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For the past five years, we’ve created a custom tarot card to celebrate our anniversary. Each card has reflected something meaningful we were experiencing at the time. A lesson, a challenge, a hope, or a question that seemed to be asking for our attention. As we’ve moved through the deck, the cards have become a kind of record of our journey.

This year brings us to 22: The Fool. Fittingly, 22 is also the final card in the Tarot’s Major Arcana, representing both an ending and a beginning. After five years of creating these cards, we’ve reached the end of the deck. What comes next? We don’t know yet. But that uncertainty feels perfectly aligned with the spirit of The Fool — standing at the edge of something new, trusting that the path will reveal itself as we walk it.

In numerology, the number 22 is the ‘Master Builder’, signifying our capacity to create something lasting and meaningful. It asks us to balance vision with action, and imagination with purpose, building bridges between what is and what could be.

The 22nd card is ‘The Fool’ in the Tarot, numbered both 0 and 22 — pointing to the start and end of a cycle, a complete circle. Ours is a slight twist, ‘The Fools,’ speaking not only to solitary journeys but to collective courage and support.

The figure at the threshold stands where earth meets sky, where night greets day, a liminal realm of possibility. Some walk with us, and others wait beyond the threshold, inviting us forward into new possibilities. The Fools card asks us to preserve our levity, our divine foolishness — the parts of us that defy gravity even when reality says we cannot fly.

It invites us to stay quiet enough to receive that nudge of brilliance, then brave enough to follow it. What may appear foolish may be wisdom piercing through perceived limitation. Together, we are the master builders, let’s work together creating the world we want to see.

Not simply buildings, homes, or beautiful spaces, though those matter too. We are building systems of care and stewardship. We are building a business that measures its impact and takes responsibility for it. Last year we attained our Climate Label certification, but the certification itself is not the destination. The work continues through daily choices: powering our operations with solar energy, tracking the emissions tied to shipping, purchasing carbon offsets, and setting tangible goals that move us closer to alignment between our values and our actions.

We are building resilience. We are building infrastructure for a changing climate. This year we replaced our oldest rainwater cistern, a tank that had served us for nearly twenty years after first finding its way to us through FreeCycle. It survived countless seasons but not the journey by crane to our new location. Its replacement was purchased from Texas Metal Tanks, another small business out of Texas, and is helping us care for all of our plants inside and outside. Not always an easy feat in the dessert.

The Fire Horse arrives on its own schedule — electric and unnameable. This year has asked more of all of us. We had a challenging time getting our New Year’s postcards out this year. We went through four different printers because the one we used for five years no longer has access to the hemp paper & closed their doors. Simple things are no longer simple. Everything takes extra time, resilience and perseverance and a willingness to begin again.

And perhaps that, too, is part of what we are building: the capacity to adapt without losing sight of what matters. To keep choosing creativity over cynicism, participation over resignation, possibility over despair. We are not alone. Together we are the master builders — late, tired. But still creating the world we want to see.