Fall 2004 - News in Psychic Counseling

 

AS MUCH FEAR AS DESIRE…

A client recently used that line to explain why it had taken her months to come in for her first psychic reading.  Why anyone would fear a sensitive Virgo with blue eyes and a soft, charming voice is beyond me.  But she did make a point about herself and most clients…  as well as a much larger point about how we use desire to overcome fear.

On a simple individual level, she expressed what most of us feel entering into this rather strange realm of the metaphysical.  “Do I really want to know?  What if he tells me I’m going to die?   And besides, by what authority does he tell me anything?  Who does he think he is, God?”  Or worse yet, “Maybe he’ll lie to me.  Maybe he sees something terrible but is too nice to tell me.”  Fat chance…  blue eyes or not!

The basic misunderstanding of this whole line of thinking is that there is some permanent reality decided ‘out there’ that the psychic is able to tune in to and which the client has no power to change.  If that were the case, no one would have the nerve to come for a reading!

I believe the reality is much less dramatic, sad to tell.  I think the psychic is only able to look at the client and describe where they are heading based on the information seen at the time of the reading.  I think of a reading as describing potent options out there for the client. As I always caution, if you don’t like the pictures I describe about your future then DO SOMETHING.  Frankly, I believe that at the moment the person hears the future picture if they don’t like it their subconscious is already making small choices to veer them away from that potential reality.  And conversely, the psychic saying something is about to happen does NOT make it happen…  the client makes it happen or not.  Again I encourage clients to take action to make their reality!

In short, no one should be afraid of hearing a metaphysical type tell them anything.  They should look upon the advice as just that…  advice, counseling, insight.  The real point is what the client does with the information.  Too many are willing to turn their life over to the psychic prediction and just sit and wait for something to happen instead of actively taking charge of their life.

But there is a larger issue here as well.  Thinking back to this same client, it was her desire for insight that overcame her fear of a reading, and I think that is a profound concept nicely shown in the Tarot Chariot card.  The problem we humans have is maintaining a balance between those two poles: fear and desire.  Both are good and necessary, as long as one does not dominate for too long.  Both are forms of energy that drive our vehicle.

In the card fear and desire are represented by the two wheels of the chariot.  The man, or you, is balanced on the axle between those two necessary forces that keep him moving along as he leaves the familiar city and heads into the unknown.  That balancing point can be a tricky place to be!  Our balance can be an hour to hour thing.

So what is it in the picture that keeps him balanced between these two forces?  To summarize several months of study into a few sentences, that force is the canopy overhead which represents the ‘unseen forces, whatever you perceive those forces to be.’  Those odd critters that look like they’re pulling the chariot represent the rational, reasonable, ‘real’ world, and they are obviously not pulling their weight!  They are not the motivating force here.  The real guidance system is the unseen forces overhead.

So, what does this all mean in real terms?  It means you better have a belief in something greater than yourself, and if you don’t you better get to the mall and get one fast!  It means there are forces at work on us that can be described in many different ways.

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