Thinking about making a "skill tree" for my magical practice.
There's a woman on TikTok who does some incredible glass work and some time ago she made a "skill tree" for her art. It had like various branches with smaller tasks leading up to bigger projects.
Wondering if anyone else has attempted something like this? I've got so much I want to learn and these seems like a good way to keep some focus!
"Psychologically the Empress represents subconsciousness. She is the mother of ideas, the generatrix of mental images. The power by which she works is the power of subdivision of root ideas into various forms. In reasoning this is the function of subconsciousness called deduction. The apparent multiplication of images is really the splitting up of root ideas into manifold presentations. She is called the Empress because subconsciousness has direct control over all the sequences of development in the material world."
— Paul Foster Case, "Learning Tarot Essentials", c. 1932
Art: Ancien Tarot de Marseille, 1930
Are you a Creator/ have Talent, but don’t know how to yield it? This is how to profit off of your creative talents and abilities utilizing your 5th house energy: ( PART1)
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Aries 5H
You create from instinct, but half the time you kill your own flow by overthinking how it’ll be received. You’re meant to lead, not wait for permission. Your creative power is raw initiation. The moment you move, opportunities appear. Profit comes when you stop holding back and just do what you already see others waiting to try. Your energy is your brand, people buy how you make them feel alive, not how perfect your work looks.
Taurus 5H
You crave beauty, but your fear of imperfection keeps you stuck. You over-polish what’s already valuable. Your art becomes profitable when you trust that your taste is enough. You create wealth through comfort, touch, sound, or design that calms the senses. Stop chasing approval, your slow, grounded rhythm builds consistent income. Your creative gift is turning peace into something tangible that others can buy.
Gemini 5H
You’re creative when you talk, share, and connect, but your biggest block is distraction. You scatter your brilliance because you fear choosing one thing. Profit comes when you commit to a story or idea long enough to see it bloom. Your words are your art. Your curiosity creates content others crave. Focus turns your quick mind into gold.
Cancer 5H
You create from emotion, and that’s your power and your trap. You hide when you feel misunderstood, but your feelings are exactly what the world relates to. You profit when you stop protecting your heart and start expressing it. Write, design, speak, or build around the warmth people can feel in you. Home, nostalgia, belonging, these are your creative currencies. You heal others by showing your own softness.
Leo 5H
You were born to be seen, but you confuse attention with acceptance. Your creativity becomes profitable when you stop performing for approval and start performing from truth. Your light is magnetic when it’s honest. You lead by example, and when you own your story, people invest in it. Your art doesn’t need to be liked, it needs to be felt.
Virgo 5H
You think your creativity must be useful, not emotional. You perfect before you share, which keeps your genius hidden. Profit begins when you release the need for flawlessness. Your detail, structure, and refinement are rare, use them to create systems, content, or services that make life easier for others. The secret: your art is healing through clarity.
Libra 5H
You fear disappointing people, so you compromise your creative truth. Your art shines when you stop people-pleasing and express what’s actually in you, not what’s expected. Beauty is natural to you, but depth is your hidden gold. Profit comes when you merge the two, make aesthetics carry meaning. Your charm opens doors, but your honesty keeps them open.
Scorpio 5H
Your creativity terrifies you because it exposes you. You have power that transforms, but you guard it with control. Let your art be your outlet. People are drawn to your intensity because it feels real. Profit comes when you stop hiding behind mystery and start using it. Speak the truths no one else dares. You create value by revealing what others suppress.
Sagittarius 5H
You’re the storyteller, but you waste power trying to inspire others instead of embodying your message. Live what you teach. Your creativity expands when you stop chasing meaning and start being the lesson. You profit through sharing experience—coaching, travel, philosophy, truth. People pay for your perspective, not perfection.
Capricorn 5H
You fear failure so much you work harder than everyone else, but creativity isn’t control. Your art gains value when you let emotion in. You build masterpieces when you balance skill with soul. Profit comes through structure, courses, design, leadership, systems, but the secret is warmth. You’re not cold; you’re cautious. Let people feel your passion and the money follows.
Aquarius 5H
You hide your originality to fit in, but it kills your spark. Your genius thrives when you stop filtering yourself. Your creativity challenges systems, it’s supposed to. You profit through innovation, media, and ideas ahead of their time. Your secret currency is community: build around your vision and let it spread.
Pisces 5H
You create from feeling, but you lose focus because you absorb too much. You escape instead of producing. Your creativity becomes wealth when you ground it in form, music, writing, healing, or visuals that give emotion a body. You’re not weak for being sensitive. Your depth is your product. The world will pay for how you make it feel.
mutuals please tell me what your username means to you! after some reflection I realize I have no idea what most of your urls mean and I’m really interested to know!
*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.
well... there will always be more storms. maybe not as heavy & dangerous as the ones we've been through, or maybe so, but there will always be more storms. so we weatherproof, we build shelter, so we can sit quiet and breathe knowing the storms are here but we are no longer exposed to the elements and no longer facing them alone
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I wanted to say that the readings are a bit short (very short) because lately I’ve been posting on other platforms where people don’t really like to read very long texts (🥲), and since I don’t have much time, I use the content from there to share here as well!
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Pile 1
Yes. The question may be about a romantic issue. It is important to note that before this can happen, change is required, especially in terms of letting go of fears and uncertainties from the past. You need to look at this situation more clearly, without letting these remnants of the past shape how you will face or deal with it. It is a sincere opportunity, something genuine that can bring you great happiness, but first it requires healing and letting go of past pain. Even if the future seems uncertain, rest assured that it will be easier if you leave behind the baggage of insecurities and fears, allowing yourself to see the situation more calmly and clearly. 💛
Pile 2
Yes. In this situation, you may be being called upon to look at things from another perspective, mainly because it seems that you are letting yourself be carried away by your emotions and not following your rational mind. At the moment, it is important that you find more clarity, especially if an important decision is required. You need to be clearer about this and use your mind to guide you; this will lead you to the stability you want to have. You may think this seems impossible or far-fetched, but this stagnation in the process was necessary to prevent you from losing everything. Focus more on your thoughts and plan the situation better. The results will be different, much calmer and more stable. 💛
Pile 3
Yes. You have all the resources you need to make this work. You have good motivation in your mind and in your feelings. They may be a little immature at the moment, but they have the capacity to develop and achieve something stable and balanced, so try to work on that balance. You have great motivation, and that can be the fuel to achieve your goals. If you are torn between two situations, try to focus on the one that brings you a more genuine feeling of affection and love, whether romantic or not, something that leaves a more lasting mark, not just something fleeting and unstable that does not seem to offer you long-term security. 💛
Thank you all so much for reading this far! I sincerely hope you enjoyed it. The photos were taken from Pinterest, and the dividers I used belong to @saradika-graphics ! 🥰💛
Pick your pile by choosing the picture you feel most drawn to with your intuition! Thanks to @drinkthesky for the cute dividers! I hope you enjoy the reading! 🤎✨🕯️
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Pile 1 🍞
You're someone who has been through a lot in their life, you've got a lot of responsibilities. You've always felt a strong need to look after everyone else around you, taking on their problems as your own and trying to solve them as best as you can. And you make it seem effortless. You carry the world on your shoulders and you make it appear that it doesn't weigh you down at all, as if the world itself is as light as a feather. I want you to know that your loved ones do wish that you would take a rest and not be so worried about everyone else for once, so please take some time for yourself. It's not your responsibility or duty to take care of everyone, I feel that it's just how you are but at some point you will burnout and you don't want to feel resentful about your loved ones for it. But, they love how you care so deeply, and how responsible and reliable you are. Responsibility is a huge thing here. I feel you might've had to be the parent in your family whilst your actual parents weren't very mature. Without the toxicity of it all, I feel your younger siblings (if you have any) and friends are super grateful for the role model that you are. They know they can rely on you if they need any help. You'll be there, any time and anywhere, day or night to help with whatever problem they have big or small. You are their lighthouse in the night. When they're so wrapped up in chaos and don't know how to make it out, you appear in their life, beautiful and radiant, illuminating a path forward for them to make it out the other end. That's so beautiful. They love you so much for it and feel so grateful to have you in their lives. Everyone should have someone like you in their lives. You are the shining dawn after a night of torment. A breath of fresh air, though cold and exposing of the night and what actually no longer serves them, still a reminder of what life could be like and a chance at a new beginning.
You've had to walk away from a situation that you didn't think you was going to survive. I feel that you're in a better place now, but the fact that you managed to walk away in the first place, people love that you had the strength to do that. You realised you deserved a better life for yourself and you left all that you knew to start over again. Starting over in life is terrifying and a lot of people never get the nerve to do it, but for you, after the first redo, it just seems to get easier. You might even look forward to having to start over. You're capable of surviving the worst so when you finally have your life in your own hands, it feels liberating. There's a huge relief and freedom to it. People love that you trust in yourself and in the cycles of life. You know your hard work will pay off one way or another. You can have as many new beginnings as you wish. The fact you can leave the last place you was in, move to somewhere else and make new friends from scratch. It's commendable, truly! People love the fact that you know you're worth and know that you'd be a credit to anyone. Even after all the shit you've been through, you still know how to have fun too! There's a balance of wisdom and whimsy. Your zest and joy for life isn't naivety, it's a kindness and softness that you conserved despite the hardships you've faced. You defended your softness with tooth and nail; it's very much hard-earned. And despite everything, you're still you. That same kindness you extend to others, it changes their lives, and they recognise how hard you fought to keep kind and they're in awe of you. They especially recognise this when in one-to-one conversations or small groups and you're giving them advice. They love your undivided attention because for that brief time, they feel like the centre of the universe. You make them feel so special by giving them your time and love.
You are invaluable. You know intimately the cycles of death and rebirth, transformation and transmutation. How you keep evolving over and over again. Bettering yourself each and every day. That's what people love most about you 🤍🌙✨
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Pile 2 🐈
You're both imaginative and grounded. You have big dreams but you're not afraid to work hard to make them reality. You're very creative and always have a lot of ideas. You're like an endless stream of ideas, daydreams and emotions, and people love that. You definitely pour into your own cup first and let the excess flow to your loved ones. You're unapologetically yourself and let yourself show up in whatever way you're feeling at that time. You don't care if it's messy; it's real and authentic. You're emotional and sensitive but that only means you're truly empathetic. You have a lot of emotional intelligence. You experience the spectrum of all emotion and feeling, and that gives you a deeper understanding of how other people feel. You can honestly relate to how other people feel, why they feel the way they do and help them understand why they react they way they do. You truly take the time to understand someone to their core, all the good and the bad. People love that you treat them with care, that you gently hold a place for them to feel all their emotions safely. You accept them as they are, not wanting to change them, just to give them perspective on themselves. You accept even the parts of themselves that they find undesirable, even 'ugly' I'm hearing. To you, it's all part of the human experience, which I definitely agree with! You're by that person's side, through the good and the bad, through the highest highs and lowest lows. You know how to navigate the tumultuous feelings of pain and grief and how to truly celebrate with happiness and joy. One emotion is not better than the other. To be able to feel as vastly and variable is all part of being a human and living life. You're patient, no matter how calm or stormy the seas are, you just turn up. You're present and you show up and trust yourself to know when you assessed the situation how to navigate it. That empathy and patience is something people really love about you.
You rely on your intuition a lot, and it's never failed you. You know how the situation will play out and you act accordingly, even if people don't understand why you take the actions you do, you still come out the other end whilst everyone else is scrambling. You just needed time. Your intuition guides you and whilst not everyone understands, you do understand. After a few times of seeing how accurate your intuition is, other people start paying attention, and suddenly your ideas and actions don't seem so weird or ridiculous. The people that realise this love this about you. They feel you're being divinely guided and protected by angels and spirits, like you're God's favourite and you are.
You're incredibly kind and nurturing. You are a safe place for a lot of people, you bring comfort and you definitely do not judge people. A lot of people who don't have that, cherish and love that so much, and are incredibly grateful to have you in their life. You're not afraid to share what you have either, especially your love and time. You always seem to know the right thing to do, you've got a lot of potential to make it far in life. You're definitely wifey material. That's what people love most about you 🧡💐☀️
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Pile 3 🕯️
People can trust your judgement. Whenever there's an argument, they'll come to you to see if they was right or wrong because they trust that you'll tell them the truth, and they'd listen to your criticism. You're fair and you can see both sides of an argument, and people listen because you're a very honest and authentic individual yourself, and people love that about you.
You go after your heart's desire but you're logical about it. You don't fly away with the fairies. You're real. You'll offer kind words and practical solutions. There's emotion behind your actions and words but you don't overwhelm and keep things comfortable. You are optimistic and always find the silver lining to any situation. It's a way of coping for you, but you're not wrong about your assessment either. You're not lost. You know where you're going and know what you want, and you're not afraid to go after it. You've been knocked down before by life. You've had the rug pulled beneath your feet and got up again. You have witness firsthand the chaos of life and you're not afraid to look the storm in the eye. When shit is hitting the fan and it feels like the whole world is crumbling around you, you're not afraid to get to the bottom of why it's happening. You don't run away, you don't cower and hide, you confront it head on despite how you're feeling. You appear fearless to your loved ones and a true pillar of support and stability, and they love that a lot. They're grateful for that and are in awe of the fact that you will confront of darker parts of life. When there's nothing left of the life you had before, you look amongst the rubble and find where the instability was, where the weaknesses and fractures started from. When life gives you lessons, you learn them. You actually do the inner work. You transmute the pain into wisdom, and you don't repeat the same mistake twice.
A lot of people are too afraid to actually get to know themselves on a deep level or hold themselves accountable. You absolutely are not. You know your demons and their names. You know how they show up for you in your day-to-day life. It reminds me of the lyric in Arsonist's Lullaby by Hozier: 'Don't you ever tame your demons,
But always keep them on a leash'. Maybe you should listen to that song, I think it definitely embodies you very well. You take the time to reflect, to think about how your life experiences have shaped you and how that plays out. You do the shadow work of understanding and resolving anything that hasn't been so it doesn't hold you back. You know that after getting knocked down over and over again that if you haven't resolved any inner conflict, the foundation that you build in life will not last. It won't be solid and it'll crack and fall again. This wisdom and maturity is deeply appreciated and adored by your loved ones. They feel you have the potential to go very far in life. They trust that you know the right way because you're extremely intelligent. They are in awe of how you actually confront any inner conflict and don't just ignore it or suppress it. I feel like there's been a family generational curse that you're breaking by resolving these issues whilst previous generations just buried it, not realising or having the strength themselves to resolve it. For that, you are a beacon of hope for your loved ones. That all is not loss or doomed because they have you. That's what they love most about you. It's definitely not easy at all, which is why no one else broken the cycle yet, so you should be incredibly proud of yourself 🤍🪐✨
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Pile 4 🤎
People love how generous you are in your relationships. Relationships of all kind: platonic, familial, romantic, and even strangers - you never let someone go without and don't like leaving people out, you make everyone feel welcome. If someone needs something, you won't hesitate to give them what they need if you have it or help them get it. You're generous and kind nature is truly appreciated by those around you. You give so freely because you know the universe will repay your kindness tenfold. Even if you don't have a lot, you give like you do, and in turn, you become even more abundant for it.
You're emotional intelligent, you have a good understanding of people and don't let yourself make impulsive decisions. You have a lot of self-control and always operating in your own best interest. You definitely take care of yourself because you understand that if you don't, then who will? Self-care and having that time to rest and recuperate is sacred to you. You have your own self-care rituals that you stick to, and people love that you value yourself so highly. It doesn't make you stuck up, it reinforces boundaries so people can't take advantage of you, they know who you are and how you treat yourself so they can't lower your standards for you, not that you ever should! You're not afraid to say what you expect from others because you hold yourself to those same standards, if not, you have even higher standards for yourself. You have a lot of self-respect and that invites other people into your life with the same respect for you. You very much embody 'the wolf does not concern themself with the opinion of sheep', and people eat that up and love it! You have people in your life that you value, and you let them know it, you're not afraid to express your love for them and they feel deeply appreciated for that. Those who do not give you the same love and respect you give yourself have no place in your life. They can complain and make excuses as much as they wish but, they're just simply not on your level. They think you're still on the same playing field, but you're not, you're on a different planet! You're better than that! This self-respect and role model example that you are shows the people in your life that they deserve the same, and they love that you showed this to them. They're incredibly grateful that they have someone as supportive, generous, kind as you.
It's not that you've always felt this way. You've had to learn the hard way of not being treated with the love and respect you deserve. You was trapped and couldn't find a way out. When you realised that there's more for you out in the world, you started going for it at full speed. You help remind people who are stuck just like you were that there's more to life that they deserve! That's incredibly beautiful. You teach them that they're worthy of love and the life they want to have. You lift them up and support them, and they love that so much about you and it makes you unforgettable knowing you saw their worth before they realised they had any 🧡🌷🎀
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first thing in the morning—take three slow deep breaths (air/sky) more grounding than immediately checking a phone
notice your feet on the ground taking root when you stand up for the first time of the day, take a little stretch (earth/land)
wash or splash your face to get alll the way awake. then chug a big glass. (water/sea)
appreciate any trees, plants, dirt, or clouds you see
place both hands on your heart to feel your own heat and warmth. feel your heart beating. “i am alive” (fire)
wear or carry a rock, hagstone, crystal, talisman, or amulet
in times of stress or dissociation, rub your thumb in small circles on the back of your other hand to ground and soothe. (clockwise for attracting an intention, counterclockwise for banishing)
color magic with clothing
add cinnamon, lavender, or peppermint to coffee according to intention if you don’t want to drink tea
stirring tea/coffee according to intention
sometimes i pick a little affirmation for the day— “may i forgive myself” “the universe is within me/the wild is within me”
visualization—inhale a bright light and let it fill your lungs, exhaling clouds of negativity
or create a shield with breathing. with each breath, imagine a bubble forming around your body, then your aura, growing with strength.
cleansing shower at the end of the day (intending it to cleanse my aura makes me more motivated to take one, idkw)
if taking a bath, add a dash of moon water
sniff lavender essential oil before bed
look at the moon, talk to it. remind yourself that it’s the same one your ancestors knew.
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