{"id":948,"date":"2020-03-29T15:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immersology.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2020-03-29T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T15:59:20","slug":"tarot-wisdom-for-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immersology.com\/tarot-wisdom-for-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarot Wisdom for the Coronavirus Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a Tower moment if ever there were one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Man From Beyond<\/a><\/em>, guests have the opportunity for a tarot reading from Madame Daphne. These readings are often my favorite part of a performance\u2014the personal connection in a tarot reading is off-the-charts, it’s really a bunch of one-on-ones\u2014and guests leave not just with a grand adventure from the S\u00e9ance Parlor but with new personal insight from the Tarot Room as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned the tarot for the show, and now I am an advocate. In my eyes, it’s not magic, but it is a ridiculously useful tool, and anything that carries meaning carries a kind of holiness for me. It’s helped me personally, and it’s honed my philosophy. There are 78 different cards in the deck, each designed to tease out of us a notion of something specific that is happening in our lives. When we see things, we begin to understand them. That may not be magic, but it is the path to empowerment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this extraordinary moment, I’d like to share with you a specific tarot insight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to The Tower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tower is the moment when we are subject to higher forces. Something that we did not want, that we did not will<\/em> has just occurred. Make no mistake: it’s bad. Lightning\u2014an act of God or an act of Nature, as you choose to classify it\u2014strikes our Tower, and we fall. We are powerless against it. The crown of our great plans plummets to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is an opportunity in every tarot card, even the darkest ones (and this is the darkest one, in my opinion). The lesson of the Tower is: how do you respond? How you respond is always within your control. Do you take a moment on the ground and mourn the loss? Do you rebuild the Tower? Do you look into the feasibility of making it lightning-proof? Maybe the rebuilt Tower shouldn’t be so tall, or maybe you should get out of the Tower-building business altogether. Point is: know your sphere of action. What’s outside your control? What’s inside it? There’s a sharp line dividing the two. Focus on what’s inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s some Tower-specific wisdom for all of us in the cornavirus crisis…<\/p>\n\n\n\n