Refractive Thinking

From the Margarete Petersen Tarot, the Six of Feathers; from the Elemental Dice, Rainbow (Light + Water):

This well-used and well-worn basket will need to be replaced if its going to be useful rather than just decorative. Our habits of thinking can be just as frayed. We may decide that if something fits and stays in our 'basket' (agrees with our assumptions) then it is good, but bad if it doesn't. It doesn't occur to us that our 'basket' is the problem, not what we put in it. There are many cognitive distortions, but one of the most troublesome is polarized thinking, or seeing everyone and everything in terms of black or white. For instance, you might think your boss is the best in the world until he tells you that you can't have Friday off - now he's the worst boss. Such thinking misses the complexity inherent in people and situations. Rainbow is the dispersion of white light into a spectrum of colors, with the help water droplets that refract and reflect the light. We may be only aware of one color of light, but that doesn't mean there aren't other colors. It's time to allow our thinking to bend a little too. We may be surprised at how much easier it can make our life.