Where: Tuesday night kirtan at the Bhakti Center
Outfit: Nova Sweatshirt and Kenny Pant
Question: I found myself returning to a question that has shaped much of contemporary leadership:
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What balance of masculine and feminine energies does a business truly need? And what happens when an industry long defined by masculine norms begins, at last, to open to the feminine?
Dr. Ori Florentin: The tarot spread that followed offered an unexpectedly coherent response
The first card is Death — a reminder that the old way of leading, with its emphasis on control, hierarchy, and constant forward push, is losing its primacy. Death is not an annihilation but a threshold. Even the crowned figure in the card must bow before change. In the symbolic language of the tarot, this card often carries the presence of the Great Mother, suggesting that what is dissolving makes space for a more holistic style of leadership to emerge.
At the center stands
Strength.
A woman in
white gently closes the
lion’s jaws with one hand
while soothing him with the
other. This is not force but
embodied presence.
It is
the kind of leadership that
guides without aggression,
that understands
people as
emotional and relational
beings rather than instruments of productivity.
At the center standsStrength.
A woman in white gently closes the lion’s jaws with one hand
while soothing him with the other. This is not force but embodied presence.
It is the kind of leadership that guides without aggression, that understands
people as emotional and relational beings rather than instruments of productivity.
Strength represents a feminine capacity that doesn’t abandon boundaries or decisiveness
but infuses them with empathy, nuance, and an intuitive grasp of what a situation requires.
Increasingly, businesses are discovering that this kind of attunement — not just authority —
creates cultures where people think better, collaborate better, and innovate more freely.
A shift toward an ecological perspective rather than a purely hierarchical one.
The Five of Cups appears next, a figure in black mourning what has been lost. This card acknowledges that the rise of the feminine does not occur in a cultural vacuum. It asks us to recognize the emotional complexity of transition: the grief that comes from shedding outdated models, and the long history of feminine suppression that still echoes through our institutions.Importantly, it also suggests that allowing emotion into the fabric of organizational life is not a liability but a source of real intelligence. IQ and EQ. When leaders make room for human experience rather than pushing it aside, the entire system becomes more coherent.
Finally, beneath the spread was the Eight of Cups. A woman walks toward the unknown under a sky where the crescent moon embraces the sun — a quiet image of the feminine guiding the masculine, recalling the imagery of the Strength card.
It speaks to the future of leadership: a willingness to step beyond rigid strategies, to balance planning with responsiveness, to let intuition sit beside analytic thinking. To let synchronicity help guide the way. It gestures toward a more ecological, flexible way of running a company, one that listens as much as it directs.
Taken together, the cards outline a shift already underway. The masculine — structure, clarity, direction — remains vital, but it is no longer the whole story. The feminine brings attunement, relational wisdom, emotional fluency, creativity, and the capacity to move with complexity rather than against it. What is emerging is not a replacement of one energy with the other, but a more complete form of leadership, one capable of meeting the demands of a world that is no longer linear, predictable, or purely transactional.
The tarot does not offer corporate strategy.
What it offers is an image of balance.
And perhaps this is what modern leadership most needs: a recognition that strength is not diminished by tenderness, that clarity is enriched by empathy, and that a business, like a human being, thrives when its energies are allowed to participate and evolve.
Wishing you a month of your own magic.
In your own skin.
Love and Light,