Not Interested

From the Animal Totem Tarot, the Four of Cups (Octopus); from the Blum/Gern Rune Cards, Algiz:

 

Regardless of what initially caused you to feel so unmotivated, it’s your present-day outlook on it that now keeps you stuck. Your immediate task, then, is to alter this outlook. In short, you’re much better off focusing on how to fix what’s inside your head than what lies outside it. ―Leon F. Seltzer

An octopus swims without interest past a treasure chest that includes golden goblets. It sees nothing that is worth noticing. Apathy is an absence of emotion that leaves us feeling indifferent and unmotivated; it is a state that can feel like a hole too deep to climb out of. Algiz (Elhaz) is a rune that symbolizes elk sedge, a reed with sharp-edged leaves that cut. It represents protection and defense and asks us how we can relieve the funk we're in without making any impulsive choices. Dr. Leon Seltzer has some suggestions, though he warns us it will require forcing ourselves to act:

• Determine where your apathy is coming from and contest its underlying assumptions.
• Transition from passivity to problem-solving. What is the easiest, most do-able first step you can take? 
• Inject some novelty into your routine. 
• Challenge your apathy in every way you can. 
• Recall—and reawaken—happier times when you felt more enthusiastic and alive.