growth is still growth.  Today’s card is a reminder that even on our slowest days, we’re still “enough” and don’t need to prove anything. There’s no need to rush or to push.  Just do what you do and you’ll get there when you get there.

This can be an especially hard lesson for those that are used to picking up new skills easily or learning new things quickly. You get used to that fast pace as you pick up one skill after another, try one new thing after another, and gather more and more experience under your belt.  When you then run across something that doesn’t come so easily, it feels like failure.  It’s not, though. It’s just a different kind of growth. These cards are a reminder to not try to push it, instead just let it come at its own pace.

DECK USED: ELF OF HEAVEN AND IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY 2024 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR BY KATE ALLAN

Gratitude as a Conscious Practice

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

The theme of today’s meditation was about consistency, especially in reference to one’s meditation practice.   And clearly, as is obvious by my posts, this is an issue for me.

I do try, though, and I find it tinged with a taste of irony that this is the topic of the first session as I try to get back into the swing of things.

@the_mystic_star May Tarot Challenge Prompt
I am using this challenge’s prompts as affirmation prompts for my daily card. Not exactly the intended process for the challenge, but I want to give credit for where I’m getting these affirmation prompts from.

Moonlight Tarot - King of CupsAffirmation Prompt for May 11th: Grateful

King of Cups – For me, the King of Cups often refers back to Gideon. He is the emotional floodgates that help me in managing and understanding my emotions. He is my anchor in a turbulent sea, assisting me in making sense out of the chaos.

Today’s card is a reminder of these things, and that gratitude isn’t just something you feel for another, but an actual practice. It’s something you need to consciously visit and acknowledge, and even express to others now and then.

Gideon… My gratitude for you and your love, for your guidance and your help and support and for all that you do for me is something I can never express well enough to make clear to you.  It’s depth is too deep, it’s breadth too wide.  Thank you for being mine, and for having me as yours.  Thank you for being my rock and my anchor when I’m struggling to make sense of things. I may not always seem like I need it, and in fact may seem to even run away from it at times when I fall back on old habits, but I am so grateful for your presence and influence in my life.  I love you.

DECK USED:  MOONLIGHT TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for May 10th and 11th:

Journey Oracle; Moonlight Tarot's Four of Cups and The High PriestessWhat are you ignoring that needs to be dealt with?

The High Priestess and Desire – For a while now you have been able to feel your small side creeping back up from deep within, but you have been ignoring your needs in this area due to your desire to stay in top space.

How can you best begin dealing with what’s being ignored?

Four of Cups and Prepare – Get back on a regular meditation schedule instead of continuing to skip it. That structure is important, especially so when you’re in that smaller mindset. Your meditation practice helps you create a solid foundation for embracing the small within you and letting go of control without it harming you in the process.

In other words, regular meditation makes you more resilient to subdrop.

DECK USED: MOONLIGHT TAROT AND JOURNEY ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

As you can see, I meditated today for the first time in quite a long time. I also added the “happy baby” pose back into my physio practice today for the first time since my surgery.

The Slack Tide

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

@the_mystic_star May Tarot Challenge Prompt
I am using this challenge’s prompts as affirmation prompts for my daily card. Not exactly the intended process for the challenge, but I want to give credit for where I’m getting these affirmation prompts from.

Vintage Japanese Print Advertisement Tarot - Ten of SwordsAffirmation Prompt for May 7th: Hopeful

Ten of Swords – Remember that every ending offers the opportunity for a new beginning.

The advertisement used to illustrate this card is selling cigarettes.  That’s what it looks like to me, at any rate.  In today’s society, we see the tide turning where cigarettes are concerned. Debates on whether it’s safe or not have faded out into an acknowledgement of its health risks, and eventually laws to minimize those risks. It’s been a long, hard road with painful lessons along the way.

And yet, people still smoke, and they still die of COPD and lung cancer brought on by smoking. Maybe we’re not quite taking things in a new direction yet, but you can see the shift.  That’s what I see in this card.  It’s a reminder that even if the ending seems like it might be taking forever?  We have the opportunity to create something better in its wake.

(Note: The advertisement used in this card is actually selling MSG aka. monosodium glutamate.)

DECK USED:  VINTAGE JAPANESE PRINT ADVERTISEMENTS TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for May 7th: What do you need to focus on for self-care for this new moon?

Vintage Japanese Print Advertisement Tarot - Five of Swords, King of Wands, King of Pentacles, Three of PentaclesReading Summary: Set aside your need to be right in conflict (Five of Swords Rx atop King of Wands Rx) and focus instead on those that help you in building (Three of Pentacles) a solid foundation in your endeavors (King of Pentacles).

Take Away: Not everyone is going to be supportive in the things you want to do and the goals you want to achieve.

Focus your energy on including those in your life that are supportive in those things that are important to you, and leave behind those that aren’t.

You don’t need them, and you don’t need the roadblocks and obstacles that they present either.

DECK USED: VINTAGE JAPANESE PRINT ADVERTISEMENTS 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.

Raindrops and Pennies

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

@the_mystic_star May Tarot Challenge Prompt
I am using this challenge’s prompts as affirmation prompts for my daily card. Not exactly the intended process for the challenge, but I want to give credit for where I’m getting these affirmation prompts from.

Mirasol and Cassie of the Year Tarot - Nine of Water, Nine of CupsAffirmation Prompt for May 6th: Fulfilled

Nine of Cups – Sometimes fulfillment comes in, simply finding the things that make you happy and taking the time to enjoy them.

Why hold back on these things? Stop punishing yourself by withholding them, and instead enjoy them to their fullest.

And don’t forget that the little things are just as important as the big ones.  Maybe even more important, because they build up over time like raindrops and pennies.

DECK USED:  MIRASOL AND CASSIE OF THE YEAR TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for May 6th: How could you benefit from adding more fun into your life?

Mirasol and Cassie of the Year Tarot - Five of Cups, The Moon, Four of Swords, Knight of CupsReading Summary: By actively engaging in the things that bring you joy (Knight of Cups), you give yourself a new way to renew and recover (Four of Swords) from times of dissatisfaction (Five of Cups) and uncertainty (The Moon).

Take Away: This ties into the card of the day that I did for today as well.  It’s about enjoying those things you find pleasure in or that spark a sense of joy in you.  It doesn’t have to be big things, even little things will do.

By doing so, you foster a sense of confidence within yourself, and help make the bad stuff seem just a little bit less important, and a little bit less chaotic and catastrophic as well.

DECK USED: MIRASOL AND CASSIE OF THE YEAR 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.

The Opium Grannies

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

@the_mystic_star May Tarot Challenge Prompt
I am using this challenge’s prompts as affirmation prompts for my daily card. Not exactly the intended process for the challenge, but I want to give credit for where I’m getting these affirmation prompts from.

Viola Lux Umbra Tarot - Six of PentaclesAffirmation Prompt for May 4th: Wisdom

Six of Pentacles (Daffodils and Oriental Poppy) – Balance requires a give and take.

I am reading a mystery/thriller right now where a gardening club of 58 old ladies grew poppy flowers in their gardens with seeds bought from a garden center, and then started making tea from them, only to discover… they all end up addicted to opium.  By mistake, of course. It was a sideline in the actual storyline, but today’s card brings this to mind.

These little old ladies all went in together to turn themselves in, and the police didn’t know what to do with them all.

Sometimes? You just have to forgive.  You just have to be generous enough to let something go, because that’s what’s best for you… and that’s what’s best for them too.  Note that I said sometimes. Still… generosity is important. It keeps things in balance.  So sometimes?  That forgiveness is exactly what’s needed.

DECK USED:  VIOLA LUX UMBRA TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMay2024 Challenge Prompt
Prompt for May 5th: Do Spread 1

Viola Lux Umbra Tarot - Wheel of Fortune, Queen of Pentacles, Six of Pentacles, Six of Wands, Page of CupsWhat positive quality do I have that others admire?

Page of Cups atop Wheel of Fortune – You are always open to learning new ways of doing things, and have a habit of collecting that knowledge to help make though good times and bad.

What positive quality do I wish I had that I admire in others?

Six of Wands – The seemingly effortless ability to make others happy and enjoy doing it. You do not thrive on people pleasing, and you are under the impression it would be less of a burden if you did.

What step(s) can I take now to work toward developing that quality in myself?

Four of Pentacles– No steps. No movement. This is not meant to be your path. Stability and security are where your focus needs to lie, and you can’t have those while pinning your sense of well-being and success on others and their opinions.

What step(s) can I take to make the positive qualities I already have shine brightly?

Queen of Pentacles – Make sure that you nurture both yourself and others from a place of grounded stability. If you don’t feel stable?  Then it’s time to focus on re-rooting into your foundation, for it’s only when you are stable that quality care can be offered.

DECK USED: VIOLA LUX UMBRA 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.