This Is How You Heal / Agency

4 Zodiacs Healing From Their Past (+ Tarot Advice On Taking Back Their Power)

Trauma and pain from the past has been proven to impact our neural pathways, and can even alter how our genes express themselves.

Healing from our past can also have radical impacts on our lives, and three zodiac signs – Cancer, Gemini, and Sagittarius, will find themselves especially engaged in the work of healing their past. 

When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal by Brianna Wiest

Our tarot reader has performed readings for them, and the cards that have been drawn represent the following:

  • The Wound From Your Past: The wound you’re healing from.
  • Working For You: What’s working for you in the present?
  • Working Against You: What’s working against you in the present?
  • Your Subconscious: What underlying motivations, thoughts, or emotions may be driving your experience?
  • Your Goals and Thoughts: What your thoughts gravitate towards, what your goals are, what you’re visualizing and imagining.
  • Coming Soon: An event or experience in your not-too-distant Future. 
  • Advice: A Piece of advice on how to deal with the situation you’re facing.

Cancer

The Wound From Your Past: Seven of Wands. You’ve had to stand firm on your convictions and beliefs, and you had to defend yourself against some pretty surprising foes, people that you were once close to. 

Working For You: Wheel of Fortune. Destiny often strikes out of the blue, and the fact that you’re ready for some radical change will help you capitalize on what fate is bringing to the table. 

Working Against You: King of Swords. For the moment, try not to seek control of the situation or to manipulate things too much.

Your Subconscious: Five of Swords. You’re subconsciously caught up in a loss you recently experienced (possibly due to the Seven of Wands energy), and it’s hard for you to be able to process the world past that.

Your Goals and Thoughts: Knight of Swords. The thing you’re seeking is that singular purpose that could drive you forward, instead of some of the disillusionment that you feel from your recent experiences. It wasn’t just finding out who disagreed with you or who wouldn’t stand with you – it was feeling as though you never understood them in the first place.

Coming Soon: Temperance. Moving forward and healing means finding the balance— between your feelings and the feelings of others, between dreaming and planning, and between the realms of your life.

Advice: Ace of Pentacles. Stay grounded, and remember how much opportunity and possibility the world holds for you, and that the world is full of more experiences.

Gemini

The Wound From Your Past: The Emperor. You carry a wound around fathering or the masculine, whether it is abuse by a father figure or being troubled by traditional paternalistic ideals or even paternalism. Instead of carrying positive aspects of masculine leadership, you have been impacted by experiences of the negative.

Working For You: Four of Pentacles. Your tight grasp on the pragmatic realities of your situation is serving you well, and has helped you overcome a lot of the difficulties created with the troubled relationship with all The Emperor represents. 

Working Against You: 10 of Cups. The wound created by your encounters with The Emperor has made it hard for you to look for or seek stability in other familial situations. You may find it challenging to commit, or in allowing yourself to feel fully loved by those around you.

Your Subconscious: Ace of Pentacles. You’re subconsciously aware of the fertile possibilities of the world around you.

Your Goals and Thoughts: Two of Pentacles, Reversed. You’ve got a lot of different things you are focused on, and because of the split focus everything feels too overwhelming. If you are able, focus on one task at a time.

Coming Soon: King of Swords. In the not-too-distant future, you’ll feel as though you have a lot more clarity and some clear goals and ideas of how to move forward.  

Advice: Queen of Pentacles, Reversed. As you work towards healing your wound, be sure to stay engaged with those that you love, and don’t shut down or fall inward too much. 

Sagittarius

The Wound From Your Past: Judgement. You’ve hidden parts of yourself from people so long you’ve lost touch with some of them yourself. For whatever your reasons were to hold a part of yourself in shadow, you’ve been trying to heal the wound of self-denial ever since. 

Working For You: The Devil. The Devil is often associated with addiction, but the flip side of that is control and power over one’s self. The time you’ve spent suppressing your true self has given you special insight into your nature.

Working Against You: The Star. In denying your true self, you’ve also lost faith in yourself, somewhere along the way. What would happen if you’d shine, instead of hiding your light? 

Your Subconscious: Ace of Cups. Subconsciously you’re seeking new emotional horizons. 

Your Goals and Thoughts: The World. You are hoping, and working towards, a situation where you’ve managed to make the best of everything you’ve faced. It would be a direct progression through the Major Arcana out of Judgement in your Past and into The World, ending the Fool’s Journey and starting a new cycle for yourself. Ever the optimist, your goal is to meaningfully progress.

Coming Soon: King of Wands. You’ll soon find a way to express what you’ve learned, and use your creative spirit and passion to bring your lessons to others, and lead them towards a higher truth. 

Advice: Page of Swords. Remember that the knowledge you are gathering has the capability of not only helping you, but others. Be ready and open to messages around you – that you are meant to receive – or meant to send.