I’ve been feeling a bit frustrated. New Year, birthdays, milestones—those moments always make me look back and ask how far I’ve come.
This time around, I realized most of my progress has been mental and emotional, not so much physical, concrete, the stuff you can point to. And I wanted the visible progress, damn it—the stuff I can see. So the cards this week are definitely speaking to me.
Coming Up in the Cards
Today, we’ve got those feisty Meows Tarot kitties on the job! They may be cute, but they do not mess around. 😼
Outlook: King of Pentacles Reversed
People are getting something, but not quite what they were asking for. There’s fine print, compromise, missing pieces, a holding pattern, a partial reprieve. It carries that feeling of, “I could have had this, but…”
Not a crisis, but not all that satisfying, either. It’s the emotional equivalent of getting store credit when all you wanted was the thingamajig you bought in the first place to work right.
Advice: Wheel of Fortune
How do you treat good luck as advice? Maybe you start by looking for the luck in the rubble of your missed or partially fulfilled expectations.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve realized some of the things I had my heart set on would have been absolute disasters if I’d actually gotten them. It’s not that what I wanted was morally wrong; I just didn’t have enough information, or hadn’t done enough emotional processing, to see how bad a fit some of those desires really were.
Sometimes the Universe shows up and says “no” to protect your bigger-picture integrity. This advice is a reminder to expect that and consciously look for it. Lean into the feeling of luck when your plans break; this is possible only when you expect it happens for good reason or at least believe you can steer your life to where you want to go via multiple routes.
The Wheel here feels like, “Bless the near-miss. You don’t know it yet, but you’ve been handed a gift.”
Now for You
Is there something you’ve felt disappointed about not quite hitting the mark? If you looked for some hidden good luck instead of failure, how would that change things?
