Day 7: 7 of Pentacles Part 1 & 2 (Problem? Solvent.)

12/26/2020

Peace Family!

We are in the final seven posts/cards, woot! Many congrats to you if you made it this far because I know it hasn't been easy. In respect to the magnitude of work that still lies ahead of us, I've switched the medium from written to speeches (otherwise I'd never get it all done). Therefore the next "post" is linked below, in two parts.

But first- you should know the Seven of Pentacles (Saturn in Taurus) is a combination of the energies of Saturn (World card) & Taurus (Hierophant card), pictured here. It's important to be able to reference all three cards while you listen to the videos (Seven of Pentacles, World, Hierophant) because I'll be referring to all three.

If you have any questions comments, please post them below (here on the blog), & not on the YouTube video, thanks!

Talk to you soon :)

4 Comments

LMP

1/20/2021 11:09:20 pm

So cool to hear your voice! I watched the first video and was like, Oubria, how the hell do I NOT CARE/CARRY about anything, what are you talking about? Because I carry everything. To not carry/care seemed scary (s'carry) but I don't want to be so s'cared. I watched the next video and you answered my exact question. And I'm up for trying it. Only carry if it is not a weight/wait. Also I have been carrying a lot for my nine-year-old daughter who suffers from anxiety and a mild form of OCD, I think. I have been carrying things for her and denying her the opportunity to carry for herself and she seems s'cared all the time. I don't want s'cared to turn to s'carred, so we are both going to work on re speccing our cells, with me being the one shining the light and holding the plans because shining the light and carrying the torch is my damn job because I am the adult.

Questions: 1. Did I hear correctly that your name is accented on the second syllable? I think I've been pronouncing it incorrectly in my head.

2. Did anyone else notice that there was a shape in the top of one of the trees (the one on the left I believe) that was slightly darker than the branches around it and looked like a dancing person?

There is a poem called "The Seven of Pentacles" by Marge Piercy, about the card. I adore the piece, and always look it up when Seven of Pentacles work comes up. So of course I looked it up again here, and whoa! So much of what you were talking about in these videos is also expressed in the poem, esp the third and fourth stanza. Check it out.

The Seven Of Pentacles by Marge Piercy

Under a sky the color of pea soup
she is looking at her work growing away there
actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans
as things grow in the real world, slowly enough.
If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water,
if you provide birds that eat insects a home and winter food,
if the sun shines and you pick off caterpillars,
if the praying mantis comes and the ladybugs and the bees,
then the plants flourish, but at their own internal clock.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
You cannot tell always by looking what is happening.
More than half the tree is spread out in the soil under your feet.
Penetrate quietly as the earthworm that blows no trumpet.
Fight persistently as the creeper that brings down the tree.
Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden.
Gnaw in the dark and use the sun to make sugar.

Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses.
Live a life you can endure: Make love that is loving.
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in,
a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside but to us
interconnected with rabbit runs and burrows and lairs.

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
the planting,
after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

Kelsey

1/21/2021 04:58:18 pm

Everything you are saying here is totally clicking with me!

I've definitely changed from blaming others to taking responsibility for myself, and therefore feeling more empowering. It does seem like we're done with Shadow Work (in this iteration of it), and now looking at it as light work without problems/circumstances having changed much, if at all.

Knowing who I am in this final stretch of pregnancy, through the holiday stressors and the many things I’ve wanted to get done before this baby comes, I feel such calm and peace in taking things on one at a time and only doing what I can and completely letting go of the rest. I am feeling so light and care-free, not burdening myself with any extra weight that I cannot and do not want to carry. I totally understand the difference between being productive / getting things done / accomplishing things from a place of putting my attention on things that are important to me (i.e. light me up), versus worrying, stressing, and scrambling to get things done from a place of unnecessarily caring / carrying weight. My job is to create and live a life I light (that lights me up so I can shine / in which I feel light, not weighted down).

I’ve noticed lately that I’m spending almost zero time worrying about things in the future and just looking at what’s right in front of me now, knowing that soon / eventually, the things that I could be thinking about / worrying about in the future WILL BE what’s right in front of me and will get taken care of.

Something new that I’m noticing is that my relationship to the idea of “procrastinating” has completely shifted! I’m not putting things off, I’m feeling-into if now is the moment for me to spend my time on something, or is there something else that I need or needs my attention now? (Like resting instead). I have had multiple projects in the past couple of months that I’ve faced and have accomplished within the time I set out to do them, and with results that I’ve been very happy with, all while pregnant!

It has been an extremely LIGHT way for me to live!

Dela

1/26/2021 12:12:17 pm

No matter how much I want what I want *now,* I just have to wait. And the best thing I can do while I wait is to *grow.*

I love that you started doing audio recordings. The synchronicity of communication changing is so on point. The way I have been choosing to show up nowadays in the spaces I am in has changed dramatically. I'm growing confident in knowing who I am, what I do, what I can't do, my job, and what I'm working with like you said. Also -- it is true, structure really is how we show love or not show love. I'm understanding more that I'm in the work to change structures because I'm seeing how it's not supporting the youth or working people in a loving way. But with that fight come a restructuring in myself. How do I move daily? How do I take care of myself daily? What is the rhythm that I fall into that supports me and my well being? All of this has been under construction this past year and during this shadow work.

I'm really liking the 7 of pentacles energy if that means I get to go slowly and meditate on the life I want to see while also building momentum towards that very thing through daily practices. Thank you Oubria!

Tanasia

2/20/2021 07:15:02 pm

Whew! I feel attacked. I can say that I have changed in many ways. Being an earth sign, we surround ourselves with nice things and we always want, want, want. I am learning to put those wants to the side. It's not like things will run away from me, they just may be delayed a little and that is perfectly fine.
Now, learning how to not carry weight that doesn't belong to me is hard as hell. Being that I am in California on a travel nurse contract, I work a lot of hours during the week and I have to have a certain focused mindset in order to not pack up my shit and go home. I vowed that anyone who brings me drama or mess while I am away from home will be blocked. I've already done it to my mom, my oldest son, and my dad. I'm protecting my peace at all costs and standing here yelling, "Who else want some? Who else want some of Block-Debo?"

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