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If you’ve been around a minute, you may have picked up that my biological family relationships fall squarely under the heading of “it’s complicated.” That’s the polite way to put it.
Translation: I’ve spent most of my life keeping my mouth shut about the pain, trauma, and flat-out toxicity of growing up in a doomsday cult — or “high-control religious group” if you’re allergic to the c-word — just to maintain the thinnest illusion of connection to people who mostly see me as without worth.
It’s become impossible to ignore how much emotional energy I’ve poured into “respecting” the endless judgments, fears, and nonsensical requirements of their version of purity. Always pretending it lived anywhere near the neighborhood of “normal.” It’s exhausting.
And all that careful silence — what was it for? Just so they might not pretend I was dead if we passed on the street? (Not hyperbole. When you’re shunned, they literally pretend you’re invisible.)
So it was basically dressing up a corpse. And the saddest part is, I wasn’t protecting anything worthwhile at all. I was protecting very old memories, or maybe the completely unsupported fantasy that someday, somehow, I might be seen for who I am instead of the caricature of evil I’ve been made out to be. I’m done.
And this week’s cards? They’re right there with me. Because seeing what’s actually dead is the only way you open the door to new life.
Coming Up in the Cards
This week’s cards are from the Housewives’ Tarot: because even raw truth can do with a little style.
Outlook: Death
We’re not doing warm-and-fuzzy here. Even when an ending has been a long time coming, it can still hit hard — literally or metaphorically. The landscape changes, and it’s not going back. Big-picture, it’s necessary and natural, but the transition can be raw.
Expect significant shifts in the coming days. Stuff that’s been brewing may finally break the surface. Endings that were already in motion may finish playing out. This is the moment where the old form stops pretending it can still stand.
Advice: Eight of Swords, reversed
My regular Tarot folks know this is my favorite orientation for this card. Reversed means the fear you’ve been lugging around — maybe forever — isn’t actually the threat you thought it was. The bars weren’t a cage. They were a habit.
The opening is here. Use it.
Taken together? This is liberation through honesty. Fresh starts born from finally putting the toe tag on what’s been dead and leaving it to decompose. We’ve got living to attend to.
Now, for you:
Do you see your own Phoenix moment forming? What crash is actually an opening if you stop pretending it’s just “how things are”?
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