Good can come from bad…

On the surface this looks like an awful throw, but is it really?

It looks like:

Endings, danger, losses, obstacles, strong feelings. If you bring in the card combinations though, it’s a totally different matter.

End to danger (coffin+scythe), cut losses (scythe+mice) obstacles erradicated (twice here – scythe+mountain, mice+mountain) blocked strong feelings (mountain+heart), transformation of strong feelings (coffin+heart) 

Now one might consider blocked feelings to be negative HOWEVER sometimes in life it is vital to remove yourself from the feelings in a situation to re-examine it using the rational mind. So, it’s not always a bad thing. In fact it can be a very good thing.  Then we can think about how we feel and decide whether the feelings are in fact warranted.  I think the message is really quite lovely.

A lot of times, things that happen in life seem to be quite dreadful on the surface.  Once we muddle through and see our way clear, we realize that what happened needed to for whatever reason.  The end result is we learn a great lesson.  If not about the experience itself, we learn about ourselves.  Our deep feelings, the heart of who we are.  It is impossible to lie about yourself or your situation when faced with enormous crisis.  To do so would not serve our natural desire to self-preserve.  We are faced with our true character.  When the crisis ends, we can chose to stagnate and be blocked – lock our hearts away behind great mountains.  OR, we can become transformed.  We can hack away at the things that steal our lives from us and hinder our progress and move closer towards the people, things and situations that we want.  Good can come from bad.

Occam’s razor

Simply put, all other things being equal, the simplest solution is best.

For nearly a month I have been having connection issues with my place of business that has prevented me from getting much of anything done.  It was coming to a head today, when my very dilligent friends in our IT department finally threw up their hands and told me to switch my internet service provider.  Fortunately they did think about this again and decide to contact my service provider’s help desk.  Their rational was that it had to be the ISP’s issue.  Why?  Occam’s razor of course.  Everyone I work with who is off site (like myself) they explained, had the same set up that I did, the only difference was my service provider.  ”Not so”, I said.  ”I can assure you no one has the same set up I do.”  Occam’s razor couldn’t apply the way they were thinking, but it did apply the way I was thinking.  I have a variety of cables and devices strewn around my desk that control the internet, how it flys through my home, and how it interacts with my phone.  It is so ridiculously complicated that I am the only one who understands how it works in our house (and that’s because I set it up!)

In the midsts of all of this, and since this has been going on forever (so it seemed) I threw some cards hoping that the outcome would (finally) be a solution and I could get back on track.  Here’s how they fell:

Book – Mountain – Flowers – House – Anchor

I was very pleased, but hesitant to celebrate but the cards (and another person’s fresh view of the situation) did not disappoint.

There was a secret (book) that was causing the block (mountain).  The book reflects to the anchor – people at my job (anchor) were not able to figure out the problem (and the book is facing away from all the other cards).  To my surprise (flowers) the block was in fact removed, and it was caused by my set up at the house (mountain reflects to house).  The block has been removed, and I can work from my house again (anchor).

What it all boiled down to (which my friends in IT didn’t consider and which I did think was too simple a solution) was that the way the devices were attached was causing an issue.  So we moved one device’s position in the line up, and like magic the block was clear!

While to you, dear reader, this may seem quite mundane, I am thrilled to pieces that I can finally get back to being productive.  And the added bonus?  Everything else I am doing that involves the internet is faster – not just work.

Sometimes we must learn to appreciate the mundane, because it gives us a break from all the typical insanity life brings, lol.

Have a wonderful and joy filled weekend!