Today’s meditation was a ten minute long #DailyCalm session from the @Calm app.
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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is The Empress card, which is traditionally a representation of a nurturing energy of strength and empowerment without losing that “softer side” in the process, abundance, fertility, the divine feminine, and Mother Earth.
The Empress card has then been combined with the Heart card from The Oracle of the Soul Healing Messenger, which says, “…pause and reflect on your state of mind, identify the inner conflicts, and listen to your inner voice. By doing so you can reconnect with your relationship needs, comprehend your underlying desires, and determine what your heart truly seeks.”
It’s important to remember that nurturing is about more than just caring for those things and people outside yourself. When we look at the Empress card, sometimes that nurturing energy isn’t about other people or things, but about taking care of ourselves as well.
After all, if our own cup has run dry, then we have no water to offer to anyone else in need. Thus, taking care of ourselves is in itself another faucet of taking care of others.
The message in today’s Empress card and affirmation is a reminder that your relationships and your connections with others depend on taking care of yourself. It’s not just about taking care of everyone else. It can’t be, because if you’re not taking care of yourself, then you will have nothing left with which to take care of others, and that care of others will then suffer as a result.
DECKS USED: THE YELLOW HOUSE TAROT AND THE ORACLE OF THE SOUL HEALING MESSENGER
@lightningildflower‘s August Reflections Challenge
Prompts for August 16th and 17th
Settling – What insight is settling into place in my mind?
Strike a Match – “Sometimes, the best way to discover what’s ahead is to take that first step and see things in a whole new light.”
Discomfort and uncertainty aren’t necessarily a bad thing if you choose to look at them as opportunities to expand on your understanding of others in the world around you, rather than something standing in your way or potentially harmful to you or what’s important to you.
This new fear and discomfort with uncertainty isn’t something that you’ve always experienced. It’s something that has risen within you in response to now having things in your life that you value and don’t want to lose.
These new fearful reactions to uncertainty put these things of value at risk more so than your previous devil may care approach back when you had nothing to lose.
Mars square Neptune, Mercury trine Saturn, Venus sextile Jupiter
What disciplined step will support my long-term goals?
Meditation – “Sometimes, doing nothing and allowing yourself to recharge is exactly what your mind and body need.”
More consistency in your meditation practice is needed. It’s a mere ten minutes a day, and there is absolutely no reason you cannot spare these ten minutes of doing absolutely nothing. Ten minutes that are just for yourself and nothing else.
You can spare this much time for yourself each day. Putting it off and skipping your sessions is a concession towards your self harming and self sabotage tendencies. It’s not even an emotional response, nor is it a logical one. Don’t give into these tendencies so easily.
How can I act on this with courage and clarity?
Becoming – “… you’re allowed to take things at your own pace and in time your true colors will shine.”
Pay attention to the benefits that doing your meditation practice on a regular and consistent basis provide for you. Usually, when you see these benefits, it triggers, your self sabotage tendencies. Instead, allow yourself to see these developments and benefits as the first step to something that might become something even more remarkable. They are the first results, not the end results. Be curious about what comes after these first results appear.
Other elements included in this reading:
Staghorn Sumac for Connecting with Nature and the Wild Within
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration and Clarity
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: THE PIGEON ORACLE
#DiscordTarotholicsAug2026 Challenge
Prompts for August 17th and 18th
What unresolved angst is my inner adolescent still holding onto?
Four of Swords and Echinacea
The inability to rest and regroup without guilt getting in the way.
You were condition for a young age to reject the need for rest and recovery. Instead, you were required to always be doing something. It could be that you were laid up and couldn’t move, but you could read, and thus you studied. Regardless, rest and recuperation on its own was never an acceptable use of your time.
Today, as an adult, you still feel guilt when you take time to rest and regroup. This guilt triggers the angst in your inner adolescent, for one of the things they wanted most was just to rest and relax once in a while without constantly being pushed to do something more with their time.
How can I help my inner adolescent to let go of their unresolved angst?
The Hierophant and Mullein
When that angst flares to life, remind your inner adolescent that you are working on learning how to care for yourself as you need to be cared for, and at eradicating the legacy of abuse you inherited.
Point out all the times in which you choose to treat yourself kindly, and encourage them to see that you are working on resolving this issue and not letting it become a systemic expectation throughout the rest of your life.
Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECKS USED: THE YELLOW HOUSE TAROT AND PLANTS OF THE HEART ORACLE
I started using the medicated creme in my ears that helps keep my cradle cap under control when it starts spreading that way.
Twisting the Leaf 