Category: Mental Health; Tarot Tips | Reading Time: 5 Minutes
Your finger is hovering over the refresh button for the fourteenth time this hour.
You’re looking at your bank account, your Instagram reach, or your bathroom scale. And you’re feeling a rising tide of genuine fury.
You did the work. You ate the salad. You sent the cold emails.
By your logic, the universe should have delivered your reward by now. Yet the reality in front of you remains stubbornly, offensively unchanged.
You are treating the future like a broken ATM. You want to kick it.
You want to scream “GROW!” at the dirt.
But the more you hover, the more you are sabotaging the very thing you claim to want.
Action Bias
Why is waiting physically painful? Psychologists call this Action Bias.
In a famous study analyzing soccer goalkeepers, researchers found that humans prefer to do something (even if it’s useless) rather than do nothing (even if waiting is the best strategy).
We are wired to believe that movement equals progress. If we aren’t moving, we feel like we are failing.
So, you check the analytics. You tweak the website again.
You send a “just checking in” text.
You are digging up the seeds to check if they have sprouted. And in doing so, you are exposing the roots to the light, which kills them.
The Seven of Pentacles: The Strategic Lean
In the Tarot, this specific brand of frustration is the domain of the Seven of Pentacles.
Take a long look at the farmer in the card. He is leaning on his hoe, staring at a bush of golden coins.
He looks tired. But notice his posture: He is remarkably still.
He isn’t yelling at the vines for not being tall enough yet. He understands a law of physics that you are trying to bypass: You cannot bully a harvest into existence.
This isn’t just “resting.” This is Assessment. He is stepping back to see if the fruit is ripe. If he swings his scythe too early (Action Bias), he destroys the crop. If he waits too long, it rots.
He is waiting for the exact right moment.
Lessons from the Ambush Predator
Look at how I (Bane) handle a bird outside the window.
When I see a bird, I do not run around the living room screaming. I do not pace in circles wondering why the bird hasn’t come to me.
I go still. Like a statue.
I might have an involuntary twitch in my tail, but my focus is absolute.
This is Active Stillness. I am ready for the moment the situation changes, but I am not wasting my energy before the jump.
You, on the other hand, are burning all your fuel before the race has even started. You are hovering like a gremlin over the soil, signaling to the universe that you don’t actually trust the work you’ve already done.
The Root System (Why the Delay is Mandatory)
The “boring” period where nothing seems to be happening is the most critical stage.
The roots are pushing down into the dark, rocky soil.
If you got that massive success today—the million-dollar business or the perfect relationship—you would collapse. Why? Because you lack the foundation of the grind. You would topple over the second a light breeze hit you.
You cannot rush the seeds growth. You cannot threaten a plant into growing faster. The delay is not a denial; it is a construction project.
Put Down the Shovel
Stop checking the analytics. Stop staring at the scale.
Go do something else. Lean on your metaphorical hoe. Wipe the sweat off your forehead.
The crop doesn’t need you to micromanage its growth; it just needs you to stay out of the way so it can breathe.
The only thing you are successfully growing with your impatience is an ulcer.
🔮 The Action Right Now
Put the shovel down and let the sun do the work for a while. The roots are growing deeper precisely because it is quiet. Stop trying to make a noise.
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