Okay, so let me tell you about this one time I was messing around with my tarot deck. Wasn’t really doing a formal reading, you know, just shuffling and thinking about this project I was totally stuck on. Felt like I had all these ideas but couldn’t quite get them off the ground. It was frustrating, really.
So, I pulled a single card, just to see what might pop up. And guess what? It was The Magician. Upright.
At first, I just kinda stared at it. The Magician, right? The guy with all the tools on the table. It felt a bit like the universe was nudging me, saying “Hey, dummy, you already have what you need.”
Taking Stock
So I decided to take that literally. I grabbed a piece of paper and just started listing things. What did I actually have right in front of me? Not pie-in-the-sky stuff, but real things.
- My old laptop (still kicking!).
- A decent internet connection.
- Some software I already knew how to use pretty well.
- A bit of free time in the evenings.
- That contact list I built up last year.
- My own skills – I’m okay at writing, decent at organizing things.
It wasn’t a super impressive list, maybe, but seeing it written down like that, it felt more concrete. Like the tools on the Magician’s table. They weren’t magic wands exactly, but they were my tools.
Getting Started
The card kinda gave me a kick in the pants. It’s about using those tools, right? Manifesting. Making something happen. So, I stopped just thinking about the big, overwhelming final project.
I picked the absolute smallest first step I could think of. It was just drafting one email. That’s it. Using my writing skill, my laptop, my contact list. I typed it up, read it over, and hit send. Felt kinda anticlimactic, actually.
But then I did the next small thing. And the next. Breaking it down, using the resources I listed. Some days it was just making a phone call. Other days it was spending an hour actually working on a piece of the project using that software I knew.
What Happened
Slowly, super slowly, things started moving. That first email got a reply, which led to a useful conversation. Using the software consistently meant I actually produced something small, then built on it. It wasn’t like a magic trick where everything suddenly appeared perfectly. It was more like… brick by brick. Using what I had, putting in the effort.
The project isn’t finished yet, not by a long shot. But it’s started. It’s moving. And looking back, pulling The Magician was less about some mystical revelation and more a practical reminder: Stop waiting for something else. Look at what you’ve got right now and just start doing something with it. It sounds simple, I know, but actually doing it made the difference between staying stuck and finally getting the wheels turning. That was my takeaway from that card, that day.
