Category: Mental Health; Tarot Tips | Reading Time: 5 Minutes
Your thumbs are cramping from the repetitive motion of scrolling.
You are currently twenty-seven pages deep into a search result, meticulously reading a forum post from 2014 written by a stranger named “LoveSeeker88.”
You are scanning their words with the intensity of a forensic investigator, hoping to see if their trauma perfectly mirrors your current situation.
The blue light is searing your retinas. You are fueled by a desperate, hollow sensation in your gut.
You are treating the future like a math problem.
You believe that if you just find the perfect article on “attachment styles,” the anxiety will finally vanish.
This is an addiction to certainty. Psychologists call this Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU). You are convinced that “Not Knowing” is a dangerous state of being, and you’re trying to bully clarity into existence.
Certainty is Your Red Dot
Think about the way I (Bane the Cat) react to a laser pointer.
When I see that tiny red dot on the floor, I want it more than anything in the world. I chase it until I am panting, sliding into the baseboards, and knocking over the trash can.
But I never actually catch it. Why? Because the dot is made of light. It has no mass. It is not solid.
Certainty is your Red Dot. You chase the “final answer” because you think it will provide safety. You tell yourself, “If I knew for sure that he loves me, I could finally relax.”
You are lying to yourself. If you knew the answer to that problem, your brain would simply find a new mystery to obsess over five minutes later.
The problem is not the lack of information; the problem is your inability to sit in the silence.
The High Priestess: Guarding the Scroll
In the Tarot, The High Priestess is the guardian of the subconscious.
Notice the scroll she holds in her lap. It is inscribed with the word TORA (representing Divine Law or the Torah).
But look closer at how she holds it. She keeps the scroll half-covered by her heavy blue robes.
She isn’t hiding the answers because she is being cruel. She is guarding them because you lack the capacity to read the whole story yet.
Some truths are meant to be lived, not explained. If you knew the ending of your current chapter today, you would likely skip the necessary growth required to actually survive it.
You are acting like a kitten trying to pry open a locked cabinet door, while the High Priestess sits on the other side, waiting for you to stop scratching.
Keats and “Negative Capability”
The most powerful thing you can do right now is absolutely nothing.
In 1817, the poet John Keats coined a term for this: Negative Capability. He defined it as the ability to be “in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
When you feel that tight, burning sensation in your chest, stop reaching for your phone.
That discomfort is the feeling of a seed interacting with the dark, heavy pressure of the dirt. It is messy down there. It is cold. But the darkness is where growth actually begins.
If you try to force a flower to bloom before it has roots, you kill the plant.
Float in the Void
The goal isn’t to solve the mystery. The goal is to stay in the mystery without reaching for a frantic, premature conclusion.
For today, put the phone down. Let yourself float.
The floor is still there, even if the lights are off.
🔮 The Action Right Now
The answers are coming, but they are following the rhythm of the tide, not your Wi-Fi connection.
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