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Go Get a Roomie!
Hark, A Vagrant
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Questionable Content
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Six days into April, and I'm just now reckoning with the card that @sincerely_the_tarot pulled for me as a part of #sincerelyapril: Ten of Wands 🔥 When I opened my #sincerely78 envelope on April 1st, I looked at this card and its accompanying phrase for a few long moments, then put it right back into the envelope. This is not the April I wanted to have, I thought. Yes, you're right, Ten of Wands, I'm overwhelmed. I'm burning the candle left, right, and center - and still feeling utterly helpless. Desperately useless. How is it helpful for you to show up right now?! 🔥 Later, as I went about restructuring my altar to honor and welcome the energy of the Ten of Wands (begrudgingly), I spent some time reflecting on why my reaction to this card is so... heavy. I've since gone away and come back many times. This conversation is a long one, and largely internal. Here's what I can share so far: 🔥 When I take on the weight of the world, I become incapacitated and lose my ability to share my unique flame with others. This is not helpful. 🔥 Tens are the end of a cycle. Now is a time for change. I can choose to move away from burdensome overwhelm and try new ways of connecting and sharing my gifts. 🔥 This is also the end of an old way of living for many of us, not just me. This is bigger than me. I have a small, grain-of-sand scale role to play here - how can I hold this perspective while still remaining accountable? 🔥 My burdens feel so, so heavy, but I feel guilty for feeling overwhelmed when I live in such privilege and comfort. Yet I know that we are all experiencing a collective trauma, and it is normal to feel and be affected by deep grief right now, so what purpose does my self-shaming serve? 🔥 And how many of these wands are really mine to carry, anyways? Am I doing others a disservice by trying to hoist their wands onto my shoulders when my feet are already sinking into the mud? (Spoiler alert: yes, I am.) 🔥 Lighting into new. This feels like a key to unlock the secrets of the Ten of Wands. I feel like I'm swimming all around the answer but can't quite see it yet. 🔥 Stay tuned. More is coming over the horizon. Any day now.

As we round the corner into Spring, Aries season, and the New Moon, I'm taking a moment to return to my card of the month, the Three of Wands. 🔥🔥🔥 Where am I being called to bring my creative expression into the world? How can my creativity, vision, and passion serve the healing of both myself and the collective at this time? What framework have I previously created that I can now build onto to bring my dreams into reality? 🔥🔥🔥 Oh, I have so many questions and so few answers. But I do feel something crystallizing and forming in the heat of the flames. Maybe I need to wait until the end of the month to see what it is. Patience is so hard for me! But this card calls for it. 🔥🔥🔥 I love how the Three of Wands is represented in these two decks: The Wild Unknown shows it as a portal, the magical gateway into the iridescent, incandescent, illuminated majesty of the new world my fire is creating. The three sticks come together to create something greater than the sum of their parts on an astronomical scale. This makes me think of how the skills I've learned and grown into from my wide variety of experiences are being called into play now, in this crucial moment for our world. Compassion. Quick thinking. Persistence. Curiosity. Perspective. Grit. Patience... is still a work in progress. The Oriens Tarot, on the other hand, depicts a flying squirrel with three wands clasped loosely in its tail, calculating its next move. The wands look almost crystalline. This card speaks to me of the boldness required to take the leap into something new and creative. The courage and gusto. The utter fearlessness in the face of potential disaster. Are we not all here in this moment? We have the choice to take action, to make this time MEAN something, to create beauty out of chaos and fear. That's terrifying... and exhilarating. 🔥🔥🔥 I am just one small person, and confidence has never come easily to me. Yet the Three of Wands came to me this month. I am choosing to hear this as an invitation to pour the real, raw, vulnerable nugget of Truth that resides in my soul into everything I do. I don't succeed at this every day, but when I do, it feels right. TO BE CONTINUED...

🐇Answers for your Ostara Pick-a-Pile readings are here!🐣 🌷 Check the comments for my interpretation of each pile! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🌷 If you're a fan of these Pick-a-Pile posts, let me know! I would love to serve y'all the best I can during these unusual times. 🥰 🌷 Also, if you like my writing, you might like my Patreon: www.patreon.com/Kelshenka 🌷🌷🌷 Decks used: The Obsidian Oracle by @meganbuccere Blessing Cards & Inspiration in a Box Affirmation Cards (I found them at a craft fair about ten years ago and have never seen them in the wild again) 🌷 #theobsidianoracle #blessingcards #pickapile #pickacard #oraclereading #tarotreadersofinstagram

🐣 Happy Ostara! 🐇 Happy Spring Equinox! 🌷 I pulled some oracle cards for a wee pick-a-pile reading for y'all! Ground, center, take a few breaths, then choose your pile. 💐 Left: slightly murky quartz Middle: green jasper heart Right: chonky lapiz lazuli 💐 Answers to be revealed this weekend! 🌷 #pickacard #pickapile #tarotreading #oraclereading #pickapilereading #tarotreadersofinstagram

March 15: What new perspectives can I choose to explore as I move forward? The Emperor Rx (Base Card: King of Cups) ⛰️ Standing strong in my own authority. Make space for myself. Bring my compassion and expertise to the fore. ⛰️ This is the final day of our #MercuryRxflections challenge. And so arrives the Emperor, our collective card of the year, and a winter repeater for me personally. The Emperor asks me to be a leader, to take up space, to assert myself and actively take up the mantle of my power. The reversal feels appropriate, especially given the sheer volume of reversed cards I've encountered throughout this challenge. Reversed, the Emperor tells me to begin the process of embodiment by creating routine and stability in the mundane aspects of my personal life. This is a message I've been receiving often lately. Things won't change unless I change them. Back to the drawing board and back to the basics. 🗻 I invited in a base card for this final card as well. The King of Cups is back once more to remind me that I do have skills, knowledge, and awareness that can support me as I re-learn to regulate my emotions through this new, triggering landscape. The King also shows up as a reminder to take responsibility for myself - because I have these skills, I have no excuse for an uncontrolled implosion. I have no excuse for irresponsible decompensation or emotionally toxic seepage. This sucks - sometimes I want to tantrum and fall apart and give up! But that's not a thing I get to do. If I need help, I need to ask for it. And if I'm not ok, I need to step away. If I want to be a responsible community member, and I do, I must commit to do no harm to others first and foremost. 🗻 #MercuryRxflections #mercuryretrograde #themesquitetarot #theemperorreversed #kingofcups #leaderofcups

March 14: How can I sharpen my inward-facing awareness and attention? Student of Arrows (Knight of Swords) Rx ⚔️ Articulate clearly. Reduce outside influences. Avoid mental over-stimulation. Focus on gentleness towards myself. Make the inward space a safe one. ⚔️ In order to focus inwards, I must first make sure that I'm safe to engage with myself. ⚔️ #MercuryRxflections #themesquitetarot #studentofarrows #knightofswordsreversed

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