Maybe It’s Not Too Late!
One of the biggest anxieties I see at the tarot table is the fear of the missed opportunity. There is even a specific tarot card that expresses that fear; the Five of Pentacles.
Typically, in that card image we see injured, impoverished people trudging in the snow past a lit building wherein we imagine they might have found shelter.
The question that card sometimes causes us to ask is whether we ourselves have failed to see the opportunity to enter the metaphoric building, or if we have been denied entry or cast out by something over which we have no control.
Is it too late to turn around and enter the door?
It’s true that sometimes we miss once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, and it’s sad when that happens. That can be our own fault, the fault of others, or sometimes just poor timing or bad luck.
Very often, though, I think we miss opportunities because we believe we are already too late, when really, if we thought about it a different way, we might be right on time.
Whether it’s love, success, creativity or happiness we desire, giving up because we believe it’s too late to find what we want is very often a cop-out, and a self-fulfilling prophesy.
The next time you find yourself thinking that a ship has already sailed, think again! Sometimes things of quality just take time to manifest, and sometimes the Universe saves the best for last!
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