The Chariot Card in the Tarot: The Tragedy of Answered Prayers

 "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers." - Roman Catholic Saint Teresa of Avila

That same message is also in the Chariot card in the Tarot. The image is of a driver in an ornate vehicle moving ahead but with no reins in his hands. There is a going with the flow. That is, a surrender to what directions the universe finds to be in your best interest. 

That's why from the beginning of the time when mankind began to reflect there was the role of the seer in the tribe. That character warned not to wish for (or pray for) anything specific. Rather implore the gods, spirits, universe or whatever the locals called the force to guide you.

Professional anonymous networks such as Blind, Reddit and Fishbowl are jam-packed with regrets by those who prayed to get where they are professionally. They hate everything about the organization and the particular job. What if they had meditated for guidance? The universe might have steered them away from those career paths.

Meanwhile the professional unhappiness in white-collar work has become an epidemic. 

Because of so much global economic, political, and technological volatility, more and more businesses are wary of strategic planning, at least the traditional kind. Instead they are creating a broad variety of what-if scenarios. Yes, they are positioning themselves to be proactive in going with the flow. That replaces the old-line putting-in-place comprehensive plans. Amid the political chaos being imposed on Disney the corporation is keeping opponents off their game with surprise moves.

The same dynamic is taking place for in-touch professionals. During an Insider interview the chairperson of law firm Paul Weiss Brad Karp reflected on if he would opt to renew his contract in May 2023. He didn't have his hands on the reins. Instead he put it this way: Lots could happen between when the interview took place - July 2022 - and spring re-opt time in 2023. Following that lots did happen, and here is Karp in mid-June 2023, still the chair. 

Today The Wall Street Journal vilifies Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon. There seems to be a confluence of forces preventing him from connecting with what is going on in the organization and in the market. A symbol of that resistance to what is is this: At a corporate off-site meeting the previous leader Lloyd Blankfein stole the show. The staging was in a bar, surrounded by myriad GS partners. There he had much to say and not all that positive about the current Chariot driver.

Takeaway: Surrender to win. What is is so much bigger than your mighty mind and its incessant planning.

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