The Weekly Three: August 28th, 2023
The fog won’t clear if you stay in your head.
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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The Big Idea: Confusion feels so big that you might miss a simple solution.
Have you ever been so intent on looking for something that you miss the fact that it’s right in front of you? Like, full on running around panicking because you can’t find your glasses, but it’s only because you already have them on?…
This week might wind up feeling a little like that.
Two Major Arcana cards, (the big important points in life’s journey,) are punctuated by a Minor Arcana card, (daily happenstance.)
You’ll find your solution, but maybe not the way you think.
The Sun reversed is like the fog descending. Instead of being victorious or being able to see everything in your path, you can’t see a foot in front of your face and the gold medal slips from your grip.
The loss combined with the fog feels like the cold damp of despair. Hopes snuffed and nowhere to go (that you can see, at least.)
While it can be associated with romantic relationships, The Lovers is also about fateful decisions, good and evil, and balance. It’s connected to the curious, quick-witted, mutable air sign Gemini which just happens to be ruled by Mercury (currently in its own reversal.)
So with this reversal we get (hooray) more confusion. You could be stalling on a decision and feeling like you don’t have enough knowledge to make your move.
Here’s the good news and the bad news: you’re not going to find your way out of this if you keep trying to figure it out on your own.
The III of Cups is all about deeply bonded friendship. These are the friends you consider family. These are the people you would drop everything to go and help if they really needed you. These are the people you call when you’re pissed at your blood-related family and the people who cheer you on when you’re trying something that seems “crazy” to everyone else.
This is your SQUAD. And this is also where you’ll find help with how to cut through the fog and make the best choice you can with what you’ve got.
In Your Business: Don’t keep your shit to yourself.
In astrology, the Sun is like a spotlight: wherever it’s shining is where we’re looking. Could you just be looking the wrong way? And, (maybe more importantly,) who the fuck is even going to tell you if you don’t get outside of your own head?
Remember also that Mercury in retrograde can mess with communication, even our own communication with ourselves. It’s an intellectual, think-y planet after all. It loves all things witty, clever, mischievous and well-reasoned. It also loves trickery and gossip. What are the lessons you’re having to learn during this specific retrograde period around these topics? Where is the trick being played right now?
In the Thoth Tarot, the III of Cups is known as Abundance. It’s another card associated with the planet Mercury, in addition to the nurturing, intuitive cardinal water sign Cancer. You know what that combination says to me? It says “Go have fun and dish with your friends who love you.”
Another astrological nugget: Uranus is also stationing retrograde later today (making it officially the sixth planet in retrograde.) This planet’s effects can be super-subtle, but it’s known as the rebel planet—the one associated with change. In the book Key Words For Astrology by Hajo Banzhaf and Anna Haebler, it says “Uranus represents the ideals of the French Revolution—freedom, equality and brotherhood.”
The word “retrograde” literally means “directed or moving backward.” What does that mean for you in terms of reconnecting with the people who are with you and backing you up in your cause?
Whatever fog you feel stuck in, whatever decision you feel unable to make, go talk it out with people who know you, respect your goals and are willing not only to tell you how it is, but do it while putting a cozy blanket around your shoulders and handing you a cup of your favorite tea.
You don’t have to figure this out alone. And when it comes to business, you need people that you can trust to help you overcome the confusion and support you in taking the next step forward.
There’s really no such thing as “self-made.” Go find your people, ask for help and get some new perspectives on where you feel stuck. You’ll find your way out through community and connection.
Until next week,
Zoha
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About The Author:
Zoha Abbas is an Intuitive Tarot Reader, Business Coach and writer who aims to explore the small business conversations around doing business better, together, and in the grey-area of real life through data, divination and dismantling harmful systems. She is the CEO and Creator of The Ownership Method, a coaching practice where she helps fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners make change in their own businesses and beyond.
For inquiries, please email: zoha@theownershipmethod.com