SATURDAY, 10 OCTOBER

TODAY'S CARD

THREE OF WANDS

 

III

the three of wands is the card of having already made the first move and waiting to see what comes back, and it falls on a saturday, the day people walk round the house and notice how it feels.

the threshold part of change gets talked about a lot, the deciding. much less is said about what comes after, when you have sent the email, put the house on the market, signed up, told people, and the new life has not yet turned up to meet you.

that stretch can feel oddly flat. you did the brave thing and nothing visible happened. the old routines are still running. it is easy to start wondering whether you made a mistake, simply because the results are slow.

this card reads that stretch as normal. changes travel. what you set going is on its way, and the in-between weeks are part of the journey.

what is worth leaning into today: looking at how far you have come since the decision, instead of how far there is still to go.

what is worth staying away from: reading one slow week as a verdict on the whole change. the early weeks are almost always quieter than the ones that follow.

my advice for today: write down what is already different since you decided, however small. most women find the list is longer than they expected.

what is a change you have set going that has not quite arrived yet. tell me where it is up to.

 

/ affirmations

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

/ i have made big changes before and i found my feet

/ i can feel unsettled and still be on the right road

/ i do not need the whole map to take the next step

/ the life i am heading toward has room for me in it

/ i am allowed to change my mind and change direction

/ i trust myself to learn a new routine

/ i am becoming someone i will be glad to know

which of these sounded truest out loud. send it back to me if you feel like it.