The Weekly Three, 3/4/24: Using intuition to guide your decisions.
Data is all about context and interpretation.
Why are we so quick to dismiss our emotions and gut feelings when it comes to decision-making? (Maybe because the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and the work systems still based in chattel slavery and the industrial revolution have conditioned us to?… Just a thought…)
This week we’re taking another look at what those feelings might actually be telling us if only we’d listen, and I mean really listen, to what they have to say.
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: A breakthrough brings some relief.
The Ace of Pentacles is like winning a prize from a bottle cap: a small but welcome surprise and a joyful indicator of luck turned your way. Aces are beginnings. They’re fresh and new, bringing breakthroughs and the start of new cycles.
This card is directly associated with a breakthrough in physical resources: money, nature, bodily vitality. Is it a new idea that proves its profitability? Is the bloom of good health back on your cheek? Whatever it is for you, this card signals a positive turning point.
The Page of Swords is also like a beginning, but unlike an Ace where you’ve got a fresh idea or direction, Pages indicate the beginning of mastery. You’re beginning to get the hang of something here.
Pages also often bear news. The Page of Swords can sometimes bring prickly communication or fighting words, but it’s better to know than to not. Information will always help you make a better decision as you step forward.
The Queen of Cups is completely in tune with their feelings (and yours as well.) This is a card that says “nurture those intuitive nudges and trust your emotional understanding.” It is one with all that flows, and might be the just the thing to lead you toward the bright future promised in the beginnings outlined in the last two cards.
In Between: Using your intuition to guide you
Aces and Pages have more in common than just being “beginnings”—they’re also the two types of Tarot cards that aren’t in some way associated with astrological signs or qualities of energy (cardinal, fixed or mutable.)* They exist in a really unique way in a space of raw potential. They have the possibility of becoming. What exactly they will become is really up to you and the way their energies show up in your life.
The Queen of Cups is associated with the cardinal sign of Cancer. The energy of this card doesn’t just nurture and protect (which is no small feat to begin with,) it also initiates. It takes the stuff and does something with it based on its watery depths of intuitive wisdom—which is fucking rad when you know what’s happening, and kind of chaotic but still sometimes interesting even when you don’t.
Intuition and emotion often get written off and ignored when it comes to decision-making, especially in business and entrepreneurship, because of their intangibility. Their inability to be grabbed, grasped, held, molded, “crunched”, calculated, estimated or forecast makes them undesirable as part of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
The fun part (and I mean actual fun!) is that they’re still incredibly useful and valid tools for guidance even if Chad** the mediocre middle-manager doesn’t think so.
Feelings can still give you data. It’s up to you to decide whether you’re up for interpreting and accounting for that data or not.
*That I know of yet!!! Have more knowledge on this that you want to share? PLEASE hit reply!
**If you’re named Chad, sorry…
In Your Business: Follow your hunches
And I mean hunches, not uninformed delusions, ok? This isn’t a permission slip to just throw all caution to the wind and start operating on a hope and a prayer and a manifestation affirmation.
That is precisely the shit that gives intuition such a bad rap: misuse and misinterpretation. Remember that, like ANY kind of data, without context or significance, it has no meaning. You’ve got to interpret the data before you come to a conclusion you can act on.
For example, if sending out a newsletter makes you incredibly anxious, does that mean you don’t ever send out a newsletter? Or might it mean that you explore the reason for the anxiety in order to address it, and then re-approach your newsletter?
Maybe the outcome actually is that you don’t do newsletters. Maybe the outcome is something else you might not have thought to try before. Either way, the solution can’t be found without first interpreting the information given to you by your feelings.
So this week, sit down and feel. Listen, explore, interpret. Take down the data. Find its context and significance. Then see what picture it’s painting.
Those hunches might actually hold the keys to your next phase of becoming.
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