Tattoo Tarot Ink and Intuition

Finding the Positive for June 16 – 18

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Tattoo Tarot Ink & Intuition's Six of Coins, Tarocchi Fine dalla Torre in Bologna's Four of Wands, and Tarotbot Black Edition's King of Swords

June 16 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 16 : Guard
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Six of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of charity, generosity, sharing the wealth, asking for or accepting help, and balancing the scales between the “haves” and the “have nots” in life.

Being generous is all well and good, but the generosity given should help in balancing the scales, not tipping them further out of balance.

I forget this sometimes, which is how I often end up in burnout. I’m not particularly generous with my money, but I am with my time and energy. I help those I love… sometimes to the detriment of myself.

What this does, though, is just make the situation worse. Not only do they still need -more- help, but because I’ve burnt myself out? I then am unable to help at all. Things pile up while I recover, then I have to burn myself out again helping in getting everything “back to normal”.

It’s an ugly cycle, and I’m trying to break it.

The message in today’s Six of Pentacles and the “guard” prompt is a reminder that when you’re being generous with your time and energy, make sure you guard your own well-being in the process. Ensure that you have boundaries in place to protect yourself from burnout, and if you don’t have any? Then consider if maybe it’s time to make some.

DECK USED: TATTOO TAROT INK & INTUITION

June 17 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 17 : Nurture
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Four of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of one’s passionate love for the security and welcoming energies of home. This often translates into themes that have to do with homecoming, celebrating home and stability, as well as relaxation in comfortable spaces.

I think that a lot of people forget that “home” isn’t always about where you rest your head and the roof above it. Sometimes it can be a person. Other times it’s a place that has nothing to do with where you live your day-to-day life.

Home is where you feel safe. The place (or person) that creates a feeling of welcoming, homecoming, and safety for you. The place where you feel the most at ease and the knots in your solar plexus can ease a bit. It’s that place (or person) where you feel -relief- in arriving and the worries of the world can slough off your shoulders, even for just a moment.

This place (or person) nurtures our soul. The message in today’s Four of Wands and the “nurture” prompt is a reminder that “home” is where the heart is… not where the head rests. Today’s message encourages us to take time to enjoy, appreciate, and yes.. celebrate! your home. No matter what, where, or who it is.

DECK USED: TAROCCHI FINE DALLA TORRE IN BOLOGNA

June 18 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was a ten minute visualization exercise off of YouTube (which I was not impressed with, but finished anyway).

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 18 : Whisper
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the King of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of a projective “alpha” energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s thoughts, intellect, education, ambitions, and communication. This often translates into themes that have to do with someone that has a way with words and is able to use those skills to lead others to their way of thinking, as well as those that are in authority on intellectual topics such as professors, doctors, etc.

Have you ever heard the advice that when you’re angry, and in a debate of some kind with someone else, that instead of raising your voice to get your point across you should lower it to a quieter register? It forces the other person to also lower their voice in order to hear you, and creates the need for them to lean in and (in doing so) be receptive.

Leadership is often much the same. Yes, you can shout and bluster and be a pain in the ass, but overtime people decide that it’s irritating and they tune you out. On the other hand, when you speak softly, people lean in to hear what you have to say… especially when you’re a leader. This creates a sense of greater power and increased gravitas than being loud and intrusive ever could.

The message in today’s King of Swords and the “whisper” prompt is a reminder that when you are in a position of leadership, instead of shouting at the top of your lungs and using bluster to motivate others, try using your “inside voice” instead.

DECK USED: TAROTBOT TAROT BLACK EDITION

Allowing for Joy

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and another of the long and silent followings of the plucking of harp’s strings.   I am considering seeing if I can convince L to make me a recording of her plucking at a cello’s strings instead.   I haven’t discussed it with her yet, but I am thinking I might enjoy it a great deal.

All in all the meditation and two minute cycle of piriformis stretching I’m doing during it is working out really well.  The ten minutes actually seems to go by a good deal faster in this style of meditation than it did during my guided practices.

Japaridze Tarot - The FoolToday’s draw is the Fool card of the major arcana, which is a card traditionally interpreted as being full of innocence, naivete, and boundless enthusiasm and potential.

What stands out to me the strongest today in the imagery of this card is the little dog and the unicycle…. and the fact that there is no human on that unicycle.  The dog is up there alone and having a grand time of it.

I feel like these elements in the card speak not just of enthusiasm, but of trust and confidence.   Without a human there to coax the dog forward, the dog must have trust and confidence in itself rather than in a master.

The message here is about trusting yourself.  It’s okay go after the fun and silly things in life that make no sense to anyone else but you.  Have trust in yourself and the confidence to enjoy yourself without worry about what other people (or your inner critic) may think.

DECK USED:  JAPARIDZE TAROT

#TarotForGrowthJune Challenge Prompt
Question: How can I bring more pleasure into my life?

Fanuna's Tarot

Reading Summary:  Indulge in your personal temptations (The Devil) without allowing others snide glances get in your way (imagery on the Three of Cups).  You know what’s right and are strong enough to tread your own path without their input (The Empress).

Take Away:  Right.  So the Three of Cups imagery really triggered a reaction that has very little to do with the traditional card meaning here.  It had to do with the sidelong glance and open mouth of the center figure, which in my perception today feels snide.  Like a gaggle of girls snicering and gabbing rumors back and forth, yeah?

So with that in mind, the message that the cards in this spread is the whole “you do you” thing.  Don’t worry about what others are doing… or how they do things.  Focus instead upon what brings you joy and dance to the beat of your own drum.

DECK USED:  FANUNA’S TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsJun2020 Challenge Prompt
Question: How can I better connect with my inner child?

Tattoo Tarot Ink and IntuitionReading Summary:  Remember that as capable as you are (Magician)?  You don’t have all the answers (Hierophant). Don’t turn away (Four of Cups) from the good stuff (The World).

Take Away:  There is a definite theme going on in my cards today.   Here we have another message about not taking myself so seriously all the time.  A lot of times I bypass opportunities to experience joy as I lean into responsibilities instead, turning my back on things that will bring me pleasure either emotionally or spiritually… or both, because my sense of responsibility turns me toward the use of my skills, knowledge, and abilities to fulfill obligations instead.

If I want to connect more with my inner child, I need to stop ignoring those opportunities.

DECK USED:  TATTOO TAROT INK AND INTUITION

#TheJuneTarot Challenge by Lionhart
Question: What energy is available to me this month?

Bleu Cat Tarot

Reading Summary: Discernment (Six of Cups) and emotional exploration (Ace of Cups) as well as the destructive power to tear things down (Tower) so that something better can be built in its place (not this month).

Take Away:  The energy available to me this month is one of destruction and discernment.  The cards indicate that energy is about making good choices on what I’m tearing down and breaking apart, with the purpose of adding in space for my emotional well being and growth.    It’s about picking and choosing what to keep, and what to release, and not being afraid of breaking the plate if necessary so that it can be replaced with a different one.

DECK USED:  BLEU CAT TAROT

#ConnectWithYourDeckChallenge by E Roebuck-Jones
Question: How do I feel right now?

Tarot Mood

Reading Summary: Resistant to change (Four of Pentacles) even though I know it has to happen (Judgement).  Feeling a need for help in getting my shit together (Three of Pentacles) while trying to stay positive (The Star).

Take Away:  I am trying very, very hard to get over my discomfort with change and “go with the flow”, but the fact I’ve struggled the last two weeks with falling into old habits makes it clear there’s definitely an inner struggle here.  I do feel like I need help, but I’m not sure anyone can actually do anything for me on this path at the moment… and I find myself consciously pushing towards hope in order to keep that alive rather than giving in to the shadow that such struggles can cause within me.

DECK USED:  TAROT MOOD