Sorry Maud, I fell asleep last night!
LOL, you're supposed to be asleep at night.
No worries!
thanks for specifying the question and to Padma
. I read through it many times and it was so hidden
this is my take on it....
reasons/causes for how a task would go?
house ring scythe clouds anchor
Well I don't do the reading style with the one sentence and the different parts, my method is quite flexible and just interpreting the combos like a story!
In this spread you have Scythe in the centre and so that is the core of the reading for me. The first card which is the trigger for the reading is House. I would say that your ask is something to do with clearing your house or decluttering. That is your task, getting rid of something in the home. It's possible it could also be about selling your house or ending a lease and moving to a new place but I think it's about cutting away the old at home!
Thinking of the first as the trigger is a good way, at least it makes sense to me. (I don't know yet whether i do the one sentence thing, I'm trying everything I hear of, still finding which is "my" way.)
Cutting away the old is indeed very relevant, very much at the front of my mind and these days.
House + Ring - the combo that is tricky for you. I think things with the ring which are not about love are about a contract or a commitment. You need to make a commitment to get rid of something in the past. This is why I think it's decluttering.
Is the past associated with house, generally? I know some cards have past or future, time or age, long or short time, etc...
Do you mean that this pair can be read as a commitment to do with the past?
Ring + Scythe - there is a real threat you will give up or end the commitment on the house. Perhaps you will get unmotivated or find it too boring, difficult.
I seem to be teetering on that. As if I almost have given up anyway, although my intention is NOT to give up - as if my inner self has given up... if I'm making sense! This part being in the middle of the row would go with finding this state of mind in the present, correct?
Scythe + Clouds - the mindset could be the problem here. the smallest problem you face doing your tasks might make you give up.
Hm. Or maybe being decisive does not have a "real" basis but a "cloudy" one? I keep thinking that I need to be utterly sure of why this needs doing, almost as if I daren't take action because it's the wrong thing to be doing. Which contradicts the facts, but it's a feeling underneath. Would that work for scythe + clouds?
Clouds + Anchor - this combo is about the way you work, the situation or the system. It might be a battle of stability or staying in one place working. The Anchor might feel like you are chained down to do this!
It does feel a bit like that, a bit of a ball n chain. I try to use that to spur me to get on with it faster.
And until there's more progress, I haven't got a proper place to do everyday things such as filing, computer work, etc. So the cloudiness is about the security feeling... ??
I think this is about clearing something or getting rid of things from your home in some way. I have real problems decluttering and getting rid of the old. I cannot do 3 hours sitting there doing it! I recommend little periods like 15 mins a day. Short periods and make a commitment! This is the problematic part of your task, committing and doing. You might also be battling the mind and issues of stability (been there!). Make a commitment for a short amount of time, if you just do 5 mins that is still successful. It looks like from this spread though it will be a bit of a personal battle!
what are the benefits of doing this task? You need to work towards the positives and find the right mindset for this! xx
You have drawn out things I didn't realise were a problem. I would say I made the commitment quite a long time ago, but responding to your thoughts has made me realise that my *emotions* are the opposite.
I heard somewhere that clutter is a defence. Like armour. Mine also keeps me from stepping into the next chapter, the "grown-up" world of making my various Grand Plans begin to come true. While I hate the house in this state, it has become familiar and therefore safe.
There are also lots of issues around the 15-minute "baby steps" thing... I'm pretty good at that way of working, but I don't trust that when I leave the job and come back to it later, it will be as I left it. For years that wasn't the case so I suppose I'm working on trust issues in a context of trust-the-stuff-to-stay-put! (my ex would pile my sorted-out papers, for example, back into a single pile, calling it "tidying" - but it was pointless to begin anything I couldn't finish and put out of sight in the one session. Think sorting a shuffled deck into its suits, but leaving them separated until you come back to put them in their box in the right order - they always got re-shuffled when I went away for a rest).
The other thing blocking my decisiveness is the usual, having to put aside another priority to deal with one. But I'm familiar with that block and not too bad at preventing it from being a problem!
Woo, really didn't think this would get deep.
But I'm still not sure why I didn't see mountain, for blockage - is that because the block is not something external to myself?
