Judgment Tarot Card: Embracing Uniqueness
The Judgment card in tarot may be asking you to take a look at your life with an emphasis on what makes you unique. Where are you on your own personal journey to enlightenment?
We sometimes look at our lives and pinpoint things we don’t like. We notice things we would like to change, things we would like to be different. We imagine an outcome that we would like to achieve and we assume that someday it will be so. Maybe we assume we will get to a certain age and by then, these achievements will have manifested. What happens though, when time goes on and on and these changes do not happen? What happens when we get to that certain age when we thought these things would have become a reality by, but they still are not here? Perhaps it is so that at that point, we need to accept that this is something that is not meant to be in our life. Perhaps it is time to accept that it was never anything but a dream that we would have this.
Maybe it is by programming from society that instilled in us the false belief that this is something all members of society are supposed to have in their life and we feel inadequate that we do not. This is an unfortunate mindset. It does not allow for a genuine connection with all that is. It creates a false and unhealthy notion that we are all one and the same; that we are the results of a cookie-cutter mentality that has decided what society should look like. If we have not achieved these things, then we are abnormalities of society. And so if we have not achieved these things by a certain age or some other arbitrary point in our life, we feel like we do not belong. This is unfortunate.
It is better to accept one’s self as a unique being with unique needs on a unique journey that has its own set of needs and requirements. To expect to achieve such and such a thing by such and such a time serves only to relinquish your personal needs and be nothing more than a clone of some over-simplified original design. As an original being though, you must accept that your life may not be exactly as others will think it should be. Remember that you are on your own track to your own enlightenment and you will not get there trying in vain to be what others think you should be or by trying to live up to an expectation that is not congruent to your life path or mission.
So, live your life. Accept who and what you are. And do not apologize to yourself or to anybody else if your life does not match the template that others seem to fit so conveniently into. That template is for the ordinary people living their ordinary, societally ordained lives. The life you are living is very different than that and you should appreciate it even, and maybe especially, when others do not. — Jim Larsen