Tarot welcome

I have big news for you guys.I've been trying and trying to connect to my witches tarot deck but just could not do it up until today! I had a personal issue that just kept turning over in my head so I improvised a three card layout and with my questions in my conscious, I shuffled the deck and layed out my cards.
Of course I still kept the reference book close by just to help but I looked over the cards first and write my impressions in the journal I keep with the cards. Turns out that my impressions were actually fairly close to what the book has for each card.
I also noticed that in the book,each card were back to back as far as in reference. I definitely felt the connection to the cards today though. I guess making a bag to put the cards in kind of helped in some way or something.none of this occurred before I made the bag.
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Oracle deck

I seem to be finding a pattern within my buyings. I have three tarot decks and three Oracle decks right now but I feel more drawn to Oracle decks it seems like.
They are easier for me to read and get a good response from then tarot cards are.with tarot decks, I feel like I have to put in a bit more time and effort into studying them but Oracle cards seem to just speak to me. Especially the first deck I bought,which was called 'earth magic', and same goes for the second one I bought,which is called 'goddess guidance' and yesterday an Oracle deck really spoke to me so I bought it.it's called the 'butterfly Oracle deck for life changes'

To each their own I guess. ☺

Need energy.....

Of late I feel like I have been under massive stress and worry to the point where I am starting to not take care of myself like I should be doing,especially since I find myself pregnant again. This pregnancy is particularly stressful and more "high risk" according to my gyn doctor. Plus the stress of everything going on in my life, I have slacked off on using and growing my reiki connections and abilities. Reiki never failedme when I first started exploring it but I have forgotten it and I hate myself for it.

Reiki is an ancient holistic Japanese healing practice that anyone, at any age, can practice with enough discipline. It can even be spread to be used on familiars and inanimate objects. All it takes is discipline and practice and patience.

Blessed be

Judge me?

I have this book that an aunt of mine have me for the sole purpose of trying to dissuade me from becoming a wiccan. I hate the book for the sole reason it is supposed to be about all religions but the major sections are Christian based religions and Wicca only gets a small very biased section in the very back of the book. The author of the book is a devout Christian so from the start his opinions become invalid to me.
The book is called the "indispensable guide to world religions" or something like that. Either way, I appreciate her effort,simply because she is the only one who has even made a single effort or whatever unlike everyone else in the family.

You have to respect the ones willing to try like that because they are the only ones who seem to care.

Tarot Journaling

So here lately I have been drawn to a few of my tarot and Oracle decks. I keep a rune journal that before now,I had no idea that inside the back cover was a secret pocket. I'm a bit excited about that actually. Anyway, I have two Oracle decks and at least three tarot decks. I have a fairy tarot deck which is the first ever tarot deck I ever bought. In one spread I did, the deck revealed that it is my happy childlike aspect.
I have a witches tarot deck that I have been using for the journaling of late, is my more serious, deep thought type of deck or so it revealed itself as. I have yet to use my third deck though.I've only opened it out of curiosity but haven't done any drawing with it Yet.this deck is the shadowscapes deck. I found out about this deck through a YouTube channel called MandI See.(I recommend you to go like and subscribe to her channels) the shadowscapes deck has not revealed it's teaching purpose to me yet but giving time it will.

I also have a pendulum that I have experimented with once or twice. It hasn't really spoke to me yet unlike my tarot cards but I feel like the time will come for it.

My Oracle decks are the earth magic deck and the goddess guidance deck. I was strongly pulled to the earth magic deck because I associate with the earth element the most. The goddess deck called to me because I've been feeling motherly of late.having one child and being pregnant with baby number two has made me that way :)

I keep looking online for other decks and I've come across a few that I might try to get in the near future. Tarot is addicting ❤

Self love

I tried this the other night when I was feeling overwhelmed. And it felt like a rush of relief once it was over. Its really simple. You just need two basic supplies: a lighter and a stick of rose incense.

Light the incense and visualize the smoke enveloping you in love and good feelings. Visualize the stress you have disappear with the smoke.

Do this until the incense has burned down all the way. Comment with your experience 💕

Religious tolerance

I am a big believer in having tolerance for all religions. In my opinion, all religions are just different points of view, telling the same story. We all come from the Father and Mother.why we have this need to destroy, mock, get rid of other religions that "threaten" others is absolutely ridiculous.
We all need to realize that there is no one all powerful religion. Humanity needs to stop judging and stop killing each other. If we stopped trying to hurt each other and start helping each other. No, i am not against guns because I think that even though I am talking about humanity and kindness; there are individuals that wish to harm others and we need protection from those people.
I believe myself to be spiritual and pagan and I believe that we should help heal each other.