So my new friend Monica Taylor (inspirational Entrepreneur and founder of MomsMadeEasy.com – check out her bio!)  and I were chatting, exchanging iPhone applications that we liked and she recommended OSHO Zen Tarot. I never really got so far into Tarot, only a few times, I’ve always been curious about it yet kind of nervous to get my cards read – however I am a huge fan of Zen and Osho.  So I downloaded it and the instructions were to focus your energies on one question. After a little bit of guidance from the app and a little bit of thinking, my question was “What do I need to take from this situation”.  As everyone does, in life sometimes you feel insecure.  As an entrepreneur, and someone looking into their future with open possibilities, freedom is insecurity, uncertainty is wonder. This was the card I pulled: Courage.

The Commentary:

“This card shows a small wildflower that has met the challenge of the rocks and stones in its path to emerge into the light of day. Surrounded by an aura of bright golden light, it exposes the majesty of its tiny self. Unashamed, it is equal to the brightest sun.

When we are faced with a very difficult situation we have a choice: we can either be resentful, and try to find somebody or something to blame for the hardships, or we can face the challenge and grow.

The flower shows us the way, as its passion for life leads it out of the darkness and into the light. There is no point fighting against the challenges of life, or trying to avoid or deny them. They are there, and if the seed is to become the flower we must go through them. Be courageous enough to grow into the flower you are meant to be.

OSHO says:

“The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.

Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls – and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.

There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.

The same is the path for man. It is arduous. Much courage will be needed.”

For me this is a strong symbolism to where I am right now.  Three and a half years ago graduating college, getting my first real job after many internships – now for the last almost two years being an entrepreneur, living life with a plan but an uncertain one. Knowing your dream, but not knowing how to get there. Knowing you believe, but not seeing fruition.  Having faith while trembling.  Starting one company, about to embark on a new.  This life I have chosen will never be secure and certain, but after all – if it was where would the fun be in that?

Osho says “If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life – and good that it is so, because it makes life a freedom, it makes life a continuous surprise. One never knows what is going to happen. It keeps you continuously in wonder. Don’t call in uncertainty – call it wonder. Don’t call it insecurity – call it freedom.”

This inspires me because all the Greats have done this before.  Taken the path not yet created.

Steve Jobs said it best:

“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Thanks Steve and Osho for giving me the courage to keep chasing the dream!

xo