Hello, Connected Women

How are you feeling this Easter? Are you feeling that the year has gone really quickly, but it’s as if you’ve done a year’s work in just a few months?

If so, it’s not just you. It’s the accumulation of worldwide stressful conditions and the draining nature of having so much uncertainty in our lives. Meanwhile, personal and family issues haven’t stopped popping their demanding heads up.

So for many reasons, this weekend is a wonderful time for a reading.

And with a full moon rising, a beautiful Easter symbol has appeared in one of this week’s cards.

Let’s see what the cards have to say about the influences in your current work and career situation.

Card 1 | The Chariot – Driving to Success

This a good card to open with. The Chariot shows movement in a particular direction. Driven by intense energy, it brings about rapid progress and change.

In your work, it can signify overnight success after a long period of endeavour. This is when you achieve results through the power of your will.

Have you been working especially hard on a project or in a role? If this card applies, you will know about it, whether you’re scored results or are still waiting (hey, they’re not far away!).

Make no bones about it, we’re talking about a state of victory here. Whatever it is that you are trying to achieve, you’re nearly there – or may even be there already.

This is a Major Arcana card, so it’s referring to the bigger themes in your life. That means it’s safe to say this focus is something you care deeply about – we’re talking far more than daily bean counting.

Remember to congratulate yourself. This success shows that when you focus your efforts on the right thing at the right time, you really can make a change.

Where to next? Let’s see what the second card has to say.

Card 2 | Ace of Cups – Open Your Heart

This card shows that you can now afford to draw breath and reconnect with your intuitive side.

In this card, the chalice is brimming with water, the element of emotion. Five streams of water flow freely, representing your senses and the flow of your subconscious.

Aces are beginnings and the Ace of Cups indicates that positive new feelings coming into your life.

It’s possible that with all the hard work signified by the Chariot, you’ve lost that sense of who you are as a professional. Now is the time to tap into your emotional side again. The white dove, a beautiful symbol at Easter, shows that this is a safe time to do so.

Is there an aspect of work that is moving you in some way? You may be partially aware of this, interpreting it as a gut feeling but not giving it much attention. Change that up now! As you’re responding on an intuitive level, could it be a creative impulse that will benefit your work?

Take note of what your intuition is telling you. You’re in a strong position to take this creativity forward, for this is the start of a new productive phase for you.

Card 3 | Page of Cups – Making Creative Progress

The Page of Cups confirms that this a time for learning to work more with your intuition.

New insights may come to you, illuminating emerging situations as well as ones that you may have come across before.

When making a decision, it may help to take a moment to connect with your feelings. What to do they tell you – is this the right way to go?

This may not mean your decision are otherwise wrong, but simply that sometimes your thinking or actions can be adapted to make an outcome even better.

How do you feel about adding an emotionally guided quality to your work?

The Page of Cups is holding the emotional cup aloft, while pointing at the ground. The message is to engage your emotions, yet keep your feet on the ground, with sound actions and decisions.

It can certainly help your workplace relationships if you listen to those around you. (BTW, The Page can also represent a young and sensitive person who’s around, whose creativity may work well with yours.)

There’s definitely a place for emotions in the workplace, if balanced with your knowledge, experience and skills. It’s one of the areas where women excel.

The Hardest Part is Behind You Now

This reading shows that your endeavours until now have been worthwhile, meaning you can afford to drop a gear and work in a slightly different way.

The Chariot indicates that your hard work and focus have been successful, bringing you to a place of success.

The Ace of Cups is saying that it’s now safe to bring more intuition to your work, allowing your personal creativity to come into new projects or ventures, while nuturing professional relationships.

The Page of Cups adds his voice here, showing that there is an art to bringing your emotions and creativity to your work, and that this art can be learned.

The news that you can ease back and work in a slightly different way may come as a relief.  Until now, success may have meant survival of the business or organsiation, or merely just holding onto your job, or finding a new one.

All economies have taken a hit, rocking the boat for every organisation out there. With pressure lifting, you can now afford to work in a more creative, constructive and ultimately fulfilling way.

On this Easter weekend, I wish you every success going forward.

With love, Jane

PS. The header image is the beautiful Pasque flower, so called because it’s known to flower early in spring in the northern hemisphere, close to Easter.

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Hello Connected Women

May I ask what’s happening in your world of work right now? How are the vibes – are they warming your heart or freezing your blood? This tarot reading will help you to assess the workplace temperature.

After another week in which agression of one kind or another has dominated our news streams, it’s time to think about the energies that are affecting your workplace presence.

News saturation can make it all too easy to pick up on external energies, so they become foregrounded in our interactions with others.

If it’s in the news, we can internalize it, then foreground it, then it seems we become sensitized to the slightest hint of that issue.

Think: how many times have you consciously expressed or responded to unrelated tensions while you’re at work? It’s so easy to do, but I think we’re all better at identifying this in other people than in ourselves. (Yes, I’m looking in the mirror here.)

This week’s tarot reading give us chance to work on bringing supportive values to our interactions with colleagues, changing the narrative from purely task-driven to one that’s both successful and heartfelt.

Card 1 | King of Swords – Thoughts That Rule

In this first tarot card, we go straight to the nerve center of strategic thinking.

The King of Swords is the goal-oriented analyst, the intellectual who finds it effortless to establish control.

At his best, this king is a force for good, exercising sound judgement for the benefit of those he leads and manages. Think: leadership as service.

At his worst, he can be dominant, believing it to be his way or the highway. Reason overcomes all other considerations and empathy goes out of the window. Think: entitled manager.

If you recognize either of these people at work – of any gender – you’ll be nodding sagely right now…

This card may also represent an aspect of yourself. Do you have the King of Swords strengths – or some of his weaknesses?

On a wider level, if a turbulent work situation is posing problems, this card indicates that better management may be needed. It’s time to exercise your strategic strengths, or to request help from someone who can deliver what’s needed.

Now let’s see if the second card in this tarot reading can clarify this for you some more.

Card 2 | Six of Pentacles – The Gift of Giving

Here, a man of faith is giving alms to those who have little. The Six of Pentacles is telling us about the importance of giving and receiving, whatever form that help takes.

At work, it can take the form of professional advice, guidance, or skills. It may also mean supporting someone who isn’t able to perform as well as normal, for personal or professional reasons.

When this card appears in a tarot reading, you may be the person who is giving, or the person who is receiving. Let’s face it, it’s easy to move from one role to another.

If you’re being offered help, are you able to accept it with grace, rather than feeling that a weakness has been exposed? Remember that you’re not defined by your needs, although it’s so easy to feel that way.

Perhaps you’re in a position to help someone else. If so, try to expect nothing back in return, while understanding that they in turn may find help difficult to receive.

‘Paying it forwards’ sums up this ethos very well! Whatever form your support takes, this card says that the act of helping is two-way street, with benefits for everyone involved.

Now let’s take a closer look at those benefits…

Card 3 | Three of Cups – Marking the Positives

It’s easy to see that this is a card of celebration, signifying the joy of being with people in your life – and workplace.

This is the unbridled happiness that comes with fantastic news, a fresh contract, a profitable success, or a get together with work friends. As the song goes, let the good times roll.

This card also indicates that success is here – or is well on the way. Regardless of scale, it’s important not to forget these minor landmarks or let them slip by. Everyone needs to feel the benefit of the ‘up’ days, as it gives us energy to power through the ‘down’ days.

If you’re a leader, be alert for these moments. Acknowledging success can lift the spirits, bringing you all  together when hard work has been done.

When you’re working in a team, remember to look sideways and praise the efforts of your colleagues. Do this even if they aren’t the kind to thank you. In fact, do it especially if they’re not the kind to thank you.

And if you’re getting the girls’ night out feels from this card, then absolutely, you should go for it… this tarot reading says that you must!

A Supportive Focus

This week’s tarot reading is all about how we interact with colleagues. Great working relationships are worth their weight in gold adn with all the pressures affecting organizations this year, the benefits of positive team  interactions can’t be underestimated.

The King of Swords indicates that although strong strategic managment has never been more important – indeed, it’s been essential for survival after the toughest years in recent times – it mustn’t eliminate the needs of the very people who put plans into action.

The Six of Pentacles is a reminder of the value of offering support where it’s needed. It also shows us that accepting help with good grace is important. This is especially true if you take pride in your independent strength  as a strong woman (ahem, you know who you are!).

The Three of Cups shows both that the current times of hardship will pass, but that even while hardship endures, there can be moments to celebrate. Marking successes is another area of mutual support that will help to build the team and carry you all forwards.

Not everyone you work with will feel the same way, but bringing such values to the team – and to your connections outside the organization as well – will assist both yourself and others who are willing to engage on this level. A happy team is a team that delivers

Can this information help you? I believe it can, as you’ve got this. You’ve REALLY got this.

With love

Jane x

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