The Weekly One, 6/24/24: Opportunity only exists when you’re ready.
On what you can’t see until you look the right way.
Following your awareness and having context are key this week as the blindfold comes off, the cage door opens and a path forward becomes apparent. If you’re truly ready for an opportunity, you’ll know it when you see it. If you’re not - that’s ok. But be ready for a few more life lessons to prep you ‘til you’re there.
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In The Card: A way out.
The VIII of Swords is one of those cards that makes you think. Quite literally, when you see it upright, you might be overthinking yourself into a corner. But the imagery has always been a little curious to me…
Here’s this woman, blindfolded, trapped inside a makeshift cage of swords - only there’s nobody else around. The weather seems clear, both literally and symbolically, and there’s an idyllic-looking castle nestled in the cliffs behind her.
Who the fuck put her here? Why is she trapped? Why does she have to be standing in the ONLY fucking puddle on this entire field? Why has she been bound so loosey-goosey?
This VIII of Swords comes our way reversed this week, and the energy blocked by the reversal seems like stuff we really could do without in the first place. In this position, the overthinking becomes clear thought, a path forward presenting itself as if it had been there all along if only you’d changed your perspective sooner.
But, better late than never, and a way out is a way out - hooray!
In Between: Opportunity - if you want and if it’s right.
Mercury is doing the absolute most right now, and it will trine Saturn, square Chiron and sextile Uranus all before the week is out.
That means the planet of intellect and communication is coming into some kind of important contact and interaction with our life lessons, our wounds and healing, and our unique sense of reform and revolution.
To me, that kind of energy says realizations galore.
If you’ve been feeling fuzzy on certain aspects of your business, this might be a week when things start becoming clear to you. But the fun part about clarity is that you only accept it when you’re ready to.
How many times have you looked back on a situation, good or bad, and thought to yourself “well, shit - the signs were all there. All I had to do was open my eyes.”
When I see the VIII of Swords in a reversed position, it makes me think of that blindfold coming loose and succumbing to gravity. It slips right off, and now you can see.
The only question is: do you have the context and awareness right now to make sense of what you see?
In Your Business: Keep your gut tuned to your own answers.
This is a week to keep a notebook nearby. Any morning pages, moments of clarity or reflections before bedtime will likely serve you well - if not now, then later.
If you’ve been mulling things over in your business, try taking another look at the cold, hard facts in the light of day. Are there pieces to this puzzle that need finding? How have you gone about that before, and how did that process serve you?
If it’s time to try something new, give something old a new try, or just stop trying so hard, the answers might make themselves apparent to you by the end of the week.
If you’re paying attention to your own awareness and context, that is.
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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