The Weekly Three, 3/25/24: Me vs. We
Learning what being “in relationship” means.
Eclipse season is coming in hot, and that means wakeups and shakeups galore. YAY?!🥴
Whether you’re excited to do this, completely dreading it, or just ready to get this the fuck overwith, it’s here and we’re going through it. This week, look for support—both in the ways you can receive it AND give it in return. We’re all making our way through this wacky world together, and real growth requires community.
Cry-it-out coffee date with friends? YES.
Blissful distraction day out with a partner in crime? YES.
Long, honest, meaningful talks over a bottle of whiskey with your heart-people? WHY NOT.
Find your crew, give the entire human race some space and grace, and buckle the fuck in. Here we go…
Welcome to The Weekly Three! Each Monday, I share a three-card Tarot spread to help you focus your intuitive energy in real life, and take action with intention inside your business.
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In The Cards:
Nothing but the number three this week! Rebecca Scolnick writes in The Witch’s Book of Numbers of the number three as The Communicator*:
“The number of language, creation, story, and magic is 3. It is the first cry of life, the primal scream, and the final exhale, whether that be a whimper or a bang. It’s the journey, the story and the birth of the physical.”
We can see the way this plays out in our Weekly Three today:
The III of Swords tells of ruminating on heartache. But that blow to the gut you keep thinking of also speaks to the line between the ignorance of Before and the healing of After. That time you got cheated, betrayed, stabbed in the back? It’s on your mind something fierce. But knowing the truth, even when it’s painful, is better than living a lie.
The Empress reversed says generative creativity dries up. This ground isn’t as fertile as you thought. OR you haven’t prepared it to be fertile enough to receive the seeds you want to plant here. Which is it? What needs to happen for this blocked energy to start flowing again?
The III of Cups asks us to find our support squad. At a time when you might be feeling blah, it’s important to know who you can lean on and what you can do to lift them up in return. That’s part of the magic of community isn’t it? There’s a reciprocated energy that cycles in on itself and builds us all up in return.
In Between: Unfolding the patterns.
Sometimes in Tarot readings, you can see a potential path opening up. It’s like and energetic ITTT: “if this, then that.” Other times, it’s like unfolding an old letter you found while you were cleaning out the attic.
A reminder of something long past swoops in and suddenly you can see a situation so much more clearly. Hindsight is 20/20 after all. You can see all the connections and all the breakdowns, how one thing so easily led to another, how it all got out of hand and what you could have done differently.
And sometimes those reminders help you see an even bigger connection. A pattern that seems to have been playing out over and over without you even realizing it was happening.
Today brings a Full Moon in Libra and a lunar eclipse that landed at 12am pacific on the dot. We’re entering the beginning of eclipse season on the Libra-Aries axis. It’s the tightrope we all walk between the “We” and the “Me”.
Relationships, personal identity and how they intersect might be heavyyy on your mind lately. And the next several weeks bring new layers of clarity you may not have been able to see before.
A friendly, loving reminder here that rash decisions, overhasty action and burn-it-all-down bonfires are ill-advised to say the absolute least. Because even though you might be getting cosmic download after download, seeing the whole picture might take a bit of time.
This lunar eclipse is about closure and shedding. We’re learning about what needs to change. But what that means in direct, specific terms about what we will replace it with instead deserves the time and patience required for you to make the best move for you.
Aside from The Empress, the other Major Arcana card associated with the number three is The Hanged Man: intentional pause, patience, waiting, processing and understanding before righting yourself and walking forward.
In Your Business: How do your relationships affect your work?
Because they do, whether you want them to or not.
Your family, friends, romantic partners, business partners, client relationships… What kind of a pattern or a connection is emerging for you right now? In what ways do you need people to show up for you differently than the way they are right now?
And in what ways do YOU need to show up differently for your people?
I think we’re going to see a lot of stuff on social media about cutting people off, identifying the toxic relationships in your life, setting boundaries to make sure you get what you want.
That’s all fine and dandy. Sometimes it’s exactly what we need.
Other times it’s a great excuse to perpetuate your own bad behavior.
How are you giving others the kind of support you want to receive? How are you showing up in community instead of as the only and most important person in the room?
Remember that the shakeups that come with eclipse season are about regaining balance where it has been lost. And for balance to exist in the first place requires *equal and opposite forces to be acting simultaneously—*not just for a thing to exist in a vacuum attempting to exert force in a single direction. That is simply a fantastic recipe for spinning out.
This week, notice the patterns that are making themselves apparent to you, or even suggesting themselves to you. I mentioned last week that journaling might be helpful. I think that practice will be beneficial for all of us for the next few weeks.
Record what’s coming up without attempting to make meaning and see for yourself what is revealed when you come back later and see the patterns clear as day.
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.
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