🎴 Bear Bones Tarot: Monday, July 6, 2026
Six of Pentacles — Give a Coin, Keep a Coin
On the sacred balance of generosity and receiving — and why the most loving thing you can do is let the coins flow both ways.
🐻 A little note before the card, from the Mama Bear herself:
You may notice the den looking a little different over the coming days — pardon our paws while we redecorate. 🧹✨ I’m gently reorganizing our home here so it’s easier to wander, easier to find the corner you came for, and ready for a new, softer rhythm I’m bringing back: monthly Writer-Tech-with-Soul workshops and a proper return to my teaching roots. If you missed it, I laid the whole thing out in yesterday’s letter — [“Something new is coming to Mojo (and I’m going back to my roots).”]
Nothing you love is going anywhere. There’ll just be more room to breathe — and a warm fire waiting. Now, on to today’s card. 🔥
🖊️ Part 1: For the Writers
The Six of Pentacles is a card about coins in motion.
Not coins in a vault. Not coins counted in the dark and clutched in fear. Coins moving — from one open paw to another. This is the card of giving and receiving, of generosity and gratitude, of who’s holding the purse and who’s holding out their hands.
In our little bear’s telling, the Mama Bear stands beneath a whole sky of stars, wrapped in a deep crimson-and-purple robe. In one arm she cradles a glowing cluster of pentacles, held close against her heart. And with the other paw, she extends a single golden coin outward — light spilling from it like water, tumbling down to the two cubs who sit gazing up at her, open and unafraid.
Here is the part I need you to see, writer:
She gives a coin. And she keeps the cluster.
She does not empty her arms to prove her love. She does not pour out every last thing she has and call the hollowness “generosity.” She gives and she holds. Both. At once. Without apology, without guilt, without the frantic little voice that says give more, give more, it’s never enough.
She does not empty her arms to prove her love.
Because here’s what the Six of Pentacles knows about the creative life:
Writers are extraordinary givers. We give our hearts to the page. We give free chapters, free advice, free encouragement in the comments. We give our time in the group, our energy to the reader who emails, our best ideas to the newsletter. We are, so many of us, world-class at pouring out.
What we are often terrible at is letting the coins flow back.
We feel a flicker of shame when someone offers to pay us. We under-price. We give the whole book away and feel strange asking for a review. We build the value, set the table, feed the room — and then hover awkwardly at the edge, never quite sitting down to eat.
The Six of Pentacles puts a warm paw on your arm and says: love, the exchange is supposed to go both ways.
Generosity is not the same as self-erasure. You are allowed to keep the cluster against your chest. You are allowed to be paid for your work, to let readers give back, to receive support without earning it twice over first. The cubs in the card don’t grovel for the coin. They simply look up, open-hearted, and receive. No shame in it. Just trust.
Where in your creative life are you emptying your arms to prove your worth? Where could you let a coin flow toward you — and simply let yourself receive it? What would it feel like to give generously and keep something back for your own heart?
🌿 Today’s Practical Magick
The next time you catch yourself over-giving — discounting your work, apologizing for an offer, pouring out past the point of balance — try this:
Cup both paws in front of you, like you’re holding water. Imagine one hand giving, one hand receiving. Take a slow breath and say quietly:
I give with an open paw. I receive with an open heart. The coins flow both ways, and I am part of the flow.
That’s the spell. Give a coin, keep a coin. 🪙🐾
🔒 The personal pull is below — for the folks at The Hearth
This is where The Mojo Mama Bear gets bear-bones honest about what the card stirred up this morning — the dream, the 4am kitty, and the quiet, unglamorous work of a bear learning to sit at the table she sets for everyone else.
