The 3♥️ holds our poor frozen fox and lifeless tree. This card is the wasteland we will call the Cold Blue Zone: where our low energy and unpleasant feelings live. These are feelings we experience when we are threatened but feel powerless to run, to negotiate or to fight.
Like our fox, frozen and cold, we become an animal that does not want to be noticed, we retreat, we hide away, we conserve energy, we withdraw. As with all other unpleasant emotional states, this is hard but it will pass. Everything passes. Get used to recognising this so you can start to manage it. How does it feel in your limbs, your belly, your chest? When we learn to recognise where we are, understand why this might have come about, are able to tolerate the feelings we will learn from this. Then things can shift and we can find a way to move.
Things can become more problematic when we get stuck in a zone, feeling trapped or like there's no way out. There are plenty of other cards and practices to help. If you are in the blue zone, it is important however much you want to hide away to reach outwards to balance the tendency to go inwards. Have a look at Explainer 5 and Explainer 6 and perhaps start exploring some of the Diamond cards to support you, or use the images to take you to other places. There is encouragement from all the cards. 6♥️ to 10♥️ show how like the seasons, things move and shift though we have to trust, accept and take small steps. You are not alone.
C o n n e c t i o n s
The Sad Book - Michael Rosen
Poems Antidotes to The Fear of Death - Rebecca Elson
Wild Geese - Mary Oliver
‘Can you make a note of things that might support you when you are in this space?’