The Weekly Three 2/26/24: Flipping the switch on undesired outcomes.
On doing the exhausting but 100% necessary work of making big change.
This week brings “I don’t have…” and “I don’t want…” into sharp focus. That’s not always a bad thing. While being trained to think positive might have us rushing to suppress our emotions and find silver linings in every cloud, I think accepting and owning the fact that you might be
pissed off
grieving
processing a failure
generally in your feelings
is a lot more effective (and healthy) in moving forward.
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In The Cards: Reversed energy.
The Star reversed brings a feeling of hopelessness. There’s a sense of a lack of options here and the question on your mind might resemble “What am I supposed to do now?” The fact that the answer doesn’t come easily or quickly is frustrating at best, and at worst, totally defeating.
The X of Swords reversed can go two ways, and frankly I think both ways are almost always present within the context of the same situation.
Way One to look at this card is that the worst is over. The unavoidable pain that absolutely had to be felt is passed. Way Two says you’re holding on and attempting to put that pain off even though you know you need to let the sword fall, so to speak.
The context that comes to mind for me where both of these things are true and simultaneously present is in the idea of beating a dead horse. Complete denial and self delusion to our own detriment and distress. Something is really, really over and done but you’re maybe still pretending it’s not.
Your garden seems to have dried up with the Queen of Pentacles reversed. If The Empress with all her fertile promise is the Earth Maiden, the Queen of Pentacles is the wiser, more experienced Earth Mother.
She’s the nurturing shepherd of the physical resources growing in a well-tended and cultivated garden. This card reversed says that you feel like your physical resources feel quite literally stunted. You may feel like you don’t have enough, you may feel unsure of how to deploy them if you do have enough.
In Between: Reverse-engineering.
The world is on fire. There’s no two ways about it.
Between news of enraging rulings on reproductive rights, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a trans teen being jumped in a school bathroom one day and dropping dead the next, the already collectively traumatic events in progress on top of handling day-to-day personal life, I feel like I can’t catch my breath.
Reversed energy can be agonizing. If you’re feeling like you’ve simply had the wind knocked out of you lately, you’re not alone my friend.
The flip side (!) of reversed energy, though, is in the clues it can give us about how to get out of it (to whatever degree we happen to have control, of course.) I learned this concept from Theresa Reed, The Tarot Lady: look at reversals and think about what needs to happen in order to literally turn those cards upright.
The Full Moon arrived this past Saturday morning at 4:30am Pacific in detail oriented Virgo.
The particular angle of this Full Moon’s arrival is associated with the industrious, intentional craftsmanship of the VIII of Pentacles. This is a card that puts in the work and learning in order to see measurable improvement and positive payoff.
I feel like we’re at a pivotal moment in human history right now. Things need to change. They need to shift. We need measurable improvement and positive payoff in very real life-or-death ways right now. And that kind of change takes work.
Recently, on Jon Stewart’s first day back with the Daily Show, he closed out this segment with this statement:
“The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail fucking job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues until they get a positive result. And even then, [they] have to stay on until that result holds. So the good news is, I’m not saying you don’t have to worry about who wins the election. I’m saying you have to worry about every day before it and every day after, forever.”
This world isn’t going to change without We, The People, putting in the elbow grease to change it. What’s your part in this change? What are you doing to make daily outcomes better for your clients, your clients’ clients, your community, your industry?
Take another look at the cards in this week’s spread:
If you have no other options, what does that mean you already know you have to do?
If it’s really over, what’s the “it” and how will acceptance allow you to work with it?
If you know what you don’t have, how can you use what you do in order to get it?
If the world is on fire, what does the world NOT on fire look like? What clues do we have about how to put that fire out?
This is hard. I know it is. It’s unpleasant and hard and exhausting. We don’t all have the privilege of “noping out” and acting like everything is fine. Even if you do have that privilege to whatever varying degree, a world on fire burns indiscriminately and I can guarantee we will all eventually end up in flames. We all need to do our bit.
In Your Business: Switch the lens for a new angle.
You’ve read about this week’s reversals above. Below are short descriptions of the same cards in their upright positions.
The Star upright: having hope after the storm gives you a clear guiding light toward a better future.
X of Swords upright: A painful ending in utter darkness brings with it the promise of a brighter dawn—you can move on now.
Queen of Pentacles upright: The lush abundance of finances, vitality and other physical resources is yours to steward wisely and well.
What needs to happen in order for you to turn those cards upright within the context of the world we’re living in?
None of our existences are happening within a vacuum, but we’ve been pretending that it’s every man for himself. It’s that damaging attitude that got us here in the first place, and as an unnecessary reminder: here is not the best.
What do you need to do in order to show up—for yourself, your business, your clients, your community—and do the lunch pail job of making this a world you would prefer to live in?
There is no one else coming to save us, but we can still roll up our sleeves and save ourselves.
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. She is the CEO and Creator of The Ownership Method, a coaching practice where she helps fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners do business better through data, divination and dismantling harmful systems.
For inquiries, please email: zoha@theownershipmethod.com