A person who lives in accordance with his conscience becomes tough. A person who lives in harmony with his consciousness remains soft.
Why is that? Because a person who lives with ideas on how to live, naturally becomes tough. He has to constantly bear the burden of his own character. His character is like armor – his defense, his safety. He spends all his life on it. Also, he always reacts to situations not directly, but through his character. If you ask him a question, then his answer is already prepared. This is a sign of a difficult person – he is boring, stupid and mechanical. He may be a good computer, not a person. You will do something, and he will react to it properly. His reactions are always predictable; he is a robot.
The real person acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, you will get an answer, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, opens himself to your question, and then answers it...
This is a portrait of a person whose life energy has been depleted by attempts to constantly feed a huge and absurd machine of his own importance and productivity. He has been so preoccupied with “holding everything in his hands” and “being sure that everything was going smoothly” that he forgot to rest. Without any doubt, he cannot allow himself to be playful. Abandoning his responsibilities to spend a day at the beach means jeopardizing the entire structure for such a person.
However, the message of this card is not only to draw your attention to your obsession with work. It also applies to all cases when we establish for ourselves reliable, but unnatural patterns of behavior and, thus, do not allow ourselves to act randomly and spontaneously.
Life is not a business to be managed. It is a miracle of being. It is time to tear apart the record card, destroy the factory and take a little trip into the unpredictable and unknown. If you relax your mind, your work will go on more smoothly.