Why Change Is So Hard - Tarot's Four Of Cups Clues Us In

 "We're scared to let go ofour agenda and listen for what wants to happen ...We feel safer projecting our imaginings of how things ought to be ..." - From the Chapter "Four Of Cups" in the 2021 book TAROT FOR CHANGE  by Jessica Dore.

The Tarot card for the Four of Cups is about resisting change. Its graphic is of a person parked under a tree, with his arms crossed tightly against his chest. A cup is being offered to him. He doesn't even give it a glance.

One interpretation of the Four of Cups is that what makes us block out what the universe is willing to give us is that, as Dore puts it,"we forgotten how to listen." What we can't hear is what is going on outside ourselves in the world. 

Instead we are preoccupied with the voices in our head. Often those are called the "committee of the mind." In addition, we spin fantasies about what we assume we want and how we are certain we will get it. Meanwhile, life passes us by.

Of course, the first step out of all that is to disconnect from fear. In itself that tames the committee of the mind. Without the angst there is no need to take refuge in fantasy. 

In 12-step programs the guidance for letting go of fear is to surrender to the universe - or to what we may not understand. Eastern religions recommed meditation and chanting. Christianity celebrates prayer. 

Soon enough we are receptive to the gifts the universe brings to us.

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