*Next World tarot by Cristy C. Road; Earth Magic oracle cards by Steven D. Farmer*

The difference between an open fist and a closed one is Love and trust.

We have here a reminder that systems which encourage hoarding, me vs them, compromises that are actually sacrifices, are literally anti-nature.

And then there is the past-future. The abuelita. The wise woman who lives and makes beauty in her community by following the things she loves. Your future self that has followed your joy and can look back and say, “you don’t know it now but the seeds you’re planting become the beauty you dream of. Keep going.”

Systems do not change overnight. But change they must. Where can compromises be made in ways that no longer hurt?

Where, like the tides, can we open and close? Where can we neither minimize nor make too much of our experience, our humanness?

Trust begins within and then gets mirrored from without. We get shown how to trust from without to learn how to feel it within.

There is no other.

Are the relationships in your life ones that return your trust and help you find it when it’s lost? Do your wellness practices, your spiritual practices help you learn to open and close, to take in and release, to share your heart with anyone willing to be moved by it?

That which moves you deeply is the path. Let yourself be moved. The seeds you’re planting now become the beauty you dream of. Keep going.