Breakable Glass Jars

This week I'll be using the Anna K. Tarot, created and self-published by Anna Klaffinger (though now published by Llewellyn). Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Meditation Cards, a deck created and self-published by Asha Greer. All the keywords and quotes for these cards have been added by me. Today's draws are the Six of Swords and 'A Million Pieces:'

          Before we get to this place of leaving (one set of ideas and opinions for openness), we go through lots of anguish and turmoil. We desperately want our mind to find a solution, but we are like a bug inside a glass jar. We grasp for traction and find none, so we move in the circle of the bottom of that jar, over and over. Like Klaffinger's illustration, what lies before us is unfamiliar and quite foggy. But we'll get a better grasp on it when our emotions settle and our feet are on firm ground.
          A Million Pieces is paired with a quote from Roshi Joan Halifax:

The sorrow of great and small losses is a river that runs in the underground of all of our lives. When it breaks to the surface, we might feel as though only “I” know this pain. 

Sometimes we never realize how our beliefs and assumptions have become tightly woven into our identity until they are torn away. Who are we without the security of this label or category? It feels like a loss of something concrete, though the world is much more than the separate groups we create. Even so, it is likely that we'll look for and find a new jar to step into that brings us a feeling of certainty as soon as we find a new set of comfortable ideas.