Making Your Own Edge - Way Beyond the Myth of Equality

Whether it's a work issue or access to some other goody there are those who come to a tarot reading in despair about the "unfairness" of things. 

The attractive man/woman got the promotion to the C-Suite. Not them, the hardest and most innovative middle manager. 

The neighbor who inherited money and could afford a top lawyer got a slap on the wrist for a DUI.  Their partner went to jail.

Is it naive to even try to get ahead, get things and all that? 

That matter of seeming inequality has surfaced like a sea monster from the deep in China. The New York Times reports that there are:

" ... fierce online debates in China about privilege and inequality"

Meanwhile, here in America the source of the growing political polarization is rage about who gets to have the edge in this current economy of scarcity. 

Some are so unraveled by that noise that they're returning to traditional religion to find trust in their ability to navigate what seems increasingly unfair. Essentially that's about surrender to a higher power. The evangelical church calls such an entity "Jesus." Catholics "the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost." 

In the tarot that's about connecting with the enlightenment from the Universe, along with your higher self. Ironically, in at least how I interpret the tarot, inner peace, along with the ability and drive to go after what's possible, springs from reality. 

No, life isn't fair. Shrewd leaders ranging from US President John F. Kennedy to Texas Governor Ann Richards supposedly observed just that. Essentially the life lesson is that the burden is on the majority of humans to create their own edge or edges. 

The classic on job search "What Color Is Your Parachute?" hammers that the one to get hired isn't necessarily the most qualified. It's the one best at that complex process of going after a job. 

The meme from George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is that in an animal utopia not all animals, it turns out, are equal. Some of those animals carve out a better deal for themselves.

In my former career path as a professional writer, as my critics pointed out, I was more successful than better writers. That was because I understood the importance of marketing. "Purists" in that sector felt "above" such a mundane focus. I didn't. 

The tarot deck starts out with the ambiguous The Fool Card. 

In the medieval royal courts The Fool was the king's trusted guide. That role was embedded with the mandate to share reality. Of course that involves risk. The major kind. Some days the king wasn't up to hearing about what really was. The message of that is: Risk. It has to be calculated, then action taken. There are no sure things. 

In tarot sessions about searching for a "better" job, primarily the message is: In this new world order you have to reach into the unknown. Of course, that's filled with risk. For example, what about identifying transferable skills for hunting in sectors that are growing in manpower demand, not shrinking. Obviously you're not going to "feel comfortable" in that transition.

So many elites, incidentally, are in the same pickle. Both those prominent law firms such as Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis which cut deals with the Trump administration and those like Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block which resisted are rocked by disruption. The risk to everything from their business to their brand is palpable. The new edge comes from how they handle all that.

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