Seven of cups, and the saturday with nothing to hide behind

SATURDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER

saturday, and the house gets a proper look at you. no schedule to hide behind, so whatever you have been putting off thinking about comes and sits down in the room.

the seven of cups is too many wants at once. it turns up when the problem is not a shortage of desire but a crowd of it, so nothing gets chosen and the whole business gets filed under unrealistic.

the crowd is protective, and that is worth knowing. as long as there are six possibilities, none of them has to be attempted and none of them can be got wrong. picking one is the moment it becomes real and you become answerable to it.

you do not owe anybody a five year plan by tonight. but one of those wants is heavier than the others when you are honest, and you know which one it is. today you could just say it to yourself in plain words and leave it at that.

what is worth leaning into today: the one that keeps its weight after the others have moved on. it has been the same one for a while now.

what is worth staying away from: researching all of them. research feels like progress and it is the most comfortable way there is to avoid choosing.

my advice for today: write the six down, then cross off five. not for ever, just for this month. a want with the others cleared away from around it is much easier to look at.

if you crossed off five, what is left. reply with the one, no explanation needed.

/ affirmations

read these out loud, five times, in front of a mirror, right now

if one of those made you uncomfortable to say, that is the useful one. reply with the number.