hello there EOT, its been a month  since my last reading,  i hope you are doing great as i am doing fantastic ..  i would like to request of you a reading in whatever you may think might be of the best of interests .. Whatever you think its of importance and that you would like to let me know !!

thanks in advance !

Alicia,

Wow, I can feel the sheer abundance of positive energy virtually radiating outwards from you, all the way from over here where I live in Australia.

While I do recognise that a large proportion of the members who come to me for help through a reading are lacking in this vital but often hard to find commodity (often through little or no fault of their own), I must admit that being human I do get a lift now and then from meeting someone like yourself who is doing fantastic, and as a result has some excess positive energy to share with the rest of us.

It sounds very much to me as though you are requesting a general reading on this occasion, and I would as usual be more than pleased to do so.

The Rider-Waite Tarot card called DEATH in 99% of readings has absolutely nothing to do with predicting either your own passing or alternately you losing someone near and dear to you to the grim reaper. Of course that leaves about one percent of readings where the person is of an extremely advanced age (statistics have proven beyond doubt that the older one gets the less is the time they still have remaining)  or has been diagnosed by a doctor to be terminally ill, but in your case I do not sense that this interpretation applies to you at least for many more years to come, so please henceforth put it completely out of your mind, and focus your energies elsewhere.

What this card is telling me loudly and clearly is that you are currently finishing a major phase of your life, but have not yet learned that it is necessary for you to accept that it is over, before you will be able to move forwards once again.

Whatever this part of your life consisted of, making the transition to the new phase is going to require you to basically "die" to your old ways of thinking about and doing things in order for you to be reborn into, or to be able to replace them with even better ways than you had before. It is not that you have somehow failed to master the skills which you were being taught up until recently (quite the opposite is true), but rather that the time has well and truly arrived for you to learn new ways of thinking and doing which will better prepare you for future challenges still to reveal themselves.

So this is where the metaphor of death comes into the picture. You are being strongly urged to have enough faith in life and your own abilities to feel confident enough to move outside your personal comfort zone, and effectively turn your back on old and now past their useful shelf date ideas and strategies which although they may have served you reasonably well in the past, are now only likely to get in your way or hold you back in the future.

Now I should not have to remind you that masking major changes in your life can be both at the same time exciting but also scary. There are always risks associated with doing anything which is important to us in this life, and while these risks should not be magnified out of all sensible proportion, they must be confronted for what they are and dealt with in a mature and balanced manner.

The secret I feel which is not such a secret after all is never to attempt to entirely eliminate these risks, as this is clearly impossible. Taking risks is an unavoidable fact of life. Life itself is often a fairly risky proposition at any time, but a life with no risks at all would surely not be a life worth living (as nothing important to you could ever be achieved without these risks). It is better to keep what risks you do take to a workable minimum, and make them calculated or planned ones, instead of doing something silly or dangerous you could soon come to regret.

The skeleton rider fitted in black armour on top of a white horse on the face of this particular card closely resembles at least on the surface either a scene from the Biblical book of Revelations about the end of the world, or perhaps instead something from one's worst nightmare. Another symbol on the Death tarot card is the White rose (it is seen on the flag or banner which the rider carries with him almost as though it is a sign of his victory over resistance to change by the person whose reading it is.).

The white rose is evidently historically a symbol of purity and humility. It can be an extremely purifying and humbling experience for any person to be forced to admit that their old ways of doing and thinking are no longer working well for them, if at all. There is beauty in a rose.  But we should always also remember that every rose (minus some genetically bred thorn-less varieties) has it's thorns too. You cannot have the beautiful, positive and good things in most situations, without also having to put up with the inevitable downsides, negative things or risks?

So in summary your general reading and specifically the DEATH card strongly suggests that during the next six months or so commonly thought to be covered by a reading of the type given by me on this forum that you are about to or are already entering on a new phase or adventure in your life, where your ability and willingness to throw out your old ways and to fully embrace new challenges and opportunities without allowing your fear of taking risks to stop you from continuing to do your best will become the main determining factor in how successful or otherwise you will be at moving forwards once again over the longer term (the next one to five years).

If you can only see risks and potential failures ahead of you, then you could unknowingly create a negative self fulfilling prophecy for yourself. But if on the other hand you balance the advantages and exciting new opportunities against the risks plus keep them planned and to a minimum, then you could as a substitute for any existing feelings of hopelessness and loneliness, make significant forward progress in many of your different life areas, all at much the same time.



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[In the above quote, please substitute the word "she" in place of "he"]

L&L,

EoT

EOT ,  thank you very much for your reading..

I feel that your words are full of truth in them , and that they are going to help in the near future. As you say i might be entering on a new phase or i am about to .. I do feel like i need to stop my fears for various reasons. Mostly because of my fears i cant drive :( but i have told to myself that i need to control my fears or else i would never do the things i want or need to do. I do think that i need a new fresh start. I am mainly biased by my fears. So, i hope that that new phase helps me in a lot of good ways..

And the reason you could feel all that positive energy its cause im super happy, mainly because i was fearing that my parents wouldnt let me go with my friends to the beach since its a bit far from home. But they did and im so happy plus i found a new love interest since it had been a while, I am happy because of that im hoping that everything goes well!!

Thank you a lot EOT !!!

your friend Alii !

Dear Alii,

You are of course very welcome for the reading.

Fear has really attracted some bad press lately and I wanted to use this response in order to set the record straight about fear not always being a negative or bad thing. A person who has no fear at all is highly unlikely to survive for very long at a time, so to a certain extent some degree of fear has an important survival role to play in our lives.

But it is when our fears get totally out of control and prevent us from doing whatever we need to do with the intention to move forwards with our lives that they can become a serious problem, which sometimes requires extreme measures to deal with in a mature and balanced manner.

It is perfectly understandable especially in the light of the terrible motor accident statistics and the sheer amount of traffic on the roads these days that you should experience some level of anxiety when contemplating driving a car, and once again as always this tends to keep each of us vigilant and alert and prepared to drive defensively. Then there is the burden of being responsible for the lives of your passenger plus a tonne or more of metal, plastic and glass that may have cost a considerable part of either your own or your family's annual income.

So I suppose the main message behind all of this for you is not to feel at all embarrassed or ashamed to experience anxiety or fear, as it is probably one of the main reasons why you are still alive. Instead of allowing your natural fears of driving to control what happens or does not happen in your life, use them instead to motivate yourself to be the best defensive driver in the world, and to take what sensible precautions and measures you are able to, with the intention to minimise the unavoidable risks involved.

It is always easier for us to tell you this than for you to do it, but fear can be a very hard and often cruel master, and if it is permitted to prevent us from making the decisions we need to make in our best interests and the interests of those people whom we love and care for then give it an inch and it will take a mile, or in these metric times perhaps that saying should be replaced by give it a millimetre and it will take a kilometre given the slightest opportunity to do so.

Go for it Alii, and take all the unavoidable risks and whatever reasonable precautions you are able to keep them to a minimum, because being able to responsibly and safely operate a motor vehicle will have so many potential benefits and advantages in your life that the means more than justify the end, or in plain English it will be more than worth it to you to both respect your fears about driving, but control them as well by taking whatever practical measures are required to significantly increase your chances of not becoming the next road statistic.

One very positive way in which the authorities over here in Australia are helping newer drivers (who my not always be younger than 25) to be safer when driving is to require them to do a professional driving course as a prerequisite to them being given a full licence. Unfortunately if you learn to drive from a friend or family member, you can often pick up all their negative habits as being your own, and take them with you onto the open road, often with catastrophic consequences for yourself or other people on the road at the same time as you.

Therefore if it is at all possible and affordable in your local area, you would be wise to invest some of your money in doing such a course whether or not you have to, as the consequences of doing so could one day save your life.

YOU CAN DO IT!

WE BOTH ALREADY KNOW THAT YOU CAN!

EoT

thank you again for your words, and its all true i'll give it a try, its been like 2 weeks since i told myself that i was going to call a driving school .

But for some reason i always forget to call. I  do know how to drive, i learned since i was 11-12 in my hometown in mexico.

But then when i was 15 i was in an accident and since then i been fearing to drive. I get all nervous but once im driving i forget about it .
But when im on the passenger seat of some one else's car, Oh god.. im in agony the whole time.

but yes im going to do it  because i CAN!!

and I WILL!!


and i just bought a car i just need my driver's licence and i will be ready for the ride!!

hope you are doing great!