Hello everybody! Welcome to my column.
Each month I will draw a Major Arcana tarot card which represents one of many possible paths to follow. Major Arcana cards represent the archetypical themes of life, presenting the overall possible experiences.
Deck: Mermaid Tarot By Leeza Robertson Illustrations by Julie
Card: #16 The Tower
Change is in the air. Can you smell it? Can you taste it? Can you feel it? How does the electric energy that is coursing through your veins feel? Does it feel like fear? Anxiety? Perhaps, excitement?
Astrologically speaking, the collective energy is shifting as Pluto moves itself out of Capricorn into Aquarius on November 19, 2024 and remains there until the year 2043. With Pluto moving into Aquarius we are heading into A TIME OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGE AND REBIRTH. Pluto is associated with the Greek God of the Underworld; thus showing us the Death aspect needed for change and rebirth. It’s interesting that last month’s card and this month’s card literally go hand in hand with each other. We discussed allowing ourselves to embrace the multitude of aspects within our lives that were calling for Death in order to make room for the coming change. This month, the change is here. With Aquarius leading us into the humanitarian age, we notice a dismantling structure on a societal level along with significant changes in our own professional lives.
We’ve spent a pretty solid amount of time discussing how we may spend our lives continuously working on accepting change that happens out of our control. We learn to breath through it, brace ourselves, and engage with grounding practices as the chaos swirls around us.
But, do we talk enough about these same practices and the feelings of regret, or angst that we have when when the change comes from our own personal choice; the choices for change that are in our control. I personally experienced a turbulent situation with this very recently. While on vacation, a situation, I know all too well, appeared. While expectantly waiting for my manta ray dive to begin, I plunged head first into a familiar cycle that I am consciously working on changing my perspective about. As we walked along the streets in Kona, I felt myself drop in frequency as my mind took over and started telling me a story as to why feeling hopeless was the “correct response.” My mood changed, my body language changed, and even my breathing changed as I felt the wave of disappointment wash over me.
I was reaching a state of not seeing the end in sight; when my partner, being observant and wanting to help me out of this state, suggested a few different actions we could take to pull me out. As I snapped back at him that it was valid for me to be disappointed, he responded with, “I know, I’m not saying that it’s not, I just want to help “get you back, help you to be here with me, not in your head.”He suggested heading back to the car and doing a priming meditation, and before my brain could say anything, my mouth blurted out, “YES!” I clung to the idea of this helping me, because I knew that I wanted to “get out” for myself. I mean, here I was, in Hawaii, walking in the sunshine on a beautiful day sulking because I “couldn’t have my way” when it was originally MY CHOICE and MY DECISION for the change that got me in this situation in the first place.
As we got back to the car, I started to allow myself to accept the uncomfortableness of my feelings. I talked in circles a bit, out loud to myself, and to my partner about my acknowledgment of the situation and about why I made the choice I had. While what felt like pressure for instant gratification was insurmountable, I ate a snack, because being cranky from hunger and disappointed is never a good combo. Allowing myself to talk about the situation and get it out of my mind, kept me from continuing to spiral deeper and deeper into the abyss. Upon the relief and release I felt when discussing these things I was able to pull myself into a neutral state. I was no longer helpless, no longer feeling disappointment, because I had taken my power back. I had made these choices and I knew exactly why. Once neutral, I was able to then make the journey back into joy, gratitude, and inner peace.
One of the craziest things that happened during all of this showed how divinity is surrounding us at all times. As we had turned around and started walking back to the car, I saw two vehicles with the license plate ending in 333, which happens to be my favorite number, representing communicating messages to the community on an ascended masters level. I had started thinking about how this situation could be used as a perfect anecdote in the column to express how these feelings, and how change can affect everybody, including myself, when we proceeded to see three more 333s, bringing us to a total of five, which, as we know in numerology is change and transformation. As I communicate this message to you all, I myself am constantly being reminded that life happens for us, and not to us.
This collective call for change on a societal and personal level is powerful. Life is literally an endless wave of transformation. This astrological extraordinary energetic pull, is slingshotting us into the next phase, whether we are ready for it or not. Suffering through change is optional. We can be drug through it kicking and screaming or just like the manta rays we can adapt and learn to gracefully flow with the currents of change.
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