Weekly Forecast: 27 January
Here’s my first weekly forecast of the year, using the Spirit Keeper's Tarot by Benebell Wen. Because I'm trying to streamline this week towards creating new products and offerings, I've gone with a spread I know very well — a 3-card forecast from Benebell Wen's “22-Weeks with the SKT” workbook.
Again, it’s a brilliant wee spread to get me focused for the week and I do enjoy looking back at the end of the week to reflect and see what else popped up to build my personal database of tarot correspondences / language / vocabulary.
Here are the card positions:
Card 1: The spirit most present with me this week
Card 2: What's in my highest interest to prioritise this week
Card 3: Something to prepare for
My interpretation
Card 1: Key 0. The Seeker, Spirit in Search of Science (The Fool)
This week my main goal is to learn more about what kind of products I enjoy making, in preparation for upcoming markets — this involves some market research to see different price points, figuring out where to get quality ingredients, etc. I've got a lot to learn. According to The Book of Maps, "circumstances have led me to a door of opportunity, but now it is on [me] to choose whether [I] want to walk through it."
Card 2: 18 - The Necromancer, Gateway of Resurrection (The Moon)
I've been particularly melancholy since the US inauguration took place. What is happening in my home country is filled with hatred and it's definitely affecting me — this is not the America that so many are sold in the American dream, but it's definitely the America that millions of marginalized Americans deal with every day. Now it's just on full display for the world to see, and it's taking America backwards at least a century in many ways. I wouldn't call this a 'dark night of the soul' but maybe it IS a large low point for me right now.
I'm also at a point where I'm still flying a bit blind in this whole 'working for myself' thing and my self-worth previously has been tied to my productivity and work, so swapping gears from being fully employed to what's working best for my family on top of working for myself is bringing up all sorts of lovely emotions and uncharted insecurities, etc. I think this is a good call for me to just look at all of this with curiosity instead of an expectation of how I should be feeling during this time.
Card 3: The Burdened One, 10 of Scepters (10 of Wands)
I fully expect that by the end of this week I'll be ‘tired as’ as they say here in Aotearoa — but I'll be doing my best not to let my feelings go into martyrdom territory. It's a privilege that I get to do what I'm doing in the way I'm doing them, and I am thankful and grateful for this. It'll hopefully be a good kind of tired that you get after a new project or a good workout — not the exhausted, resentful kind of tired you get when you're doing stuff you don't want to be doing. I'll definitely be ready to switch gears into something else next week.
Join me again next week to see how my interpretation held up and if anything happened during my week that I may have missed.
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