Moving and Transforming

From the Prairie Tarot, the Eight of Cups; from the Medicine Cards, the Elk:

          What makes us leave? In some situations, it is because we are looking for a drop of joy in an emotional desert. Other times, the pain and injury that comes with staying greatly outweighs the fear and grief of leaving. It's never easy. But the anxious uncertainty of what the future holds can give rise to excitement if we don't take our old ways of thinking and reacting with us. Elk brings the message of stamina. We are able to keep moving if we adopt a pace of sanity. Although we might know what we're getting away from, we don't know what we're heading toward. If we move too fast, we might miss it.

Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they'd originally anticipated.  ~Amy Morin