Category: Career & Purpose; Tarot Tips | Reading Time: 4 Minutes
The expensive frame on your wall is starting to feel like a window into a life that no longer belongs to you.
You’re looking at that law degree, that nursing certification, or that corporate title you sacrificed your sleep to earn. You spent a decade climbing this specific ladder, only to reach the top and realize you propped it against a building you don’t even want to enter.
Now, you have a secret browser tab open looking at coding bootcamps or pottery studios. Meanwhile, a voice in your head screams that you are “throwing it all away.”
You aren’t ruining your life. You are simply outgrowing your shell.
The Power of the Zero
You are terrified of The Fool.
In the deck, he is Card Zero. He stands on the edge of a jagged cliff, looking at the clouds, ready to step off into the abyss.
To your logical brain, he looks like a liability. He has no map. He has no backup plan.
But here is what a cat understands: The Fool is the most powerful card in the deck.
Why? Because he is the only one who is truly free. He has zero baggage. He is pure potential.
You are envious of that freedom, but you are gripping the safety rail of your “stable” job so hard that your knuckles are turning white.
Skill Stacking (You Aren’t Starting from Scratch)
There is a lie that changing paths in your 30s or 40s means you are a “beginner” again.
You think that if you quit your technical job to start a creative project, you are starting at the bottom alongside the nineteen-year-olds.
That is mathematically false. You aren’t starting from scratch; you are starting from experience.
Career coaches call this Skill Stacking.
Your “past life” as an expert doesn’t evaporate. It transforms into your secret weapon.
- If you were a Lawyer who becomes a Baker, you aren’t just a baker. You are a baker who knows how to negotiate contracts and read lease agreements.
This makes you a predator in your new field, not prey. You have a different path, but you have the same spine.
The Rotten Food Rule (Sunk Cost Fallacy)
Most people stay in jobs that make them miserable because of the time they have already “invested.”
In psychology, this is the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
Think of it from a cat’s perspective. If I am presented with a bowl of wet food that has gone sour, I do not think, “Well, my human spent money on this, so I should finish it to be loyal.”
I sniff it. I realize it’s rotten. I walk away.
I don’t care about the “investment.” I care about not getting sick.
Staying in a dead-end situation doesn’t make you loyal; it only makes you numb.
Trust the Dog
Look closely at The Fool card again. He isn’t alone. There is a small White Dog barking at his heels.
Some people think the dog is trying to warn him about the cliff. I disagree. The dog is his instinct. It is his joy. It is barking because it is excited to finally go for a walk that isn’t on a leash.
Your old professional identity was a costume that has started to itch. It is okay to take it off.
The Cliff vs. The Cage
The cliff is scary, but the cage is worse.
In almost every deck, The Fool isn’t shown falling; he is shown in that perfect moment of suspension and trust.
🔮 The Action Right Now
It is time to stop being “safe” and start being alive.
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