A Message from the Tarot:
Five of Coins
This week’s energy speaks of challenge. You may be facing a situation where you feel left out in the cold. You may be struggling alone despite being amongst many people or systems that have the potential to assist you. There is a suggestion of unwillingness to ask for help – perhaps you have been burned before. It feels safer to guard what little resources you have, stretching them thin in order to sustain your survival alone. Though you have enough to just manage, you are feeling the lack wearing you down, and you’re ready for change.
The pentacles typically deal with finances, career or studies. The five can indicate difficulties, conflict and instability – all wonderful for guiding us toward a beneficial change we may otherwise refuse to make. There is no reason to fear! In fact, now is the perfect time to transform the stagnant energy of worry into one that feeds purposeful action.
The image of the little girl keeping herself warm with one match at a time mirrors your situation. As soon as you feed a fire in one area of your life, it seems another goes out. As you strive to take care of your physical health, your mental health suffers. When you try to take care of your mental health, you struggle with finances. Just when your finances are in order, you realize you’re missing out on a social life. When you put time into your social life, you find you’re not sleeping enough or eating properly. You seek balance to replace this instability.
2021 is a year of challenges, so it is not surprising to see the number five come up in the cards. This may represent a cycle you’re going through this year or it could reflect challenges you’ve always had now surfacing anew.
Journal Questions:
What challenge(s) am I facing alone? What help is available to me that I refuse to ask for? Is my isolation a product of fate or choice? What choices can I make that will help me overcome the adversity I am facing? What about my situation is temporary? What am I worrying about that I cannot change? How can I let that go?
Advice from Tarot: Mirror of the Soul
You are ready to look at your situation as it is. You now have an opportunity to free yourself by initiating the necessary discussion (either with partners or with yourself). Only clear and open communication will facilitate progress.
Gerd Ziegler
A Message from the Oracle:
Apocolypsis
This card represents “devastation for the sake of regeneration”: the death that bears life, the grief that gives healing, the destruction that must come so something can be built anew. What truths and love does your heart keep? Ground yourself and stay true to your center. In order to move through the deficit energy the Five of Coins reveals, you must find the deficit within yourself.
All kinds of things will be revealed during a time of apocalypsis – from big global lies to little white ones that lace the bedroom sheets. Brace yourself for the horse of truth to storm your every field.
Kim Krans
This is not your everyday transformation. Things will be shaken up on personal and global levels. You are not the only one reaching a breaking point. It can feel scary – but there is nothing to fear with this change. When we are this intensely dissatisfied, when we feel such disparate lack, when we yearn for revolution…big change has to happen to take us to a place where we can intentionally build the future we want. Individually and collectively.
Always keep hope in such times of darkness. The sun will shine its light on a new day, no matter how black the night. You choose what to make of it. You can choose to peacefully let go of what no longer serves you with appreciation for the lessons you learned. Or you can have everything yanked out from under you as you desperately cling to familiar evils instead of embracing the love and peace coming in.
Today’s Reminder:
How you see your challenges is entirely up to you.
If you need more inspiration…
Decks Used:
Tarot: Tarot of the Divine by Yoshi Yoshitani
Oracle: The Wild Unknown Archetypes by Kim Krans
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