Alicia,
No, I give up. I cannot for the life of me guess why you are here again.
Perhaps you are a glutton for punishment, or are strongly attracted by my magnetic personality
Pardon me. I must sincerely apologize. But I am in one of my strange moods at the moment and could not resist a bit of humor in an attempt to lighten things up around here for a change.
Because we are so often looking at some very serious and upsetting problems on this forum, there is frequently little opportunity for some harmless fun in good taste now and then to make our lives that much more bearable.
Yes there is a time and place for us having some fun, and it would be insensitive and disrespectful for me to do this in a reading where the person wanting help is sad, desperate, depressed, distressed or grieving for the loss of a loved one etc.
But in your case with your bubbly personality and the feeling through your reading that although you are not without your challenges, that basically your life is going reasonably well and smoothly at the moment, gives me the opportunity I was just waiting for to introduce some light into the darkness which has been building up around here through no fault of the members who have come for a reading, almost as a last measure.
So this is mainly as a result a reading focused upon you having some fun and enjoyment in your life for a pleasant change, with the intention to balance out some of your trials and difficulties.
Your theme card for this month's general fun reading was the
Knight of Wands.
The Knight of any of the four Tarot suits as you probably already know is believed to represent either the spirit of a restless teenager, or alternately a young adult who is still or needs to be in many ways a teenager again.
A person who is younger or needs to be younger in her ways of thinking about and doing things than is usually expected for a person of her chronological age.
As you are still 19 years young yourself, I feel that this particular card could be instead looking at your early childhood (up to 5 years).
Now I am not suggesting for a moment that you are still acting as though you were a child, or that you should go back to being childlike or immature. But your reading is saying that both stages of life has its respective advantages and disadvantages.
When you are in your late teens the focus is mainly on relationships, getting a job, gradually separating from your parents to become an independently functioning adult and all the other other serious matters which we need to cope with at your age. Now I do not know what your upbringing was like, but too many people these days are forced by their situations to grow up long before it is the proper time for them to do so.
Many people essentially are robbed of their childhoods, and are treated as miniature adults with all the many challenges associated with them being thrown in at the deep end with no instructions as to how they are supposed to manage it. People of your age and older can so easily get trapped or weighed down by their burden of responsibilities to act grownup at all times, that they can quickly lose the element of fun and spontaneity which is so characteristic of a child.
On the other hand (even though this is also changing), very young children are innocent and lack knowledge about how mean people can be to each other. They have a sense of play, curiosity, a belief in miracles and wonderment and simplicity about them which many of us have lost. They believe everything is possible which keeps their minds open to new and exciting opportunities that us older people often overlook in our ongoing push to be grown ups.
Psychologists talk about some part inside each of us called our inner child. Our inner child is thought to contain all our childhood fantasies, wishes, dreams, ambitions and above all the sense of play and simple innocence which have been systematically drummed or beaten out of most of us by the time we reach our late teenage years. In many cases these days this process of progressively losing contact with our own inner child is greatly accelerated. I think that the education system and the media have a lot to answer for this happening all too often in our modern society.
So what this all means to you in the context of your reading is that while you must of course continue what still needs to be done to properly prepare yourself for the big, bad world outside of your comfort zone, you are being at the same time strongly encouraged to rediscover within yourself the best of what it was like to be a child of preschool age.
Your main challenge during the next six months or so is consequently more than likely to become more of an adult in outgrowing some of the aspects of being younger which if you kept doing them at 19 and older would hold you back from being able to function in an adult world, but to simultaneously rediscover and recapture the best parts of being a young child already described above.
Balance your inner child against your inner parent to the very best of your abilities, and bring back some fun and enjoyment into your life before it is too late.
All work and no play makes Alicia a dull girl. Losing contact with your inner child is clearly not recommended for your health and happiness and success in life as a whole.
EoT
