New Year’s Day is a ritual day for me. I want to move, to do deep introspection. And usually I pull a card. A tarot card.
Last year on New Year’s Eve I attended a workshop hosted by Michelle Cassandra Johnson. She had this lovely deck, her deck, the Transverse Deck. We all pulled cards from that deck before the practice. I pulled the death card.
Now, before you gasp or think “how appropriate for 2020” – tarot cards aren’t good or bad, but simply a tool. Ask the deck something and use it as a guide to probe deeper.
The death card? Well, that is all about transformation, shedding, grieving, loss. The questions we might ask ourselves is – what do I have to shed? What is no longer serving me? What is it that I have to grieve and let go of in order to move on?