Fallow

Some people believe the only way to be successful is to exert control, project expectations and express demands. Their horses, like their ambitions, are in a constant gallop. Their fields are overflowing with exhausted crops and seeded with the idea that patience equals weakness.

The earth begs to differ.

During the VIII century B.C., the ancient Romans figured that leaving fields to their natural state for a decent period of time would make them incredibly receptive to later cultivation. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, the power of what they called maggese (fallow) has been applied for centuries in different types of crop rotation in order to restore or strengthen the fertility of the soil.

When this card shows up in a reading, you should allow the most unpolished, wildest vegetation in the garden of your life.

It’s time to replace definition with nurture, control with patience, assertiveness with kindness. This card is about allowing unstructured growth to your projects, your relationships and your plans. Don’t demand a clear endgame to your love or a defined future to your career. Cut yourself some slack and see where everything flows: sticking to the plan might be a restrictive course of action and limit your personal growth immensely. 

This is also the card of mentorship, parenthood and any kind of gentle, non-judgmental guidance you might offer to other human beings.