Daily Tarot: 10 of Wands

Where are you putting energy into distraction, splitting up your own attention, purposely burning out a little so you don’t have energy left to do the one thing you’re avoiding? Where are you using self-inflicted exhaustion as an escape, and using avoidance as an attempt at control?
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Ten of Wands is the end of the road on these particular coping strategies. You’ve reached the end, you’ve burned out. So now that you’re out of distractions, you can rest, gather your energy, and do that one thing you’re avoiding.
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Really, no judgement here, I’m doing it, too. I have been hella distracted all day, doing a bunch of stuff all at once but not actually facing the important stuff. Sometimes it goes this way, because we’re learning to come into balance, rather than swinging between the extremes of not enough and way too much. Each time we hit the wall with 10 of Wands, it’s a little different, we learn something else, and we get a little more skill in managing our energy. Sometimes a lesson involves a scraped knee, you know? That doesn’t mean anything bad about us or the lesson.
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Eventually we can pair our actions with the understanding that we can’t ever avoid the things we need to face, these things can’t hurt us, and that we don’t need to scrape ourselves up trying to avoid or resist the lessons. So here’s the reset button. Rest up and tackle that thing.