Hello my friends! Tis time for our weekly reading/ divination study. This week, our guidance comes from the Queen of Pentacles.
The Queen of Pentacles is the Nurturer of Earth. I was rolling that word around in my mind, in my mouth, and on paper today. Nurture. To nurture. What does that mean? What do we really mean when we say this?
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There’s this association with growing and developing with nurturing. We nurture our goals, our gardens, our children, our animals. There is care involved as well. This nurturing word has fresh clean blanket feel, a sigh of relief, warm soup after a long day in the cold. There’s something we want to crawl into here, a sense we can go there to be safe and warm. Where it is safe to grow.
This draws to mind an almost womb-like energy. Warm, cozy, held, safe to develop and grow. Loved. And with the Queen of Pents, this isn’t far off.
We do this for ourselves when we need it. What comes to my mind is a blanket fort. The close walls made of softness, the playfulness and creativity that brings it together, that sacred kind of sweetness that we enjoy once inside.
The Queen of Pentacles is strongly associated with fertility. As this word rolled around with me today, what came to mind is that fertility is not a solo act. While there may be some plants that defy this, generally fertility involves the efforts of more than just one person. Nurturing, Queen, Fertility… what came to mind was not independence, not dependence, but interdependence.
I don’t mean to engage in this sort of self-righteous semantics we see splashed across social media nowadays. Whatever word clicks when you think of the following concept, by all means, go with that. I will explain my reasoning for this word.
Independence is a beautiful, powerful place to be. It implies we don’t heavily depend on anyone else. We can do things for ourselves. We are well-shaped and defined individuals, not water-coloured leakings merging with someone else’s design. Dependent implies we need someone else for one, or many, things.
Interdependence is where we depend on each other. We can rely on each other. As I reflected upon the Queen of Pents, her fertility, and her earthly abundance, I thought of the importance of interdependence. It’s really respecting and honouring that we don’t do anything totally in isolation, isn’t it? I didn’t design this laptop or create the internet that enables you to read this article. I didn’t come out of my mom’s womb walking and talking and ready to go. It respects all these threads that link all of creation together. As the Queen of Earth, this goes beyond just human relationships. We see this in the Great Web of Life.
My garden nurtures me. I nurture my garden. The mint planted near my raspberries keeps the pests at bay. The bats swoop at night to eat and reduce the pests. The rain waters the garden. The worms enrich the soil. The bees pollinate. The sun gives life. I may plant and care for my garden, but nurture it I may, it is very much a team effort with me and many aspects of nature.
The Queen of Pentacles embraces this. We are not islands. There can be such joy in nurturing each other. Our gardens, our animals, our loved ones. When I see my kitties sleeping in the sun on a sun shelf my husband built for them, curled up in a blanket we bought for them, I am filled with love and gratitude that we can provide this comfort and love for our fur babies.
This Queen is associated with the astrological sign Capricorn. If you know any Caps, they generally have a great eye for beauty, quality, and style. They also enjoy their material world, but they’ll do the hard stuff to get there. That means they may have one of the most beautiful apartments you’ve ever seen, but they busted their butt and got smart with money to get there.
This week, all of this feels highlighted. The nurturing, the coziness, the fertility, and the discipline. I personally find I can enjoy little luxuries more if they are balanced with healthy work. The Queen understands this deeply. To truly care and nurture, we need balance. We need to eat our kale, but life is more delicious with some pasta and chocolate. We need to exercise, but how lovely is a day spent lounging and reading? We need to budget and save, but you can’t take it with you, so buying that treat adds to the enjoyment of life & hard work.
Drawing this all together, we are guided this week to nurture ourselves, each other, and our material spaces. This could be a great week to update your wardrobe, balance the books, redecorate that room, get your hair done. Looking in the kitchen, what do you see? To truly nurture ourselves, we cannot ignore what we eat. Everyone is different, so what that looks like shifts from person to person. But as the Queen of Earth, this figure knows that what we put into our bodies impacts our experience in our bodies, which is how we experience life. This is not a judgy assessment, rather simply practical. We need to drink water, we need fruit and veg, we need some fibre. And you know, I think she’d say we need some chocolate too (dark, preferably sea salt or earl grey, if you ask me).
Fertility is on the table this week, be that literal or figurative. Remember it is not a solo endeavour. Is there something you want to give life to? Who can you work with to make it so? As the saying goes, “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Whatever you wish to grow and develop, particularly in the material realm, it is blessed with good fortune this week.
Lastly, this is an invitation to reflect on how you are Earth. Your body is borrowed from the earth. When we pass, our body returns there, and our spirit goes to the spirit realm. You are the earth. You have air in your lungs and blood. Rivers of blood and water run through your body. You are organic matter, like the earth. The fires of digestion transform your food into fuel. How do you treat your body? This is how you treat the earth. How do you treat the earth? This is how you treat your body. How can you love and treat your body as the extension of our beautiful Mother Earth?
So this week, I feel the Queen invite us into her garden. To feel the warmth of the sun, the life in the rain, the song of the soil, the wisdom of the trees. Do you have a favourite flower? Listen, listen with your heart. It may have something to tell you. Do you hear the birds? Listen, listen again. What does their song sing to you? In shamanic practices, the earth is our greatest teacher. This week, what can you learn? Maybe with all this love of the Queen, you can learn how to love the earth best in your own way, and learn that you are loved by the earth as well.
Wishing you all a delicious, nourishing, earthly week.
Yours in wonder & magick,
xo Jenny
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