Westwood Tarot

Distorting Reality

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

The Westwood Tarot - Five of Pentacles

Today’s draw is the Five of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of tests, trials, struggles, and setbacks in the area of one’s finances, resources, health, home, work, or manifestations. This often translates into themes that have to do with scarcity and times in life when one needs to seek out help from others instead of suffering through alone.

The Five of Pentacles has then been combined with a card from the Affirmators! Evening Mantras deck, which says, “Letting go is the only thing that matters. In letting go – of thoughts, emotions, anxiety, shame spirals – I claim my freedom and make space for what I want to call in.”

Letting go of a sense of scarcity is one of my biggest challenges in life. I struggle with these feelings, even when things are going well… and when they’re not going well, these feelings explode into a near panic of worry and anxiety, dread of eminent failure and harsh self-recriminations.

I do my best to not let that anxiety take control and cause me to act out at myself in reaction. It’s not always easy though. Even when I know I’m overreacting, or that the scarcity I fear isn’t at my doorstep as I think it is in those moments.

The message in today’s cards is a reminder that emotions like to try and screw around with our perception of reality. Just because you feel something doesn’t mean that that’s what’s actually going on. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t feel these emotions, but it does mean that we need to be aware of this tendency so that we act accordingly instead of allowing these emotions to seize control.

DECKS USED: WESTWOOD TAROT AND AFFIRMATORS! EVENING MANTRAS

@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Prompts for March 24th and 25th

Tarot Reading with The Gold Star Tarot and The Nature Oracle

Attention: What part of me needs gentle attention?

Crow and Three of Wands – The part of you that is feeling abused by your inner narrative’s insistence that you should be moving instead of stuck.

It’s important to keep in mind that not all the factors involved are under your control right now. Cut yourself a little slack and remember that you’re doing what you can as you are able; and that’s enough.

Sun conjunct Saturn, Sun sextile Pluto: What personal power am I ready to step into?

Four of Pentacles and Land Guardian – You feel at your best when things are steady and stable beneath your feet.

Don’t forget that you can encourage that feeling to flourish within you by getting out in nature and spending time with the trees and moss. It doesn’t change anything in your life as a whole or the situation, but it changes your perspective to one of greater stability, allowing for less anxiety and stress. These influences can help you in dealing with the issues currently before you, as well as the moments of powerlessness that you’re feeling by not being able to control all aspects of the situation.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Douglas Fir Bark for Strength and Resiliency
Dried Red Maple Leaf for Adaptability and Connection
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: THE GOLD STAR TAROT AND THE NATURE ORACLE

#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Philosophical Question for March 25th : Is courage an inherent virtue or is it learned behavior?

Tarot Reading with The Westwood Tarot

Reading Summary: When we are young (Six of Cups), we don’t see things the same way that we do as an adult (Eight of Swords). We take action without considering consequences. This is not courage, but rather it’s a lack of moderation and forethought (Temperance).

Take Away: Courage comes later in life after we have learned how to think things through before doing them.

Prior to that, those things that we as adults perceived as courage are actually simply impulse and lack of thinking things through. This is because there is no such thing as courage without an acknowledgement of the risk being taken and the consequences involved.

This would indicate that courage is therefore not an inherent virtue, but rather something that has learned along the way. We might learn this earlier or later in life, depending upon our upbringing and experiences along the way, but in the end, it’s not something we are just born with from the start.

Other elements included in this reading:
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Moss Agate for Attracting Opportunities for Growth
Flower Agate for Opening the Mind to New Possibilities
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: WESTWOOD TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

I let J do the lions share of the driving today, and instead napped in the back of the car.

Start Now

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the @Calm app. The topic of today’s session was about self-care. Specifically, how when we connect more strongly with our own needs, taking good care of our physical bodies, this in turn allows us to connect more strongly with others as well.

This is because in order to connect with others, and specially to do so in a supportive role, we first have to support our own health and well being.  If we do not keep up our own health and strength, we are far less effected as a support for others. We break down easier and faster, we struggle more.

Only when we respect our own body’s needs does our body then allow us to extend ourselves in a strong and healthy way to also help or support others.

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Westwood Tarot - Eight of WandsToday’s draw is the Eight of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of action, speed, alacrity, fast paced events or change, or having a target goal in your sights that you are charging towards.

This card today, when taken in relation to the meditation session done this morning, is essentially saying “hey! put your focus here because this is for you! get on it!”

In other words, today I am being called out on not taking as good care of myself as I should… and the card is asking us to reflect on how we can care for ourselves better. What can we do now that can support our health and well-being?

Not only is this card asking us to reflect on this topic, though.  It is telling us to get moving on it.  Act, rather than simply think about it.  Touch grass if you need to touch grass. Go cloud watching if you need to cloud watch.  Stretch and move if you need to stretch and move.  Give yourself what you need to be healthy and strong. Stop procrastinating about it.

DECK USED:  THE WESTWOOD TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMar2025 Challenge
Prompt for March 16 : Do Spread 3

Oracle Reading with the Dragon Crystal Channeling Cards by Shingo and Yayoi

What to leave behind along with the winter’s chill.

Garnet – It’s time to set aside your feelings of aloneness. The garnet dragons are the dragons of co-creation. They speak of going after your dreams because when your dreams are accomplished, even though they may seem like selfish goals, make the world a better place as a whole. That means that the universe is on your side in accomplishing your dreams and so is the world around you.  You are never alone and on your own, so stop allowing your inner voice to tell you that you are.

What to take with you into the spring.

Azetulite – Clarity, purpose, and trust are the themes that you need to focus on bringing with you into spring. The Azetulite dragon asks you to trust both that you will get through struggles and come out the other side better for it, as well as in yourself and your path. Within you a better sense of clarity is awakening. Run with it, and don’t let the growing pains involved turn you off course.

What needs exposed to the light and the world this spring.

Sunstone – From the sunstone dragon you are being given a reminder that your strength and passion will get you through obstacles both large and small. Lean into your passions and let them help you burn your way through those things that stand in your way.  That passion within you is powerful. Let it shine.

What needs kept close for further contemplation and meditation.

Azrite – Your mediumship practice is still relatively new. The azrite dragon urges you to be open to listening closely to not just the cards as your familiar and trusted way to communicate, but all of your senses and sensations as well. There is a myriad of ways to communicate that you could be missing by focusing too hard on just one or two. Study and contemplate. No further action is needed at this time.

Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Wood Fern for Exorcising Negative Influences
Pressed Pansy Flowers for for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: DRAGON CRYSTAL CHANNELING CARDS

Daily Self Kindness

I went back to bed for a bit after my morning work was done.