“The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that’s how you create things that are totally new.” -Virgil Abloh
Last week in Two of Cups – Love Yourself, we talked about the importance of loving yourself. Find peace and harmony within and you’ll find a successful path to forming healthy partnerships with others. When you’re compassionate and loving to yourself, it spills over into other areas of your life. The tarot is a mirror and you are the reflection. What are you reflecting?
Relationships are always in process, always unfolding, and may or may not fit into any neat and tidy category. This brings me to another theme around the topic of relationships and the Two of Cups: Collaboration
In the first of this series, The Healing Power of Love, I mentioned that big things are possible when the energy is right.
In tarot, the suit of Cups represents feelings and emotions while the Two represents relationship. Depending on the surrounding cards the relationship may be about love, a business partnership, or some sort of collaborative creative venture.
Opposites attract. Well, at least this is true some of the time!
Think back to a collaborative relationship in your life. What made it work? Or not?
The Two of Cups asks you to evaluate what role collaboration plays in your life. As part of that ask yourself:
- What’s my communication style?
- What’s my goal when working collaboratively? Is it to achieve what I want only or to listen to another’s point of view and arrive at a mutually beneficial compromise?
- How can I transform how I communicate with myself and others into a more collaborative process? Hint: Perhaps by listening more and talking less? Or maybe through greater clarity of expression so others better understand what you’re actually saying?
If you take the time to think about these things, you’ll improve your relationship with yourself. And when that happens, you’ll have honed the kind of skills necessary to draw to you those who’ve done the same.
Maybe it’s time to schedule a meeting with yourself, meditate or journal your way into finding out more about how you communicate with both yourself and others! Such clarity may prove priceless…
Stay tuned for next week as we wrap up June’s series on the Two of Cups.
Ever upward!
