This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore our spiritual concepts,

tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and

teacher. I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide or companion on your path

for a little while. To check out my services

and courses, please visit josephinehardman.com. Welcome to part three of my four-part series on

the tarot of Cups.

As always, I do recommend listening to the first two episodes in this series

as they build on each other in some ways.

We might be referring back to some of the concepts and ideas that we've already explored.

In this installment, we'll be covering the 7, 8, 9, and 10

of cups. But before we do that, let's remember where we ended last time with the 6 of cups and

healing our relationship to the past, coming to terms with what happened or didn't happen or should have happened in the

past and finally laying all of that to rest. That was really the work and the lesson of the

Six of Cups, with its strong emphasis on childhood nostalgia. Now as we move into the next card, which is the seven of cups, we see what can happen here

once we've come into healthy relationship with the past and we have worked through our

trauma and wounding.

Once we do this, we can be released from the grip of the past and from the sometimes

constricting, limiting, painful thoughts and emotions associated with past trauma. And that, of course,

includes the beliefs that we have about ourselves. So once we can work through a lot of that,

it helps to open up our thinking, to shift our mindset,

to see new possibilities that maybe we just couldn't see before,

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