One Step at a Time

From the Animal Totem Tarot, the Six of Pentacles; from the Blum/Gern Rune Cards, Dagaz:

          In this exchange, the hens get a safe place from predators to nest while the coop builder enjoys a supply of eggs. This type of sharing isn't about pity, but each party doing what they can. Robertson describes the Six of Pentacles as planting the seed of change through sharing resources (time, energy, material things, etc.). It doesn't mean a great change will come just from our actions, but if others (including the recipient) also help nurture that seed, transformation can happen. Simply taking the time to offer some encouraging words might be the seed that will one day bloom and produce its own crop of seeds. Dagaz means daybreak and implies a 180 degree turn in attitude and actions. Perhaps it is the realization that challenges and adversities aren't personal but universal that nurtures our own seed of compassion. 

Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. 

—Sharon Salzberg

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. 

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg