The Weekly Three: October 9th, 2023
Sitting, staying and getting the treat.
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: Do not pass go, do not collect $200 (yet…)
Well lookie here: The VIII of Swords is, (appropriately for the season,) haunting us… we’ve got unfinished business and it’s insisting that we pay attention already…
But first, The II of Wands reversed reads like a creative U-turn.
The suit of Wands is associated with our passions, creativity and inner drive. It’s often associated with entrepreneurship. When this card is upright, it’s like the world is your oyster (which is a saying I get, but don’t understand. Nevertheless, it still applies here.) It indicates that you’re ready to set sail for new horizons.
But when you turn that expansive and confident energy upside down, we’re beached until the next tide. It’s a moment to go back to the drawing board: the vision hasn’t materialized quite yet. We need to make some more assessments and decisions based on the information we have.
Next, The persistent VIII of Swords is in play again. Remember last week when we talked about you being the only one with the answer for you? Yup. That’s still true. (It’s honestly never not true…annoying, right?)
This is another card that’s also communicating a moment of pause. We’re in yet another week where we’re learning to trust ourselves, controlling only what we can and letting go of the rest (as anxiety-inducing as that may seem. It’s really the only way out right now.)
Things still feel like they’re in the discomfort of tension, stretched like a rubber band around your little brother’s fingers, aimed directly at your head. You can’t see what you need to see (or what you want to see) and it might be making you feel trapped.
This feeling, while extremely unwelcome, might at least make a bit more sense when I remind you that a Solar Eclipse in Libra is coming up this Saturday the 14th.
Eclipses can signal shakeups, wakeups, breakups and more, and Solar Eclipses can often be a moment that sets the ball rolling on a new phase. Eclipses mean new information comes to light and perhaps something shifts. It’s worth looking at where Libra is in your birth chart, (if you’re into it,) and also what’s happening opposite in Aries.
Interestingly enough, the final card of this spread, Justice, is the Major Arcana card associated with Libra.
This card in reverse speaks to injustice. Legal troubles, being dealt an unfair hand, poor decision-making. Is there something that requires rebalancing right now (a repeated theme in these spreads lately)?
Whatever it may be, it really needs your attention and energy right now in order to get back to equilibrium, but, this week, it might not mean the kind of “attention and energy” we’re used to…
In Your Business: What is becoming right now?
Like I said: balance is missing, and if these weekly spreads are any indication, it’s been missing.
This is a week to pay attention. There are a few big shifts happening astrologically in addition to the Solar Eclipse on Saturday (Pluto stations direct on Tuesday and Mars moves into Scorpio on Thursday) that signal a shift. Is it the context that’s shifting? Your perspective? The information available?
You tell me, but not for a few days. This is a week to observe, AKA “give attention and energy to,” the places where you’ve been feeling the most tension. The information we get from Eclipses also often take some time to unfold. Haste and busy doing aren’t your friends right now.
There’s something here that needs enough time in the oven to come out fully baked.
Instead of being “stuck” the way you might feel you are, might this be a moment inside the chrysalis? New information, needs and perspectives are emerging to help you find clarity and move forward. But, without the pause, observation and sitting in it for a minute that’s being asked of you, you may not have the context to give it all meaning.
We’re not always in control of change, but we are in charge of responding to it.
This isn’t a moment to lament the imbalance you’re feeling or bury yourself in your woe at the unfairness of the hand you’ve been dealt. This is a moment to accept the situation, remember that we “don’t know what we don’t know,” and keep your (third) eyes peeled.
The clarity you’re seeking might be just around the corner. Have patience, keep your faith and trust yourself.
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