The Impact of Stress

Deck used is the Zombie Tarot by Sarah Graham, Paul Kepple and Ralph Geroni

Disclaimer on these upcoming posts for mild gore and graphic images. Please read at your own discretion if you’re sensitive.

It’s no joke that extreme constant stress can be bad for a person, both mentally and physically, sometimes in ways we don’t even realize. Sometimes, these things don’t show until much later in the process of us realizing how we’ve been stressed. While understanding and working with the root causes of our stress can be helpful for us, sometimes, the best thing to do is let go and keep it unexamined to keep us from entering a vicious cycle of hurt and pain. In this case, lets see how I can safely deal with the stresses in our lives right now.

from the Zombie Tarot by Sarah Graham

The Cards

5 of swords: defeat, bickering, severing ties

Death: new beginnings, transformation, rebirth

The World: lesson learned, end of a journey, completion

Justice: impartiality, fairness, equality

Ace of Hazards: possibilities, financial rewards, new beginnings

The first thing I need to acknowledge is that the source of my stress right now is I have been in a place where bickering, defeat and hurt has caused me to need to sever ties with the source of this stress. I’ve been in need of a new beginning in my life and I have come to this, but the transformation leading into the rebirth has been really difficult. I’ve had to come to the end of a journey and I think this is the key to understanding what I need to let go so I can start another jouney. All things cycle through, all things are in flux and to hold onto things that constantly change isn’t going to serve us in the long run ESPECIALLY when the energies are going to stress us past the breaking point. So how do we do this?

One, we need to treat the situations we find ourselves in fairly and impartially. Understanding there is nothing we can do to change the cycle of things will help us get started. This goes for us too and by this, I mean that we change all the time. The Meg that typed this blog post isn’t the same Meg that started the blog and that girl isn’t the same person as she was when she was a child. Treating ourselves with the understanding that we’re human and that we’ll face challenges all the time is also going to help us. There are so many possibilities with this new beginning, new work to be done, and who knows? We might come to understand who we are a lot more deeply in the process of losing the things that need to be lost.