Little and Big

From the Tarot of Durer, the Two of Batons; from the Philosopher's Stone, Prudence:

The Twos are often deal with decisions about how we want to expend our energy. In this illustration, one lion works to grab a hedgehog, but the other lion seems to growl and say, "That animal is less than a mouthful! Quit spending your time on him and let's go grab something that will actually feed us!" I can relate to wasting time on something I considered important that in big picture wasn't. Often it is a distraction not to have to do harder more challenging tasks. The Prudence card shows a stone-man focusing on the larger rock rather than the pebble. Nicolas Chamfort once said, "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." He, of course, didn't advocate frog eating but getting the toughest job out of the way first. That way when we do have to face the small stuff, it does indeed feel small.