Rock Bottom

From the Spirit Within Tarot, the Tower; from the Answer Deck, Vulnerable:

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. 

~Gordon B. Hinckley

          We can become very myopic when we fear something, and so we find a thing or person that we think will protect us from it. The safeguard we choose becomes the bricks and cement of the tower we build. It might be education, a relationship, a career, religion, therapy or a certain mindset. But pinning all of our hopes on this one thing creates an imbalanced foundation for our lives; time changes everything, even that tower of protection we worked so hard to build. When it crumbles, it doesn't mean our choice was wrong, just our expectation of it. The Vulnerable card, however, alerts us to a danger when we find ourselves flattened by a turn of life. We may seek out the first 'sure cure' we can find and buy,  be it a prayer cloth, a magical quartz crystal, or the advice of someone who can talk to angels. Yet this behavior is simply a way to rebuild our wall; we'd do better to use what happened as a way to expand our perspective and awareness. In the words of J.K. Rowling, "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."