The Week Ahead
Advice for our week June 30 - July 6, 2025
Rank partisanship and information silos only seem to be increasing here in the United States, with each team unable to agree upon even the most basic of facts. It seems that everything is viewed through a partisan lens, truth be damned.
I can’t know, but I must presume that a similar negative trend has infected the rest of the Western World as well.
In that context, I offer the following collective reading. It covers our upcoming week, from Monday, June 30, to Sunday, July 6.
It is a remarkably short reading, but I think it holds a profound message for all of us.
Our spread begins with The Lovers.
Love, and indeed lust are exciting, they are passionate, we find that we want to spend every moment with the object of our attention, that we are willing to follow them anywhere.
But these heightened emotions tend to overwhelm our ability to reason, to compare other options, to see clearly the person to whom we’ve become devoted.
The Lovers is a positive card, but only if we are able to keep our eyes open. To judge and to discern. To prevent ourselves from lying to ourselves.
Can we see how The Lovers plays out, not only in our interpersonal or romantic relationships, but across aspects of our lives? Blindly following a politician or another leader. Addicting ourselves to the dopamine hits of social media. The false satisfaction of uncontrolled consumerism.
That which can make us feel great in the moment can lead to much different feelings when the intense energy of our passions begins to wane, and we can again look at things in a more honest and rational way.
Our spread ends with The Tower.
Collapse, destruction, chaos, loss of what we’ve struggled to build. The Lovers warns us to keep some semblance of control even when overwhelmed by strong emotion, The Tower points to the probable result when we fail to do that.
The passion that blinded us in The Lovers results in the destruction symbolized by The Tower.
Who do we follow, unquestionably, and why? Can we see things from the other team’s perspective? Why not? What temporary pleasures do we find ourselves seeking, despite knowing that we will feel deflated and let down in the end? How do these things, which we think we want, harm us in the end?
This short spread calls us, in the week ahead, to examine our blind spots. To try and see things from a different perspective.
And above all, to look at things with our eyes wide open. To force ourselves to be completely honest with ourselves that we might see the truth.
