Beltane 2024

The last evening of April through the first day of May is Beltane, which is also my sister and I’s birthday. Like Halloween is a time when the veil between the land of the living and the realm of the dead is thin, this holiday is the time when the veil between our world and that of the Fae is at is thinnest.  I personally often find myself amped up with extra energy around this time of year, which I most often use to spend more time playing in that thinning veil as much as possible.

May Day Oracle Reading with the Liminality Oracle

Dandelion – How can I use my inner strength to help me in healing old wounds?

Alliance – Connect with those you truest to help get you through the healing process, and find an accord with those you don’t trust in order to facilitate peace.

Bees – Where could I put in more effort to help my community?

Balance – More effort is not what you need right now. Putting in more anything is not what you need. Moderation is what you need, or you will wear yourself too thin. Practice temperance, and allow your social burdens to balance themselves out.

Garnet – What do I need in order to foster a greater sense of self empowerment?

Inspiration – That creative spark within you has always been the path to self empowerment for you. When you connect with it, it creates for you a sense of enthusiasm and confidence.

Swallow – Where do I need to more openly display my love and loyalty to others?

Center – To yourself. Love and loyalty to yourself is something that others look for. It speaks of a knowing of yourself that’s deeper than logic and the mind. It lets them see the depths of you without as much vulnerability on display.

Malachite – How can I better use intention to bolster the abundance in my life moving forward?

Journey atop Deception – Distance yourself from those that deceive. This is a part of their nature and will not, in fact cannot, change. Pull away and move on from allowing them to hold sway with you.

Goat – How can I best overcome obstacles before me at this time?

Defend – Don’t stop fighting. Giving up is not an option, or at least not a healthy and safe one. Keep fighting for what is important to you.

Primrose – How can I add more of the exuberance of young love into my life?

Guidance atop Rhythm – Seek guidance in finding your own rhythm. It isn’t through following others that you find your own joy and exuberance, but in breaking out of the mold and finding guidance in those sources you have always connected most strongly with.

DECKS USED: LIMINALITY ORACLE

📆 Transitioning from April to May

Month End Check-In with the Tarot of the Absurd

Here and Now I Exist – Who you are now, in your entirety.

Three of Blades – Disappointed. Yeah. Unfortunately there’s been some conflict with friends recently and disappointment pretty much covers it. Your brain keeps poking at your emotions, trying to wring out logic from them, and have managed to sort through things, but it’s left you feeling disappointed and sad.

The Slough – What is to be left in the past as you move forward.

Strength – Let go of the need to manipulate and “fix” the situation. It’s not going to work and you’re going to end up hurt if you keep trying.

What Lies Ahead – An ideal state or ideal self you are seeking at this time.

Two of Sticks – New direction cleansed of imbalance.

Limitations – Negative influences, opposition, or ill will.

Ten of Swords – Seeing this as “the end” is not healthy or constructive. Although you don’t need to fix things, you do need to let them lie rather than playing “clean up on aisle 3”.

The Boon – Positive influences, higher guidance, or divine intervention.

Knight of Blades – Ambition and drive are on your side. Don’t allow the current setbacks to bank those fires.

The Wound – An unpleasant past experience or event that is ripe for some support and healing.

The Sun – Losing something that you perceive as happiness hurts. The winds of change can take these things away and leave you bereft. Look to past experiences and see if this one can help heal some of those that might be along a similar vein in the past.

Nostalgia – A positive past experience or event to acknowledge, reflect upon, and enjoy.

Six of Cups – Not all of it was bad. Make sure you are remembering and connecting with the good memories too. It helps even out the imbalances.

A Warning – Something coming that can be prevented or overcome.

The Star – Don’t blindly put all your eggs (or faith in others) in one basket. Closing your eves and running ahead while ignoring what’s going on in front of you is a bad idea.

Empowerment – A future opportunity to work toward.

The High Priestess atop Nine of Sticks – Better understanding of threats and challenges to what matters to you through a combination of intuition and experience.

[Messages from Spirit World, Mind’s World, and Physical World have been skipped this time around.]

Side Note – Although this was supposed to be a personal check in with myself, it turned into a reading about a specific, ongoing situation due to the fact I was trying to pull my cards while talking to my partner about that situation.

DECKS USED: TAROT OF THE ABSURD

You Come First

Today’s meditation was skipped (again).

Tarot of the Absurd's Ace of Wands and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate AllanToday’s draw is the Ace of Sticks (Wands) combined with the affirmation “You are enough as you are today.”

The illustration in this Ace of Wands speaks of the passion in caring for oneself, of cradling that inner light within you and making sure that you are being cared for and loved.

With the affirmation, it is a reminder that sometimes the spark of one’s passions isn’t projected outward, but inward. Sometimes, there is a need to love yourself most, and let everything else take a back burner as you turn your focus inward.

When you do that? You become your passion, and you kindle that passion within you that can then be fostered and grow into something greater.

DECK USED:  TAROT OF THE ABSURD

#DiscordTarotholicsApr2024 Challenge Prompt
Prompt for April 30th
: Grab a spread of your choice that you’ve been curious about… and give it a go!

Dark Fae Tarot's Beltane Oracle Reading with the Seasons of the Witch Beltane Oracle

The buds which are flowering in my garden.

Boundaries – You are in the process of reestablishing boundaries that have become soft over time, seeking out where the lines now need to be drawn and getting them fitted into place.

Celebrating and embracing the joy of friends & family.

Honey – Take care not to be pulled into troubles you need to be no part of. The sweetness of these relationships in your life can sour quickly to something painful and bitter if you do.

Taking in the fresh dew of Spring mornings.

Chant – It is when you connect most strongly to who you are that others are drawn to you most strongly.

Everything that I am releasing as the days grow longer.

Goddess – Let go of self doubts and connect with that depth of self within you. Your inner self, that part of you that is very uniquely you.  The restraints against it need releasing so that it can shine more brightly.

DECK USED: SEASONS OF THE WITCH BELTANE ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

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

Kindness Is Not Earned

Today’s meditation was skipped.

Celtic Dragon Tarot's Five of Cups and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate AllanToday’s draw is the Five of Cups combined with the affirmation “You deserve kindness today.”

These cards are a reminder that even when things look dark and hopeless, you deserve kindness. Not just from others, either, but given to yourself by yourself as well.

Kindness is not dependent upon performance or perfection. It’s not dependent on success or failure.  It’s something that you should be giving yourself whether times are good or bad, whether your inner narrative is negative or not.

DECK USED:  CELTIC DRAGON TAROT (CZECH EDITION)

#DiscordTarotholicsApr2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for April 29th
: Int’l Dance Day – As April comes to an end, what in your life is due for a bit of celebration?

Celtic Dragon Tarot - The Moon, Five of Wands, King of WandsReading Summary: Uncertainty and feelings of vulnerability (The Moon) are a natural part of conflict (Five of Wands). That doesn’t mean standing down, but continuing on a path based on your inspiration and sharing that path for all to follow that choose to (King of Wands).

Take Away: Sometimes conflict happens. You’re not adverse to it, but you struggle with the emotional side of it, as you aren’t particularly skilled with emotions as a whole.

Don’t let that struggle dampen your passion or your stance.  Your uncertainty isn’t something to try and avoid or alleviate. It’s just a part of the learning process… growing pains on an emotional scale instead of a physical one.

DECK USED: CELTIC DRAGON TAROT (CZECH EDITION)

Daily Self Kindness

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

It’s Already Yours

Today’s meditation was skipped.

Chrysalis Tarot's Two of Stones and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate AllanToday’s draw is the Two of Stones (Pentacles) combined with the affirmation “It is good that you are taking up space in the world today. It is good that you are here.”

Instead of spending all of your time trying to prove that you deserve the space you take up in the world, how would it be just to accept that you do in fact deserve to take up that space all on your own.

You spend too much time “earning” that space that is already rightly yours.  Instead, try finding a better balance where you don’t have to try so damned hard to be “enough” for everyone else’s expectations.

DECK USED:  CHRYSALIS TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsApr2024 Challenge Prompt
@Lionharts #TheAprilTarot Mercury Musing Prompt
Prompt for April 28th
: Do Spread 2
Question
: How can I integrate the lessons learned during this retrograde into my daily life moving forward?

Chrysalis Tarot's Six of Scrolls, King of Spirals, StrengthReading Summary: There is shelter in the Six of Scrolls (Swords), shown in the color correlation between it and the poppet sheltered against the monster’s side.

Where the color correlation with Strength resides in shadow, with the Papa Legba’s trousers connecting to the monster’s shadow in the anchor card.

At the center of it all lies the King of Spirals (Wands) with no color correlations and opposing viewpoints in the fact that the King faces into the past, and the happy monster and his poppet face into the future.

Take Away: When you seek too much sheltering it turns you away from the strength that comes in going after your dreams and the accomplishments that brings with it.

These cards say that a bit of shelter seeking now and then is healthy, but too much of even a good thing will turn it into a detriment. With this past retrograde, this dynamic was brought into the light and encouragement is given to make sure you are taking action, stirring the mind and blood into singing so that happiness flows more plentifully.

DECK USED: CHRYSALIS 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.

Choose to Put Yourself First

Today’s meditation was skipped.

Spirits of the Woodland Tarot Two of Wands and It’s Going To Be Okay 2024 Day-to-day Calendar By Kate AllanToday’s draw is the Two of Wands combined with the affirmation “It’s okay to disappoint people sometimes; you can’t control their expectations. And being disappointing doesn’t make you a failure or unworthy of kindness.”

You can choose to be a people pleaser, or you can choose to please yourself… but you can’t do both.

Since you cannot control others expectations, the most logical course forward is to please yourself. That includes defining what you feel that the concepts of success and self worth mean.

DECK USED:  SPIRITS OF THE WOODLAND TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsApr2024 Challenge Prompt
Question for April 26th and 27th

Spirits of the Woodland Tarot - Queen of Wands, Five of Wands, The Fool, Ten of Cups, Three of Wands, Ten of WandsRichter Scale Day – What unpredictable upset in your life is ready for healing?

Queen of Wands and Five of Wands – Over the past year there has been a lot that has gotten in the way of you being able to support and foster your creative process. These disruptions have created a distance between that process and your current state.

Tell a Story Day – Use the cards to tell a real or fictional story about that healing.

Overwhelmed and struggling under the weight of responsibility that caring for others entails, one day Mme Rabbit decided to trek out on her own and discover new things.

On this journey, she met all different kinds of animals and over time built her own tribe. With them, she began to see life as an adventure that is worth her enthusiasm, instead of an ordeal to trudge through.

DECK USED: SPIRITS OF THE WOODLAND TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I restocked the snacks and water in the crate in the back of the car today.