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What Are You Growing?

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the @CalmApp. I don’t really remember what the session for today was about, only that it had something to do with being kinder to yourself and not listening to that inner voice that tries to tear you down.

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Fantastical Creatures Tarot - the Justice cardToday’s draw is the Justice card, which is traditionally a representation of balance, cause and effect, repercussions and consequences, give and take,  and can often indicate the law or legal system.

Combined with what I can remember of today’s meditation session, the encouragement here today is to remember that “you get what you give”.

That means that if you allow negative thoughts and recriminations to have free reign in your head?  Then what you get out of that is negativity  and a tearing down of self confidence.

A better option is to counter balance that negativity going on upstairs with a bit of positivity by taking time to appreciate the good stuff in life.  Even if it’s just taking a moment to enjoy a spot of sunlight or appreciate the shade of green in the leaves of a plant. Gather up the pleasurable things, the things you’ve enjoyed, and the things you’ve accomplished. Enjoy them, and let that enjoyment help in beating back the negative thoughts trying to take over.

DECK USED:  FANTASTICAL CREATURES TAROT

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Prompt for March 31 : Pick a spread of your choice that you’ve been curious about… and give it a go!
@Lionharts #TheMarchTarot The Power of Now Challenge
Spread : I Am Where I Need To Be Tarot Spread

"I Am Where I Need To Be" Oracle Reading with the Dragon Path oracle

How have I deepened my connection to the present?

Transformation – You have been working on shifting your focus from a future driven push to always be advancing to a focus on the present. This shift then opens up space to let in more recognition, appreciation, and gratitude.

What have I uncovered that will continue to guide me?

Crystal – Clarity in how you view yourself and your actions has become easier to access and will continue to guide you if you let it. Among other things, this clarity allows you to see the stagnancy you’ve been stuck in as a time of retreat and healing rather than failure.

How can I  honor the power of now as I move forward?

Harmony – Keep the lessons mentioned above in mind as you plan for the future. Don’t just acknowledge, but put into action the understanding that there needs to be a balance between your drive towards future goals and your appreciation of the present.

Other elements included in this reading:
Northern Red Oak Leaf Impression for Inner Strength
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
Picture Jasper for Sense of Proportion and Grounding

DECK USED: DRAGON PATH ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

I made sure to get my rush orders done and out the door so that I can take a couple extra days off without worrying about them. The trip was trying and I feel like I need a little extra recovery time.

All the Hidden Things

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long and a self-directed session based on a graphic by @FredwardFall

This graphic really touched me in a deep and pretty pervasive way. It made me spend time considering what in life directs my actions, reactions, thoughts, and perceptions that perhaps I’m not even aware of.  This train of thought then wandered into thoughts of inner child work and shadow work, both of which explore parts of your inner paradigm that are not clearly seen through the lens of everyday life, but function beneath the surface, usually suppressed and ignored.

And yet even as we ignore them?  They continue to hold influence over us that we often don’t even realize or acknowledge.

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Fox Fairy Goddess Tarot - The High PriestessToday’s draw is the High Priestess card, which is traditionally a representation of intuition, secrets, sacred knowledge, mystery, the subconscious mind.

The message in today’s card is an encouragement to listen to that secret inner knowledge that only you are privy to, because it’s in dipping into the unknown within ourselves that we learn and grow.

Combined with the meditation done today, we carry this theme further in understanding that means not just listening to our intuition, but also to the other suppressed voices within us as well, like our inner child and our shadow.

This is how we deepen our understanding of self, and at the same time of others.  This is how we learn to become whole and connected to the deepest parts of ourselves, and through that connection then can deepen our connection to our spirituality, our path, and the world around us as a whole.

DECK USED:  FOX FAIRY GODDESS TAROT

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Prompt for March 30 : Do Interrobang Tarot’s Spring Spread

Spring Tarot Reading with the Bad Ideas Lead to Better Ones Cards and Amethyst Oracle

This spread goes from bottom to top. We begin with the underground, with death and decay.

Death/Passage: What died for me in the past season?

Pack All the Things and Passivity – You have successfully managed to pull yourself out of the cycle of stagnancy you’ve been experiencing over the past few months without overloading your plate with too many extra responsibilities.

Decay/Fertilizer: How does that passage fertilize what comes next?

Feeling Overwhelmed and Collection – The passage of this time of stagnancy allows you to more easily identify and acknowledge where you are still feeling overwhelmed or weighed down, and then begin working on finding a better balance in these areas.

Next, we consider the perennial, and turn our attention to any old growth due to renew.

The Perennial (Rebirth): What renews or rekindles for me now?

Eat While They’re Busy and Fear – It’s time to allow yourself the space you need to care for yourself properly, without allowing the fear of something going wrong to keep pulling you back into unhealthy caretaker habits.

Tending & Cultivation: How can I best greet and tend to this?

Clean the Body and Poison – Identify and reflect on what is perpetuating “sickness” within your life and it’s flow. Spend some time familiarizing yourself with those unhealthy patterns and cleansing them from your life.

Finally, we look above ground to consider the annuals, the unplanted seeds, and our garden plans.

The Annual (New Life/Seed): What do I plant next or start afresh?

Competitive Online Gaming, Spring, and Precarious – Work on establishing a better balance between those non-productive activities that you enjoy and the productive ones you need to get done. Now that you have broken free of that cycle of stagnancy, it’s the ideal time to establish better balance between these two areas.

Planning & Plotting: How can I best prepare to make sure that it thrives?

Uses a Wheelchair and Perspective – Use your ability to “put yourself in others shoes” to foster greater patience for yourself and others.

Other elements included in this reading:
Sigil: Sustainable Healthy Energy
Dried Rhododendron Leaf for Fostering Confidence
Foraged Norway Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Kambaba Jasper for a sense of Peace and Tranquility
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: BAD IDEAS LEAD TO BETTER ONES CARDS AND THE AMETHYST ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

When Gid asked me to take a moment to really consider if I was okay with drowning today, I actually did it instead of just jumping in right away because it’s what I want and was craving.

Fight Back with a Reality Check

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Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long, and one of the #DailyTrip sessions in the @Calm app.

It can be hard for some to believe that I’m not a patient person. I display a good deal of patience with others, after all. In truth, though? I simply hide my impatience behind the tendency to do everything myself and self-abuse myself with inner narratives to push myself to work harder and faster.

The meditation session for today was a reminder that patience isn’t just for others, but for the self as well. When we give ourselves patience, we help to “cut the strings” of our negative inner narrative’s control over us and the unhealthy demands that those negative thoughts feed us.

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Card of the Day Tarot Reading with the Wild Reflections Tarot - Eight of SwordsToday’s draw is the Eight of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of willful ignorance, self-imposed restrictions, turning a blind eye (especially when it can be harmful to self), and entertaining a victim mentality.

The card for today combined with this morning’s meditation is a reminder not to ignore that negative inner voice.  Don’t just push it away and pretend that it isn’t there, for it will just continue to do more damage by whispering from the dark corner you shove it into.

Instead, confront it.  Hear what it says and -correct- it with thoughts of love, kindness, and understanding. In giving yourself this gift of patience by fighting back against that negative inner voice, you allow a healthier side of yourself to flourish, and provide yourself with sorely needed healing that you’re currently ignoring.

DECK USED: WILD REFLECTIONS TAROT

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Embodying the Present Prompts for March 23 – 28

Oracle Reading with the Esprit de la Nature OracleI move with clarity and confidence. How have I already begun to empower myself through my actions?

Cincincha – You have already begun to empower yourself by working to embrace not just the good, but also the bad; not just in the world around you, or in the things that happen in your life, but also within yourself. This is not always an easy task, but the effort is there to create acceptance for yourself and your reactions, your experiences and your surroundings… regardless of whether these things are perceived as good or bad in the moment.

I align my actions with my deepest knowledge. What choice before me reflects my best self?

Élémental de terre – Less frenetic energy, more calm. Take your time and let things move at their own pace. When you choose to move with the flow of the world around you and ground yourself in and the earth, you give yourself permission to move at a slower pace and be more present in the moment.

I claim the path that is meant for me. What am I ready to step into?

Géant – When your ancestors and guides speak, remember that they are doing so for your greatest good. Work on reserving your doubt concerning their motivations when they speak to you, but rather listen and consider what they have to say and the advice that they’re trying to give you with an open mind at face value.

I trust in my own wisdom. What inner strength will guide me forward?

Cerf – Remember that vulnerability is its own kind of strength. You do not always have to be the one in charge or the strongest of them all, for in your vulnerability comes the strength you cannot find when you are on your guard and keeping others at arms length.

I trust in the foundation I have built. How has embracing presence strengthened my path forward or my overall journey?

Licorne argentée – Believe in the power of your creativity and the ability to manifest what you imagine into being. It may take hard work, but it also takes faith and belief that you can do this, whatever “this” is at the time.

I walk forward with purpose and clarity. What new possibilities have opened up to me?

Ogre – You have the opportunity to create a new sense of stability in your life right now. You need to stay focused on keeping yourself from becoming too distracted or spread too thin. Protect that stable foundation you have created and anchor yourself to it. That needs to be your priority.

Other elements included in this reading:
Serpentine to Bolster Heart and Emotions
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On One’s Aspirations
Amethyst for Spiritual Growth
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Dumortierite for Intuitive and Intellectual Communication

DECK USED: ESPRITS DE LA NATURE ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

I did a good deal of resting today. The trip I just got back in left me extremely overstimulated, and I needed some time alone as well as some decent naps (plural) to help find my balance again.

Emotional Intelligence

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was a self-directed session based off a comic-strip graphic by the talented @hollyhatamillustration (click on image for full illustration)

The issues of finding a way to sit with your emotions is something that I’ve long struggled with. For a good part of my past, I worked to close my emotions down, bury them, and avoid them. This has left me with a very low intelligence when it comes to identifying or understanding my emotions.

Now that I’m trying to unpack them and -feel- them instead of letting them fester in a deep hole inside of me, it can often be overwhelming and confusing.  This “comic” strip helped me to see this process in a different light, and gave me a bit of direction in how to “sit with” my emotions.

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Metanoia Marseille - Five of WandsToday’s draw is the Five of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of conflict, tests, trials, and struggle in the area of one’s passions, drive, determination, principles, values, and willpower.

Combined with the topic of today’s meditation, what I see here is a reminder that just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it’s not worth it.  It can be hard to see beyond what you’re feeling in the moment, and difficult to grasp sometimes what you’re fighting for when the emotions you are feeling are confused or difficult to understand.

That doesn’t mean it’s not worth it to keep trying.

DECK USED:  METANOIA MARSEILLE

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Prompt for March 23 : Do Spread 2
Topic: The current “trouble maker” situation.

Tarot Reading with the BirdQueen Tarot

Reading Summary: Reach out to an impartial party for advice (The Hierophant) that the group can act upon (Three of Wands).

The Hierophant‘s staff and crown connect through color to the Three of Wands, and the Three of Wands connects to the flowers growing out of the skull in the anchor card. This speaks of an authority figure with advice to be offered that resides outside the current group. The current group being all of the same mind, but struggling to find a path to action.

The seahorse in the Princess of Cups also connects through color to the Three of Wands, where the coral in the background behind the seahorse connects to those same three flowers in the anchor card again. The way the seahorse is tangled up in the coral speaks of us in the group as having a struggle with an emotional connection to the topic at hand. Here, too in the little fish in the Princess of Cups is advice to seek outside council for a fresh perspective.

This says that each of us currently involved is emotionally a bit tangled in the issue (Princess of Cups).

Take Away: Reach out to the one who is absent for advice, for that is where you’ll find the answer you are seeking. They have the outside perspective that is needed, and the ability to present things objectively in a way that the rest of the group can’t right now.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Rosehips for Releasing Stress and Negativity
Foraged Ponderosa Pine Needles for Resilience and Adaptability
Foraged Red-Stemmed Feather Moss for Attentive Understanding
Moonstone for Emotional Stability
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE GRATITUDE ORACLE AND THE BIRDQUEEN TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch-up post, which means I have no idea what my self-kindness was on this day

Moments of Brilliance

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Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long, and was one of the #DailtTrip sessions from the @Calm app. The topic for today’s session was about how distracting our thoughts can be, and how sometimes this is a good thing and not something to be avoided.

So often when meditating, the focus is on keeping your mind a blank slate. Empty and without thought. At times, though, that doesn’t necessarily need to be the case. The session for today introduced the concept of letting thoughts drift through your mind without interacting with them. As if they are “dancing elves” just passing through.  Entertaining, but not of consequence.

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Sassy Dragons Tarot NSFW Edition - King of SwordsToday’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.

You know how sometimes our best ideas come when we’re in the shower… or on the can… or driving.  Somewhere that doesn’t allow us to write them down, but we’re instead trapped in a situation where we have to try to hold onto them until we can log them somehow? What if, in these moments, instead of trying to grasp onto thoughts like sand sliding through our fingers, we allowed those thoughts to live there and watched where they lead instead of trying to capture and restrain them?

What if the power of our thoughts to bring us these things in our most inconvenient moments isn’t a weakness, but a superpower that allows us to see things from different perspectives and strategize using their wisdom instead?

When combined with the meditation for today, today’s card proposes that we use these moments of inconvenience to our advantage by building upon these thoughts, rather than trying to capture them and hold them still.

DECK USED:  SASSY DRAGONS TAROT NSFW EDITION

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The Art of Surrender Prompts for March 16 – 22

Oracle Reading with the Cosmic Cats Oracle and Mythic Cats OracleI surrender to the wisdom of the present. What clarity can arise for me when i let go of expectations?

Faye the Faith – By letting go of expectations you put trust in yourself and the universe. This allows you to see that you do not have to control of every minute detail and every faucet of life. When you let go of your expectations, then you allow positive results to feel more like a gift rather than something you had to struggle for (and often a fluke when your inner narrative is whispering to you about not being enough). This allows you to embrace those good things more easily.

I embrace the unfolding of my journey. How can I lean into what is unfolding instead of trying to shape it?

Bastet the Protective Mother – Remember that a lot of the reasons that you try to force your will on the results is because you are trying to be protective over what you hold dear. Part of letting go means accepting that those things can either take care of themselves, nor are going to be snatched away just because you’re not being vigilant

I welcome the unknown with an open heart. What possibility will emerge when I release the need for certainty?

Oclelotl the Warrior – you are better able to adapt and pivot as needed when you’re not locked into the stagnancy of certainty. The allows you to react more calmly and creatively to obstacles and issues.

I release control and embrace presence. Where in my life can I soften my grip and just let things take their natural course?

Miktecathual de los Muertos – Mediumship requires a light touch, and sometimes no touch at all from you. Don’t worry about trying or advancement. Instead, just let things flow at their own pace and observe.

I trust in life’s unfolding. What shifts when I align with the flow?

Sagittarius the Archer – When you align with the flow of the world around you and life’s patterns, you feel less alone, even at times when you’re on your own. Instead of worrying about what’s going to happen, you are then more able to focus on the joy of the journey.

I let go of the weight of expectation. Where can I find freedom in surrender?

Libra the Scales – Those who know you know that you require balance and fairness in your life. They can be trusted to help further this goal and provide for this need without you needing to be the arbitrator of every moment.

I surrender to my highest path. What am I opening myself up to when i trust that everything is unfolding for my highest good?

Catankhmun the Mummy – When you trust that everything is unfolding for your highest good, you open yourself up to the ability to better deal with the unpleasantries of your past, as well as prepare for the future.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Japanese Maple Leaves for Balance and Practicality
Smoky Quartz Crescent Moon for Introspection and Emotional Balance
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: COSMIC CATS ORACLE AND MYTHIC CATS ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch-up post, which means I have no idea what my self-kindness was on this day

The Confines of Fear

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the Calm app. I can’t remember what the topic of today’s meditation was about, but am distracted by the image in the graphic for today’s session and the pods or crud or… whatever it is in between the “petals” of the plant’s bloom in the upper left quadrant. I’m squicked out by poppy seed pods, and this?  This triggers that same squick factor for me.

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The Healing Tarot - The Moon CardToday’s draw is the Moon card, which is traditionally a representation of uncertainty, illusion, anxiety, fear, the unknown, and the subconscious.

What really stood out to me in this card when I drew it this morning is the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” that is a part of the hermit crab shell in the foreground.

Sometimes, when we’re afraid? We hide. This is a natural human reaction, but if we do that too often, what ends up happening is we end up hiding from everything.

The Moon card today is a reminder that sometimes we have to come out of our shell, even when we don’t want to because we’re scared.  Fear of the unknown can be restrictive to the point of our detriment if we let it, and if we don’t allow ourselves to confront our fears, those restrictions will become tighter and tighter around us until we can no longer move at all.

DECK USED:  THE HEALING TAROT

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Philosophical Questions for March

Philosophical Questions Oracle Reading with the Tea Time OracleIs patience an inherent virtue, or is it learned behavior?

Rose Tea – Patience is one of those things that we have to learn, usually through a desire for a certain outcome or results. After we have experienced the rewards of patience and grace, it allows us to more easily embrace the concept. [Learned]

Is happiness an inherent desire, or is it a desire that’s learned?

Apple Crisp Tea – Once we have experienced happiness in one form or another, it becomes a focus of our desires from that day forth. Happiness feels good, and it’s natural for us to then gravitate towards those things that feel good and lift our spirits. (Inherent and Learned)

Is generosity an inherent quality, or is it learned behavior?

Sun Tea – Through experience we come to understand the importance of supporting each other, and how through that system of support people (ourselves included) don’t just make do or survive, but thrive. (Learned)

Is courage an inherent trait, or is it learned behavior

Sweet Tea – Courage is in acting not due to what is expected of you, but what comes naturally. It isn’t the absence of fear, but rather that there is “stronger stuff” within you that spurs you to act despite that fear. (Inherent)

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Hiba Tips for Grounding and Revitalization
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TEA TIME ORACLE

Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch-up post, which means I have no idea what my self-kindness was on this day.