Hi there
I decided to mix it up a little this week and replace the Psychic Tarot of the Heart by John Holland with a new deck that was given to me recently.
Introducing the Divine Nature Oracle Deck by Angi Sullins. The focus of this deck is to remind us of our divine nature, the truth that still exists under all the baggage we carry from our wounds and experiences.
I find for myself when the world gets too much for me, it helps to remind myself of my soul and the “bigger picture” of things to put my situation into perspective a bit.
Just a quick side note: The Wednesday Wisdom reading isn’t intended as a prediction of specific events or situations coming up in your specific experience. The questions I focus on are; “What is the central energy focus for Wednesday Wisdom this week?”, followed by; “What supports this central thought?” and then “How can we ground this energy into our physical experience?”.
As with all readings and spiritual information, it may have a predictive element, it may even appear to specifically predict a particular event in your experience. That is up to you to decide for yourself.
My main reason for doing this reading is to share the insights and wisdom of the tarot practically. To provide insight into difficult situations that may evolve, and to help whoever reads it to re-evaluate the way they see things and experience a more peaceful existence amid the chaos of the world.
Have a blessed week!!
In summary: Goodness me, what a place to start, the Three of Swords, the card of heartbreak, emotional turmoil, grief, sorrow and trauma.
As our central card this week, it is a little scary at first glance but it carries a strong reminder too. A reminder not to wallow in our pain and suffering, but to use it as “manure” in the garden of our experience. Take a moment and reflect of the pain and suffering in your experience, see what comes up strongly, then face and handle it.
Forgive and release the torment you carry. You are the only one carrying it. The people that hurt you, they have moved on. Maybe it is time you did! Spending time “making them pay” is pointless and only keeps you stuck in the never-ending cycle of revenge and pain.
To support us in this process, we have the reminder to let go of doctrines, ideas, people and situations that are blocking, hindering or bogging us down and to make the decision to focus on feeling as good as we can, regardless of the surrounding experiences and situations.
Grounding us in this process is the reminder that we are a divine spark of the divine, and we carry the sword of truth. We need to use this to clear away the bullshit and crap surrounding us so we can see the truth in our experience and truly embrace a more loving and peaceful path.
Below a more detailed analysis of the cards, some practical exercises and guidance.
Card by card explanation
Central energy focus
The StJinx Arcana: Three of Swords
The Swords relate to the element of Air, our capacity for thought, intellect and mental acuity, logic, communication and ideas.
The Three of Swords is the card of heartbreak, emotional turmoil, grief, sorrow and trauma. As the central concept card for this week, this may seem a little hectic, but let’s have a look a little closer.
With us being in a Mercury retrograde until 7 April, it is a good time to look inward and stop hiding from our pain, betrayal and heartache.
Just like an infected physical wound, emotional and mental wounds need to be cleaned and disinfected before they can heal. Sometimes with mental and emotional wounds, we are not even aware that there is a wound there until something triggers it – this is what Shadow Work* is all about, triggering those wounds so they can be healed.
This card is a reminder that we need to face and heal our emotional wounds and release the pain. A useful exercise here is to light a black candle, think of the pain you feel, truly feel it, then allow your mind to drift back to the first time you felt this way, what did you feel, and why, what happened? Then write a letter to the person who hurt you, if it is a situation in general, write to the situation as if it were a person.
Express your pain and your anger as fully and completely as you can. Cry, get angry, smash a plate, scream if you must, and release the emotional energy in whatever way you need to without hurting anyone else.
Once you feel you are done, take a few deep breaths, then write with as much feeling and truth as you are able to at that moment, “I forgive and release you in love and truth. I forgive and release myself in love and truth”.
Sign the letter then burn it, breathing deeply and releasing the pent-up emotions, once it has burnt up completely, take the ashes, any tissues, broken plates etc, go to a crossroads if you can, or a busy intersection or river even, toss the debris into the road or river, turn your back and walk away. If you are in a built-up area, or complex, you can take it to the rubbish disposal area, dump it and turn and walk away – do not look back.
Warning: do not do this more than once a week, you are releasing energy from your energy field, and just like giving blood, it takes a while to build up again.
Some deep-seated wounds may need you to repeat the process again. This doesn’t mean that you didn’t do it properly the first time, it means that you have released one level, and are now ready for the next one.
It is best to do this in the evening, before bed as you will be tired afterwards. You can also have a bit of a soak in a hot salt bath (1 cup of coarse natural salt works best, but you can use any salt), you can add Epsom salts as well, not as a replacement but additional to salt.
Soak for a bit – you can light a black candle, or a white one if black candles scare you, breathing deeply and consciously feeling the stress leave your body. Pull the plug and wait for the water to empty, then get out of the bath and dry off.
What is supporting this process, what processes can we use to help us here?
Quantum Oracle: Letting Go: Releasing Attachment
This is a huge subject all on its own, attachment and the ways attachments hold us back and block our progress. These attachments can be people, religious dogma, moral codes, wounds, fears and all manner of things.
Following on from the central energy of the week, this card is asking us to relook at the things we may be attached to, are you so attached to the concept that you are a good person, that you don’t stand up for yourself? Is your commitment to being fair making you accept people and situations into your life that encourage you to be fair, rather than honest about rewarding people and situations with your time, and energy?
Is your attachment to the thought that you are not good enough keeping you in a job that is destroying you because you think there is no alternative? Or in a relationship with a narcissist because you don’t believe anyone else can love you?
It is time to face the truth of these situations and take action to change them. Start small if you need to, you don’t need to change your life 100% right now but do something and start shifting your focus to a more joyful and loving experience for yourself.
The Teachings of Abraham Well-being Cards: I want to feel good
The second support card, from the Abraham Hicks Well-being Card Deck, is the perfect follow-on from the Letting Go card we have just looked at.
It reminds us that our state of mind is a choice. The world is gonna do what the world is gonna do. You can rail and scream, bicker and fight, throw tantrums like a 2-year old, it not going to change anything, all it is going to do is add more energy and strength to the things you are fighting.
Take a step back and decide to choose to feel good. In any situation that happens, think about different ways of interpreting it, and choose the one that brings you joy.
This can also help with past situations that have caused you pain, and created wounds that you carry with you. Another exercise from the Embracing the Shadow course called face, retrace, replace, embrace (FRRE – interesting acronym that).
Face the situation honestly, the retrace where the pain started, make a list of 5 reasons why someone could have behaved in the way that hurt you – 2 can be negative, but 3 need to be positive. Then replace that previous interpretation with the one that makes you feel better about it, and embrace that as the truth.
Personal example here. When I came out to my parents, the kicked me out – well, it felt like being kicked out, but my father gave me an ultimatum; see a psychologist and get myself “straightened out” or leave, so I left. For many years I carried the pain and rejection of that day, affecting my relationships and many other things.
Then I did the Shadow Course and did this exercise. I can’t remember all the points, but the one I embraced was that they, in their devout, dogmatic, fear-based belief system saw what I was expressing as profoundly evil and I was going to hell – do not pass go – straight to hell, and they took the most drastic action they could think of to try and encourage me make different choices. Don’t judge their decisions, while you maybe could never see yourself doing this, you don’t know them, or the way they were brought up.
It didn’t work obviously, but accepting that they didn’t hate me, that they were terrified for me and my choices and the consequences of those choices in their minds. What they did was, in a back-handed kinda way, the most loving thing they could have done.
Once I started accepting that, my life, relationships, and friendships changed completely. It was a pivotal turning point in my life.
When you remember that everything is a choice, not necessarily what is happening in the world around you, although that is also a choice in a much bigger picture involving all the people involved in the situation’s energy, but a choice you make in your experience, look for the prize, the learning point, the experience marker, the benefit in the situation.
Another reference to Debbie Ford’s Dark Side of the Light Chasers (The book I use on Shadow a lot). Once upon a time, there was a grandfather with two grandsons visiting a farm. One grandson was moaning and complaining about getting dirty and messing up his new shoes, the other was running around very excited. The grandfather asked what he was so excited about and he said, “With all this manure around, there must be a pony somewhere!!” – look for the pony.
How can we ground this learning into our experience and move forward?
The Psychic Tarot: Universe
Traditional card – The World. The final card in the major arcana of the tarot, The Universe is the card of completion, celebration, peace and triumph.
As one of the grounding cards here, it indicates that everything you have been striving for is with-in your reach, reach out and grab it.
If you are battling with some of the cards up to this point, this card reminds you that, even if you cannot “see the light” right now, keep going, you are almost there.
Honour and acknowledge the wisdom you have gained through this process, and your experience to date, even more importantly, honour and acknowledge the truth of who you are, a spark of the divine having a human experience and all that entails!
Divine Nature Oracle Deck by Angi Sullins: Speak True:
Remember also that you carry the sword of truth. True, it cuts both ways, and can heal as well as harm and it is up to you to wield it honestly.
By definition, what is true is true and it is neither good nor evil, it just is. If the truth you are holding judges, discriminates and harms, then it is not the truth, well not a divine truth anyway.
If what you see as truth is not always true in all instances, then it is not a truth. Quite a simple thing really.
Many things we hold as truths are actually “trained” into us from birth. Religious doctrines are a perfect example of this.
The first 6 years of this experience in the Montessori Method, are called the absorbent phase. We have, as yet, not developed our conscious filter and accept, without question, everything that we experience, and are told is true.
As we evolve and become more independent moving out into a larger experience, what we hold as absolute is questioned and challenged at every turn. We need to then make new agreements and re-assess our truth, or hold tight to what we were taught. This is particularly true during puberty and our teenage years.
From my experience with my sexuality, I have met many men that married and had children, not because they wanted to but because it was “the right thing to do”, and today are devastated and emotionally destroyed. Not to mention, of course the wives and children they have damaged in the process.
You wield the sword of truth, do not be afraid to use it, even if it upsets people, or challenges their indoctrination. The only way to heal the world and ourselves is to first see the truth for what it is, and then embody that truth and speak that truth through our thoughts, words and actions.
Do not hold grudges against others that speak their truth and hurt you. Allow them the same courtesy you expect from them.
Remember that the truth changes as we evolve and move through our awareness journey. As we learn, grow and experience things, so we make new agreements with our reality. We can also only understand what we can “build a bridge to”. Let’s use a simple example. If I asked you to read a book in ancient Greek or taught you in ancient Greek. Even if the subject was boiling a kettle, you wouldn’t have a clue what I was on about, if however, you were an expert in ancient Greek, you would get it immediately, and possibly add your own suggestions.
The same is true in awareness and life. So also be prepared to always evaluate what you consider to be true against what you experience to be true in light of new understandings and experiences.
When you are faced with a situation and someone is rude, mean, or hurtful, take a step back and remember that only damaged people can damage other people. Maybe they are afraid of you, or you represent a trauma in their lives.
That person that cuts you off in traffic at high speed, may not be an arsehole, he maybe rushing to get to the hospital to be with his dying mother. In this situation, who would be the arsehole, him for cutting you off in his panic, or you for hooting and swearing at him and chasing him down the highway flashing your lights because you are “doing the right thing” – Karen!
The truth will set you free, and if it clashes with someone else’s truth, then neither truths are truly true – discussion and listening are a good way to uncover the “programming” from the reality.
The sword of truth can kill too, it kills clouded thoughts, destroys abusive thoughts and frees you from universal control structures and belief control systems.
It frees you from “the matrix” – accept its power, its beauty and its deadly accuracy.
The Desiderata
By Max Ehrmann ©1927
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.