🌱Everyone is a messy bitch
This week, Temperance and the Seven of Wands offer us patience and courage when dealing with interpersonal conflict (aka messy bitches.)
Welcome to the Greenhouse 🌱 where we plant seeds for the week ahead with a tarot reading, a digital altar, and more! Consider this your digital quiet place to exhale, read, and nourish your busy lil brain to ground you for the upcoming week. Maybe we’ll bask in the sun a little, too (wearing SPF, of course!) So if you haven’t already, please consider upgrading your subscription!
This week’s seed 🌱: Conflict as an exercise in trust
The compost 🪱: Temperance + the Seven of Wands
This is the first time since I started writing the Greenhouse that I’ve pulled a card I’ve already written about: Temperance. So to give us a little more context, I decided to pull another card (yay, two-card spread!) and I pulled one we saw a just a couple of weeks ago: the Seven of Wands.
Girl, let’s get into it. Because these cards are telling me this week is going to be juicy!
Seeing these cards paired together, I’m reminded of a skill that I seriously lack: maintaining my inner sense of balance during interpersonal conflict. Any time I feel in conflict with someone, it’s all I can think about. My mind obsesses over how they did me wrong, creating endless stories and assumptions about the person and situation. Externally, I act cool as a cucumber. But on the inside? I am in hell trying to figure out how to navigate said conflict. Move over years of therapy—the maladjusted coping mechanisms are taking over!
When facing conflict, anger, and upset (Seven of Wands vibes), Temperance whispers of patience and moderation, asking us to trust in the ebb and flow of life. She invites us to look at conflict as an opportunity to deepen our relationships—with ourselves and with others.