​Reader,​

A few years back, my team sent me a project labelled WTF.

We were working on a project called From World to Fool. It was about the space between the end of one thing and the beginning of what comes next.

And it was so on point (and it made me snort laugh) that we kept it.

Because that’s exactly what it feels like when we enter the in-between and uncertain times. WTF.

In tarot, the Major Arcana tells the story of the human experience. It’s a series of 22 cards that begins with card 0 The Fool and ends with card 21 The World. The Fool (beginnings) journeys through each card until they get to The World (endings).

Now there are a million and half ways you can play with and interpret this series of cards. But when I’m teaching tarot, I like to ditch the linear aspect of 0-21 and instead show the cards as a circle.

When you arrange the cards that way, The World and the Fool end up next to each other. The ending leads to the beginning. And the circle shows the infinite nature of that journey. But when you arrange the cards this way, it creates a very small space in between The World and The Fool.

That gap is what I've been fascinated with for over a decade.

Because when you're living inside it, that journey from World to Fool isn't small at all. If you’ve ever been in transition, you’ll know how it feels like it's taking for-ev-er to get to the next part. And it’s a wild ride that sometimes makes zero sense.

It starts one of two ways.

Something happens — a loss, an ending, a lifequake, something you didn't choose — and you're in it before you’ve had time to prepare.

Or things just slowly stop fitting. And the agitation starts to build. And then one day you look around and think: I don't know what I need but, I know this isn't it.

This is the WTF era.

And while it can be extremely uncomfortable and disorienting when we find ourselves there, it’s a totally normal human place to be. It can even help us tap into a particular kind of power within us, if you know how to orient and work inside of it.

What I've learned from being in it myself is that the WTF era can feel overwhelming and big – full of agitation and noise that makes us think the solution has to match it.

But some of our most powerful moves are the small shifts that give us a different perspective on things. Before we decide anything big like burning it all down or getting bangs.

P.S. The WTF era — World to Fool, and yes, also exactly what you're thinking — is the space between endings and new beginnings. If you're in it, hit reply: The World, The Fool, or Somewhere in Between.

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