The World -Our last column of this series.

Deck: Mermaid Tarot By Leeza Robertson Illustrations by Julie

Card: #21 The World

Hello everybody! Welcome to my last column in this series. For the last twenty-two months I have drawn one of the Major Arcana tarot cards, that represent the archetypical themes of life, and written a column describing the individual characteristics, while delivering a collective level message for each card. Thank you all for being here. These past two years have been an extraordinary adventure. Writing for all of you, receiving messages and insight for my self, and expanding my own skills as a writer has been extremely rewarding. It has truly been an honor.

This last card, The World, is also the last card in the Major Arcana of tarot. The World in tarot is representative of completion. Its funny how that all worked out. When I first started these columns I chose to allow the cards and messages to come at their own right time. I wrote about each card out of their numbered order; yet, here we are at the finish line, with the actual finish line card in play. Its amazing how these things can align.

Last month, the card was The Emperor, and I love how these two happened to be the finishing pair. With The Emperor, we learned the importance of being secure within ourselves, and taking actionable steps with a stable and solid foundation. This perfectly lines up with facing the “unknown” of letting go after completing all the lessons from this particular story of life. Everything has come full circle. When this happens, we stand at a precipice looking over all that we have accomplished behind us, and the vortex of days ahead is full of mystery.

This natural cycle of things ending, ushers in the new beginnings. Where will we go from here? Will I continue to write more columns in my future? This series in particular is ending, but maybe inspiration for other subjects will reveal themselves; or, perhaps the new beginning here is that there is no more columns. There has been a comfort with having a deadline, and a specific topic guideline being at the forefront of these columns, and I take great satisfaction in what it is you and I have created here. I am grateful for the space you, as the audience, have allowed for me to share intuitive wisdomous guidance through the many trials and celebratory moments of our lives.

I can also take a step back and look at some things in my life that feel unfinished. Perhaps there have been distractions, delays, and external sources at play that have kept me from fully reaching completion. While the end may be near, there is still some work to be done on my end to bring it in. Can you understand this feeling? Can you relate to the idea that while things around you are ending, you get an overwhelming feeling that there is more to the story? I sure can. Maybe, for me, I am not done writing. This chapter is over; but there is another beginning once I turn the page. The carousel of life continues to spin as we get wiser. We get stronger, more intuitive, more knowledgeable, more understanding, more accountable, and braver.

The scariest part of the “unknown” is the perpetrating lies of our minds exaggeratively informing us that we must fear change. Change is the only constant in this world. Its something we can count on. As duality would have it, the balance in which we live sways back and forth creating more opportunities in this life; opportunities full of growth, encouragement, and bravery; opportunities full of fun, and sadness. Every breath we take, in every moment we live, there is an opportunity for change; a change in our mindsets, a change in our actions, a change in which we manifest a new course for ourselves. Facing this fear, and choosing to move forward with this change, anyway, can sometimes bring us the most unimaginable experiences in our lives. Having the courage to stand up and say, “I will… In spite of the fear wanting to hold me back” is truly a special and rewarding part of being human.

We don’t know what the future holds. We may think we do, we may even have a plan, but these illusions of control on which we cling to, in order to comfort our need of not feeling afraid, is just that; an illusion. Things don’t always go according to plan, I myself, am someone who has this lesson repeatedly taught to her. Someone who likes to have a plan, someone who feels she needs to have a step by step idea for each task on the to-do list; someone who can get full of anxiety and discouraged as she watches unexpected change disrupt her plan causing it to slip through her fingers and fly away, understands the fear of feeling out of control, more than most. Repeatedly learning the lesson of change being unpredictable, has taught me some deep moments of flow. It has taught me Grace in the face of myself. While I will forever be a student in this category, and probably never be described as a super “chill and go with the flow” person, I know that my main goal is to strive for progress, not perfection. So, that is my final thought, in my final Major Arcana monthly column; In all that you do, give yourself Grace and strive for progress, not perfection.

Thank you.