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(I had to take a little break to sort some logistics yesterday and we are back to regular programming today.)

Card of the Day: Two of Pentacles

The Two of Pentacles is a card symbolic usually of juggling between one too many things, or hustling super hard while just managing to make ends meet. This has been an economically difficult year for a vast majority of the population. On one hand, we have witnessed (and continue to witness) the gaping lack of access to a larger part of the population and the structural flaws that feed into that. On the other hand, we have also witnessed community, ingenuity to manage somehow and share.

Today, this card speaks of a questions that perhaps all of us are sitting with as we approach the end of this year. If you are worried about your finances and are tired after juggling multiple gigs, this card asks you to plan for that change you are looking for by starting with noting and appreciating your ability to make it this far, however you may have. Looking at what you may not have right now, before appreciating where you are tends to create greater stress while you continue to juggle work with stability. This stress then blinds you to seeing the strengths that you have thereby, stopping you from making use of them to work smart while having enough time and space for rest in the future.

The other message that this card gives us today is to look beyond the binaries of good or bad, so as to not miss the bigger picture that may have something of value for you.

The hardest thing that we in our human experience struggle with is the idea of fluidity of our own selves and hence, the world. That makes change even more painful that it already is.

We love sticking to binary notions of describing life - good or bad, right or wrong, left or right, black or white, love or hate. This stems from our learnt need to see ourselves in a light that we have believed or wanted to believe we are. More often than not, we all want to be the good one, the better one, in any given situation because if we are not that, then we must be the other that we dread! This dread of perhaps being that other that we don't want becomes a fear and that fear eventually becomes hate.

Today's pulse asks you to sit with the discomfort of your own duality and perhaps, discovering that you are never really "fixed". You are constantly in motion, changing shape and form. This card asks you to find acceptance of your changing, fluid, grey areas, not as an act of defeat, but as an act of liberation. The bigger picture as the seas in the background show that at any given moment there is always something much more going on than what meets the eye, even more so, if you are married to just seeing in a set way. This card asks you to learn to release limitedness of perception of yourself, your world and anyone in it. The more you do that, the more you'll find the 'right' things align for you with ease.