Here’s a good illustration of going from eagerness to overwhelm.
The energy of the wands is about passion, creativity, enthusiasm, putting energy into a project. The page has that youthful spirit where they can’t wait to get started. They’ve got a drive and determination to throw themselves into whatever the new venture is and probably make as much progress as fast as the can.
The Ten of wands, on the other hand, shows us what can happen when we take on too much too soon. Sure, it can also represent having too many responsibilities or carrying heavy burden over a long period of time, but when I see these two cards together this morning I’m thinking that maybe it doesn’t take all that long for the page to get overwhelmed by taking on too much, especially when they are trying to run before they have mastered walking.
Whenever you are learning to do something new there is always a ramp up period where you need to learn the basics, or make small changes and assimilate those changes into your life before making more changes or moving up to the next level. For example, if you have been living a fairly sedentary lifestyle and decide you want to start walking more, you are not going to begin with a four-hour hike up a steep hill, and if you do you probably won’t be inclined to do it again.
You’re not going to write a novel in the time it takes to read one, and certainly not in a straight line from start to finish. You have to plan it out, pace yourself, flesh out the characters, figure out what the keystone plot points are. You have to be prepared to write, edit, and revise continually, breaking the project down into manageable, incremental steps.
If you have some habits you want to either acquire or discard, you are probably not going to have much success if you try to incorporate them all from day one, like some sort of new years resolution on steroids. Drastic change on that scale can be too overwhelming to continue with after a day or two. You have to pace yourself, try out one or two changes until you are comfortable with them, then continue on to the next few.
Find the right balance in whatever situation these cards are referring to. There is a happy medium between the page and the ten that will work for you. Don’t berate yourself for not being able to do everything all at once. Trying to do too much too soon is an eady way to burn out. Don’t end up like the Ten of Swords, who would probably like to drop all those wands to the ground and just walk away.
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