From the Spacious Tarot, the Tower; from the Phenomenal Oracle, Landslide:
Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm gettin' older, too
—Stevie Nicks
Used to mark a well-worn path, a cairn is blasted apart by lightning. We enjoy life when we know what to expect and can prepare for it. As Stevie sings, we build our lives around people and things that give us a sense of security and stability. Yet impermanence and change can alter our lives in drastic ways, as Landslide indicates. Pema Chodron calls this natural occurrence groundlessness. But instead of scrambling to hang on to the old, she advises we look fear right in the eye, "not as a way to solve problems, but as a complete undoing of old ways of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and thinking." In this way, we might transform a breakdown into a breakthrough.
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