By Michelle Crandell
Disoriented, the Fool walks through a field in Winter. His last experience, the Hanged Man, left him with an inexplicable sense of loss. “Why do I have to let go of so much to continue my journey?”
As if to answer his question, a skeleton in black armor rides up on a white horse. Death. “Have I died?” asks the Fool. “What you have experienced is a kind of death,” the skeleton says. “To become who you are truly meant to be, you must voluntarily let go of attachments which no longer serve you.”
Bursting into tears, the Fool says, “I’m sorry. I’m just so sad about saying goodbye to the past. It’s hard to let go of what I valued. I didn’t feel this way when I was hanging upside down. I felt relieved and inspired.”
“Every front has a back,” Death replies. “Honoring what your former life did FOR you balances your current awareness of what it did TO you. Old life fades away before new life can emerge. So it is with all things in nature.” As he turns his horse to leave, Death looks over his shoulder. “When you change your very consciousness, recreate yourself, you can never go back.”
The Fool commits himself to transformation, to becoming more of his authentic, spiritual self. He recognizes that HE is his own work of art.
Michelle Crandell provides individual readings for a fee. Once a year, she teaches LEARN TO READ TAROT. For more information, email michelle.crandell@gmail.com or call 501-655-6242.
