I would like a general reading please.  I had a specific area in mind, but I'm unsure of how to word what I want to know without rambling on and on.  I'm hoping if I'm really meant to know then it would come through in the reading.  My birth date is July 4, 1985...if that helps.


As always.  Thank you EoT.  I always appreciate your readings.

Songstress asked....



I really like your positive and mature attitude in believing that your current main area of concern will come through in a general reading if you are really meant to know about it at this time.

If only this balanced type of approach was more widespread amongst the members it would make my job as a reader both easier and more pleasant on those occasions when I have to tell someone who I care deeply for hard truths that he or she may not be ready for or prepared to listen to at any time.

Fortunately in your case and specifically for the purposes of this month's general reading, this is not felt to be necessary (the hard truths that is).

Because your new year reading given by me in January was related to a question about a relationship (with Bob), this one will be general but not including relationships at all.

Your very first drawn and therefore automatically your theme card for this not quite general reading was the Queen of Swords.

When any of the four Queens appear in a Tarot spread they usually signal a time of significant growth and development. A time when you as the querent are making things real using your creative energies in order to more effectively manifest your dreams and ambitions on the physical plane.

All members of the Swords suit on the other hand are thought to represent a woman who is not willing to take a passive wait and see what happens without any further effort on my part approach to overcoming her life's many challenges.

Swords are cutting weapons, and it is believed that similarly in the life of the querent or person whose reading it is Swords in the Tarot are about progressively and symbolically cutting through all the red tape (bureaucracy), deception and bovine droppings (bull excrement), to finally arrive at the core of the truth of the matter with reference to their situation or main current issue of concern.

The Queen of Swords (QOS) type of woman is effectively a walking library of useful knowledge and general trivia. Everything you ever wanted to know about any particular subject (and probably much more than you wanted to know) is at her fingertips. Critics might call her a know it all, while friends and family instead see her as a font of wisdom who they can always consult as a guide and depend upon for sensible and practical advice when the next sticky situation comes along, or when they have run out of their own solutions or are looking for a second opinion.

So the QOS type of individual greatly values and has immense confidence to her intellectual abilities to be able to successfully and quickly solve both her own problems, as well as helping other people with their own. They believe contrary to the evidence which is staring them squarely in the face that armed only with the right information virtually any problem you can think of can be overcome by yesterday.

Such an individual is always coming up with plenty of ideas or theories to explain exactly what is going on or happening, but she is often not equally willing to consider that someone else may have a better solution or that her idea might be right but that the timing is not.

On the surface the QOS woman can wrongly come across to those people who do not know her well enough as being cold, machine like, insensitive, inflexible and possessing a superiority complex or I am better than you are attitude, when the truth about her as a person is the complete opposite of all of these personality weaknesses or faults rolled into one.

So it is hardly surprising that she often feels isolated, unappreciated and misunderstood, when she is entirely innocent of any wrong doing or bad intentions towards others. She just wants to do her very best to help, but others may seem to take great pleasure by doing the complete opposite of what she has advised them to do with their best interests in mind.

This reaction naturally makes her increasingly frustrated and angry, which cryptically can make her throw up her hands in despair and decide why not simply give up trying to convince them that she is a good person, and be the type of person they believed that she was in the first place.

In other words it can be very tempting to respond to their hesitation to accept your well intended advice by becoming cold, machine like, insensitive, inflexible and possessing a superiority complex or I am better than you are attitude. If you cannot beat them, then join them?

I would interpret the QOS featuring in your reading to mean that during approximately the next six months you will be presented with one or more opportunities with the teaching intention to test your ability to resist the temptation to react in a negative manner to your frustration by getting angry with this unidentified person, and then go on to becoming more like the bitter type of person you never wanted to become as it seems easier to be like that when compared to proving to them that you are definitely not like that at all (understood?).

To help counteract any further pressures from them to become other than the wonderful and kind woman whom you are, try to be openly more willing and ready to listen to their ideas and theories, as they first listened to yours.

The best solution to your or their problem may lie somewhere in between your idea and theirs.

Keep your options fully open to that distinct possibility.

Keep an open mind, and be both flexible and approachable.

Cheers,

EoT

That says me all over it.  Just yesterday I became frustrated enough with people and decided I was going to shut myself off from the world for a few days or so.  Perhaps I should rethink that plan after reading this reading. (That seemed odd to say lol)  Although taking more time for myself might be a good thing, as long as I don't forget those around me.

Thank you for the reading.

Songstress,

You are very welcome for the reading and thanking you kindly in return for the useful, positive feedback in return for my favour.

There are no problems in my opinion with you temporarily shutting yourself from the rest of the world for a few days or so, and taking more time out for yourself on a regular basis is not in the least the act of a selfish or self centred person, whom you are definitely not.

As long as your withdrawal from the world and especially from other people is only of a temporary nature, and you are also getting some of your own equally important needs met in the process, you should not need me to tell you that this is will be of great and lasting benefit for both yourself and for those people whom you will help.

Love your neighbour (anyone other than you) as yourself, but first of all learn to truly love (value and respect) yourself for being the wonderful person whom you already are, which is what self love is all about.

Reading this reading sounds awkward as you are using the word both as a noun and verb in the same sentence, which is perfectly valid but makes it a tongue twister.

Blame the English language!

EoT