The Most Wonderful Adventure Called Change
Heraclitus once said that the only inevitable thing in this world is change. Change is continuously occurring whether we select to make alteration or not. Things indeed modify: seeds shoot, flowers whither, caterpillars turn out to be butterflies, clothes turn into being worn, and waves corrode the shores. Change occurs. It is just a portion of this life, but then again sometimes we need to pick to make transformation. Creating change can perhaps be frightening, for it insinuates we are walking into the unknown. It indicates we cannot anymore regulate the existing time and the future. It represents the fact that we have to set free of the desire of our ego to hang onto matters, confront our fear and concern about the upcoming time, have confidence in our capability to make our lives, and undertake that step into that thrilling adventure named change.
Whenever I feel frightened about creating changes in my existence, the idea of the jester card of the Tarot emerges. The Tarot is a multifaceted language of secret language instilled with mystical and metaphysical connotation. In this particular card the Jester looks like a carefree young guy, holding the white roses of cleanliness and blamelessness and boarding on a trip right off a cliff into an enormous fissure. Is the Fool totally unaware of his surrounds and the imminent risk of walking off into the void underneath? Or, has he completed the decision to go forward on his journey in life, acting on trust that the heavens will preserve him and maintains his safety and guide him in the exact direction as he paces into the mystery, the future?
The Fool card takes a number zero. Zero is nonentity, unfilled, yet filled with all possibilities. The zero is mutually a window to present us image of our options, and likewise the entrance that offers us a road towards individual growth and realizing our abilities and our aspirations. During the moment that we select to make modification, we liberate ourselves from the manacles of anxiety and the want to know and manipulate everything. As we choose transformation, we expose ourselves up to discover the adventure that is called life. By moving into the mystery, we join with our Real Selves.



