That Necessary Journey - What the Tarot Hanged Man Card Warns

 

here is that poignant scene from the Academy-Award winner "Nomadland." Pulling out from Empire, Nevada, Fern's body language messages the pain of having to start over again in the beginning of old age. Her job had gone poof. In addition, her husband recently had died. Here is a trailer.

Although I will be pulling out of this desert town on the border of Mexico because of business success, not a reversal of fortune, it has been equally soul-wrenching. As with Fern, it is a have-to. And I am no longer young.

Let’s back up. Here I was. I was losing sleep. My one-year-old finches Magic and Mystic would never be able to make that cross-country car journey to where I had to journey. I posted a plea on a local network for good adoptive parents. I didn't like the ones who had applied. Then into the email parachuted Amy. She and her husband had constructed in their Bisbee, Arizona home an aviary. Magic and Mystic could fuse their joyous singing with other birds. They would have step sisters and brothers. Many of them. How blessed Magic and Mystic turned out to be.  

I should have been euphoric. Right? But, no. Relocation is daunting.

The Ah-Ha Moment about my own Nomadland came when my remote career tutoring demanded this: starting at 4 AM PT (to align with demand ET) and being available until 10 PM PT. Nonnono, that was not sustainable. My time zone had to change. Time zones still matter a lot.

Oscar Wilde had observed, "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

My prayer was two-fold:

1) That I would not have to retire

2) That I could continue working but no longer as a content-creator and an influencer in the legal sector.

It seems that the gods were all-ears. Quickly I ramped-up what had been sideline since 2008 - intuitive career coaching - into a full-time profit-center. I shuttered the communications boutique. I took down the syndicated legal blog.

That’s part of the story.

In addition, I am certain there was another force field reconfiguring my career. Perhaps mystical.

That was the confidence I had derived from an unusual source. Somehow I had attracted chairperson of a top Wall Street law firm - Paul Weiss' Brad Karp - into my orbit. Dating back to spring 2020, he actually would take the time to praise my insights about work trends. I needed to be in transition. That nudge from Karp away from the past into possibility was both unexpected and miraculous.

In April 2021, establishment The New York Times endorsed Tarot readings as a tool for self-awareness. So, I folded those readings into the coaching practice. Things really took off then. Tarot readers are the new psychologists.

So here I am now: duly punished. I miss Magic and Mystic. I will miss the invisibility of the desert and its lightness of being. It will be back to a time zone permeated by the heaviness of the success ethos. As con Anna Delvey (actually Anna Sorkin) laid it out: To be part of that tribe requires looking, smelling, walking, and talking rich.

You bet, I warn clients about the tradeoffs for success. In the Tarot, the Hanged Man card embeds the message of the sacrifices needed for that shift to becoming a gunner. No, I don’t allude to Wilde, though. Soon enough, they will realize that they are being punished. That's how it goes, doesn't it.

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