The Weekly Three, 4/15/24: Alone is never how we do things.
Solo entrepreneur or not, having peers you can trust is imperative to success.
There’s some back-stabby energy to this week’s spread. It makes me think about where we place our trust and where we misplace it. Sometimes, even those with the best intentions can let us down in ways that make a huge difference in our lives.
You can’t build an inner circle without first trusting the people you invite in, so how can you make sure that trust is well-bestowed?
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In The Cards: Inner circle, outer environment.
A knife in the back and an ache in the heart is top of mind with the III of Swords. Less than the actual emotion of betrayal or heartbreak, this card signals the knowledge of the thing. A sinking suspicion is proven true through clear evidence. An old pain won’t stop running through your mind.
With the number three, we have a solid, stable energy—even if the actual event has thrown you off kilter, trust what you see. It’s a harsh reality, but reality nonetheless. The question now is what you’re going to do with that knowledge…
Another three arrives with the III of Cups. Contrary to this number in the suit of Swords, the III of Cups represents the connection, flow and stability of friends you call family. The image brings to mind the concepts of camaraderie and trust. These are the people you celebrate with when things are up and cry with when they’re down.
It feels important to ask with the juxtaposition of the card before it: do you have a sound means of discerning who gets the privilege of being in that inner circle?
Finally, the King of Pentacles reversed feels like a big fat zero 🥴. Their upright generosity turns closed-fisted or greedy. Their long-term, big-picture thinking becomes stunted and myopic. Overly controlling and totally irresponsible in a single package.
Physical resources seem to have taken a hit here. Perhaps things are feeling quite literally upside down or like the garden has withered away to nothing. There’s also a strong sense of mismanagement here, yours or someone else’s, that’s gotten you in this situation.
In Between: Who do you trust? Choose wisely.
This week’s cards tell a story. Or more accurately: a part of a story. This is the part about heartbreak, trust and betrayal.
If that sounds overdramatic, it needn’t be. It could be that you’ve experienced something earth-shatteringly huge, (I wouldn’t be surprised with what’s been happening in the cosmos lately,) but these concepts exist in many different tiny ways through all the different areas of our lives. It might not have been that you were swindled by someone close to you, but that they simply left out an important detail that meant you came up short. It’s not necessarily that someone maliciously went out of their way to harm you, but that they simply did not have your best interests in mind when they acted.
Choosing who to trust can feel fraught. It may feel callous to have to put up boundaries against people you’ve just met without giving them a fair chance. It may feel difficult to put up boundaries against people you’ve known for a crazy-long time, but aren’t who you thought they were.
Trust is something that, like most relational foundations, requires upkeep and intentional action. It can ebb and flow, change into something worse or better. Trust is earned, and it can be lost. Until people’s actions match their words, trust can be denied.
How you write the rest of this story depends on how and where you decide to bestow that trust.
And when it comes to identifying our inner circles around our businesses, that decision can feel all the more weighty. Do you have a process or a set of guidelines that help you answer: Who can I trust? How much, and with what specifically?
In Your Business: Identifying your needs and your people.
Last week we talked all about taking the time to consider the situation before you act. This week, perhaps the information at hand gets a bit clearer.
So now that you know where you stand, what do you need? And who is going to help you get it? It might be people that you know personally, like family or friends. Or it might be people that you need to hire. It might simply be the people who work the front desk at the place you need to make that appointment.
This week is about accepting the facts of what you’ve learned, understanding your needs as a result of those facts, and identifying who can truly help you meet those needs (and who can’t.)
We can’t do this alone, so opening your heart to trust is a must. But that doesn’t mean you have to let just anyone in.
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
For inquiries, please email: zoha@theownershipmethod.com