The Weekly Three: November 27th, 2023
The end-of-year liminal space can be full of possibility if you let it.
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In The Cards: A moment of assessment and a time to let go.
Lots of thinking, lots of pondering, lots of communication and lots of being in your head this week. That feels incredibly appropriate given the Gemini Full Moon which just arrived in the wee hours of this morning.
The II of Swords is a pause before the action. It’s a moment of assessment and weighing the options before making a decision. Sometimes it can mean literally sitting on a decision and keeping yourself paralyzed in a state of inaction.
But, in this week’s spread, I’m getting more of a discernment energy. This is a necessary stop in the action in order to choose the best path for you.
The Chariot reversed says momentum stops, which isn’t always a bad thing. Especially because the other part of this card in this position is the request for us to reprogram the GPS.
We may not have been heading the way we needed to, or the traffic patterns have changed since we chose our destination. We need a new plan to get where we want to go.
The VI of Swords is all about moving on from a situation that was giving you grief. You might have the help you need, whether in the form of community support or information, to help you walk away from something that felt like nothing but worry.
Grieving is never easy, and it’s never a simple process, but there is a moment where we move from the shock or devastation of the actual event to the processing of our thoughts and emotions as we move away from the epicenter. This is that moment. Have hope that all will eventually be well.
In Between: This is the literal In-Between.
I feel like New Year’s Day isn’t actually when the newness begins.
Now, in my business and in my life, I follow the seasons when considering my time. But even when I didn’t, I STILL didn’t feel like New Year’s Day was the beginning of newness. January felt like the month of collective bad planning and false starts.
Forget “new year, new me,” I think people are still trying to figure out where the fuck they even are at least until February. (At LEAST.)
This period of time from the end of November through January, and yes, even well into February, really feels like liminal space to me (and I think it feels that way for many others too.)
There’s this rich, abundant, elemental quality to this moment where we seem to collectively become conscious of time in and of itself, what it means to us, how we want to fill what we have of it.
There’s possibility here. There are options here. There are doors we want to open, doors we hadn’t even considered until now, doors we had forgotten, and doors we know we’ll never open again.
But then the pressure of a dwindling 2023 comes and punches us in the gut and says “Choose now, or else you’re going to get left behind. Your goals will go unachieved. Your dreams will go unrealized. You only have so much time before another year passes. Another year of you not being ‘there’ yet. Can you live with that?”
We’re caught in a panic-induced trap of Start Now or Fail Completely.
And while there are very real pressures on many of us to keep going, keep earning, keep working, there is also the simultaneously true reality that this kind of binary thinking is literally killing us.
Binary thinking is destroying us right now, this idea of hard lines in time and space that human beings create for some sense of (sometimes necessary, but often not) control that don’t actually exist in the natural universe.
Quarters feel that way to me. New Year’s Day feels that way to me. The lines I see people drawing between other humans, especially right now, feel that way to me.
They create an internalized dynamic of “be/do this, OR ELSE.” It creates fear, hatred, rejection, cruelty. It creates an ONLY THIS or an ONLY THAT, and in so doing, we lose so much of the abundance and potential that offer themselves up to us in this end-of-the-year liminal space.
In a very basic sense, the hard line of binary thinking destroys possibility. The possibility that you could reach your goals, if only you’d allow for a little more time and consideration for your approach. The possibility that your dreams could come true, not at the cost of someone else’s but with the commingled support of a community that is striving together toward a common aim.
The possibility that we can say “free Palestine” and “free Israeli hostages” in the same breath. The possibility that we can condemn antisemitism while condemning islamophobia at the same time. The possibility that this world can be more than the incessant oversupply of shit hitting the fan it has felt like lately.
If you’re exhausted, you’re not alone. It IS exhausting.
And-but-also, the pull of this or that, of hard lines in the sand, of boxes on a calendar—as much as they seem to be the answer that allows us to have some semblance of order and control in this overwhelming existence—giving into that pull will not give you the solution.
Instead, surrender to the possibilities available to you in this liminal space. And ask yourself…
In Your Business: Where do you really want to go right now? And in what way do you need to move on in order to get going?
Over the span of my not-so-long-but-not-so-short-either life, I’ve gotten myself into the most trouble by holding on tight to things I should have theretofore released.
Whether the things were relationships, jobs, mindsets, emotions, thoughts, physical objects, desires, opinions or favorite restaurants: if I hold on to them longer than they benefit me, I get in trouble.
It’s no different when I look at the itty-bitty microcosm of my business.
Offers that weren’t quite right, marketing tactics that didn’t fit, business models that stopped making sense, projects that went from delivering to dread-inducing…Hell, even my ideas about what success is and how I can achieve it.
There are so many things I have had to let go of and move on from in order to actually move closer to my version of success. I had to allow myself the clear, unencumbered space for possibility to actually exist. I needed the time to examine it. I needed the room to move toward it.
I can’t tell you where to move on right now. And frankly, you don’t need me to. You already know the answer.
So what do you need to leave behind in order to move forward into this liminal space of possibility? What do you need to let go of in order to free up room for yourself to consider the real multitude of options you have and approaches you can take to get where you want to go?
Allow yourself to close the door that needs to be closed, and take your time exploring the hallways of your life to find which one you’ll open next.
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