🌱Receiving season

You’re good at giving. But are you as good at receiving?

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This week’s seed 🌱: Receiving as foundational to this messy, magical human experience

The compost 🪱: The Four of Cups

We are heading into “giving season” this week (at least in the U.S.,) but this card asks what our relationship to receiving looks like—because our capacity to give is inherently tied to our capacity to receive. It’s like a cup: Whether you pour from the cup or fill the cup, the depth of the cup remains unchanged.

The Four of Cups from the Rider-Waite tarot deck.

The Four of Cups asks us what feels difficult to receive—someone’s red flag, someone’s boundary, help, information you don’t want to hear. It asks where and how we close ourselves off. Having boundaries and discernment around receiving is important, but equally as important is awareness of the stories we attach to our own walls or blocks that close us off from receiving.

For a very simple example, I have a hard time asking for and receiving help. The story I attach to this is that if I need help, if I have a need for someone else to fulfill at all, then I’m “too much,” not lovable, and will be rejected. In childhood I often felt like I wasn’t allowed to have or express my own needs, and that my role was to take care of others (where are my fellow eldest daughters?!)