11 May 2021
Context
My sister rang me today for tech support. It shouldn’t be surprising to have my sister ring for tech support, and for the most part, it wasn’t. The call did put me in mind of a time, of back in the day when I was younger, more resilient, and needed to prove I knew stuff, especially to my younger sister. In particular, now that we were out of school and had been working adult jobs.
It’s weird how as the older sibling, you became conditioned to feeling superior to your younger sibling for many years. After all, you were always a couple of years ahead in school. It’s not until you’ve both left school when the disparity disappears. Then one day, you’re forced into a paradigm shift, either big or little, and you realise your younger sibling is also intelligent. Depending on where you sit with your sibling, you might even begrudgingly be impressed.
If you flip this one around, one day, your younger sibling must have realised you’re not as clever as they always thought you were! 🙀 Now, there’s a paradigm shift that keeps therapists in business.
Those who knew me when I worked on the IT Service Desk (many years ago) would probably describe me and my IT knowledge as “having the confidence of an expert but only enough knowledge to be dangerous.”.
Sister to the Rescue
So, my sister had a computer problem, and I had computer problem-solving knowledge. It was a match made in heaven! I sat down, the computer and I stared each other down (figuratively). Every bit of computer knowledge I possessed I tried, to no avail. The computer was playing hardball, but I had confidence on my side! One more trick up my sleeve. I’d been reluctant to play it, and my doubt about its use may have been voice but got drowned out by reassurance.
With figurative guns a-blazing and a swagger of the hips, I cracked my knuckles, pushed out my hands and arms, flipped up the tail of my coat and like a maestro at the piano, proceeded to delete the entire contents of her hard drive. Whoops!
Needless to say, if my sister had to have a paradigm shift about her older sister being the smartest person she knew at that moment, her world would have crumbled. Luckily for me, she’d ditched that belief long ago. Here, she was simply disappointed that the hype didn’t live up to its name! Don’t worry; my sister brings up my words of confidence, used at the time, whenever fixing a computer is involved.
Of course, when she rang today for support, the phrase cropped up, and she asked where that confidence had gone when it came to tech support. The standard response for the last 20 years was, “I went to project manager school and had the part of my brain that lets me say I’m an expert in anything removed.”.
By talking about the problem, my sister got a different perspective which put her on the path to solving her computer problem. All hard drives and “unsyncing” mailboxes are safe!
Today's Cards
The Cards - Analysis
Carry Over Cards
Two cards carried over from yesterday, Innocence moved from the Feelings to the Now position and No-thingness moved from Others’ Views to Hopes & Fears.
Analysis
Cross
Innocence in the Now is influenced by Creativity. Success in the layout is in the Goal position. The Recent Past has the Mind card representing confusion resulting from the need for Control in the Distant Past. From the Innocence of Now to Maturity sitting in the Future Energy position.
My guess on what is transpiring here could be that the computer incident with my sister comes from when I wanted to Control the situation. It was born of Innocence, and with a similar scenario presenting itself today, my response was that of Maturity.
Base
The Feelings/ Immediate Future position has the card of Ordinariness. Ordinariness is tackling my sister’s issue with a “down to earth” mature approach. No more fanfare – at least not this time 😉
Others’ Views is that of Sorrow. Not sure whether they are sorry for me or because of me. I will leave it to you to figure out.
Hopes & Fears position has the card of No-thingness or the card of potential or nothing. My hope is for my sister’s issue to resolve itself, and I fear I can do nothing to help.
Sharing is in the Outcome position, indicating openness and warmth reaching out to everyone.
References
- Osho, Osho Zen Tarot – The Transcendental Game of Zen, St Martin’s Press, ISBN 0-312-11733-7
