Five of Swords, Radiant Wisdom Tarot

Believing others more than you believe yourself - how to manage doubt and self-doubt!

Another good reason to 'hold our horses' (yesterdays card)
To allow time for really settling into our own being and knowing.
If we 'battle insecurities' or have a tendency to succumb to self-doubt, it's a good thing to take our time before and in-between inspiration and action (Aries new moon today!).
As both inspiration and action very likely will ignite conflict within us, super quick.

Key: not becoming our doubt.
But letting the doubt be there, run its course.
For some reason we've learned to doubt ourselves.
Maybe our voice, view or opinion weren't important when we grew up.
Maybe we have inherited it or we absorbed doubt projected at us when we were 'too little to fend for ourselves'.
Out of survival.

Doubt will then seep into our thoughts whenever we 'speak our mind', whenever we follow our own hearts
Doubt want to keep us from changing, breaking with tradition, from leaving the familiar and 'safe' - because it was in one way or another too unpleasant or 'dangerous' to 'be ourselves' or step out of the framework we were raised in.

It's not about to 'find (or give...) an explanation' or 'get clarity' about the doubt - routes the head proposes, to 'get out of the discomfort'...
It's NOT about 'getting another opinion' - or to reason us out of our doubt.
But to sit with the confusion or doubt itself - allow it, embrace it, get curious about it.

Doubt isn't in our heads, it's a trauma response that urges us to 'play by the rules' and not 'rock the boat'.
Doubt might be uncomfortable, but it's neither bad, dangerous nor a weakness.
It's a perfectly healthy survival pattern, which might take time to root out.

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