Dear Alicia,
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They do say that absence makes the heart grow even fonder of a person, and in the case of my young internet friend Alicia, this is fact.
Congratulations are now being sent to you via the internet by your Aussie friend and reader EoT, on this special occasion of your 20th birthday.
Wishing you every success and happiness in your life, and many more even better birthdays still to come. |
What follows below is your general birthday reading as requested.
I never actually got to the point of needing to turn over a Tarot card on your behalf as your featured card for this general reading which was the
Nine of Wands (appropriately abbreviated as the NOW) virtually jumped out of the pack at me before I even had a chance to shuffle it.
With the human lifespan being neatly divided by many students of numerology and other spiritual matters into a series of cycles of exactly seven years in length, it is hardly surprising therefore to this reader that the number 9 card of any of the four different suits including this one is believed to represent the end of a phase of your life, leading up to the beginning of another. With three times 7 years being 21, having reached the tender age of 20 years also means that you are now at the very end of the third major age cycle of this current lifetime or incarnation.
The NOW has often been called the "failure is not an option for me at any cost" card.
It predicts that you will eventually reach and attain the goals which you are reaching, whether it be a new career, buying a house or finding a soul mate, but unfortunately the cost to you of pursuing your goals in an intensive, exhaustive and almost obsessive single focus manner as people like yourself are more likely to do when compared to the average person, could be much higher than you are willing to accept.
The image on the face of the NOW in the traditional Rider - Waite Tarot pack which I use for a large proportion of my readings where cards are used is of a young man with a tightly bandaged head who has obviously seen better days. Immediately behind him is a line or barrier of eight vertical staffs or wands standing upright in the ground (he cannot go backwards), with the ninth one being held in both his hands and leaned upon, as if to emphasize that to put it politely he is feeling knackered or totally bushed, as well as being thoroughly confused about the next best possible course of action which he should take in order to get out of his current challenging predicament or sticky situation. He is also looking as if his life no longer seems to have any definite purpose or direction which is important to him. A fairly depressing type of card to have drawn in your reading, but as is also true with many things in this life, depressing and without any hope for the future is only what it appears to be on the surface.
A person following this path tends on average to invest 110% of his or her energies into pursuing their chosen goals, 110% of the time. In other words as they continue to push themselves without showing any mercy and without any time out to recharge their emotional batteries ultimately to their breaking points, these so called type 1 personalities are willing to sacrifice even their own health and peace of mind to prove to everyone who is significant in their life that they cannot be pushed around, and that they do not need anybody's help to do whatever they have set out to achieve.
Like a battle worn out soldier who is single mindedly pursuing his enemy or like a dog with its favorite bone, once he gets it in his head exactly what he most wants then effectively nothing else or no-one will be allowed to get in his way. He simply will not leave it alone for even a while so that he can get some welcome but long overdue relief from the high levels of stress he is under (much of it coming from his unrealistic self expectations), and could also be highly suspicious of and more than a little paranoiac about anyone who with the best of intentions offers to help him or her. Their help is automatically interpreted as them interfering in what it is clearly not their business to, or them trying to take complete control over the situation.
Their life motto seems to be that if you want something done right (or perfectly on the first attempt), then they are the only person alive on Earth who can possibly do this or deliver what is being asked of them. Often their greatest failure is one of not being willing to delegate responsibility or share or spread the work load with their colleagues.
They and they alone are capable of doing these things, and nobody no matter how hard they try is going to be able to convince them otherwise. Not only are type 1 people more vulnerable than most others to wanting to be perfect according to their own understanding of the meaning of the word perfect, but developing workaholic-ism is frequently only a matter of time.
So in summary, now that you are effectively standing at the cusp of or are undergoing an important rite of passage (or have reached a major crossroads) at the ripe young age of one score (20) years, it is time for you to stop trying to be a superwoman who is willing to sacrifice even her own health and her closest relationships with the intention not to let her goals get away from her.
If you are not either able nor willing nor trusting and respectful enough to share your huge load of work and responsibility with others during the six months or so commonly thought to be covered by this reading, then you are heading for premature burnout. You will attain your chosen goals much more rapidly and efficiently if you are only more willing to allow others to help you, whenever their assistance and wise advice is felt to be most needed.
What possible good is there in it to anyone (least of all yourself) if you do eventually reach your goals, but lose everything else which was ever important to you in your life, in the process? How are you possibly going to continue to have a guiding positive influence over your chosen goals once they have been reached from a long term hospital bed, or if you do not learn your lesson in time an early grave?
Which is a pretty heavy and serious type of message for my good friend Alicia who is only today celebrating her 20th birthday, but one which is sent with the best of intentions to warn you against the potential long term dangers which constantly giving in to your urgent ongoing need to be perfect and entirely independent and self sufficient of others personality tendencies. You only need to lightly scratch or look slightly below the surface meaning of the NOW, to realize that it is trying its best to save you from yourself. What only first appeared to be a depressing and overly serious card and message, is in reality your greatest friend and spiritual advisor in disguise.
The Tarot card called
NOW means LEARN THIS LESSON OF NEEDING TO SPREAD YOUR CONSIDERABLE WORK LOAD AND DELEGATE RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS WORKING WITH OR UNDER YOUR SUPERVISION WELL AND NOW, PLUS WELL INTO YOUR PERSONAL FUTURE.
OR ELSE!
That is of course if you still want to be around to be celebrating your 80th birthday in approximately 60 years from the present moment, surrounded by good people who love and respect you. Prevention is always easier than finding a cure many years later on, when the condition has already passed the point of no return, or it has become too complicated to solve or terminal.
Watch your health, but once again do not go to extremes in your pursuit of a perfect body or glowing health, to the total exclusion of the rest of your life. The cost of your health and your life itself are far too expensive a price for you to have to pay for you wanting to have everything NOW, and becoming another saint.
Be kinder to yourself,
EoT
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