2 Zodiac Signs Trapped In Their Past (+Tarot Advice For Getting Unstuck)
Our pasts shape who we are. Each experience (good or bad) has the potential to impact who we are.
Examining and sharing memories, or recalling the last time you smelled or saw something are ways that we tell our personal histories and help others to understand the foundations of who we are. The past itself doesn’t threaten us, but our relationships with our past can turn problematic if we aren’t careful. There are fine lines between being nostalgic and living in the past, and when we are so caught up in our history, we aren’t fully present. It’s easy to forget that our memories aren’t the stark truth about halcyon days past, but the story of our experience that we’ve carried throughout our growth.
There are a lot of reasons that we may feel emotionally, spiritually, or mentally stuck in the past. Perhaps things are difficult, and remembering better times started as a way to escape the difficulties you’re facing. Mistakes you made may be replaying in your head, or you may have started a negative narrative about yourself based on your past that keeps you from reaching too far or being too ambitious. It could be you’re seeking answers about how you’ve gotten to where you are. You may be holding on to past behaviors and patterns that once served you but now are dragging your spirit down. Cancer and Taurus have found themselves living more in the past than they are in their present.
For these zodiac signs who have been listening to the siren song of the world within their memories, our tarot reader has performed readings to help them get unstuck from the past, and start truly being present.
The cards pulled represent:
- Working For You: What’s working for you in the present.
- Working Against You: What’s working against you in the present.
- Your Hopes: What you’re hoping for.
- Your Fears: What you’re afraid of happening.
- Advice: A Piece of advice on where you might look to go next or how to handle the personal part of the experience.
Cancer
Working For You: The Emperor. The Emperor carries a fierce, masculine energy that helps him lead with confidence. That same, fiery energy has been working for you, Cancer, and you have authoritative power. Your faith in yourself, the work you are doing, and your approach is an engine that helps you keep things moving.
Working Against You: The Tower. You’ve been dealing with foundational, radical changes in your life, the sort that have torn down some significant illusions. Disillusionment and confusion has you feeling unmoored and uncertain of where to begin rebuilding.
Your Hopes: Six of Wands. You haven’t lost hope or faith in your ability to making meaningful progress. You’re visualizing a future filled with both success and recognition. To get there means letting go of the hold your past has on your mind, and to start working towards the success future you’re visualizing. Keeping the imagery and idea of your own success can become a powerful way to keep the fires of inspiration burning.
Your Fears: Five of Swords. Your fear is ultimately of failure and of feeling like a loser or losing. When you start to feel that fear creep into your decision-making, remind yourself that failure isn’t a final state, and it’s an important part of success.
Advice: Two of Pentacles. You’re going to need to be as adaptable as you are strategic. Keeping everything moving, and trying to track your competing priorities is going to take up a lot of mental space. The amount of focus you’ll need may help pull you into the present.
Taurus
Working For You: Two of Cups. The connections and relationships within your life are strong lifelines that keep you tethered to the now and give you balance and strength in difficult times. These relationships are what is working for you as you try to get yourself unstuck from past patterns. Lean into the harmony and resilience that those relationships bring into your life.
Working Against You: Seven of Wands. You’re feeling protective of yourself, and this may be indicative of the past pattern that you need to address. There’s nothing wrong with being protective or defensive in and of itself, it’s the context in which it happens that can cause complications. Are you being defensive with the right people? Or are you reacting to a situation that happened in the past but still holds your heart?
Your Hopes: Knight of Wands. You’re hoping that you’ll get struck by the adventurous spirit, and that maybe some travel and changes of scenery will help break you out of your past patterns and mindset.
Your Fears: Page of Swords. The thing that makes you hesitate and stay in the past is the fear of what all of this new knowledge and these new experiences will bring. You’re finally feeling on solid ground and have a good sense of your footing, and you’re reluctant to take that advantage away from yourself, when things feel so tenuous.
Advice: Knight of Swords. Be brave, Taurus, and believe in yourself.