August 11, 2009

• Reality Check for quitchick

  quitchick 

  Change is coming.  Change is due, and it might feel like overdue.  Spiritually, you’re on an anticlimactic emotional plateau and you know — you are inescapably aware — that you couldn’t stay there even if you wanted to.

  And yet you resist change.  There are choices to be made, and thinking about them does not resolve your indecision.  You just don’t know, and without knowing the right move, you could make a wrong choice.

  Gone from your life now is a mentor and protector, a father figure you could never replace.  Instead, you are on your own in a way that you never have been… on your own, but not alone.  Relationships and human bonds are the only areas I see where you are securely in control and unafraid.  Even though you face the unknown in every aspect of life, where your loved ones are involved it is with more of a sense of adventure than uncertainty.

  First, let’s look at your strengths.  In your comfort zone of people and relationships, generally, you are optimistic, lucky and secure.  You have put a lot of effort into self-mastery and it has paid off in a poise that is largely unconscious now.  You are comfortable in your own skin.  Your conscious focus is creative.  Conflicts exist at the edge of your awareness, but you choose happiness.

  In order to make the decisions facing you and initiate changes that will work in your best interests, you need the courage to trust the inner guidance of Spirit.  You are now being challenged to make the “empty-handed leap into the void.”  In symbolic terms, you are called upon to “drink the cup of fire,” to do something that seems risky, even self-destructive.  That’s the seeming.  The reality is that you would be submerging one self in a Higher Self.

  A cup of fire or a cauldron of fire doesn’t seem like something to approach too closely.  When the “fire” is the power and energy of Spirit, taking it in, opening to inspiration, empowers us.  Jumping into it, immersing ourselves in it, transmutes us.  When we place ourselves where spiritual “fire” meets the “water” of the unconscious mind, we are energized by the steam erupting from their joining.  That is where the knowing that you seek can come from.

  

  -Technical notes:  10-card Tree of Life spread, Book of T (I AM ONE) Tarot.  Minor cards:  Blade King rev. bottom left; Pear 10 center top; 3 of Blades top right; 3 of Stones mid-left; 3 of Serpents center bottom.  Major Trumps:  Knower rev. top left; Victorious One center; Nameless One mid-right; Deliverer rev. bottom right; Changer rev. at Base.

   

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