The Matriarch

Tarot: Monday, September 28

A card drawn from one of three decks

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The Matriarch

The Tarot of New York City
The Matriarch

The Matriarch runs the community garden on the lot the city forgot, tomatoes climbing the chain-link, a plate ready for anyone who turns up. She is the Empress of the five boroughs and the card says one thing plainly: something is growing. It may be a relationship, a project, or a version of you that is finally being fed, and the soil it landed in looks like a cracked lot between two buildings. Do not judge the ground by its appearance today. Water what is there, put out the plate, and let the chain-link do its work as a trellis. Neglected ground is where the best harvest comes from.

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For your star sign

The same reading, taken through each sign of the zodiac.

Aries

You want the harvest today and the tomatoes are green. Water them. The Matriarch's garden is tended, not conquered, and the plate comes out when the fruit is ready.

Taurus

The garden is yours by temperament and the Matriarch adds the open door. Today feed somebody who did not ask. Abundance is what she does with the tomatoes, not what she keeps.

Gemini

You will visit six gardens and tend none. Today stay on one lot. What grows needs the same hands twice, and the Matriarch is there every morning.

Cancer

This is your card, and the caution is the plate: it is for anyone who shows up, not only your own. Today set an extra place. The garden is a community and so are you.

Leo

You want the garden to be seen. The Matriarch's is on a lot the city forgot. Today grow something where nobody is looking and see whether it still matters to you.

Virgo

You will weed the lot before planting and never plant. Today plant into the cracked ground as it is. The tomatoes are not waiting for the soil to be perfect.

Libra

You will ask who the garden belongs to before you tend it. The Matriarch tends it and that settles the question. Today tend something without settling whose it is.

Scorpio

You grow things in private and the Matriarch's garden has a chain-link fence anyone can see through. Today let the growth be visible. It does not need hiding to be yours.

Sagittarius

The vacant lot is not where you would have planted. Today plant there anyway. The best harvest in this card comes from ground nobody chose, and you are standing on some.

Capricorn

You will plan the garden for next year. The Matriarch has tomatoes now. Today tend what is already climbing rather than designing what should.

Aquarius

You will organise the community and forget the plate. Today the plate first. What the Matriarch gives is a full plate to whoever arrives, and the organising follows from that.

Pisces

You feel the growth and cannot see it. It is on the chain-link. Today look at what has actually climbed and water that, specifically, rather than the whole lot in general.

For your Chinese animal

The same reading, taken through each animal of the Chinese zodiac.

Rat

You will count the tomatoes before they are ripe. Today feed people with what is there. The Matriarch's abundance multiplies by being given, which is not your instinct.

Ox

You are the one who turns the cracked lot into soil, slowly. Today the Matriarch adds the plate: set it out, and let the work feed somebody besides you.

Tiger

You will tear out the chain-link to make the garden bigger. It is the trellis. Today work with what the lot has, and the tomatoes climb higher than a cleared field.

Rabbit

The garden is safe and the open door is not, to you. Today leave it open. Whoever arrives at the Matriarch's plate is meant to, and so is whoever arrives at yours.

Dragon

A vacant lot is not the scale you garden at. Today it is. What is growing is growing here, in cracked ground, and it needs tending, not a bigger plot.

Snake

You will watch who comes for the plate before you offer it. The Matriarch offers first. Today put the plate out before you know who is coming.

Horse

You will plant and leave before the harvest. Today stay through the tending. The Matriarch's garden is her presence on the lot, daily, not the planting.

Goat

You are the one who gets fed here and rarely the one who feeds. Today feed. The Matriarch is your card turned outward, and the plate is yours to fill.

Monkey

You will make the garden clever. Make it fed. Today the tomatoes and the plate are the whole design, and the wit can grow on the fence later.

Rooster

You will inspect the soil and pronounce it unfit. It is growing tomatoes. Today tend what is thriving against your assessment, and let the assessment go.

Dog

The community garden is your natural place: everyone fed, everyone welcome. Today the Matriarch asks you to eat too. The plate is for you as well as for the ones you guard.

Pig

This is your card: the full plate, the open door, the harvest shared. Today the one instruction is to also do the tending. Abundance is grown before it is eaten.

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