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8. Most effective stance the querent can take right now. (Note: If this should be a negative seeming card, then the effective stance is the one that recognizes and transforms the negative pattern).
Seasons of Life
  text and photo © Jonathan Zap   623
Daniel talking to older acquaintance on Bourbon Street, New Orleans July, 2000
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"Man must make peace with his seasons, or the gods will laugh at him."
— Mary Renault

"The fates guide him who will; him who won't, they drag." — Ancient Greeks

Each of the seasons of aging — youth, middle age, old age — has its hardships, trials, and rewards. Dorothy Canfield Fisher said,

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."

But we live in a culture that interprets aging as a slow emergency, something to resist at every moment. As an ad for an "anti-aging" cosmetic put it,

"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to fight it every inch of the way."

The seasons become enemies when you fight them and your allies when you work with them. The seasons of life temper the soul, and people of average life spans end up going through all of them. Accept the season you are in with grace, and learn and develop from all the hardships, trials, and rewards of our mortal seasons.
See:
You are only as Old as you are — the Six Noble Truths of the Zap Philosophy of Aging
See also:
Temporal Fencing and Life Fields
and Kill the Time Grid and Fire up your Life