Make that a request for a general reading for the first half of 2008 only. Then request your next one, some time in early July. As this is a general request this time, then I will leave it entirely up to my own inner guidance as to about which specific life area it is felt most important for you to know at this particular point in your life (career, love life, education, health, finances etc).
And the answer which immediately comes back to me is that the insights which will be given to you through this reading will potentially be equally applicable to any one of these areas (or several at the same time). The Tarot card called simply THE MAGICIAN is thought to symbolise the male aspects of the power of creation, or of manifesting our deepest wishes on the physical plane merely by the strength of our desires and sheer will power. Every event on the physical plane begins with a thought or idea, and those people who consciously and take an active role in making their dreams into a living reality (manifesting their own personal future, rather than being willing to continue to be the unwilling victim of the random hand of fate) must often appear much like being magicians to the rest of us.
Just as a true magician is able through practise to manifest things by speaking them into existence, you are being urged via this reading to take more control of what happens to you over the coming months, by learning some important principles about how your mind works. I get the distinct impression with you that while you are at least partially aware of your own inner strengths, you are at the same time rather afraid of them, as you seem to believe that anything you could possibly do to improve your circumstances could only possibly make them much worse than they already
appear to be.
I emphasised the word
appear in the previous sentence to make the important point that many of your supposed past failures are failures in your eyes only, and that while your life has not always been an easy one, things are rarely as bad as they might first appear on the surface. It is a Universal truth that even the darkest storm cloud has a silver lining, and that frequently only when life appears at it's darkest is the brightness of the approaching new day drawing that much nearer.
Now back to those mind principles to which I was referring earlier in this reading. Words are if you can understand this a vehicle for our thoughts. We are constantly talking to ourselves throughout each day, and by so doing giving a meaning to whatever happens to us. It is not as some believe that what happens to us that gives rise to our feelings, but the meaning we associate with the event that really matters. This means that the same thing can happen to two different people, but because one gives it a positive meaning that something better is about to happen and the other person feels that it is only further evidence that they are a total failure, try guessing who is going to feel the more happier and positive of the two people in future.
If our feelings happen overall to be positive ones, surely we will by having gone through such experiences be better prepared for whatever the future holds in store for us. The secret I feel to a much more happier and satisfying life with a sense of direction and purpose is to find a comfortable working balance for yourself between not continuing the deny the facts about our life which are staring us squarely in the face, without allowing our feelings to gain control over our abilities to use reason. Remaining as positive as possible about what might lie in store for us, but at the same being practical and not always viewing the world through rose coloured glasses.
This reading does not contain any predictions, because you and you alone are effectively creating and remoulding your possible future by what you most frequently tell yourself about the meanings of things which happen to you now in the present moment, your only true point of power. It is therefore I think imperative that you should examine without delay the types of words which are running through your head most consistently from one day to the next, as
they represent the seeds of your future, or the framework around which your future will soon be built.
I feel that you will be given many opportunities during the next six months to apply these principles in your own life, but as to whether or not you will be able and willing to take maximum advantage of this knowledge is now almost completely up to you. The ball is now squarely on your side of the net, or in your court? What are you then going to do with your next best shot? Make it an ace!!!
Happy New Year to you and your family from me and mine,
L&L,
eye_of_tiger
