If this week feels like Severance—you at your desk, dissociating in a cardigan while delivering A+ work no one appreciates—yeah. That’s Pallas/Chiron talking. It’s giving: painfully strategic, weirdly isolating, and one passive-aggressive Slack message away from snapping.

And just to make things extra slippery? Neptune on the World Axis is the dumpster fire on desk duty—fogging the facts, draining our will to perform, and making it that much harder to strategize your way out of a system that’s actively wounding you.

🔍 What This Looks Like IRL

This isn’t just about being tired. It’s about the pain of having to think smarter, work harder, and carry more because someone else didn’t—or couldn’t.

This midpoint draws attention to the quiet injuries of competence—when your intelligence gets ignored, borrowed, or boxed in. Maybe you’re constantly inheriting messy deliverables with your name now attached. Maybe you’re showing up for others who can’t—or won’t. Maybe your insights get dismissed, only to resurface later with someone else’s signature. Ain't that some sh*t?

And then there’s the part no one wants to name: Being punished for being too smart, too capable, or too unconventional.

You don’t have the “right” degree. You make it look too easy. You’re out here fixing things the system never set up to work in the first place—and still getting side-eyed while doing it.

This transit also pulls focus to the kinds of labor we don’t choose, but have to survive. Sometimes that’s invisible emotional labor. Sometimes it’s institutional neglect. And sometimes, it’s work conditions that echo exploitative dynamics no one wants to admit still exist.

This isn’t just about what’s broken. It’s about the quiet calculations you’ve had to make to keep going—and whether you still want to play by those rules.

On a more positive note, Pallas/Chiron can highlight healthcare workers and their contributions. Lord knows we need them.

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🃏 Big Deck Energy: Tarot Pull of the Week

Welcome to Big Deck Energy—where I pull a tarot card each week on behalf of our collective to offer insight, reflection, or a much-needed reality check. Think of it as a weekly reset, a moment to pause and take in what’s unfolding. This week, I asked: What’s the wisest move I can make with this pain?

Here's what the Tarot had to say: Six of Cups (Reversed).

Upright, this card calls us back to a softer time. We look back fondly on the past, remembering the halcyon days of childhood—or just an earlier version of ourselves, the one who hadn’t been through it yet.

But reversed? Someone’s trying to take you back to a version of you that you no longer want to be.​
🤓 Maybe it’s the nerdy teenage you with the acne, the braces, and the weird hair.
💋 Maybe it’s the you who was for the streets before you settled down.
🥃 Maybe it’s the you before you started therapy or recovery, the one who hadn’t done the work yet.

Whoever that version was, she lived, she taught you things—and you left her behind for a reason. And now someone’s trying to dig her up and throw her in your face.

This card in reverse is toxic AF. They want you to feel powerless. Like nothing’s changed. It can be paralyzing, but we’re not doing that. Not today, my darling.

That things are different now. That you’re different now. You're better. You’ve got new tools. You respond from experience—not survival. The Baal Shem Tov is credited with saying: “Forgetfulness leads to exile; remembering is the key to redemption.”

Keep your earrings on and put the Vaseline back in the jar, sis. Leave that all-caps-laden email in the drafts folder. You don’t need to fight the old fight—you just need to recognize that you already won it. If you're having trouble reconciling your past selves, hit me up for a hypnosis session.