Understanding the Transformations of "Futility"

By Carolyn Gwiazdzinski

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Todays card, from the Alleister Crowley Thoth Deck, is “Futility”. When looking at this card, what cords do this card strike for you~deep within? Does it bring up fear, hopelessness, the attitude of “why bother”, it’s never going to work anyway? Does the sight of this card make you want to run in the other direction? The possiblities for the many “negatives” that can be seen with this card is endless. Most often, we grow up looking at the negatives, challenges, and obstacles that come into our life, thinking that the bad just looks like the bad…there is nothing else to understand, see or know.

However…

We are living in very new and incredibly different times now. When the “bad/negative” comes into our life, it is human nature to automatically assume the worse…the truth is, when the “bad/negative” begins showing themselves to our lives, immediately we think something is wrong, however, what is actually happening is we are being called to pay attention and participate with our life changes.

How can a life change show itself? Futility represents opposites…do we put ourselves down within our own thoughts? Do we sabotage any good that can come into our lives. Does our limited mind take over and tell us all the things that are wrong within us?

Swords from a place of awareness and understanding represent cutting away at the veils of illusion. When this card shows up in your reading, whether you are reading for yourself or another is reading for you…don’t be so quick to settle completely for the “appearance” of the negative aspect of this card. For the truth is, when we are presented with a so called “negative” card, from a soul perspective, this negative card has more of a story to tell you about yourself, from deep within soul blueprinted knowing and memory.

“Negative” cards from a soul blueprinted understanding, teach us how to go deep within and begin to ask what the card wants to share about the nature of our life journey.

Many are feeling many obstacles in their lives these days, not because something bad is happening, but because life is beginning to change for everyone of us, and these changes are calling for us to come into better alignment with our hearts and how we are meant to live: according to soul blueprinted memory. As a society, we grow up trying to bypass dense, heavy and sad emotions. We view sad emotions as something bad, especially when life begins to change for us. What do these changes look like? It can be a job change, a change in where we are living, a change in finances, or a change in our relationships…all changes produce thoughts of fear, and feeling our emotions and feelings.

When these changes begin to come into our life, it is easy to get lost in the fear of these changes, however, because society is beginning to wake up to the fact that there is more to our feelings and emotions and these aspects of ourselves are now calling for deeper understanding, we must train our minds and the human side of our understanding how to go deeper within, for a better understanding as to the purpose of the changes coming to us: how to heal the changes and how to move forward with greater understanding for each change that will continue to come into our life.

So… the next time you see Futility come up in your reading, take a breath and consider where you are not honoring your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Consider the tapes playing off in your head and if you are thinking good things about yourself or putting yourself down.

Working with the Tarot, is no longer just about seeing and perceiving what is on the immediate surface, but what is actually happening under the surface.

The cards have an essence, energy and their own story to tell, if we allow ourselves to listen.

As always, be patient with yourself and your journey…activating deeper awareness and understanding requires patience, understanding, focus and a step by step commitment to our awakening.