What the Queen of Pentacles Can Teach us About Organic Growth
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The Queen of Pentacles has such a deep, nurturing meaning that many overlook. She’s on par with The Empress in my eyes, just a much more practical version. She’s like your biggest cheerleader. She’s the loving mother who tells you that you can do whatever your heart desires. She wants what’s best for you.
Something we can take away from the Queen of Pentacles’ energy is a lesson in organic growth. This is something I spoke about at length in episode 38 of The Self-Care Tarot Podcast, which you can listen to here:
In summary, the Queen of Pentacles helps to ground us in reality. She cultivates the ground from which we can grow in a way that is natural and aligned with our soul’s purpose. That sounds a bit airy, but it means that there is no rush to become who you are eventually meant to be.
It’s about the journey, not the destination
When we embrace the energy of the Queen of Pentacles, we make a commitment to ourselves. We promise that we won’t force change, nor will we reject it. We commit to going through whatever comes up. Grow through what you go through vibes.
“Grow through what you go through”
Organic growth is all about the growth you don’t actively chase. It is what the universe guides you through, and a lot of the time, we don’t even realise it’s happening.
That’s why taking on the energy of the Queen of Pentacles is so important. She helps to give us the space to stop, reflect and understand what we’ve been through and how it has changed us.
Cultivating the Environment for Growth
If you’ve ever done a bit of gardening, you’ll know that if you try and plant something in an inhospitable environment, it won’t grow. The same applies to ourselves. We can’t grow and develop if we are not consciously creating an environment where we can do so.
With the Queen of Pentacles, we are bringing together the deep emotional energy of elemental water and the grounding and supportive nature of elemental earth.
Together, we get this safe space to really open up and be vulnerable. We are safe and secure, allowing us to be able to be 100% honest with ourselves. The perfect environment for review and reflection, two key elements in growth.
How to do this Queen of Pentacles work
The most essential part of the Queen of Pentacles’ work is creating time and space for you to sit and reflect. Once here, you can give yourself a Tarot reading, do some self-reflecting meditation, and maybe even write some poetry or paint. Whatever helps you really tap into what you’ve been going through.
An example of this would be if you’ve just gone through a period of grief. Making this time for yourself to reflect and process can help you better understand your loss, what you’ve learned through it and even help you express emotions that were hard to accept at the time.
Remember that organic growth allows the changes that happen naturally to occur. We don’t fight anything; we simply give it the space to pass through unchallenged.
“We are safe and secure allowing us to be able to be 100% honest with ourselves. The perfect environment for review and reflection”
In the podcast episode all about organic growth and the Queen of Pentacles, I offer some journal prompts. I want to offer them to you again.
Prompt 1: Let’s start with an analysis of your ability to let go of control. It’s a big part of allowing for organic growth, so here we go. Write down 10 times you have made plans or set goals, and the universe has directed you in a completely new or opposite direction.
Prompt 2: Go through your list and write down how you coped with this. What did you do instead? How did it feel to have your original plans scuppered by fate? Once you’ve done that, highlight or mark off how many of those reactions were positive and how many were negative.
Prompt 3: Looking at your list again, do you have an abundance of positive or negative reactions to those redirections? If you have an abundance of positive reactions, why do you think you reacted that way? If you have an abundance of negative reactions, why do you feel you had those reactions instead of something more positive or optimistic?
Prompt 4: Finally, for any negative reactions, write down what positive outcome came from that redirection.
So, for example, if you had the plan to reach the most senior position at your work, but then the company went under, and it made you redundant. You probably won’t have had an overly positive reaction to that because you just lost your job, but positive outcomes of that might have been that you learned what you did and didn’t want from your career.
You may have realised you’ve been in the wrong career all along, or you ended up working at a place you love even more because you were forced to look elsewhere by fate.
Looking to do more work like this with the tarot?
I have a number of resources to help you dive into work just like this on your own time. If you enjoyed the journal prompts, then why not take a look at the Emotional Awareness email pathway, which delivers a series of emails to your inbox over 8 weeks, to help you build more emotional awareness and take care of your well-being.
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