The Weekly One, 5/27/24: Overcoming the things that poke our wounds.
Acting versus reacting when your business pushes your buttons.
You’re not close to the finish line, but you’ve made a gorgeous start, says this week’s energy. The question here is: what will you do with that start?
There’s the potential for deepening your evolution, progressing on your path. There’s also the potential for staying wrapped in the familiar and scratchy blanket of old hurt.
Tending your wounds is on the menu this week, wherever you may be on your healing journey.
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In The Card: Celebration and a commitment.
(If you’re a regular reader, you’ll notice the difference - I’m sharing a single card this week instead of three! Let’s dive in.)
The IV of Wands is such a beautiful card. There’s so much joy and celebration here. You’ve done a thing! It’s a big thing! It’s a thing that matters and we’re really stoked on that! Celebration is most definitely in order.
There’s also a lot of fire here: Wands are classically super-haht on things like romantic passion, creative passion, entrepreneurship, internal drive.
This is also a card with big stability vibes. Combine that sense of stability with the energy of the suit of Wands and you’ve got: a commitment to something that feels meaningful to you and a happy win that signals the start of the real work.
In Between: Active healing.
The IV of Wands is associated with the final ten degrees of Aries, where later this week (on Wednesday, to be exact,) we’ll see Mars (more fire!) coming conjunct with Chiron.
Chiron is also called the wounded healer. In your chart, it can show where you have a deep wound and also where you’ve maybe gained some superpowers because of that wound. You may be positioned to help other people with similar wounds who haven’t come as far as you have in your healing simply because you know their pain so acutely.
With this week’s Mars-Chiron conjunction, look at the house where Aries lives in your chart. What kind of healing do you need around the life areas associated with that house?
Mars creates a lot of action, (for lack of a better word.) This planet can provide a lot of motivation and stamina and energy. It can also be reckless and hotheaded. This conjunction could create the energy you need to finally start, or deepen, healing those wounds. Or, it could create a scenario where everything about this hurts.
Given the energy of the IV of Wands for this week, I think there’s more potential for the former than the latter, but either way—be gentle with yourself.
In Your Business: How would the healed version of you approach this scenario?
There are so many things I’ve done in my business that have been a direct result of hurt and trauma. They don’t always work out so great. In fact, they usually just end up reinforcing the pain.
But when I consider a different approach, something that I may never have considered before, I get a result that not only comes from a place of healing—the simple process of considering an action instead of a reaction often heals me more. Even when the result is less than ideal.
Maybe because there is a notion of having been freed from my own pain. Instead of continuously banging my head against the same wall over and over, I have the ability to do something different. At the absolute bare minimum, it means I can choose a different wall, any wall I want, instead of this played out old facade.
But in the grand scheme of things, it means I have options. I can try things on purpose until I find what actually works for me instead of trying things that I know, (consciously or otherwise,) just plain don’t.
How would the healed version of you—the one who acts on purpose and has options—approach your business right now? How would that person approach this new commitment, this fresh win, this idea that’s proven itself but hasn’t come to full fruition yet?
Think on that this week as the energy aligns in your support. Onward and upward (and inward.)
Until next week,
Zoha
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About The Author:
Zoha Abbas is a Writer, Intuitive Tarot Reader and Business Coach who aims to explore the small business conversations around self-trust, critical thinking, reality checks and forging your (not so straight) path to success in the grey-area of real life. Find out more at zohaabbas.com
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