Week 20/52 - Tiny things, big impact


Ace of Cups: the quality of what you input is the quality from which you outpour
2 of Pentacles: juggling through to life’s ups and downs

Monday’s full moon in Scorpio, illuminated by sun in Taurus, reveals the tiny things that create a big impact in the long run.

Yes, the atomic habits that we have in our lives (shout out to our friend James Clear).

What we once thought ‘things are supposed to be like this’ we’re realizing that: actually, we were the ones cocreating them unconsciously🙃.

Both archetypes together bring a sense of: what we can control X what we cannot control.

But this week, expect to finally grasp the things that actually were of our control, and we thought we couldn’t control them. We just settled for them as they were.

The things that have been determining our lives and we’ve been calling it fate - like Carl Jung said - until they are brought from the unconscious to the conscious. Now is that time.

This doesn't have to taste bitter, though.

Over the years I’ve learned to make it fun.

Kind of like a game - a treasure hunt: you get curious, take the cues provided, and get closer until you find things out ‘oh, wow, didn’t know that’.

No drama, no shame, no guilt.

Just moving forward with the new information.

And if we use this info to our benefit, it becomes, in fact, a treasure.

Personally, I’ve been called by life to create more nutritious content for people in a while, and only now I’m actually starting to make movements to do it.

Why? Because before I’d convinced myself with all of the possible excuses my ego could find to keep itself safe:

“Nobody wants to hear this from me”

“People are not ready for/ not interested in this kind of knowledge”

“It will be too much work for nothing”

“I don’t want to feel exposed”

That’s how I was ‘playing it safe, calling it fate’.

I don’t blame or shame myself for that though.

I know that only now I’m in a position to actually explore and own my voice, skills, and wisdom, to be able to share them.

If I had started doing it before, without the level of clarity and trust I’ve built, I would’ve done it just because people scream everyday on social media ‘start before you’re ready’, ‘just f*ing post it’, ‘you’ll regret not starting sooner’.

And, I would’ve done copying the way that they do it.

I would’ve acted completely out of my integrity (*ick*), and that’s not me.

And you know what would’ve happened? I would’ve quit.

Because I’d be acting so against myself, that my protection mechanism wouldn’t let me keep that going.

You know that thing ‘you’re not lazy or inconsistent. You have internal resistance’ - exactly.

Now I just know that I can hold it for the long run, because I feel safe in my ways. Now it’s a fun journey.

So whatever gets revealed to you this week, take it as a treasure you found.

Know that it came to you in the right timing. And that now you’re ready to act upon it.

Enjoy the ride flight,

A. Matsui

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