Crossing or Burning

This week I'll be using the Golden Tarot, created by Kat Black and published by U.S. Games. Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Yantra Deck, created by Karl Schaffner and Maya Deva Adjani. It was published by Vayu Publishing. Today's cards are the Star and Choice:

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

~John C. Maxwell 

          After the Tower, the Star appears. Here can be found rest and healing, but hopefully insight as well. When we think, speak and act, we create mental patterns that make it easier to do the same thing again without much thought. But just because they are familiar and comfortable doesn't always mean they're healthy and skillful. Arriving flat on our faces at the feet of the Star, we get a do-over. Using both hindsight and discernment, we can acknowledge those patterns often created by anger or fear. The Choice mantra gives us the key to open a new door. While it can be extremely difficult to make different choices than the ones we easily slide into, if we keep making them long enough they will in time become what is familiar.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

~David Russell