Shaking Off the Yellow Leaves

From the New Era Elements Tarot, the Six of Water (Cups); from the Tao Oracle, Approach (Hexagram 19):

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. ― Rumi

In the Thoth system, the Six of Cups/Water is not nostalgia but unbounded joy after a crisis is past. Pieper's card shows children splashing and enjoying the fountain jets at a play park. It reminds me of our community emerging after the pandemic lockdown (we were a Covid hotspot in the nation with limited resources and many deaths). We were cautious at first, but then we were like kids running outside when school breaks for recess. Recovery after such an emotional trial brings a special kind of release and happiness. Approach (hexagram 19) suggests beneficial changes are happening and encourages us to move toward them. While we may drag our feet - being wary of vulnerable - it reassures us that this is a development that we should take advantage of without delay.