The Weekly One, 7/29/24: On giving and receiving help.
“Self-made” is a lie.
If relationships are a two-way street, generosity is a multi-way intersection: it’s flow is what helps us all get by. There is no success to be had without a little help from our friends. The strength of community, benevolence and backup are front and center this week, allowing us to choose how we give and receive help along our paths to achieving goals and realizing visions.
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In The Card: Someone lends a hand.
A helping hand arrives in the nick of time with the VI of Pentacles this week. If you’ve been feeling like your physical resources have been running dry, this might be exactly the energy you need at exactly the moment you need it.
Pentacles are often associated with money and finances - this suit is even referred to as the suit of Coins in many decks - but I find that physical resources often go far beyond the cash we’re taught to consider the most valuable resource possible.
I see it manifest in finances, yes, but also in physical vitality, connection to nature and physical space. Those, too, are physical resources that contribute to our overall success.
Numerologically, VI has a connected quality. In Tarot, the sixes always come with a feeling of community and strength in numbers. It brings the idea that if we work together to help each other, we all come out ahead. There’s a huge sense of relief that lives in this card, and I am honestly very glad to see it 😅
In Between: Giving and getting.
Learning to acknowledge and accept help can be a weird thing. We value self-reliance so highly in our culture that the simple idea of accepting someone’s help can seem like having your legs cut out from under you. I think there’s also a resultant phenomenon where we also don’t offer help as much as we can give it. There’s a hands-off approach to relationships—whether family, friends, coworkers, randomly associated strangers on the street—that communicates: “I’ll cheer for you from the sidelines, but do it yourself.”
How does this end up isolating us from each other? How does it end up hindering us all? How does it stifle collective liberation from the systems designed to keep most of us UNsuccessful and forever striving?
There’s a New Moon in Leo on Sunday, and it’s the perfect time to consider the concepts of loyalty and generosity. Leo loves and loves hard. This sign makes family out of friends and comes out roaring to back them up in times of need. It’s a sign that loves center-stage, but it also loves giving to others.
Here’s the deal: I’ve never met a truly successful person who didn’t understand the value of help, both in receiving and giving it.
We don’t always have everything we want (or need) in order to change our context with a single action. But sometimes there’s just enough for us to make a small difference that can ultimately lead to big change. Sometimes that “just enough” comes from somewhere outside yourself and you’re reminded that there’s no such thing as “self-made.” Sometimes you’re the one offering “just enough” to someone else and contributing to their big change.
But none of this can exist without the concept of community and the approach to relationships that says “we’re all connected. I’ll help you in your time of need and I trust you will be there to help me.”
This also makes me think about the difference between “human resources” and “community care”. The former is a phenomenon that allows for the “using up” of people, turning them into inanimate things to be tapped into whenever and however much we need them without care or consideration for what they need.
Community care, on the other hand, brings to mind a feeling of support, acknowledgement and gratitude, and reciprocity. While community is still a resource made of humans, it asks us for a different approach, one that gives as good as it gets.
In Your Business: Letting the generosity flow.
Associated with the fixed deccan of a fixed sign, smack in the middle of Taurus, this card brings a sense of stability with it. But, we’re still smack dab in the middle of a journey with the VI of Pentacles - we’re not through the woods quite yet, but something shifts in our favor.
Remember that sense of instability from last week? Maybe this is the “ray of sunshine through the clouds” moment that helps you see what you need and accept the help that’s being offered to get you back on track. Maybe this is the lightbulb that flickers to life and illuminates a way in which you can offer help to someone in your circle who needs it.
Remember: finding your way to success is all about your unique context and using the resources you have to get what you need. While the VI of Pentacles isn’t exactly a huge windfall of cash, an entirely clean bill of health, a brand new office space - it’s still a move in the right direction. This is a moment of learning to use your limited resources to the best of your ability, and understanding that sometimes your resources are the people around you who really give a fuck about seeing you succeed.
This is also a moment of remembering that physical resources exist in much, much more than just money. What other physical resources allow you to continue moving toward your big vision?
This week, ask yourself: where are you resisting asking for or accepting help? Where are you resisting giving it? And what do your answers to those questions indicate to you about your sense of community?
Until next week,
Zoha
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Zoha Abbas is a Writer, Editor, Intuitive Tarot Reader and Business Coach. She aims to explore the entrepreneurial 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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