The Weekly Three: November 20th, 2023
A line in the sand, the wisdom of tacos and living in the present.
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 moment of decision and a line in the sand.
Judgement is upon us. Are we doing things the way we need to in order to complete the current cycle, or do we need to go back to the drawing board? Judgement often acts as a line in the sand—it’s a call to the next level. The question is: are you ready to heed that call?
Judgement is the card right before the final card in the Major Arcana, the step right before we reach the end of this path and start another. It can be a rebirth or an awakening that allows you to evolve. If “onward and upward” was a Tarot card, it would be this one.
The X of Cups is all about emotional security and contentment. This is prosperity, support and celebration. The suit of Cups is associated with our emotional and intuitive experience of life, the things that flow like water.
This card can represent feeling connected with your friends and family (chosen or otherwise,) and a feeling that all is well. It can also represent achieving a big goal and getting your happy ending.
The VI of Cups reversed is once again asking us to let go of what’s gone. It’s a reality check emphasizing that the past is the past and the only way forward is, well, forward. It can sometimes represent regrets or being too caught up in “the good ol’ days.” There also might be some old family trauma-drama that’s clinging on (or are you the one doing the clinging?…) In any case, this card is asking for you to be present in the current moment and stop fixating on what’s over and done.
In Between: Tacos, be here. Now.
Once, my then 1.5 year old cousin was pretending to order takeout on her play-phone. She said “Tacos, be here. Now.” (Which is what we’re all thinking when we order takeout anyway.) And I feel like that is literally what the cards are asking of us this week.
An interesting thing happened as I was getting ready to pull these cards for you. Usually I ask something like “What does my community need to hear?” The messages that come are in direct response to that query.
This week, my query came out as: “What do I need to say to my community?”
The difference isn’t super profound, but it instantly brought me back to my body and my purpose for writing each week. It brought me back to the here and now.
My beautiful Tacos, please find the most gentle and grounding way of standing firmly, warmly, confidently in the now.
As those in the U.S. head into a holiday week that somehow is a double-dumpster-fire of a celebration of colonialism followed by capitalism at its finest, and the rest of the world starts ramping up on December’s holidays—
As the death and devastation in Gaza continues raging—
As the collective exhaustion from the last several years of what feels like unrelenting catastrophe continues to crush us—
I know this is a big ask. I don’t always feel like being here in the now.
But I also know there’s no way to move “onward and upward” without first being here, where you are, right in this moment, right now.
In Your Business: What’s done is done, but what you do next is up to you.
The cards this week say there’s joy and celebration available to us, as long as we accept the reckoning and evolution that gets us there.
It’s really easy to get stuck in all the mistakes we’ve made before, especially when it feels like nothing is quite going your way in a business you’ve built with so much care and dedication. It’s easy to look back and say “here are all the ways I fucked up, and here’s why everything’s a mess.”
Honestly, I was doing that all weekend.
But there’s also nothing I can do about what I’ve already done. It’s over. It’s finished. Whatever those decisions have created are what I have to work with in this moment. And it took a lot to shift from “Holy shit, what am I doing?!” to “What can I do?”
Coming back to the present moment, letting go of ruminating over all the mistakes and mess-ups, shifting our gaze from the nostalgia of old wins isn’t always an easy thing to do. But it is a necessary thing.
The line has been drawn in the sand, and it will take strength to step over it into what’s next. But I truly believe there’s so much goodness waiting for us on the other side.
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