A powerful two-card spread to start your week 🔥
Resilience: Is it important or not?
Welcome to another week on this beautiful and wild planet, friends.
I keep returning to the idea of resilience, so I thought I’d create this week’s spread with that theme in mind.
To get into the right mindset for today’s cards, try these on:
What does resilience mean to you?
Is it important to you or not? Why?
The spread
1. What’s my source of strength right now? (Card 1)
This card highlights your resilience—what’s grounding or supporting you.
2. What challenge am I being asked to endure or overcome? (Card 2)
This card focuses on where resilience needs to be applied in your life.
Thanks for being here. Have a beautiful week.
xo,
Natalie
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The Cards
Decks: Between Worlds Oracle & Pagan Otherworlds Tarot
Take a few breaths.
Think about the spread & theme and notice what arises.
1. What’s my source of strength right now? (Card 1)
This card highlights your resilience—what’s grounding or supporting you.
2. What challenge am I being asked to endure or overcome? (Card 2)
This card focuses on where resilience needs to be applied in your life.
Pick a card.
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Domination & Queen of Cups
1. What’s my source of strength right now?
Your strength lies in reclaiming your personal power and navigating power dynamics with clarity.
You have the ability to assert your boundaries and maintain your agency, even when external pressures feel overwhelming. Resilience comes from balancing influence and autonomy.
Stand firm in your truth without becoming overpowered or overbearing.
2. What challenge am I being asked to endure or overcome?
The challenge is managing your emotional world with balance and maturity.
You’re being asked to stay compassionate and intuitive while maintaining boundaries.
Resilience means trusting your feelings without being consumed by them, especially in situations that demand your empathy.
Summary
Resilience is about balancing power and emotional wisdom. Assert your boundaries (Domination) while staying grounded and compassionate (Queen of Cups). Strength comes from leading with both clarity and care, so neither external pressures nor emotions throw you off balance.
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The Gardener & 4 of Wands
1. What’s my source of strength right now?
Your strength lies in nurturing what matters most to you.
The Gardener reflects your ability to cultivate growth, patience, and care in your life.
Your resilience is rooted in the steady practice of caring for yourself and others.
2. What challenge am I being asked to endure or overcome?
The challenge is to fully embrace celebration and harmony, even if it feels fleeting or undeserved.
The Four of Wands asks you to find stability and joy within personal milestones, but it also reminds you not to take these moments for granted. Your challenge is to honor and recognize the foundations you’ve built while continuing to stay grounded.
Summary
Resilience for you is about cultivating joy and stability.
The Gardener encourages you to nurture growth, while the Four of Wands asks you to embrace moments of celebration and connection. Your strength lies in building the life you want and finding joy in the process, even when challenges come up.
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Departure & 5 of Cups
1. What’s my source of strength right now?
Your strength lies in your ability to let go and move forward.
Departure reflects resilience in embracing change and releasing what no longer serves you. Leaving behind the familiar can be painful, but finding the courage to step into the unknown is what supports your growth.
2. What challenge am I being asked to endure or overcome?
The challenge is processing grief or disappointment.
The Five of Cups asks you to acknowledge what has been lost but also to shift your focus toward what remains. Resilience means allowing yourself to feel the pain while recognizing the opportunities for healing that still surround you.
Summary
Resilience for you is found in letting go and embracing change (Departure), while also navigating the pain of loss (Five of Cups). Honor your grief, but don’t let it define your path. Your strength lies in your ability to release the past and focus on what can still thrive in your life.
📖 What I’m reading
IFS work has been a game-changer for me. If you’re into looking at your shadow, getting to know yourself better, and healing deeply held beliefs, this is work a read. (The audiobook is probably ideal since the author walks you through exercises)
🎶 What’s On in My House
On a Bob Moses kick again. The All in All album is a favorite.
🌱 How I’m working with folks
Besides readings, my attunement sessions are building momentum and really helping folks. If you’d like some help managing stuck emotions or identities and feeling some relief, clarity, and joy, this work is something to add to your toolbox for sure. Send me a note if you’d like to try just one session instead of three.
☕️ How you can support
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This was quite the apropos spread for me! 💜🌀💫🙏🏻 I was definitely supposed to see this!