How might you be creating fantasies, scenarios, or playing into narratives that might not actually be true in an effort to avoid your own feelings?
Jessica Dore, author of Tarot for Change, writes on an Instagram post with an image of the Seven of Cups, “...turning inward might feel scary at first because fantasizing about other people’s feelings helps us avoid our own.”
I sometimes find myself doing this without even realizing it.
Often, this can be a trauma response or survival strategy where we think if we can predict what the other person is saying, thinking, or going to do next we'll be safe or we'll feel like we have some sense of control over the situation or outcome.
It's Pisces season, so pulling the seven of cups reversed and King of Cups is quite timely because the cups represent water and our emotions.
These cards actually speak to Scorpio energy, which is a water sign like Pisces. I believe this an invitation to ask ourselves how might we see more clearly the thought fantasies that we might be creating, maybe the projections we’re engaging, and which ones do we want to give our energy to, and which ones do we want to let evaporate?
When we can create discernment around our emotions, fantasies, and the reality of our experience we can cultivate congruence and resonance between what we think and believe, and our responses, choices, and actions.
By allowing our emotions to flow, and by holding space to acknowledge and tend to our own desires, feelings, fears, and sensations, we become adept at being able to hold space for others' feelings to flow as well.
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