The Weekly Three: October 30th, 2023
Your success requires your presence more than it requires your production.
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: Self-checks, apprenticeship and reflection.
This week is asking you if you really know what you think you know, or could you perhaps have taken liberties with filling in the gaps?…
The Knight of Swords reversed is simultaneously reckless and slowed down. It’s like the guy at the bar that had one too many and is now being held back by his friends so he can’t make good on the fights he’s picking with the person next to him.
The suit of Swords is related to our cerebral experience of life. Think: rational thought, logic, clear communication, words and ideas. When the Knight of Swords is in this upside down position, instead of being able to charge ahead with clarity and conviction, you’re using your words as weapons and tailoring your “logic” to fulfill your own needs (and your own needs ONLY.)
When you see this card, slow all the way down and quit being a dick. There are times when digging in your heels and going all out is detrimental to your cause—this is one of those times. Think before you speak.
The Eight of Pentacles is another slow moment, but a purposeful one. It’s about industry, learning and growth. This is a time when you’re building your skills, honing your craft and learning how to truly leverage your physical resources. You’re beginning to get the hang of turning ideas into reality—you know it takes practice, but if you’re willing to put in the work you’ll reap the rewards.
The World reversed says that rather than being close to the finish line on something, you’re all the way back at the beginning. Your world might feel quite literally a little upside down from getting kicked back to “start” when you thought you were ready to play a new game. But there are important lessons here you haven’t learned yet, and the cycle will keep repeating until you do.
Again, remember that Major Arcana cards are begging you to pay attention to them. Ignore a Major Arcana message at your own risk!😅
In Your Business: You may have missed the point—go back and look again from another angle.
Did you rush your way through the first time?
Were you holding on to a specific outcome without thinking about the unique requirements that would need to be fulfilled in your situation in order for that outcome to even be a possibility right now?
Did you pressure yourself to “get to the end already” without considering whether you were actually doing good work on the way?
Cuz if you were, you may have missed out on something important.
Remember that the “powers that be” put all the pressure on outcomes, outcomes, outcomes. But life itself is never about the Grand Outcome, it’s about the journey along the way and how we learn to be as we go.
Your success requires your presence more than it requires your production.
So where inside this current cycle did you get away from presence? Where did the scales get unbalanced? What kind of reflection and self-examination is this season asking of you?
If your head is spinning as we come out of this most recent set of eclipses, don’t panic. It can take time for the real clarity to come after the shakeups that come with eclipse energy.
The real trick here is doing the introspection it takes for you to leverage the clarity when it DOES come (and it will.💖)
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