In the tarot, The Magician is the first real step in the Fool's Journey (following the fool, Card 0). It speaks of alchemizing matters of the material/spiritual universe to achieve a new beginning. The Magician is tasked with turning nothing into something. Read more about it here: https://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/major-arcana/magician/
The lovely thing about pretending to be brave is that it makes you actually brave--which I think you are! Confronting the void is never fun, even if we learn something every time. Bravo...and may you one day create or find the place where you can be seen and are home. You (all of us!) deserve that.
You bring up a lot in a few paragraphs. Arguing with reality is what creates our suffering. All meaningful paths are crooked with lots of dead ends. The void is what lies beneath it all and as the Taoists say Yin and Yang gave birth to the ten thousand things, (our physical reality). To take on the universal it seems one must, by necessity, sacrifice the personal. The Taoists (and zen) also say the world is perfect exactly the way it is, if you can agree with their positing, one can frequently relax around one's place in it. It is possible to just stop. Stop searching, stop strategizing, embrace the Mystery exactly like it is, not knowing is its own path. Good Luck my dear. Kirk
In the tarot, The Magician is the first real step in the Fool's Journey (following the fool, Card 0). It speaks of alchemizing matters of the material/spiritual universe to achieve a new beginning. The Magician is tasked with turning nothing into something. Read more about it here: https://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/major-arcana/magician/
The lovely thing about pretending to be brave is that it makes you actually brave--which I think you are! Confronting the void is never fun, even if we learn something every time. Bravo...and may you one day create or find the place where you can be seen and are home. You (all of us!) deserve that.
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You bring up a lot in a few paragraphs. Arguing with reality is what creates our suffering. All meaningful paths are crooked with lots of dead ends. The void is what lies beneath it all and as the Taoists say Yin and Yang gave birth to the ten thousand things, (our physical reality). To take on the universal it seems one must, by necessity, sacrifice the personal. The Taoists (and zen) also say the world is perfect exactly the way it is, if you can agree with their positing, one can frequently relax around one's place in it. It is possible to just stop. Stop searching, stop strategizing, embrace the Mystery exactly like it is, not knowing is its own path. Good Luck my dear. Kirk