An amazing development in our society right now is the fact that more people are creating their own businesses right now than at any time in the last 40 years. Covid and its disruptions have stimulated this giant wave of change. During the last 18 months, all of us have had to do something different because of this epidemic. When people's regular way of doing business was stopped, we were prompted to do things differently to keep on going.
For many, that meant doing business remotely from home, rather than commuting to their office and meeting with people in person. For others, their business was closed, so they had to think about what other work would suit them. And for others, there was the inspiration to start their own business.
So now, even though many masking restrictions have been lifted and more people are vaccinated, the jolt many felt from having their business slow down has prompted actions to create a business in a way that gives a person more control over how their life will go.
After all, two things that all business owners get simply from being their own boss is the ability to control their own schedule and their own cash flow. Plus the joy of not having to ask permission of anyone else if they want to change something.
The Tower cards from the tarot pictured above are great awakeners that speak to this very fact.
Tower is one of those cards, like Death, that people new to the imagery and metaphors of tarot, are considered scary cards. A closer consideration of them however, speaks to hope arising from destruction. The card on the left is the more typical design, showing a tower struck by lightning, is from the Elemental Wisdom Tarot. The one on the right is from the Old Path Tarot shows a profile of a person. In both cases, the symbolism is that the old needs to be torn down to rebuild.
Metaphorically, just like in developing a property, sometimes we need to tear down an old building in order to replace it with a new building.
The second tower image indicates that we may need to change ourselves in order to create a better future. Creating a new business is one way to rebuild. For others, creating more work/life balance is critical to stability.
Notice that no matter the differences in artist drawings, lightning always appears in the card.
Lightning in the image is all about sudden change. One aspect of sudden change can be losing a job or career. Another is a divorce or separation. So an important lesson to draw is what did we learn from this experience and how will we rebuild?
This can be a positive experience in the long run. Many times, after losing one job, a person rebounds and finds a better one. How many people after a divorce find themselves in a better relationship later?
Enlightenment? We all experience it, but maybe we just did not think of that before. Lightning illuminates the landscape perfectly for a split second, and even though it goes away quickly, the image stays in our mind like a photo.
How else do we get enlightened? Every time we learn something new, and we find ourselves saying "I never thought of it that way before" lightning goes off in our head with that new thought and now when the subject comes up, our mind summons that last insight we had first. Enlightenment takes us up to higher levels of knowing and appreciation.
Each person creating their own new business is thinking of how they can do things better.
Similarly, after leaving a previous relationship, we look at doing the next one better.
After all, life is a constant learning experience and in our life journey, we want things to keep getting better, and so we take different actions based on what we have learned.
So I often see the Tower, rather than as a negative event, rather as an opportunity to rebound after clear thinking and perspective and then working with our spirit guides to keep our eyes and ears open for signs to guide us.
As many of you know, I have had several careers in this lifetime, and with each of those changes, I went through these periods of learning, rethinking and checking out opportunities to begin the next phase of evolution. Each stage prepares us for what is next. Every step to creating our next business or relationship is driven by our vision of how to do it better this time.
Creative destruction is a term that has been used by business to refer to taking businesses apart to keep only the best parts and then rebuild with better methods.
So out of all the craziness of covid, a new era of entrepreneurship is being born. That is very positive and empowering.
Owning your own business is very empowering and consciousness raising, no matter what kind of business you have. There is an aliveness in taking the risk of starting your own business and building it up. It is both challenging and invigorating.
So think of your Tower experiences in life as powerful moments of change that happen swiftly. Another aspect of lightning. Quickness.
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Have a wonderful day!
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