A Practice and a Process

From the Cosmic Tarot, the Wheel of Change; from the L'Oeil de Lotus, Stabilization:

The Wheel of Change is always moving, adding and taking away things in our lives. There's no real time to settle in before we have new things to which we must manage or adapt. As Pema Chodron puts it, "To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." The goal is not to 'transcend' these changes - this is our life, after all - but to learn ways to skillfully deal with them. The anchor on the Stabilization card suggests we find a way to steady ourselves in choppy waters so that the mind doesn't get swept away by imagined impending doom. For me personally, this is a practice rather than a one-time solution, as Sharon Salzberg explains:

The process is one of continually trying to greet our experience, whatever it is, with mindfulness, lovingkindness, and compassion; it helps us to realize that everything changes constantly and to be okay with that. The effort we make in meditation is a willingness to be open, to come close to what we have avoided, to be patient with ourselves and others, and to let go of our preconceptions, our projections, and our tendency not to live fully.