Hello. I was looking for the great Eye Of The Tiger.  I was hoping
that you could give me a general or personal reading about my life
this year and what to expect.  Birthday is 12/19/76.  I am a Sag.
What can you tell me here.  

Zaros,

This reading is less concerned with making predictions with regards to what your future will be like, many of them being based upon the assumption that nothing will change in the meantime (which never happens), and is more focused upon looking at the parts of your personality which make you the type of person whom you are.

This can then in turn tell us something important and hopefully of practical value about how you could possibly help to create a much more positive and successful future for yourself instead of leaving it entirely to the Wheel of Fortune randomly turning in your favour.

It may be relevant to this reading to observe that you, my wife and myself are all born under the sun sign of Sagittarius. My wife and I share the same birthday of December 9th, although she is exactly one year my senior. Now I do not claim to be an astrologer or to find that all aspects of my personality line up exactly with those commonly attributed to the average person born at this specific time of the year, but I do see striking similarities or parallels between the two of us, that appear to be more than simply a coincidence or random event.

The first aspect which came up about you through both my preliminary observations of your earlier posting about the woman whom you met online and who had so many deep and complex personal problems that I feel she could only be realistically helped by a qualified professional and specifically a doctor and/or psychiatrist or drug counsellor as well as from this month's reading is that just as with many other people born under the sign of the Archer you have an extremely high and well developed level of empathy for others.

This basically means that you tend to take on or absorb the emotions of other people in your surroundings, rather like a psychic sponge. From one viewpoint this potentially could make you a successful healer or fixer of other people's problems, but because we are often so overpowered by the emotions we are picking up on from those we try to help, we frequently cannot tell any difference between what of these feelings belong to them, and consistently and reliably separate them from our own.

When we combine our intense need to ease the suffering of others with our equally strong urge to gain a fuller understanding of the many underlying factors which could in practice be significantly contributing to their problems, you can end up with what could turn out to be a recipe for emotional disaster and psychic exhaustion on our part, even though it is being done with the very best and purest of intentions.

We all too often do for others (or at least we have a good try to) what they must in their own best interests learn to do for themselves. We must slowly but surely learn when it is the right time to intervene and give assistance, and when on the other hand it is time to take a few steps backwards and allow the person to gain full advantage from what is designed as a valuable learning opportunity for their growth and development.

There will always be some people we just cannot help, and there will always be some people who not only do not welcome our offer to help them, but whom will frequently appear to do everything they possibly can to stop us being successful in our own terms.

These are uncomfortable and difficult to accept facts for a typical Sagittarian, and the challenges which we face in accepting that we must also get some of our own equally important needs met as well as satisfying theirs makes us unusually sensitive to any signs that our attempts to help or heal a situation are being ignored or openly rejected.

Our shared over sensitivity to other people's feelings seems to be a price we are being forced to pay to become an effective healer or fixer, but sometimes the price that we feel that we must pay is the sacrifice of our own happiness, health and the rest of our life as well. This is too high a price for anyone to have to pay, but it does not necessarily have to always be this way or do not help them at all.

Love thy neighbour as thyself in the Holy Bible means to value and respect everyone else as much as you do yourself. If you do not value and respect yourself as you already with all your many common human failings and weaknesses (which is the true definition of self love), how can you possibly give something to other people which you cannot first give to yourself?

Based upon what I learn about your inner nature from my earlier observations and this reading it is felt that unless you are able to more fully and successfully come to terms or make your peace with these Sagittarian aspects of your personality during the next six months thought to be covered by this reading that you will quickly lose your own sense of self identity, or of being a separate, autonomous, to a certain extent individual in your own right.

In other words your reading is predicting that if these especially difficult for a "Sagi" lessons are not learned well and now, that you could easily get lost in other people, and accordingly form relationships with them which would not be in the best interests of either of you.

By doing this you could equally easily lose your direction and sense of your most important reason and purpose for being here, which it is felt is to learn by trial and error (mostly error) where the right balance lies for you between helping other people, and helping yourself to become all that you potentially could become if you are successful at doing this. Please continue to help others.

Do not get the wrong end of the stick about what I am saying, and start thinking that I am preaching that you can never afford to or should not help people when your help is needed. There are no gold stars being awarded for you helping them to the point that your whole life is focused exclusively on their needs and yours go out the window. What effective help will you be to them from a hospital bed or premature grave?

The main thrust of the message of this reading amongst several other important ones is that moderation in everything (including helping other people) as well as discovering the right balance for you between satisfying their needs and getting your own equally important needs met is imperative if you are going to be able to carry out your life's mission to help and to heal.

During the next six months or to the end of this year, I am being told your ability to be able to do these two things reasonably well is going to be tested within one of your existing close relationships. It is not clear whether this is referring to a relationship which is exclusively conducted through the internet or via a cell phone, or a face to face or roof over both your heads on a daily basis off-line one. This test will be a challenge for you, but will not be one which you are inadequate or unprepared to meet.

Do not allow your understandable anxiety concerning exactly what this test or trial could eventually turn out to be (if you were not slightly anxious I would be extremely surprised from what I have learned about you already through this reading) to get out of control, and overpower your emotional defences to the extent that it prevents you from moving forwards with your growth and development as both a spiritual and human being.

I have quite a lot of still increasing confidence based upon what I see and hear about you intuitively that you will not only survive this test, but that you will also turn it into a major victory over the forces within yourself which are currently tending to make you hesitate when your optimum path is relatively clear to any outside observer.

We ourselves are often too close to and therefore too emotionally involved with the outcome of an event to be able to see this as clearly or objectively as an outside observer often would. Life is just as much or maybe even more about the journey, than it was ever about its destination?

Be kinder to and do not exhaust yourself, helping those who need to learn to do more for themselves. By doing it all for them you are unintentionally denying them of a valuable learning experience for their soul's growth. Continue to help those who also help themselves. Develop the wisdom and sensitivity to recognise the difference between the two extreme positions or approaches.

Namaste,

EoT

For the sake of completing this thread the member has chosen on this occasion to send me a note of appreciation for his reading, as well as further useful and positive feedback by way of a private message.

The aforementioned PM was duly and gratefully received by this humble reader.

EoT