Do you have a deck of oracle cards or tarot cards sitting in your office?
I have several. Like, more than 5. They’re one of my favorite tools for accessing my creativity and intuition.
Whether I’m planning my work day, mulling over a problem, or forecasting my grand plans for the next six months and beyond, I use these colorful, symbol-laden references to deepen my self-reflection, spark new insights, and strengthen my leadership as an entrepreneur.
Today I’m going to share how you can use them to do the same. But first, a bit of background.
When it comes to running and growing businesses, many of us have been indoctrinated in the belief that success requires a hard reliance on strict logic, iron-clad numbers, and corporate jargon.
Business as usual looks traditional…and by traditional, I mean buttoned-up, conservative, and rational.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking a structured, logical, suit-jacket-and-tie attitude to business. I happen to love lots of aspects of the corporate world and work life, and I have a deep appreciation for the gifts and importance of left-brained intelligence in entrepreneurship.
However business, like life, is all about duality.
It’s a series of growth cycles, and growth is nothing more that the turning of the wheel of death and rebirth. Evolution is a natural, constant transmutation, and ignoring half (!) of how it all works dooms us to feel small, stifled, and stuck.
As entrepreneurs, our success at work depends on our ability to embrace the union of opposites.
Creativity and logic. Spirit and science. Socialization and systems. Even the cycle of death and rebirth.
The path of progress requires navigating paradox and practice discernment along the way.
Nothing in nature grows endlessly and exponentially. Even viruses (those are exponential growth curves of nature) mutate and transform in response to the pressures of their environment.
We should expect no more (or less) from ourselves on our paths of business and personal growth.
We are guaranteed face unexpected obstacles and pit stops along the journey of success.
We’ll need to sidewind, backtrack, and recalibrate. There will be seasons where growth looks and feels like destruction, or confusion, or the absence of movement entirely.
None of this means we aren’t on the right path. It just means that the journey we thought would be linear was never, ever intended to be that way.
After all, the process by which we create and nurture a being into its fullest expression—whether that’s our business, our children, or ourselves as leaders—isn’t the same process that builds a widget or manufactures a product on a factory floor.
We get to choose our mindset and approach as visionary entrepreneurs. The time to plan our professional success with exclusively logical, linear thinking passed with the Industrial Age.
That’s why I welcome all tools that generate creativity, enhance intuition, and open up connection with our right-brained selves.
When you embrace your irrational heart as well as your strategic mind, it empowers you to enjoy the flow, expand your resourcefulness, and deepen your resilience on the endless path of success.
Your willingness to embrace duality allows you to show up and operate from wholeness in your business. And THAT is how you reach new heights and unleash your full potential.
Plus oracle cards are just so fun!
So today I want to share how you can use these practical yet mystical tools in the context of running a business.
If you are a leader or service provider turned entrepreneur, here’s how you can use tarot and oracle cards to help you grow your business and lead your company.
Click the image above or this link to watch the video. Not into videos? Click here to read the transcript.
In this video, I discuss:
- How I got started using tarot and oracle cards (as a rational-minded entrepreneur)
- The surprising connection between mystic arts and business leadership
- Why (and when) it makes practical sense to use oracle cards in your business
- How to use oracle cards to grow your business and strengthen your leadership as an entrepreneur
When you’re finished, leave me a comment and let me know:
Do you actively use tarot or oracle cards in your business brainstorming or day-to-day work? Why or why not?
If you’d like to check out some pre-made oracle card spreads designed specifically to help you answer questions in your personal development and professional growth, visit me on Instagram @elizabethderby.
