Hi long story short...we moved out here for the childrens education.....however since then my husband gets called in for training on a job.....then he works for a few weeks and then laid off.  This has happened 3 times.  On top of the fact that my job is sales ...things that should have come and signed (contract wise)...have not.  I am just so confused....this is very expensive where we live..however we have special learning kids...and this is the best area for them.......let me know if you can if this will get better.

Hi Mel,

Prophesying or predicting what the future is most likely to be is not my main point of focus in my readings, as effectively with rare exceptions we are constantly helping to determine what that future will be by a series of conscious decisions which we make in the present moment - our only true point of personal power to influence that future.

But of course knowing this is not much comfort or compensation to you and your husband, when the seemingly random Wheel of Fortune consistently appears to turn against you (particularly with reference to both your jobs).

And your reading only confirms my initial feelings that what decisions you have made in the interests of your children's education have been both sound and good ones. In other words it is suggesting that there are several other factors at work here which keep throwing a spanner in the works or are consistently getting in the way of your well thought out plans to give your children the best possible education and preparation for them living in the adult world.

It would be terribly easy in your situation to begin believing that fate or destiny is against you, and that your own and your husband's difficulties at work are some type of warning sign to presumably tell you that the things you are wanting for your kids and for your family's financial future were never meant to be.

Now this is probably going to come over as sounding if I am insensitive to how difficult and frustrating and above all disappointing this must be to both of you (when in reality I am often accused of being too sensitive), but one thing I can say with absolute confidence from your reading is that THESE SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS ARE NOT WARNING SIGNS THAT YOU ARE BOTH GOING THE WRONG WAY, OR THAT YOU ARE DOING ANYTHING WRONG. (OR THAT YOU HAVE FAILED TO DO SOMETHING WHICH YOU SHOULD HAVE). YOU ARE GOING THE RIGHT WAY AND ARE DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT, BUT.......................... !  



The Tarot card called the Wheel of Fortune (WOF), unlike most of the others in the pack reminds us that there is always an element of chance in the mixture of the reasons why certain things happen in our lives, and some things do not. But the WOF also is often interpreted to mean that our lives exist as a series of cycles and that no matter how well we make our decisions that eventually things come full circle and may even in some cases entirely resolve themselves without further effort or intervention on our parts.

With regards to both your jobs, like it or not the world business cycle is currently at a crisis point in having the faith that the world economy is going to survive what is possibly one of the most unpredictable or insecure periods of economic uncertainty. The original global financial crisis mainly beginning in the United States has now resurfaced in the European Common Community with the Euro under immense pressure to prove that it is still viable.

What this all means to the average Mum and Dad who are doing their very best to bring up and adequately house and clothe their family is that there are being decisions made by faceless people frequently living in other countries from our own that are having significant influence over our family's future in so many different ways.

Call it streamlining the workforce, economic rationalisation or restructuring industry, this basically means that if an employee does not like what is happening to them from the perspective of their job, then they can either grin and bear it or alternately look somewhere else to see if they could somehow get a better and fairer deal with another company or organisation or boss. The business cycle has clearly turned once more in the employer's favour. They are the ones who are calling the shots or making the decisions which will ultimately decide how well you can continue to provide for your family in the future.

So now we finally return to your original request, which was as follows....



Since it is highly unlikely that people in high positions of business power are going to be influenced in any way by what we as responsible and caring parents want for our family, is there any other way of at the same time accepting that the problem exists, but still continuing to hold onto the belief that things are going to eventually get any better, primarily through our own decisions and actions? Yes there is also always the possibility of positive chance or good luck in all this (you could win a major prize in the lottery if you buy tickets), but it would be foolish to entirely depend on this happening any time soon.

Your reading suggests that you need to more effectively adapt your family's budget to the present GFC version 2, and keep whatever financial plans you might have for the future flexible enough that they are capable of making the most of any new and exciting (and challenging) opportunities which may present themselves to either one or the both of you, further down the road.

Start small and gradually as your self confidence and available cash accumulates take increasingly larger but still carefully calculated risks  in investing your hard earned money or your own underemployed work skills in your family's future. Taking some reasonable level of risk is necessary for you to achieve anything which is important to you in this life, but you also need to protect yourselves and choose your investments of money and your health wisely.

If we as a people allow those living in ivory towers insulated from what it feels like to constantly struggle to have enough money to live through our own inaction and giving up, then it is increasingly clear what our future is most likely to turn out as. You have both already made some brilliant decisions, but bad luck and the decisions being made by CEOs in far off lands and governments who have forgotten that they are supposed to be working for us have so far not supported your hopes and wishes for your family.  

It is always easier for me to tell you this than for you to do it, but essentially you must decide whether you are going to allow other people to decide what your family's future will be, or whether instead you and your spouse are not going to take this laying down. While your reading neither recommends or condone the use of violence or illegal activities for you to fight back, planned, positive action will be critical to your long term financial survival as a family unit.

Begin by investing some of your existing money and earning skills on a relatively small scale in some area or areas which you might never have considered before now, but no longer have the luxury of ignoring.

Discover by trial and error what the most comfortable balance for you (perhaps with professional help if it is needed) between taking reasonable risks with your money and bread winning skills to take back control of your future, but at the same time ensure that it is money that you could afford to loose, and that your family's future financial security is not compromised. Always if at all possible have a plan B, C or even D handy, just in case plan A does not work out. Taking small, calculated risks is NOT the same as doing something irresponsible, foolish or almost guaranteed to end in failure and further hard and lean times for you and your loved ones.

Your reading and this reader are NOT attempting to predict what your future financial security looks like. Rather my inner guidance is advising you how to most effectively invest in helping to create that secure financial future for your entire family through your own (and your soul mate's) decisions and actions.  

Plus a whole lot of faith that the Universe is for us and not always as it often appears against us. There is unfortunately no such thing as something which is equally fair to everyone at the same time. There are always winners and losers in every situation. That is why we need the universal balancing system of effects with their corresponding causes which eastern religions call KARMA.

Namaste,

EoT

Thank you!  This is great advice!!! I am concerned as we had to move into this neighborhood to get my youngetsw in the special education program.  We tried open enrollment and was denied.  Now my husband hasn't worked until August and we are feeling dispair this month.  WE could have stayed in KC however there was no support and the school has proved difficult as we have an older one with a learning disability and they did nothing to help us.  Even though we paid for tutoring on our own..and everything else on our own.  We are slipping and I feel all the christmas club money I put away will have to go on past bills.  Will my husband get a job before Christmas????? Unemployment barely gives us any money.....however if he went and flipped burgers we would lose that money and it would be less.  I am really at a crossroads.  And get more scared by the minute.  We are no longer able to afford general things.....I am tired....and we are going to have to cut off therapy for our youngest...as we cannot afford it.

Mel,

You are very welcome for the reading as well as the advice, although I completely understand why you might feel disappointed that it did not include any prediction concerning your husband's chances of gaining suitable employment by Christmas time. The reading appears to be hesitant to unintentionally create false hope or alternately take away your family's sense of hope for the future when it clearly exists, by making what would effectively amount to an informed guess about what might or might not happen before the end of this year.

I feel a high level of empathy and connection with your situation and specifically with regards to your children's learning disabilities, with our own adult son having an autistic spectrum disorder and having so recently moved out of our family home into an assisted accommodation facility, which is far short of being ideal by any measure.

While my inner source wants you to remain as positive as it is humanly possible to be, it also wishes to be both honest and respectful to you by openly admitting that the employment market as it currently stands does not give anyone in your particular situation confidence that the worst of the negative economic fallout from GFC versions 1 and 2 is finally at an end.

Rather than making any predictions which could be overturned in an instant by a host of potential factors, most of which are entirely beyond the control of the average Mum and Dad, the reading is instead focussing more on how to best conserve and manage what remaining resources you already have, as well as making your money work more efficiently for you in the mean time.

I humbly request a healing on your family's behalf in body, mind and spirit, and ask that you will be given both the guidance and added inner strength which is required for your family to successfully weather the storm until some common-sense and balance is hopefully restored to the system in the near future.

God bless,

EoT