Hi All,
You've been trotting along following your inner guidance, feeling totally certain and at peace with where you are going. You then start reading tarot cards for yourself. The story that they come up with is entirely different than how you are perceiving matters. It's predicting doom and gloom eg the tower, 9 of swords, 8 of swords, 5 of swords etc. You put the cards away get back in tune with your guidance and feel totally at peace and on track and assured.
Two contradictory signals here - what do you do? Is is just my fears coming out in the cards?
I don't want any readings or cards drawn by the way :)just your thoughts on this matter!!!
advice appreciated
Stepheno
RE: what would you do?
Hi Stepheno.
Keep going the way you are going by following your inner guidance; you can't get better than that. Tarot cards are just a tool to help with linking in and you are already doing it. Also, and every Tarot Reader will say it: it is practically impossible to read for yourself. I would suggest you put the cards away and use your direct link. You are doing great and if there are any hidden fears, your guidance will direct you to them, in its own way.
Sarah.
RE: what would you do?
stephano,
Well I use the tarot to look into situations that sometimes shows the negitive that is around ther is always a way that guidance can bring about the tools that is needednow looking at the way the cards fell is important as we as spiritualtools are selves I am saying that fear is a way thru developing the tools that are needed to block negitive looking at why you picked up the cards isit asign that can not be avoided are you looking to others on your path looking at going future is my advise that u may get a bigger picture! Asking your Angels first of course may you view the tools of the Cards a blessing that is given for insights...Gypsee
RE: what would you do?
thankyou so much Sarahk and Gypsee for you replies:)
I had a realisation just while out shopping. It's something I've been totally blind to and it struck me today out of the blue. I always thought I delayed moving back home because I had a tie here that I was reluctant to let go of. I had dealt with that and concentrated on the reason TO go home which is what impels me to do it and what I believe is for my highest good. However, now that is set to be a reality all sorts of fears related to my family and my past have surfaced. I think this is where all the 'swords' come from and the worry of those cards comes from as it's really been playing on my mind.
And yet when i have 'tuned in' to check I'm on my true path the encouragement and peace to continue is always there. It has today struck me that one of the reasons I have stayed away so long is that, through fears, I have been hiding myself away! It has come as a complete shock to see this insight into my behaviour but the more I have pondered I have realised I have been hiding away. I've been under the illusion that living a few hundred miles away is protected from percieved threats. I think this is what the tower is - this flash of insight, bolt out of the blue, being struck by realisation and the crumbling of the imagined walls of protection I have unwittingly built around myself and just the whole false edifice of it all.
There may indeed be unpleasantries to deal with back there or there may not be. Whether there is or whether there isn't I can't let it detract me from the path I believe I'm meant to follow and I won't. I am the biggest scaredy cat in the world but am receiving strength from my higher power and through all the fear the small, insistent voice encouraging me to listen to my faith and not my fears and to walk through the fire.
Does this make sensefolks?!!!:)
RE: what would you do?
I just googled 'the tower' and got this - it's amazing:
As the Fool leaves the throne of the Goat God, he comes upon a Tower, fantastic, magnificent, and familiar. In fact, The Fool, himself, helped build this Tower back when the most important thing to him was making his mark on the world and proving himself better than other men. Inside the Tower, at the top, arrogant men still live, convinced of their rightness. Seeing the Tower again, the Fool feels as if lightning has just flashed across his mind; he thought he'd left that old self behind when he started on this spiritual journey. But he realizes now that he hasn't. He's been seeing himself, like the Tower, like the men inside, as alone and singular and superior, when in fact, he is no such thing. So captured is he by the shock of this insight, that he opens his mouth and releases a SHOUT! And to his astonishment and terror, as if the shout has taken form, a bolt of actual lightning slashes down from the heavens, striking the Tower and sending its residents leaping out into the waters below.
In a moment, it is over. The Tower is rubble, only rocks remaining. Stunned and shaken to the core, the Fool experiences grief, profound fear and disbelief. But also, a strange clarity of vision, as if his inner eye has finally opened. He tore down his resistance to change and sacrifice (Hanged man), then broke free of his fear and preconceptions of death (Death); he dissolved his belief that opposites cannot be merged (Temperance) and shattered the chains of ambition and desire (The Devil). But here and now, he has done what was hardest: destroyed the lies he held about himself. What's left is the bare, absolute truth. On this he can rebuild his soul.
As the Fool leaves the throne of the Goat God, he comes upon a Tower, fantastic, magnificent, and familiar. In fact, The Fool, himself, helped build this Tower back when the most important thing to him was making his mark on the world and proving himself better than other men. Inside the Tower, at the top, arrogant men still live, convinced of their rightness. Seeing the Tower again, the Fool feels as if lightning has just flashed across his mind; he thought he'd left that old self behind when he started on this spiritual journey. But he realizes now that he hasn't. He's been seeing himself, like the Tower, like the men inside, as alone and singular and superior, when in fact, he is no such thing. So captured is he by the shock of this insight, that he opens his mouth and releases a SHOUT! And to his astonishment and terror, as if the shout has taken form, a bolt of actual lightning slashes down from the heavens, striking the Tower and sending its residents leaping out into the waters below.
In a moment, it is over. The Tower is rubble, only rocks remaining. Stunned and shaken to the core, the Fool experiences grief, profound fear and disbelief. But also, a strange clarity of vision, as if his inner eye has finally opened. He tore down his resistance to change and sacrifice (Hanged man), then broke free of his fear and preconceptions of death (Death); he dissolved his belief that opposites cannot be merged (Temperance) and shattered the chains of ambition and desire (The Devil).
But here and now, he has done what was hardest: destroyed the lies he held about himself. What's left is the bare, absolute truth. On this he can rebuild his soul.