The Last Dog: The Pain of an Empty Nest

 An amazing benefit of being a Tarot reader is that we can do just-in-time Tarot card reading for ourselves. As The New York Times documented, the mystical Tarot cards bring a deep level of self-awareness. It does that gently and with compassion. We are more receptive to those messages it delivers about ourselves.

Well, for me the Eight of Cups came up in a one-card pull. That's The Walking Away card, which I prefer to interpret as The Walking Toward message. Maybe it is because I had recently been through so much turmoil that there was an immediate "Ah Ha" Moment. 

The epiphany was this: That wonderful time in my life that I had been a pet parent and involved in animal rescue was now over.  



Arizona, at age 14, had passed over. First slo mo then rapidly within four days she had been surrendering to what the universe mandates for all us sentient beings. I had a vision of Molly, who had passed over in 2006, escorting Arizona into that other dimension. 

I assumed I couldn't make it without a pet companion. I drove miles and miles to the animal shelters in Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio as well as in Erie, Pennsylvania. Multiple times. Instead of falling in love with them all, the Goldilocks phenomenon took over. This one is too big. That one is too young. That one is too old. I didn't anticipate the familiar joy of the two of us walking by the lake.

It was confusing. The family's chaotic living situation prevented me from having a dog as a child. The gift I gave my adult self in 1990 was a puppy Nicole. Then there were Molly, Lilly of the Valley, and more. They were my life. Maybe too much so. 

That wasn't to be, not any more. That was what the universe was telling me through the Tarot. I had to put together something else. I am the oldest of the baby boomers. What was to be my Next? I don't know. Like my clients I have to endure bumbling through transition. Emotionally, it's a roller-coaster.

Right now I am experiencing all the disruption of the empty nest. I admit and I accept: Arizona was the last dog. But I haven't shaken the resentment that we should have had more time in this dimension together. 

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