And tbh the cards are whatever you want them to be bc the power is in consciousness. Approach it with fear and you hand that fear the microphone. Approach it as alchemy and you get inner transformation. Reality is always gonna prove you right.
There’s a couple more reasons why I think fortune telling doesn’t work the way mainstream media likes to portray. But saying “all prediction is impossible” goes too far (recognizing where a pattern might lead is different). Tarot is a mirror that helps you read your current energy.
A reel a friend reposted brought me back to my discomfort with using divination tools to predict the future. She makes a point I largely agree with: so much spiritual content is selling certainty.
I wonder how much of what we call seeking guidance is simply the desire to stop feeling uncertain. I include myself in these question. My concern is how easily an interpretation can become unquestionable, especially when it tells us something we desperately want to hear.
The desire for certainty makes us receptive to anyone who can confidently explain our lives to us. Soon every uncomfortable feeling gets a label. We can become so accustomed to receiving interpretations that we stop giving ourselves time to form our own.
Outside perspectives can be valuable. But the relief an explanation brings doesn’t establish its truth, and someone’s confidence when speaking doesn’t give them authority over our experience.
Plus, if we need someone else to interpret every next step, what kind of self trust are we cultivating?
Having room to feel before naming it and to let an experience unfold without immediately deciding what it means.
A reel a friend reposted brought me back to my discomfort with using divination tools to predict the future. She makes a point I largely agree with: so much spiritual content is selling certainty.
I wonder how much of what we call seeking guidance is simply the desire to stop feeling uncertain. I include myself in these question. My concern is how easily an interpretation can become unquestionable, especially when it tells us something we desperately want to hear.
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Truly excellent advice for the repressed American character 30 years ago.
Absolutely bonkers for the counter-phobic, hypochondriac, hyper-performative American of the present
Staring at esoteric memes until all the info feels like it’s downloading into my brain reminds me of the (very specific) promise of the Ars Notoria: knowledge (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy .. the whole medieval college education) received thru divine assistance, with sacred figures/symbolism, prayers, and meditation.
Years ago I told a friend I’d stare at esoteric memes I didn’t understand, let them marinate in the sauce, then come back weeks/months later & suddenly they’d make perfect sense. He laughed, called me insane, the whole shabang. He recently apologized bc he discovered the same phenomenon works on him too.
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Winners are focused on one thing: WINNING. That means they PLAN to win from the beginning. They SEE themselves as winners/HAVING ALREADY WON when training. Then, when the opportunity to claim victory presents itself, they PLAY to win. And there is a HUGE difference between playing to WIN and playing to NOT LOSE. Winning is NEVER an accident. Winning is ALWAYS a carefully executed plan sustained with tremendous effort and enthusiasm until achieved. You must cultivate this at all costs.
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Some people attract an unusual amount of criticism and projection simply by existing. If, from a young age, you were made to feel that you could do nothing right in the eyes of others, you can only survive and enact your will in this world by learning not to internalize their opinions and beliefs. If that process happens through comparison and intellectualization, it can harden into narcissism. But if it happens through acceptance and an almost hermaphroditic/virginal level of self-focus, you learn something rarer: how to loosen the grip of others’ perceptions, and eventually, how to author perception itself.
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Everyone taken to Earth is tortured and MK-Ultraed. They typically start with the monkey symbolism, to get you to believe you are an animal. Then they move on to what they want you to do and how you’ll behave. The main thing is they don’t want you to teleport or manifest all your desires. So they incorporate basic beliefs about lack and limitation. These are lies. You can do anything.
I just cleaned out my phone & every social media app and 300 lbs were lifted off my shoulders. Call ur energy back from old conversations, expired ambitions/futures you no longer want, long gone attachments, versions of yourself u’ve outgrown, etc. Ur allowed to release unfinished stories.
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When they created this reality, they put in place a limiting set of rules and programmed your minds to enforce it. You can go anywhere, anytime and do anything, as the creator of your reality. When you try to bend or break the rules, there are mechanisms to “correct” you. Keep persisting with what you want. Going with the flow will just get you recycled.
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Imagine telling a spider it needs to build a normal house and follow building codes
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what if i said astral projection is training for staying conscious while crossing over
