A Spread for Releasing Comforts
I haven’t had a lot of time or energy to post the last week or so, but I was going through my Tarot journals and found this spread I’d made earlier this year. I drew cards for it again, and wow, did it hit. The simplest spreads have a way of doing that. So I wanted to share, in hopes it may do the same for you.
A comfort I am clinging to
The greater purpose it prevents me from fulfilling
A necessary perspective on the comfort, which will aid me in releasing my attachment to it
Re: the wording of the second prompt: I don’t love it, but it was helpful for me in the moment. You may want to reword it so it’s not so heady. Maybe just, ‘what it prevents me from experiencing’.
Enjoy, and I’ll be back soon with some further musings. Maybe a spread for Saturday’s new moon!
This was sooo good! The comfort I'm clinging to is 8 of Wands. It prevents me from fulfilling Ace of Pentacles reversed. The necessary perspective is 3 of Wands reversed. I asked Chat GPT, "Can a 'good' work ethic be a comfort?" LOL why, yes it can if it prevents you from being present for life and the difficult emotions that that can allow. I need to disentangle from performative life and be open to noticing what life is offering.
Each morning I will draw a COTD, but also 2 cards for ""Your will", God's will, my assignment for the day... this developed from you using the Wheel of Fortune to look at where opportunities are. So this morning: Hanged Man and 9 of Pentacles! Very much in alignment with your post.
A comfort I am clinging to 4 of Swords, Truce
The greater purpose it prevents me from fulfilling 9 of Pentacles, Gain
A necessary perspective on the comfort, which will aid me in releasing my attachment to it, The Universe
This is perfect. I've been looking at how I stay too long in situations that don't serve me in order to validate my worth. Relationships, jobs. My employer just hired another OT, a contract employee, and I've lost part of my patient load bc of it. I get paid per patient. I've been loyal and accommodating to this company, thinking that that mattered, and that they would protect their local employees. How naive, but similar to what I've done in personal relationships. I'm just finally getting this in my life, not just seeing it, but integrating it enough to do differently. After being in the vfence for a long time, I'm now actively looking at working PRN elsewhere and eventually leaving my current company. Communicated with a hiring Mgr last night.