tarot for self care

Winning Isn’t Everything

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Today’s meditation was skipped in deference for sleep. Wonderful, blissful, ibuprofen assisted sleep.  Mind you, the ibuprofen wasn’t a sleep aid, but it definitely eased my back and hip pain enough to allow me to sleep.

Chakra Healing Tarot and Thera-Pets Emotional Support Animal CardsToday’s draw is the Five of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of clashes, conflict, disagreements, and the victory or defeat that is the outcome of such themes.

One of the meanings of this card is winning at all costs. The imagery in this card really speaks to me of this particular interpretation.  You have a man collecting the tools of war, willing to step not just off the bridge, but risk falling into the fog of the unknown surrounding him in order to get what he wants. Although this is not a battle? It absolutely demonstrates that “winning at all costs” vibe when it comes to reaching for what one wants.

Combined with the Thera-Pets card for today, what we see here is a reminder that sometimes winning isn’t the only thing worth fighting for, and if we focus on it too hard on winning at all costs, we can lose the softer, gentler, kinder parts of ourselves into the cold hard place that that mindset creates within us. Don’t lose yourself in pursuit of the win, whatever that win might be.

DECK USED:  CHAKRA HEALING TAROT AND THERA-PETS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsAug2021 Challenge Prompt
Question: What accomplishment from this month deserves celebration?

Amano Tarot: Finding HappinessReading Summary: Backing off a bit (Temperance) on the shadow work involving my past (Six of Coins) so that I can let the new realization (The Magician) I had early in the month about the separation between past and present sink in a bit more.

Take Away: New tools take time to learn to use effectively. Information can be a tool just like physical items can be.  The information I stumbled upon concerning seeing the past as separate from the present is a tool that can be used to help heal past wounds, but I need time to process first in order to use it effectively.

DECK USED: AMANO TAROT FINDING HAPPINESS

The #MysticStarChallenge at the Sacred Grounds Tarot Club
Questions for August 26th and 27th

Painted Runes Deck and Chakra Healing TarotGiven the information I know now, which Major Arcana has more to share with me?

The Chariot

What message does the card have for me?

Knight of Wands atop Unknowable Future – Go boldly into the unknown. Allow your passion and enthusiasm to carry you forward through times of uncertainty. You have guides on your side that will help in lighting the way.

What challenges does this card wish to warn me about?

Jera atop Eight of Chalices – Don’t give up and turn away. The good fortune of completion is in sight. Stay and harvest what you have worked so hard for instead of turning away and giving up.

What guidance does this card have for me to overcome these challenges?

Kano atop King of Pentacles atop Queen of Swords – “Don’t be rash in decisions which might mean you are metaphorically throwing things into the fire.”

Hold back just a bit longer on stepping up into the oncoming rush and its preparations. You will need to wear the crown(s) of responsibility and dive deeply into the creative fire that carries you through the holiday rush soon enough.

DECKS USED: THE PAINTED RUNES AND CHAKRA HEALING TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I had myself a nice long sleep this morning after I got home from the farm. It was nice.  I didn’t sleep all that wall last night so the nap was really needed.

The End of the World

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Today’s meditation was skipped, as it’s an orders day.

Women of High Fantasy Tarot and Thera-Pets Emotional Support Animal CardsToday’s draw is the Tower, which is traditionally a representation of (as mentioned day before yesterday) the calamity and chaos of sudden, unexpected upheaval and change. The Tower card reminds us that for new good things to be built, the old and rotted remnants of what once stood must first be torn down.

Combined with the Thera-Pets card, what we see here is a message of hope and encouragement.  It’s a reminder that as chaotic and confusing, painful and overwhelming as sudden change can sometimes be?  You will get through it.  You will come out the other side and, through the process of chaos, be in a place where you can begin to start again and rebuild.

It truly isn’t the end of the world, even if it might feel like it.

DECK USED:  WOMEN OF HIGH FANTASY TAROT AND LESS ANXIETY AFFIRMATION CARDS

CoffeexTarot’s Who’s Your Spirit Guides? Prompt
Questions for August 26th and 27th

Faery Blessing Cards and Many Queens TarotHow do I unlock my highest potential?
A Blessing of an Anam-Cara and Ace of Swords

Share your thoughts, ideas, and whispering inner dialogue with Gideon. Communication is key. He is your anam-cara. He is there to listen and help, to soothe and sort through the things you need assistance with. He is your closest, deepest friend and does not judge. He helps lift you up and keep you on track, providing the extra perspective you need to unlock that highest potential.

What message from you am I not seeing?
A Blessing of Honesty and Two of Pentacles

You are still trying to juggle too much. You need to look with a clear ha e and honest mind at just how much you’re taking on and how much is truly healthy for you to handle.

DECK USED: FAERY BLESSING CARDS AND MANY QUEENS TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsAug2021 Challenge Prompt
Questions for August 26th and 28th

Women of High Fantasy TarotRemember – Ace of Wands – Your inner spark. Your enthusiasm. The joy found in the creation of beautiful things.

Forgive – Knight of Cups – Sometimes when we’re going after what we really want, we can become blind to the feelings of others, focused to sharply and too deeply on our own desires. It happens to you… and it happened others too.

Forget – Seven of Wands –  Don’t worry so much about defending the high ground. Those that have come up against you in order to try and take it from you have lost, and it’s time to let it go.

What do I need to hear right now? – Three of Swords Rx atop Page of Swords – Your depression is a journey of learning. As unpleasant as it might be, it has lessons to teach you just like every other experience in your life.

DECK USED: WOMEN OF HIGH FANTASY TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

When my soul was aching a bit earlier today, I laid down and cuddled with Miss Luna for a bit.

Morning Bonus Read – Virgo Season

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The Insect Tarot - Virgo Season Tarot Reading

Card that best describes me currently.
King of Wands

Although you are not paying attention to the fact that you do this, you inspire others through your passion and your directness… your forthrightness. You allow your true self to be seen, and it sparks enthusiasm and others as a result. Even in things like presenting your depression, your mistakes, and your opinions honestly, you give inspiration to others to do the same.

How can I improve my ability to “go with the flow”?
Page of Swords

Remember that although not all new ideas are good ideas, a great number of good ideas come from new ideas. Accept that a seed won’t share with the world whether it is a good seed or a bad one until it starts to grow. You can’t weed what hasn’t sprouted yet. This means you have to have patience and let things move along at their own pace until you have all the information that you need.

Why should I begin to ask others for help?
The High Priestess

Your intuition needs the support. When you overburden yourself, it affects your intuition, creating blocks to your natural ability to see and understand the unseen. Asking for help can in turn help you, and free up that space for your intuition to continue to stretch and grow.

Why I sometimes feel misunderstood by others.
Two of Swords

Your motivations and opinions are your own, and so are your values and your principles. Your moral compass is what guides you, and it is attuned to you and you alone. Sometimes when you make decisions based on this moral compass, others won’t understand why are you made the choice that you did or how you came to the conclusion you have. When you waffle, they may not understand for the same reason… because they’re moral compass is not aligned with yours, and so they don’t see why you hesitate.

How I can start to see the perfect in my imperfect self.
Eight of Cups

Let go of expectations and step away from what you know is unhealthy for you. Demanding perfection from yourself isn’t healthy, and neither is pushing yourself to your limits and beyond them. Abandon these unhealthy habits and find a path that feeds your soul through a healthier outlook and healthier treatment of yourself.

A new healthy habit I should explore.
Three of Wands

Embracing changes and moving forward with a plan, rather than allowing those changes to cause you to stumble, hesitate, or fall.

DECK USED: THE INSECT TAROT

Gifts of Goodness

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Today’s meditation was just over twelve minutes long, and was the eighth installment of the Foundations II series on the Balance app. The main focus of today’s meditation was about posture and the benefits good posture can provide during meditation.

Honestly? Good posture is important all the time, not just during meditation. You see those elderly that walk funny, have a hump between their shoulders, or are in a perpetual slouch position even when trying to stand straight? That is the results of poor posture. Your body gets stuck in those positions, and eventually you can’t get out of them.

I often see people not work on their posture because it’s uncomfortable, or boring, or “useless” and I wonder how the chronic pain will effect them as they reach their geriatric ages. I don’t understand why this issue isn’t more important to people. Why volunteer for that kind of pain when it can be so easily avoided by being conscious of your body mechanics in the present?

Journey Into Egypt Tarot and Thera-Pets Emotional Support Animal CardsToday’s draw is the Six of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of generosity, gifts, and “sharing the wealth”.  This meaning can be with or without reciprocation expected, but there is a reminder here to always take care when being offered something for free what the motivations and expectations that come with that gift my be.

The imagery in this card is a biblical depiction of the Pharaoh’s daughter (widely believed to be Hatshepsut) discovering baby Moses when she goes to wash her hands in the river (approximately 1512 B.C.) This princess wanted a child so badly that even though it went against her father’s decree that all Hebrew children were to be killed, she kept the child, named him, and raised him as her own, giving him a good education, and a good life.

Obviously, shit goes down later on that turns things on their ear as Moses grows up and becomes an adult.  BUT, here we see the beginning.  We see the hope and the joy, the moment when a gift has been discovered and even in times of uncertainty is recognized as such and cherished.

The cards here today are a reminder not to forget the gifts in your life. The things that lift you up and give you hope. Don’t reject them out of turn just because they are of no value to someone else. Embrace them because they are of value to you.

DECK USED:  JOURNEY INTO EGYPT TAROT AND THERA-PETS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsAug2021 Challenge Prompt
Philosophical Question: Which is more real… mind or matter?

ASL TarotReading Summary: It is through our creativity, our energy, and collaboration (Three of Chalices) that we put into things that we transform (Death) ideas into reality (Knight of Pentacles).

Take Away:  Ideas turn into work, which brings those ideas into reality. Inspiration creates enthusiasm which turns into creation. Therefore mind and matter are not separate, but rather a process of transition. Energy that feeds the sprout of reality… thus, the mind is the seed of reality.  The seed sprouts, then grows and flourishes.

DECK USED: THE ASL TAROT

Mr Lionharts’ #TheAugustTarot #SOLTarot Prompt
Questions for August 25th thru 27th

Sacred Earth Oracle and Journey Into Egypt TarotI am lucky because…
Patterns and Ace of Wands Rx

When shit repeats again and again, it can be discouraging. Keep in mind that these repeating cycles are a lesson that has not yet been learned. Thus, you have the opportunity to learn it the next time around. The universe has not given up on you, and will not give up on you.  It will keep bringing it around, giving you opportunity after opportunity to “get it” until you finally figure it out.

I can be proud of myself for…
Alliance and Five of Coins

You can be proud of yourself for making good and supportive friendships, instead of inviting a multitude of frivolous acquaintances into your life. The people in your life aren’t there as figure pieces, but rather they are a functioning part of what makes life work for you.

Considering who I was raised by and how she collects her “friends”?  This is indeed something to be proud of myself for.  I certainly didn’t learn to foster flourishing, healthy, depth focused friendships from her.

I can be thankful for…
Stretch atop Balance, Two of Coins

The ability to grow and adjust as you constantly moving forward. This adaptability allows you to shine bright in the face of adversity and stretch your limits to keep things in balance with each experience you go through.

DECK USED: SACRED EARTH ORACLE AND JOURNEY INTO EGYPT TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I made one of the other security council for my building go with me to deal with the drunkard that decided to break into our building and be a pain in the ass, instead of trying to deal with it on my own.

A Time To Heal

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Today’s meditation was skipped.  No excuses or even any real reason, to be honest. I just didn’t do it.

Vintage Book Illustration Tarot and Thera-Pets Emotional Support Animal CardsToday’s draw is The Tower card, which is traditionally a representation of the calamity and chaos of sudden, unexpected upheaval and change. The Tower card reminds us that for new good things to be built, the old and rotted remnants of what once stood must first be torn down.

The thing is?  Sometimes when that upheaval happens, it hurts. Surprises can hurt, destruction can be painful, especially if you’re needing to let go of something that, although has served its purpose and is no longer needed, you are still clinging to tightly.

These wounds can make it a struggle to move on, and healing requires time.  Sometimes, healing moves smoothly, but not always.  Today’s cards are a reminder that sometimes this healing can take time… and that is perfectly okay.  There’s no set time limit, and no deadline. The best healing takes place at its own pace.

DECK USED:  VINTAGE BOOK ILLUSTRATION TAROT AND THERA-PETS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL CARDS

CoffeexTarot’s Who’s Your Spirit Guides? Prompt
Question for August 22nd thru 24th

Essential Oils Healing Cards and Vintage Book Illustration TarotHow do I open myself to your guidance?
Geranium (Pelagonium graveolens) and Page of Cups

Accept that you’re not skilled with dealing or understanding your emotions yet, and you need help in order to both deal as well as heal. Guidance is needed when learning a new things, and that includes learning about your emotions and going through emotional growth.

Cautions you have for me.
Jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum) and Nine of Pentacles

Self-medicating with things that give small, temporary moments of pleasure at a time when you are flirting with the edge of depression is not a good idea. Find other ways to achieve those small moments of pleasure that don’t include entertaining your more addiction motivated tendencies.

What areas of my life need change?
Ylang-Ylang (Cananga odorata) and Five of Wands

Consider working on sex without drowning. You don’t have to drown every time, and it would be good for you to have the bonding experience of that union without always going through the drop that comes after a drown.

DECK USED: THE ESSENTIAL OILS HEALING DECK AND VINTAGE BOOK ILLUSTRATION TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I vented (and had a good cry) about my run-in with the bigot in the supermarket parking lot instead of holding it in.

Morning Bonus Read – Anxious Days

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St Croix Lenormand

What can I control?

Book – Knowledge is power and you have the opportunity to seize a great deal of power if you keep your eyes and mind open, and actually delve into unearthing the knowledge needed to succeed. You have the ability to grasp the abstract and those things hidden between the lines, understand complicated and convoluted concepts, and stretch your potential through exploration of such things.

What can’t I control?

Snake – Oh geez.  Okay so this is the PayPal thing again. YES.  I know.  I need to be adaptive and move forward instead of lingering in what I can’t control or do anything about.  The feelings of betrayal are painful, but I am definitely ready to set them aside.  I understand that I may not quite have fully let go of the emotional upheaval that it caused, but I truly do understand that it’s out of my control and something I need to move on from.

How can I work with what I can control?

Woman – Keep in mind that just because Z has gone home doesn’t mean she is not still in easy reach. The valuable advice and guidance she has offered you throughout your life was closer than ever over the past year and a half, but it isn’t gone now that she’s back home.  Reach out to discuss new ideas and discoveries with you, for her input will be as valuable as always.

How can I release what I can’t control?

Mountain – You’re not going to get any answers about why this happened. There is no resolution in sight and you need to just let it go rather than brooding on it or squirming under the feeling of betrayal and injustice that the experience stirred up for you.

Take Away – Dive into searching out different alternative payment methods and ways of doing things that don’t involve PayPal and let go of the feelings that were stirred up by the experience.  Enlist Z’s help in finding new options and looking into their merit.

DECK USED:  ST CROIX LENORMAND