Queen of Pentacles

You hold the team steady and take care of everything, and nobody sees the cost because you have made sure they cannot.

What are you carrying at work that you have never once said out loud is heavy?

Say it to one person this week.

You provide, and the providing is real, and it is quietly draining you. Nobody knows because you have arranged it that way.

Who are you financially taking care of who could take care of themselves?

Step back from one of those this month.

You take care of them so thoroughly that they have stopped noticing it is care. That is not their fault entirely. You made it invisible on purpose.

What do you do for them that you resent and have never mentioned?

Mention it this week, without blame.

You are deciding what is best for everyone. Everyone includes you, and you keep leaving yourself out of the count.

What would this decision look like if your needs weighed the same as theirs?

Rewrite the decision with yourself in it, today.

You look after everything and everyone, and you have not been looked after in a long time. You would not know what to do with it if it came.

When did you last let someone take care of you without directing it?

Let it happen this week. Do not manage it.

You nurture everyone else's work and your own is waiting. Waiting patiently, the way things wait when they have been told they are not the priority.

What of yours has been on hold while you helped everyone else finish theirs?

Give it the first hour of tomorrow, before anyone else's.