Nine of Pentacles

You can do the job alone and you have made sure everyone knows. Independence at work has become a way of not being anyone's colleague.

When did you last ask someone at work for help you did not strictly need?

Ask this week, for something small.

You are financially self-sufficient and proud of it. The pride has started to include not letting anyone close enough to share it.

What are you not doing with money because it would involve depending on someone?

Do one thing this month that requires trusting someone with money, small and real.

You do not need them, and you have told them so in a hundred small ways. Not needing someone is not the same as being with them.

What could you let them do for you that you can do yourself?

Let them do it this week, without correcting it.

You are choosing the option that keeps you independent. Independence is a value. It is also, right now, a way of not being affected by anyone.

What would you choose if depending on someone were not a defeat?

Consider that option seriously today.

You are capable, contained, self-made, and it is real. It is also lonely, and you have decided the loneliness is the price of being capable. It is not.

Who have you kept at arm's length because you did not want to need them?

Bring one of them closer this week, deliberately.

You work alone and it suits you, and the work has stopped being touched by anyone but you. It is polished. It is sealed.

Whose response to the work would you actually value, and have you asked for it?

Ask them this week.