I turned to tumblr to find an avenue of exploration and expression that combines a lot of my passions: Tarot, Art, Writing, Spirituality, Graphic Design, and just learning about other people and ultimately myself. Currently I have a lot of fun posting Pick A Card Readings and figuring out the details and directions of my style as I go.
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Pick A Cards:
■ [Messages for Self Empowerment]
■ [How the Universe provides for you]
■ [Encouragement from your Spirit Guides]
■ [What benefit is hidden in your aura?]
■ [Messages for Reassurance]
■ [Compliments from Spirit - What are you doing right?]
■ [How to Foster Peace + Lyrics]
■ [Why things will be easy now]
■ [Messages from Your Protector]
■ [Which part of you wants to be felt?]
■ [How to grow from your roots]
■ [Directions from Your Higher Self]
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If you would like a private reading, you can send me an Ask, and if I resonate with you, I will send you an intuitive reading for free.
Why for free? This is my calling and I want to spread the light of my personal guidance to the right people. The Universe will take care of me in return. I already have everything I need.
Remember that nothing is set in stone, I am just one of infinite perspectives in this Universe, and am still a human just like you. Nothing I say or don't say can ever rob you of your power and free will. Everything is in constant flow and change. You are the ultimate authority over your experience.
Readings/Asks are currently closed. no they're not anymore :)
This could be for romantic relationships, platonic or any other kinds of relationship that you want to ask about.
This is a general reading meant for multiple people. Take only what resonates and leave out the rest.
Your feedback is much appreciated. If you find the reading resonated with you, leave a comment, I’d love to know 🎐
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SKY BLUE
This connection has a strong feeling of attachment. Both of you are attached to each other. Sometimes to an unhealthy degree. Your temperaments are polar opposite but fit together like puzzle pieces.
You seem to be the more experienced one, someone who has lived through many major life events and has learned important lessons from them. But you're not jaded nor cynical. You know life so you don't feel the need to "fight" it, you go with the flow of it. You know when to slow down, when to enjoy the present and when to move forward. Even if it takes a long time for you to realise your dreams, you don't fret, you just do what it takes because you know eventually you will get there. I used the word "know" a lot here so perhaps you're very knowledgeable, either in academic sense or in spirituality sense, you just "know" things without having to consciously think hard about it. You're also very kind. But your kindness is discerning and has strong boundaries. You might have a mild manner and soft way of speaking but you're also curious and have a strong moral compass. You appear agreeable most of the time but when you think something is wrong, you stand your ground and fight. You also love to cheer people up, to uplift their spirits. Which is why you're so drawn to your person.
Their personality is much sharper than yours. As opposed to you, they're quite cynical, the world might feel like a jungle to them, where they need to survive at all cost. They're skillful and clever. They're also curious and know how to utilise the resources at hand. They have a sharp mind and an equally sharp tongue. Their personality could make them a loner, or someone who has many superficial relationships but they trust none. Deep inside, they're tender at heart, but exactly because of that they want to be strong externally, to gain an upper hand in this threatening world.
Can you see how you and them fit together? Their cynicism stirs your compassionate nature. You want to help them find hope again, to tell them that they don't have to fight all the time. I think you view this person as someone who's quite broken and lonely and you want to provide strength and support to them, to help them rise again and connect with their innocent heart. In short, you want to rescue them out of the darkness. This person could be younger than you or they're less mature than you. The energy of your connection feels like siblings energy. You don't have to be actual siblings but you have the desire to care for, to support and guide this person. Whilst they feel more at ease, more joyful when they're around you. They also get inspired by you a lot and love that you're patient with them.
You can be extra attentive when you see them being down, lonely and defeated. When they're confused and lose their motivation to move on. This is where it can get unhealthy, because no matter how much you try to cheer them up, if they keep thinking they're the victim, the unlucky one, if they keep holding on to limiting beliefs then your effort would be futile. You might even go against your own hunch to keep coming back to them, keep giving to them. And they can also get addicted to your attention and don't want to really get out of their misery. So the meaning of this relationship is to highlight your tendency to hold on even when it's not all right to do so. Both of you can be protective and possessive of each other. At one point, you will have to let them stand strong on their own and account for their own actions. And they will have to learn to get more in touch with life and not get too dependent on you. The bond is unmistakably strong but both the rescuer and the rescued will need to continue moving and live after the crisis ends. They may connect but with different dynamics.
OCEAN BLUE
This is a very deeply spiritual connection. You could have a past lives connection with each other, like two people of the same spiritual group, the same coven, or the same association. Both of you are devoted to your beliefs and ideas and you may come together to strengthen those beliefs and release the other from unnecessary burdens that life has placed on them. This sounds religious a lot but it doesn't have to be. It could just simply mean that both of you will use your power to help each other and be united in purposes and paths.
But your energies feel different from each other. You may not trust the other person at first sight, something about both of you that just makes the other person feel on guard and cautious. Your animal spirit card is the Hawk and theirs is the Sea Serpent, it feels like natural enemies, both are powerful beings who come from different worlds. Maybe because you both sense the hidden power each possesses and you don't often encounter that kind of energy in other people. But slowly you would realise that you can rely on each other, to have each other's back, you two can be the strongest allies, a duo that's invincible. Under normal circumstances, you might miss or avoid each other, but fate plays a hand here, fate would push you two towards each other, you could connect through a common goal or a mission, through a community.
If spoken plainly, your role in this connection is the truth deliverer and their role is the creator or the nurturer. But you both face the same challenges and burdens that somehow connect you to each other. This relationship brings you closer to your truths and also gives you hope for freedom. Being in each other's presence feels like being in a different world. The energy feels fresh and pure. Whether this connection is romantic or platonic or any other nature, the qualities I mentioned previously stay the same.
You often tell them what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. Especially when you see them overextending themselves, when they give without receiving any back in return, when they're exhausted. You will want to point them to the truth that they might not be seeing. If you practise Tarot or other kinds of divination art, you would do a reading for them, you would caution them against certain situations or people. You can appear quite frank and ruthless about your message. You probably like to encourage them to let go, to start anew. And when you're in the same situation, they would know how to make you relaxed, to have faith again. They would hold a space for you, or literally hold you in their arms to soothe you. They could use their power and wisdom to help ease your load. They may even practise witchcraft or some kind of occult art themselves. This connection could be a gateway to lead you more into spirituality and the esoteric field.
Being in this connection often makes you feel lighter, more free, like after stooping down to carry heavy burdens, you can finally let them all go and stand straight up and walk away. For some of you, the meaning of this connection doesn't depend on the longevity of it. Even if the connection is short-lived, it will serve its purpose just the same, to let both of you realise the deeper truth, to strip away all the chains and masks, to help you start a new life, a new path. Even if you part ways, the spirit of the other would still stay with you, a binding invisible cord. After I had finished your reading, I kept getting new messages and wanted to come back to add more, so this could mirror your connection, you both want to come back to each other, even when you think the connection has reached its end, maybe you will experience many starts and endings in this connection. Trying again and again, each time with a new perception.
Uranus, Aquarius, the colour black, blue and purple might have special meanings for some of you and your person.
VIOLET
This connection holds so much potential and hidden messages. You will need time to fully see it in its true self. The potential of this connection is still in the incubation stage, anything is possible. But both of you will need patience and be willing to care for it in order for the connection to crack the hard shell of the egg and fully emerge. Your person seems to be aware of this quality of the connection with you. They're looking forward to the future of it, they're trying to protect it. This might be a new connection that's still developing and the future of it can't be predicted for certain.
Your person could be hiding something, or they're unaware of something within them, like they've lost a part of themselves, a crucial part that's locked away. They could have a very difficult past, something that they want to forget and so the memory of that past is buried deep inside their heart. To the point that they can temporarily forget about it. But that past holds a part of them that's the core, the essence of them. So you might notice something is amiss about them. Like a puzzle that lacks a few key pieces. You have the urge to uncover that part, to help them realise something about themselves. Maybe you can also see the potential of the connection just like they do, but through a different lens. To them, being in this connection feels like a path they need to take, whilst you see this connection as a project, a mission or an experience that lets both of you be closer to your authentic selves.
Mirror, reflections, camera and photos could be important in your connection. It's like both of you want to take snapshots of yourselves through different times, in different circumstances, so that you can catch a glimpse of the "secret". This connection can change both of you and itself could go through many changes. The status of your connection could change several times. You and your person would discover several layers of yourselves that you hadn't noticed before. The energy feels fluid, like a water wheel.
This connection pushes or nudges both of you forward, sometimes backward, sometimes running around in a circle just so you can learn the lesson and discover a crack in the world where you can truly belong. In this connection, it seems you're the one who's observing and learning from your person, like you're going after their footsteps. Not that you're lesser than them but I think you will intuitively feel that by doing so, you will achieve a kind of happiness that's long lasting.
Before meeting them, you might be on a constant quest to find the meaning to your life and actions. You would want to experience, to test life, to see how far you can go, how much joy you can have. Your person is the opposite of that. They seem to be content with the present, in fact, they're fiercely protective of their present, of the small happiness that they're holding. So by connecting with them, their way of being gradually rubs on you. You will feel less stressed, less rushed, less desire to change things up for the sake of changing. You will learn to slow down. And you will help them to burn away or melt away the ice that's encasing their heart. They will gain a new understanding of themselves and be more like you, more joyful. Both of you will hold up a mirror for the other person to see all their glory and secrets reflected back at them.
PURPLE
This connection can be a bit complicated. It's fulfilling but also has the potential to sabotage your autonomy and the sense of an individual self. You're lost in each other. It feels like you merge together to form a united existence. At times this connection can be the strongest bond but other times, it can be unstable because of the lack of individualisation and healthy boundaries.
This relationship will highlight your innermost fear, it can bring out your worst trait. I think you have the tendency to be overly attached to the things and people you cherish, or to an ideal. Once you've believed in something, especially the potential of it, your conviction can get unreasonably obstinate. You love to help people, to bring happiness to the person you love, you can sacrifice yourself for them, you're selfless. And this trait, when paired with the yearning for a deep love, for total intimacy, can make you lose yourself in the other person. You could want to be involved in their life as much as possible, to become one with them. You might not notice this trait about yourself. Either because you haven't met a person that can truly touch your heart and awaken this part of you, or you have developed a relationship pattern that you're unaware of. So this relationship will bring this part of you to the spotlight, magnify it ten folds, because you've met your match.
Your person is a very devoted person. Once they've committed to someone, they don't think of anything else or any other person. Their heart is yours to keep. So when you display your interest, when you engage with them deeply, even when you act a little clingy, they actually welcome it because they've finally met their match too. Someone who can be devoted to them just like they're to you. You see how this can exacerbate your tendency to be overly attached even more. They encourage your attachment, you feed their desire for total loyalty.
Both of you're highly stubborn when it comes to your beliefs and devotion. You don't budge, love can make you blind, love can make you do irrational things. You both follow your hearts and don't exactly care about what everyone else is saying. So if people express concern or objection about your connection, both of you will defend it vehemently. In this connection, there's no "you" and "me", just "us". You probably like to do everything together, make decisions together, move in life together. You feel stronger when you're with each other. It can get unhealthy when you aren't able to make a decision on your own or develop your own lives outside of the connection. It's like you don't know who you're anymore when you're not by your person's side. This applies to both of you. In a less extreme sense, you feel lonely and hollow in the absence of the other person.
This connection will give you the opportunity to be an individual in an intimate connection. To develop your own sense of self so that you know who you're in this connection and what you can give and receive from it. You can be one with your person whilst still remaining an individual. Your strengths combined can move mountains, but only when you know your own strength and how to express it.
Welcome to Tarot 101 with Astrid! This is part 3 of my series; if you haven’t read the previous ones you can find them here: part 1, part 2.
So you’re wondering who or what is answering your questions when you pick up your deck. In my personal beliefs, I think who answers is up to you. You can tell your deck who can and cannot answer.
For me, who answers changes based on what reading I’m doing.
I made a list to explain the different energies you can choose when using Tarot.
c o n t e n t
a. The deck itself
b. Your spirit guides or deities
c. The universe + trickster spirits
d. Your intuition
e. All of the above
f. None of the above
g. How to set the intention
a. The deck itself
This means your deck is conscious. It has a soul. It is consciously aware of itself and the world around you. I personally believe in this because I believe in animism {the belief that everything, including inanimate objects, has a soul.} However, if this belief doesn’t resonate with you, simply let it go.
For those who resonate with this belief, if it is your deck answering, this means when you ask a question and shuffle the deck, the deck itself is giving you the information.
This can either be a positive or a negative thing depending on the personality of your deck.
Each deck is different, because each deck has a different soul, so there’s always a different personality within each deck. Some decks have very blunt energy, they will call you— or anyone you read for— out on any shenanigans and could very well stop letting any cards fly out if their advice and insight is not taken. Some decks are quite emotional in this sense where they take disrespect very seriously and can close up completely— and it can take a great deal of apologizing and changing your behavior before they are open to doing readings again. Other decks have a more forgiving energy where they will patiently continue giving the same advice in new ways to help you register it.
Then there are the tricksters. Now trickster energy does not mean they are malicious or ill-intended, it simply means they may not share the honest, whole truth 100% of the time. Now each deck is different. Personally, I have a deck that only shares what I absolutely need to know and hides the rest away from me so I can enjoy life’s surprises.
Some people may not like this. Especially when you’re not aware they are hiding the whole truth from you. But this deck is actually a dear friend of mine and I appreciate her desire to shield me from what is unnecessary to see in the current moment.
However, this is why I have multiple decks, so I can then ask another deck who is blunt and 100% honest to tell me what the she didn’t share for any questions that I really want to know everything on.
Now, for the fun— or not so fun— part about decks having personalities… they can have a mix of all of these and more. I’ve met grumpy decks, emotional decks, kind decks and fairly rude decks as well. This is also why some readers will give their used decks away and claim “Our energies just didn’t match well.” or “I never quite clicked with this deck like I have with my others.”
However, what makes this fun is getting to know your deck! It’s also very possible for a deck to change personalities after you’ve bonded with it and have respected their boundaries— and vice versa.
I have one deck that, when we first met, was super sweet and would have 20+ cards fly out during every reading— but as I stopped doing readings she felt neglected and desired to leave the deck and reincarnate where she would be used more often. While she felt neglected, her personality changed. She stopped “talking” as much. When I’d do a reading she wouldn’t let any cards pop out and I also didn’t feel intuitively drawn to pull any cards because she didn’t feel like she had anything to say to me. It wasn’t until I asked her what was wrong, and she told me, that things got better. As I put in more effort to do regular readings with her and show her I wasn’t neglecting her out of malice, she slowly returned to her original personality.
This is what I love most about divination and spirit work because it really is just like any other relationship! It takes patience, effort/devotion, and care to develop a healthy working relationship.
b. Your spirit guides or deities
This means that your deck is a vessel for your spirit guides or deities to communicate with you.
You can specify which deities or spirit guides can communicate with which deck you use. This is useful if you have multiple decks or if you don’t feel comfortable with certain deities or spirit guides and you want to take things slow by having only certain deities/spirits come thru.
If your spirit guides or Deities are answering, this means when you ask a question and shuffle the deck, either your spirit guides or a Deity is giving you the information.
I specifically bought and have a deck to use as a vessel for spirits to use when I do readings. This makes it a lot easier to get a clear answer from a spirit if I’m doubting my clair senses while channeling because then I just ask them to use the deck to talk to me and they do.
This is incredibly useful if you want to communicate with Ancestors, or any spirit really. I find that spirits have a lot of wisdom and comfort to share, and some simply want to speak directly to you rather than having the deck pick up on their energy and relay the information that way.
However, if you also believe in animism, it’s important to note that not all decks like to be used as a vessel. Many of the decks I own prefer to be used as themselves, each have their own reasons for why but some reasons are:
1. they dislike not having control over themselves and which cards come out
2. some spirits lie/don’t share the whole truth or share too much, and this can go against the deck’s personal preference which makes them feel uncomfortable
3. some decks just prefer to be used as themselves since they chose to reincarnate as a divination tool to help share insights
4. some decks are afraid of spirits not leaving once they take hold of them.
However, the deck I use as a vessel is very understanding of the importance of asking spirits directly and feels confident in his ability to banish spirits from him if they ever tried to stay beyond their welcome. This is just an important thing to consider if you do believe in animism and I personally believe the questions “How would you like to be used?” and “Do you feel comfortable/How do you feel with spirits using you to answer questions in a reading?” should definitely be something to ask all decks when you’re getting to know them.
c. The universe + trickster spirits
If you don’t have a specific deity, spirit or entity that you want to ask your questions to, you can have “the universe” answer. This could be Source, or you could simply ask “the universe” to answer.
Now, no matter which option you choose from to have answer your questions in readings, there is always the importance of your intention and belief.
Some practitioners believe that when you ask “the universe” for help— or a question— that it leaves the forum open to any and all kinds of spirits to offer their help or answers. Meaning you could get a response from an ancestor, Source, or the fair folk, or any other species of spirits.
Each of these could have their own intentions for offering their help or an answer. Some could be doing so out of kindness, pity, or malice. Others could be telling the honest truth, while others could be blatantly lying to you because they just want to have fun.
Now, just because this is a belief some practitioners have does not make it true for your practice. When you call upon the universe, you could very well have only benevolent spirits who have your best interest at heart, or Source themself answering you.
What happens is all within what you believe and your intention when you call on the universe.
Personally, I believe calling on the universe without intention could warrant any spirit to respond, but when I talk about or to the universe in my practice, it is only the beings of upmost benevolence and care for me that I am speaking to, because I have set that intention long ago.
Having the universe answer your questions can have its perks but it comes with fine print. The fine print is what you believe and the intention you put into asking your questions. The universe itself, Source, knows all and can share all… if it feels like it. Just remember to specify that you want the whole truth, if that is what you want.
d. Your intuition
Now, if you don’t believe in animism or you don’t feel comfortable conversing with any kind of spirits— or if you’re new to witchcraft— here’s the next option of what could be answering your questions when you do a reading: Your Own Intuition.
If it is your own intuition that is answering you, it is simple.
It’s you looking at a mundane deck, asking yourself the question while shuffling the deck and it is you who finds the answer by simply looking at the cards and interpreting them based on how your intuition speaks to you.
This is probably the most widely used/accepted belief in the witchy communities I have seen. I think it’s because it’s the most beginner friendly of them all. You don’t have to subscribe to a new belief system, you don’t have to worry about setting up boundaries or learning the intricacies to spirit work and channeling, all you have to do is work on understanding your own intuitive pings.
But while this is the most widely used option, it is not free of its own complications.
Now, it can be hard to listen to your intuition or hear it, especially if you are just beginning on your journey. This could lead to frustrations, self-doubt, or even giving up on the art of reading tarot.
However, all the other options are based on the detail that you can hear your intuition, and trust it. Spirits don’t talk to us the way live humans do, we cannot hear them with our physical ears so we use our clair senses— and our clair senses are based on our intuition. This isn’t to discourage you but to inform you of the truth of what it is to read tarot.
The good news is that when it is your intuition answering you, you don’t have to worry about being lied to, being manipulated, upsetting your deck, or having to build a relationship with any kind of spirit.
The good news is, your intuition always has your best interests in mind, your intuition is your higher self nudging you and guiding you to where you need to go and keeping you safe from harm. So this really is the best, beginner friendly option— for now, until we discover a new one!
However, just like with the other options, there is quite a bit of effort to put into reading tarot. This isn’t because this option is just as difficult but it’s simply because Tarot is difficult to grasp, because divination is complicated today.
The world we live in, especially in today’s age, is manufactured to separate us from our intuition, to cloud our judgement, to overstimulate us til we’re exhausted and can’t find our center. Why? Because it’s easier to keep people under control if they can’t regulate their nervous system and hear their intuition and know ways to live free from oppression. (There’s more reasons of course but we can get into that in a later post if you’d like.)
For this reason, it can take quite a while to hear and trust your intuition. Some of us may be faster at it and others may seem like they’re a natural at it, but this shouldn’t discourage you if you need to take more time and put in more effort to trust your intuition. Instead, take pride in how exciting your journey will be! You’ll get to practice more and enjoy the journey to uncover the noise and perhaps trauma that is clouding your intuition.
Taking time to learn your intuition is not a sign that you’ve done anything wrong or that you’re any less of a spiritual being than others. It is a sign of how far our world has gotten from our natural order. It is a sign of how much you’ve endured and have been told to disregard the way your body feels and the voice of your intuition. It is a reminder that we need to put in effort to teach others and the generations to come to spend time listening to their intuition to strengthen it so this doesn’t continue happening.
No matter the amount of time before you can fully trust your intuition, tarot is a really great way to learn and strengthen it!
e. All of the above
Now, a fun thing about divination is you can mix and match who answers your questions. This includes when you read tarot as well.
For my personal practice, I have my decks themselves answer, and I also rely on my intuition to interpret their cards and hear their insights.
I also have a handmade deck I made myself that I use to strengthen my intuition. I don’t ask the deck itself, I ask myself while I shuffle.
Then for my divination shop, the decks themselves answer until a client wants a channeled message, then I use the vessel deck.
So if more than one of these options resonates with you, know that you can mix and match with your readings, even mid-reading.
I still ask my vessel deck to answer questions himself! Sometimes I ask him to answer the questions first then I’ll have the specified spirit enter him or vice versa, but I find it faster to have him answer first because cleansing him after he channels a spirit can vary times for each spirit.
So really it is up to you who answers and when.
f. None of the above
Now, that we’ve gotten thru all the options I know of, here’s this one! It could be none of these.
If you find a new way to read tarot and find answers from something that isn’t a spirit or the deck or yourself, trust it! Trust yourself.
Tarot, like anything in the occult is really just personal gnosis turned into verified gnosis when it reaches a certain level of popularity or enough time has passed where it is now part of the myths and lore.
So if your journey takes you on the path of finding a new way, use it! And perhaps share it here if you feel comfortable, in the comments or reblogs so we can all learn your way too!
The beauty of tarot and the occult is: it is personal. What resonates for me may not resonate for you, what works for you may not work for others. It is all just each of us finding our own unique spin on a practice with lots of different options all passed down from people’s personal preferences and insights on the subject.
So have fun with your journey and have fun reading tarot in your unique way!
g. How to set the intention
Here’s the fun part! So now you know the different options for who or what can answer your questions, but if it all rests on setting the belief and intention, How do you set it?
Well, it varies… because it’s personal.
I’ve seen people complicate the idea of setting an intention, and I think that can make it really hard for beginners to understand what exactly setting an intention is, and means, and does.
It could be an elaborate ceremony where you light a few candles, maybe write it down on paper and pass the paper thru a flame. Or it could be more simple, you could set the intention by affirming while meditating for a few minutes, or it could be really quick while you’re dusting your fingers off from a snack you just gobbled up before grabbing your deck!
Each one of these— and any way you want to set the intention— is just as valid and concrete as the next!
I think the confusion around setting intention, comes from people’s desire to make their practice fun, so they add more steps or they take away steps but then share it as “the only true way” to set an intention and this causes the confusion.
So what exactly does it mean to set an intention?
Setting an intention is simple at its core. It’s you declaring either why you are doing something, or what you are doing, or what is happening.
In the case of tarot readings and setting the intention of who is answering your questions, setting the intention is essentially saying “This is who is allowed to answer me. No one else, nothing else. Just this.”
This can be done in any way that feels comfortable and true to you.
It can be as simple as thinking it once, “My deck answers me.” or it can be an affirmation you say every time while you shuffle your deck before a reading. Or it could be lighting a candle and affirming it with the energy of the flame to help you feel that your intention is solidified.
There is no wrong way to set an intention.
The only caveat is that you have to believe it and it has to be true to you.
Think of it as you swearing your reason for doing something in the court of universal law.
Let’s say a mundane example. You’re texting a friend, asking about y’all’s plans tonight. Your true reason for texting them is because you’re hoping they want to cancel because you want to stay home, but when they ask you why you’re asking, you lie and say you just wanted to confirm it was still happening. It’s not a lie, but it’s not fully honest and this can cause confusion and potentially an argument based on the miscommunication when the truth comes out later.
Setting an intention in anything magic related is the same way.
Let’s give a magical example now. Say you’re casting a spell. If you say the reason you’re doing a spell is because you want problems in your love life to be fixed but really you’re true reason for doing it is because you want someone to love you forever. Well now the spell is confused. It doesnt know whether it’s healing your karma and love life to bring you the best version of love to you, or if it’s simply bringing someone, anyone, into your life who will end up attached to you so they don’t leave you— perhaps in an unhealthy way— so you can have what you want.
This is usually the cause for why spells “don’t work” or “backfire.” It’s the lack of clear and true intention setting.
This is why it’s important to know yourself. Honestly. Either you can hear your soul and know instantly, exactly why you’re doing something, or you meditate and sit with the feeling until you know why you want to do something before you set the intention.
However you do it, you need to know your true reason behind doing something and then declare it, that is what setting an intention is.
So no matter which option you choose for your tarot practice, make sure you’re setting the true intention of what you want, to make sure you’re actually being answered by who or what you want.
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Sometimes, as a creative exercise, I try to write silly or over-the-top similes/metaphors. If I write a enough of them, I usually end up thinking, “wait, I kinda like that one.”
The plane touched down like a fawn’s first steps.
She made love like kicking over a woodpile.
They danced like two crows caught in a shopping bag.
The moon peeked through cloud-fingers like she was afraid of what she might see.
Your mind is like a meadow. You can stand back and consider it as a whole. You can focus on the buzz of activity around a single bloom. You can follow a bumblebee from flower to flower. If you find yourself feeling trapped in worry by dark clouds on the horizon, give yourself a break. Your focus is limited and you need to use it with intention. There are lots of ways to participate in your own inner life. You won't see what is blooming there unless you make the time to zoom-in and notice.
🔴 Red below — vital energy, culmination, rubedo.
🟡 Yellow at the throat — filtering consciousness.
👑 Crown above — stabilized mental authority.
And in the hands:
⚖️ Scales — deliberation.
🗡️ Sword — decision.
The structure is clear:
passion is not denied, it is disciplined.
reason is not cold, it is animated by fire.
The yellow could be read as a stabilized citrinitas: the light preceding the final act of the rubedo.
But in this card, both coexist.
Justice is not emotional neutrality.
It is dynamic equilibrium.
It is not the absence of fire.
It is fire that learned to speak with precision.
To attain incarnate truth (the red), the light of the intellect (yellow) must examine every aspect.
But that light cannot be cold: it needs the energy of conviction.
Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!
as a pharmacy technician i can share with you some websites that give you those "coupons" for your meds!
goodrx is the most well known one, but if i'm trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you're getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you
some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!
if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer's website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too
Hi pile 1! Stop playing it cool, i see youuu pile 1. The version of you that's about to come out is the one that was tucked away in a corner while you did everything you could to avoid being annoying, so no one would say you were "too much." Too much what? Too real? Too intense? Too clear? Well, now that intensity is going to come out HOT pile 1, and it's going to take away everything that no longer serves you.
You're going to start saying what's on your mind, you wont care what others think anymore. You know you have something special, your IDEAS are unique. You're going to set boundaries, but with style. Random, but i see you improving your fashion sense a lot, you will set the tone for others queen/king!!! You're going to move as if the world belongs to you, because you've now understood that waiting for permission is a TRAP. Don't be surprised if you start feeling more attractive, more creative, more alive.
Your energy changes when you're no longer hiding it. And yes, some may be uncomfortable because you no longer want to be the edited version of yourself. And the best part is that I see you're falling in love with that part of you that doesn't apologize for shining. If it doesnt serve you let it go, dont be sad if things or people start leaving your life. Better is coming, you are just preparing for what resonates with your new you.
💿˖ִ ࣪⚝₊ ⊹˚Pile 2:
Hi Pile 2! I see you are up to something 👀, your revenge glow up perhaps????. I feel like people took you for granted, they did not think you would make it. But here you are, and you DID IT. The version of you that's coming out is the one that got tired of holding everything alone and decided it deserves reciprocity. For a long time, you were the one who solved everything. The one who acted strong. The one who said "I'm fine" while the world was falling apart. But something in you clicked. And now you want something else.
You want to surround yourself with people who truly see you. You want routines that take care of you, spaces where you don't have to be defensive, relationships where you can breathe. I see you taking care of yourself, having that glow up that you always wanted. I see that if you have been thinking about dying your hair, DO IT.
And yes, there may be a little confusion. Because stopping running makes you ask yourself: "What now?" But that's exactly where the new you begins. Because this new version of you doesn't run, it walks with intention. It doesn't do things to show off, it does things to enjoy. You become more selective, more in touch with your real desires (and not the ones others put in your head👁️👁️). You begin to take care of your energy, and that's why there's no turning back. Many will regret letting you go, and honestly, good 4 u pile 2!
💿˖ִ ࣪⚝₊ ⊹˚Pile 3:
Hi pile 3! Ifeel like you come with the energy of someone who was silenced for so long that now they can't stop talking, laughing, saying what they think, and doing what they want, even though sometimes they have no idea what they're doing. And that's PERFECT (don't believe when they say its to much, you are meant to be all that). The version of you that's coming out now understood that living in fear is not living.
I feel like many of you could be moving out soon, your environment will def change. Maybe changing jobs, places, schools, etc. You're also moving out of the "I'd better not say anything" mode and into the "if it bothers me, I'll say it; if I like it, I'll show it; and if you don't like it, it's not my problem" mode. There's a part of you that's fed up with the awkward silences, with not wanting to seem "over the top," with turning down the volume on what you feel. You're trying new things.
You're taking action even when you're not sure. You're not afraid of seeming impulsive because you know that staying put would be worse. You might start making surprising decisions, from changing your look to letting go of relationships that no longer bring you joy. And in that chaos, you find clarity. Just know that you are sooo on the right path, so please, don't doubt yourself and keep going despite what others want you to believe.
💿˖ִ ࣪⚝₊ ⊹˚Thanks for reading and let me know if it resonated!💿˖ִ ࣪⚝₊ ⊹˚
