Yokai Yochi Tarot by buboplague

Examining One’s Boundaries

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Today’s meditation was a ten minute #DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.

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Yokai Yochi Tarot's Five of Wands and Sinister Affirmation CardsThe @GlitterbyInk #OctoberMagic25 Challenge
Crone Prompt for October 17th : Resilience
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’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.

The Five of Wands card has then been combined with an affirmation card from the Sinister Affirmations deck, which says, “Some may not like it when you start setting boundaries, but it will serve you well in the long run. Lucifer got kicked out out of his father’s house for setting boundaries, and look at him now: King of Hell. Set boundaries. Rule your domain.”

When conflict comes calling between you and others, do you fold in order to try and keep the peace? Or do you dig in your heels and stand your ground?  Where do you draw the line between self sacrifice and self-care?

Resilience is an important part of survival in this world, but that quality goes beyond just surviving whatever is thrown your way. It also means setting boundaries for yourself and others so that you aren’t being taken advantage of.

The message in today’s cards is an encouragement to examine where in your life you feel you’re being taken advantage of or giving far too much of yourself. Consider how you can adjust your boundaries to stand your ground more and give yourself the love and care you need.

DECK USED:  YOKAI YOCHI TAROT AND SINISTER AFFIRMATIONS

@CrowSister #PreparingForTheDark Challenge
The Winter Garden Prompts

Tarot Reading with the Yokai Tarot and the Spooky and Pretty Characters Playing Cards by Karina GazWeed – Jack of Diamonds, The Magician, Queen of Hearts – Those places where you lack self confidence and experience feelings of imbalance stem from an emotional base. Start digging into your emotions and it will give you the tools needed to build what will feel like a more stable foundation.

Compost – Seven of Diamonds, Nine of Wands, Six of Hearts – It’s time to get rid of the idea that over-diligence is an asset, when in reality it just retriggers old unhealthy cycles to repeat again and again.

Amend – Three of Hearts, The Sun, Jack of Spades – As comfortable as it is, and as much as you are drawn to it, solitude is not your friend. When you spend time with others, it helps lift you up. Work on not thinking of this time with others as an inconvenience, but rather as a way to brighten your inner light and keep the depression at bay.

Other elements included in this reading:
Polar Bear Raku Medallion for Perseverance and Strength
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Aventurine Leaf Medallion for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Selenite Tree of Life Disk for Purification and Drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: YŌKAI TAROT AND SPOOKY AND PRETTY CHARACTERS PLAYING CARDS

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2025 Challenge
Crypt Prompt for October 17th : What secrets are you hiding tucked away in the dark?

Tarot Reading with the Yokai Yochi TarotReading Summary: When things fell apart at the seams in September after so many years working at building your creative business (Ten of Swords), you considered walking away from it entirely (Seven of Swords) and looking at starting something new (Page of Wands) instead of trying to recover from the blow dealt to your business. (Choices being a central theme with the Seven of Cups.)

Take Away: The secret is the fact that you considered bailing.  Seriously considered it.  It wasn’t a passing thought or frivolous musing, but something you spent a lot of time mulling over and almost followed through on before finding a way to help in re-sparking the flame of your hope and keep going.

Other elements included in this reading:
Zodiac Wheel for Understanding Cycles and Rhythms
Pine Tips Ceramic Impression for Longevity and Sustainability
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: YOKAI YOCHI TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

This post is a catch-up post, and I can’t remember what my self-kindness might have been for this day.

❤️ Self Care Saturday (On a Sunday)

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These Saturday readings are (not usually) bearing in on any one thing or event in my life, as the question used is asking for a more general outlook. This is a self care exercise, and is not meant as a predictive reading… although that, too, happens on occasion.

The question is… What do I need to focus for self-care through the week ahead?

Self-Care Saturday Tarot Reading with the Yokai Yoshi Tarot and Simply Halloween Lenormand

Earth – Four of Staves / Kodama – Hold sacred the home this week. The home that is your shelter, yes… but also the home of your spirit and home of your soul. Take care of your body and cherish this time you have left before the rush begins to enjoy both the home you live in, and those in your life that your soul calls home as well.

Air – Wheel of Fortune / Wanyūdō – Make sure when it feels like things have gone awry that you are using optimism to mitigate the effects of these moments. Nothing is quite as bad as it looks… until you allow it to become so.

Water – Knight of Coins / Nurikabe – For emotional stability you need to take things slow this week and not overwhelm yourself. Steady, persistent progress is best.

Fire – Eight of Staves / Nozuchi – You are going to feel the need to push and rush. Make sure that you aren’t getting out of hand with it though, or you will suffer emotionally as a result, as will your relationship with Gideon (as indicated in the Water position in this reading).

Waning – Lady and Cross – Do not allow those that you love to become a burden this week.  Sometimes that means turning people down concerning what they want from you… at other times it will require looking at your responsibilities from a different perspective.

Waxing – Stork and Ring – Commit yourself to the changes that need to take place this week in order to get ready for the rush that is coming.  Everything done during this time has the potential to lift you up and make things better, but you have to commit instead of lingering in complacency.

DECKS USED: YOKAI YOCHI TAROT AND SIMPLY HALLOWEEN LENORMAND

Upholding Healthy Boundaries

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

Yokai Yochi Tarot by buboplagueToday’s draw is the Nine of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of boundaries, defensive maneuvers, and protection of what you hold dear.

Often, the Nine of Wands is displayed as a passive card instead of an active one in its illustration. Here in this imagery we see the active participation of defense and holding up one’s boundaries. This displays the boundaries are not always stagnant, neither are they  something that you stand behind without a care. Boundaries are something that actually needs defended in order to be upheld.

This card asks us where are we being too lax in our boundaries? Where is it that we are allowing other people to cross our boundaries because we are not actively defending them as they need to be defended?

The message today is an encouragement to look at our boundaries and those that cross them, and examine why we allow them to cross those boundaries and what we can do to make sure they don’t continue to do so in the future.

DECK USED:  YOCHI YOKAI TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsOct2022 Challenge Prompt
Question for October 22nd: Seance – What guidance do your ancestors offer at this time?

The Oracles by Libby BoveReading Summary: Make up with (The Lonely Heart) those that you’ve shut out of your life (The Feud) before it’s too late (The Blasted Bell).

Take Away: I understand and hear what the advice and guidance is here… I’m just not sure I can make up with those I’ve shut out.  If that means that when I’m finally ready, that it’s too late, then that’s something I’ll have to live with.  But for me?  It’s not time yet.

I’m not ready, and I may not be for some time to come.  That doesn’t mean that I’ll never be ready, but I’m not at the moment.

DECK USED: THE ORACLES

Mr Lionhart’s Seasons of the Witch Challenge Prompt
Questions for October 21st thru 23rd – The Wheel

Yokai Yochi Tarot by buboplagueThe wheel it spins, around, again, what should I begin?

Eight of Coins – Lean into your work, for now is the time when things begin to pick up and you need to be at the top of your game.

How will it end?

Nine of Swords – There will be, as always, push back from your anxiety and mental health issues.

And as the serpent bites its tail, what will recur?

Seven of Cups atop The Empress – When all is said and done and the holidays have drawn to a close, you will have to make the choice to go back to nurturing yourself and taking good care of yourself once more.

What must I prevail?

Temperance Rx – Leaning into dealing with your lack of moderation is the next step in your personal growth. Make sure you are working on not letting it get out of control.

Sage wisdom comes with seasoned days, what can I learn and use today?

The Devil atop Nine of Wands – Take care today and throughout the season ahead to make sure that you do not allow your addictions and temptations to override the boundaries you’ve set in place for yourself.

DECK USED: YOCHI YOKAI TAROT

Daily Self Kindness

I grabbed a handful of protein bars and trail mix bars on the way out of the house in an emergency instead of just saying “fuck it” and depending on there to be somewhere to get food along the way.