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# The Horse That Won't Stand Tied
- URL: https://thewitchwanders.com/the-horse-that-wont-stand-tied/
- Published: 2026-04-01T23:54:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-02T02:53:30.000Z
- Author: Megan

I'll be honest - sitting still is *not* in my nature. Everything I've ever attained I gained through sheer force of will, which I have in **spades**.

And right now, what's being asked of me is to do...nothing.

I have about half a dozen projects itching to launch that I'm just sitting on.

I built a new community in January that is sitting empty because the time is not right.

I've drawn, I don't know, dozens of tarot draws over the past couple of months that all say the same thing, no matter how I try to sidestep: 

> Megan, there is nothing to do now but wait.

As I was yet again struggling with this today (all day, every day, to be clear, it's exhausting fighting NOTHING), I reflected on how growing up with horses, we trained them to patience by tying them up for increasing amounts of time.

Some were fairly docile about it. Some, like Ranger, a stud I owned as a teenager, fought relentlessly, for weeks, digging ruts into the ground I could just about lie down in.

I'm Ranger right now. Standing tied, fighting with all my might, even while I know:

1. Whatever is on the other side of this will be good and desirable
2. The only way out is through
3. I'm prolonging my own agony by resisting

Yet I cannot conceptualize what "do nothing" looks like.

I built an empire through sheer grit and refusal to back down.

Give me an enemy to battle, be it a crazy [neighbor](https://thewitchwanders.com/blood-willow/) or the unmet informational needs of a goat community, and I am unstoppable.

Yet standing still is turning out to be the hardest thing I've **ever** done.

There's a lesson in there for all of us, I'm sure.

I'll let you know if I manage to survive this long enough to find out. 😆

Meanwhile, my head is tossing and my feet stamping and either the rope or the human is going to give out soon.