Episode 17. Grief, the Five of Cups, and Making Space for What’s Meant for You
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Episode Description:
What if grief isn’t something to fix, but something to feel? In this short solo episode, Marie Groover (The Corporate Psychic) explores the wisdom of the Five of Cups and how grief—when honored instead of avoided—creates space for joy, opportunity, and what is truly meant for us.
Marie shares her own season of loss and transformation, reminding us that grief is not linear. It comes in waves, taps us on the shoulder at unexpected moments, and holds the power to expand our capacity to receive. This is a grounding, heart-centered invitation to make room for both mourning and possibility.
Transcript (RAW):
Marie Groover (00:03.577)
Hello and welcome to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover from The Corporate Psychic. This episode is about grief and what the Five of Cups can teach us about feeling in order to clear and receive what is meant for us and maybe what is better than. It's a short one, but it's worth the listen. If this episode resonates, sign up for my monthly newsletter and check out my blog. I'll add details in the description.
Marie Groover (00:35.864)
This year has been a massive shedding for me so far. People have died. I'm leaving my job. I'm navigating the unknown in my relationship. I'm navigating the unknown in my mother's health. I have discovered things about the coaching industry that I am ready to leave behind and transform. And life is life, right? So it doesn't stop when we're having a bad day or a bout of sickness or
pipes burst under our homes. And in fact, there has been so much duality, as the growth in my business has finally materialized. And at the same time, I've made and I'm developing such deep and nourishing connections in this space. When I was pulling a card for this month, I had no idea what the card would be. But the last thing that I expected was this one, the five of cups. The five of cups is
beautifully representative of the grief experience. In this card, there are three cups spilling out, upside down and empty. Eyes weep at the lost contents. And yet, there are two cups still standing, still full, still ready to provide. When grief is present and it is ignored, or when the focus is on only what has been lost,
We are incapable to receive what is. What is present? What is willing? What is better than? And in order to make space for what is, in order to be available to what is presenting itself to us, we must mourn. We must grieve. And yet, grief is not linear. If you have experienced it, you know this. Grief comes in waves.
It taps us on the shoulder in the middle of a coffee shop or in a conversation with someone new. It wakes us up in the middle of the night asking to be held. It follows us, grabbing our hand in our most all-filled, pleasure-steeped moments. Grief is always with us, mostly in the background unnoticed, yet it knows how and when to come forward to grab our attention. Grief is not something to avoid, to repress or to lessen.
Marie Groover (03:04.703)
It is to be invited into our home, to share a seat at our table, to offer a cup of tea. When we call grief in, we open ourselves and our lives to a richness in an expanded ability to receive goodness. Grief is healing. It's incredibly healing to feel your feelings without trying to change them, without
trying to understand the root of them without justifying them or explaining them to anyone, including yourself. It is a profound shift to just speak the truth out loud, again, without altering it. To speak what is real, to experience what is real in total acceptance of what is real. This is healing. To cry.
to laugh, to be with what is without knowing what it means or what will come from it. You see, we've been conditioned to take action, to feel or think something, and then to act on it. Even I, as a coach, will often talk about the importance of action in the manifestation of your dreams. And yet, not every thought, not every feeling deserves an active motion following it.
And grief is one of those things. While sometimes beautiful, creative, flowing, impactful action comes from experience grief,
It typically only comes in the full experience of grieving. It's the full experience of grieving that produces any profound artifact. Now, the five of cups is absolutely not an indicator that something bad is going to happen or that there's anything going on around you in this moment that you're being called to grieve. In fact, it's more about the experience of grief and mourning than it is an indication for what is to come or what is around you.
Marie Groover (05:15.437)
The truth is, we all hold pockets of grief in our beings. And when the five of cups comes around, there is a potent invitation to make space at our tables for this grief. It's okay. It's safe to acknowledge where grief is present, where sadness or even despair may be present. And in calling forward our grief, in mourning with it, we make energetic, but sometimes even material space
for receiving the goodness that is knocking on our door, because there is goodness knocking at your door right now. And in order to receive it, we are being called to bow to our grief, to honor it, to thank it for coming, to hear it out, to build a new relationship with it, to radically, to unapologetically open ourselves to it. If you're mourning a missed opportunity, if you feel
that you don't quite have what you need to get where you want to go. If you're spinning your wheels or draining your energy, focusing on what is not present. I invite you today to allow yourself to mourn whatever is not. I invite you to hold space in your heart for whatever is. And I invite you to practice strong energetic boundaries so that you may allow yourself to feel it all. Ultimately,
This is an invitation to lead yourself through whatever is present for you today, to trust yourself that you are guiding yourself, that you are actually moving and moving in the directions that you want to move in by being deep in it. A coach of mine once said that you are in your leadership when you are both feet in on a decision, but actually I say,
that you are in your leadership right now, regardless of if you know or don't know what you're going to do about X or what's coming or where you're headed or how you're feeling. There is wisdom in the in-between. There is wisdom in the morning. There is wisdom in the present. And you don't have to do anything about it except for experience it, feel it, let it.
Marie Groover (07:40.855)
Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. If this work resonates, please share it with someone who may connect and rate the show. Reach out with questions or topic requests. You can find me at hello at thecorppsychic.com. And don't forget to sign up for my monthly newsletter. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind, I hope to meet again, maybe in the next episode.
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