Tarot Card for the Day, October 27, 2013, (Shadowscapes Tarot Deck)

Five of Pentacles Reversed

This card, upright depicts a woman who has tuned out the environment around her, and is turned only inward. She is unhappy, depressed, at a loss for what to do next. It’s a very hard time for her, although it’s self-induced. The number five speaks of multiple opportunities and choices available to us. It refers to a pivotal place in our lives where we have a base amount of information in a certain area, and now it’s time to choose what we want to do with that information. How we want to make use of it in our lives.
In this picture upright, the woman is missing all the opportunity, beauty and life around her because she refuses to raise her head. The is obsessing over herself. Maybe she doesn’t feel like she is good enough to move forward. Maybe she doesn’t realize her own value or potential. She is obsessing on what she still doesn’t know, or all of her faults, and her mistakes in the past. This is what happens when we look only at ourselves and block out the world around us.
But, we don’t have this card right side up today, we have it reversed. So what does that mean for us? Spirit is using this as a reminder for us to be vigillant, to take care of ourselves, but not to only let our eyes fall on ourselves as we do so. A huge part of taking care of us is in experiencing and appreciating the good things that are around us. Reaching out to others and accepting when they reach out to us. This is a day to take our focus off of ourselves, and look around and see the beauty, life and opportunities around us. Opportunities to improve our situations. Opportunities to help others. Opportunities to learn. They are all out there. Every one of them, just waiting for us to notice.
Peace,
Amista