Feeling Like You're Falling Off the Cliff and The Extreme Optimism of The Fool Card

 It's an upside-down time. Or so it seems.

Those coming for Tarot readings frequently are overwhelmed with what they have to do to just earn a living. Never mind going for a promotion. 

The rules keep changing. 

You're supposed to protect your mental health but do too much of that and you could be forced out. 

To just hang on to what you have you have to learn (fast) new software. 

You've become a manager, with no training. 

A stunner, you are called into HR and they tell your expertise is no longer needed. Don't they know who they are talking to ...

When The Fool's card comes up during the Tarot, they exhale - automatically. The message embedded in The Fool is that it's probably necessary to look foolish - both to yourself and maybe a whole lot of watchers out there. That's part of the process to keep doing a reset for the current work world. That applies to getting a job, keeping your job, figuring out how to navigate to a better job, adding on gigs for multiple sources of income and starting a micro business.

The optimism of The Fool's card is this: Even if you fall off some kind of cliff, it won't be very far and you have the intuitive powers and strength to scramble back up. The trick is not to get stuck inside yourself. Not in your thoughts. Not in your feelings. That sucks up the energy. And inevitably you will be caught up in regret and fear. 

The Tarot wants you out there, trying. Much of that could be new. And, the odds are that  experimenting could make you feel or appear foolish. 

So? 

Here is an anecdote. The 1970s weren't all that tame either. The market for university Humanities professors collapsed. Those of us who were finishing up our doctorate degrees were unmarketable not only in academia but in other lines of work. Regarding the latter, that amount of higher education was viewed as excessive. Too many employers didn't want to even interview us ivory-tower folks. 

Some tried to hang on to the academic lifestyle by doing low-paying jobs within the university. Here and there they could snag a freelance instructor job for a semester or two.

Then there were those of us who tried out different types of work. You bet, we looked foolish. But we wound up as management consultants, corporate ghostwriters, middle managers, entrepreneurs, spiritual guides and more.

Along the way it took falling off a few cliffs. For example, we got fired in jobs that weren't a fit. But, yes, we did make it back to try again. Had I to go through that sort of thing again, I wouldn't have felt foolish. I would have had the confidence to know I had what it takes to make it. Eventually. And that I did.

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