The card of the month is Seven of Pentacles

The image from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck is a powerful one inviting us to pause and be patient with the garden we’ve been tending. 

You planted the seeds and you’ve been working hard to make sure your garden has all the nourishment it needs to bloom and grow. Your hard work is paying off because the seeds have blossomed into a beautiful bush. No fruits have appeared yet, but they’re on the way. 

This January, you are invited to take a step back and allow all the hard work you have put into your passion project, family, or job to flow. It has everything it needs to flourish. Now is the time for you to acknowledge your efforts. Take a moment to reflect on the journey and ask yourself while you wait - in what way might I need to replenish my own needs that may have been overlooked while I was tending my garden? How can I pause in a way that would infuse my soul and body with the energy I will need to get back to my garden when the need for tending it returns? 

And there are times in our lives when, despite having healthy seeds and fertile soil, the weather does not comply. Perhaps it’s like that time when the spring arrived and the excited buds craving warmth and sun began climbing their way out of the safety of their shoot tissue only to be crushed by the returning frost. Seven of Pentacles asks you to be responsible for and  take ownership of what’s yours, but to let go of what is outside of your control. 

Can you enjoy the adventure of learning and the experience of your efforts without attachment to the outcome? Can you appreciate the journey without knowing where it will lead you? What would it look like to release some control and the insistence to keep toiling and instead, trust that all your efforts are unfolding as they should?