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Every cry for Climate Justice, Racial Justice, and all other forms of Social Justice is a call to adventure and each day we stand at the crossroads, represented by the cross and the flag of the Judgment angel, given the option to refuse the call or to answer it. What we need to do in order to choose the latter is to forget all that isn’t useful to that journey and remember all that is. The limitations of being alive in a human body with finite levels of attention and capacities for empathy mean that we do have to consciously forget certain things in order to function. But in order to continuously move forward we have to remember the deep care for one another that makes us human, what constitutes the right thing, and a sense of belonging to something greater than the isolated flesh house of the self.

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (33%)

The secret told by Judgment is that we must stay connected to the meaning that endures beyond death, time, and history. That we forget, what Joseph Campbell called” the inhuman claims placed upon us,” by the systems under which we live, and remember that our life has meaning, even if that meaning must stay somewhat a mystery. That we remember every life has meaning.

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (33%)

When we are inundated with traumatic material at a rate unlike any other in human history, our task is to find a way to continue living in alignment with what is precious, even as the world burns around us.

Judgment, carrying both the metaphors of Call To Adventure and Resurrection, asks:

How do we continue to live life in accordance with what we hold to be right and true , even as the world crumbles around us?

How do we stay doing what is right even when it seems right is futile in faces of exploitation and destruction that appear to be larger-than-life?

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (33%)

What a relief this turns out to be. To realize we can not only take our walls down, we can do so regardless of if anxiety goes away. We can live really beautiful, fulfilling lives with anxiety, instead of feeling like we have to avoid it.

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (28%)

Having released the goal of avoiding discomfort as much as humanly possible, and by any and all means necessary, we free ourselves up to pursue new visions that are not about the absence of suffering, but rather the pursuit of fulfillment, connection, and the stuff that makes life worth living.

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (29%)

It’s common in old stories for heroes to be given a charm to protect them on their paths by a helper of some kind. An old woman who lives in the forest, a hermit, a king’s daughter who favors the hero. So if you’ve pulled the Wheel of Fortune or are working with it, here is a charm I’d like you to have:

Not everything that feels bad is wrong. And when you’re breaking an old pattern or doing something different, it’s very common to feel worse before you feel better. You were doing something the old way because the old way let you avoid things that scared you. And when you break free of this old pattern every monster, demon, and terrifying thing is going to show up and the thing that once protected you can’t do that anymore. As counterintuitive as it may be, if you’re passing through those low points on the wheel, it’s a sure sign you’re moving.

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (23%)

“Wow this is awful. And part of the process. And temporary.” And really mean it. […] Notice how it brings together two seemingly conflicting realities: this stage is both awful, and necessary. Life is simply not as clear cut as the mind makes it out to be.

— Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore (23%)

The amount a person can spare is relative. Tha value of generosity, is not.

— To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (12%)

They’d been sold on a vision of discovery and progress accessible to everyone. A global mindset, an enlightened humanity. Instead they found that dream inextricably, cripplingly anchored to the very founts of nationalistic myopia and materialistic greed that said dream was antithetical to.

— To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (12%)