Today I drew the Ten of Wands Card, and its the first upright card I have drawn in a while! In looking at this card (being the optimist I am) I immediately saw the positive in it and am glad to announce all the good news!
The man in this card carries a heavy burden of ten wands, so much that he is over encumbered with the weight of his success. Imagine a farmer that has returned from his harvest and has just received the fruits of all his labor, and it is more than he can support on his own. And despite the man encountering difficulties with his burden, he continues to stubbornly bear the weight, his proximity to the town he approaches goading him to keep moving.
Of course, having an overwhelming amount of success can be extremely gratifying! I would love to be the farmer with all the cabbage money could buy, even if it took several trips to the farmland to go and get it all. But of course, there is a danger to all this success at one time, that being over exhaustion.
Be it money, awards, accomplishments, and all the material success someone can achieve in this world, all of it requires effort, and the larger the success will be, the more work it takes to achieve. In this card, the man is obviously overwhelmed with his burdens, and giving consideration to the amount of work it took him to salvage his success is slightly troubling. Obviously he is near a village, why could he not hire any workers to lessen his load? Is there some way he can ease the stress of his task and make it more manageable?
This card is for people who ask themselves these questions on a daily basis. If you are overwhelmed with a task, how could you best mitigate the stress and make your task more manageable? There is no end to the chores and tasks we have in the name of occupation and ambition. The excess of this work can become overwhelming to people, no matter what walk of life they may hail from.
This card is a caution to those who enjoy working themselves to death as well. The rewards may be great for this man in the card (with all those sticks, the opportunities are endless!), but he has a family to nurture and dedicate time to, just as much as providing money and material possessions. If this man was working endlessly in who knows where to get all his wealth and success, then what about the people around him that might suffer for it?
If you have just been given a task that is too heavy for you to handle, make sure to give yourself enough time and space to accomplish it. Overworking can be destructive in the long run, so do not be extreme in your approach to your workload. Also, if you are in the midst of completing several tasks, it is time for you to employ some prioritizing tactics and get the important stuff done first, working your way down to the work that is least important or with later deadlines. Asking for help is also a helpful tool to completing a job that might require more labor or brainpower. Don't stretch yourself too thin--you will definitely regret it.
Take some time to enjoy what success you have had until now! Be stuck in the present, and live wholly in the moment, because you may never know what exciting development might come next.
No comments:
Post a Comment