Saturday, June 6, 2009

What is the future between X and Y

The Three Fates spread is an exceptionally popular way to gain insight into the emerging arc of the past, present, and future. The Golden Tarot is a modern celebration of late medieval artwork. This deck is the choice of scholars, for it evokes images of elegance amid barbarism, and the light of virtue in dark times. If you would like your own copy of the Golden Tarot, you can buy it now!

Click for DetailsThe left card represents an important element of the past. Queen of Swords: The essence of air behaving as water, such as a refreshing mist: A person gifted with both keen logic and natural intuition, giving them uncanny powers of perception and insight. One who easily sees past deception and confusion to the heart of a matter, and understands both sides of any argument. The embodiment of calm, forthrightness, and wit, in the face of even the most trying circumstances.
Click for DetailsThe middle card represents a deciding element of the present. The Star: New hopes and splendid revelations of the future. Insight, inspiration, courage and enlightenment of the spiritual self. Body and mind and converging towards the light at the end of a dark time.
Click for DetailsThe right card represents a critical element of the future. The Lovers: A caring and trusting relationship. Beauty and inner harmony. A decision calling for emotional control and faithfulness to spiritual values

Lidiya P. #8135 and John N. #542985

Unconscious Patterns

3 steps toward real change by Jamie Nishi Source: California Psychics

Lingering just below the surface of our conscious minds are patterns of thought, feelings, emotions and motivations. We aren't immediately aware of them, but they wield a powerful influence over how we behave and react to events in our everyday lives. By digging under the surface, examining our behavior and looking for our motivations, we can discover the sources of behaviors that we may not like about ourselves and that hold us back from the lives we really want to live.

Have you ever sat down to think about why you might behave in unhealthy ways? Or why you engage in those behaviors repeatedly, even when you don't like the kind of person they turn you into (manipulative, passive, even dishonest)? The truth of the matter is that even though certain behaviors are unhealthy, in some way they fulfill our needs. Whether it's attention, affection, sympathy, forgiveness or just plain old having your way, the behavior is getting you what you want - but at a cost.

Unconscious to conscious
While manipulative behavior may get you what you want, it also reinforces feelings of guilt and shame. Self-destructive behavior might give a person that brief feeling of being purified through punishment, but it also hammers away at self-esteem and physical health. If you want to change behaviors that run counter to the life you want to lead and the person you want to be, then you have to identify the unconscious patterns that drive them.

A little self-analysis can have an amazing impact on helping you take the first steps toward…

• Identifying behaviors you are unhappy with

• Understanding where they come from

• Being able to recognize when you are tempted to engage in an unhealthy behavior

• Having greater control over your actions, so that you can make healthier choices about how you want to operate in the world

Identify the behavior
To begin with, you have to identify the behaviors that are keeping you from what you want out of life. Here are just a few examples:

• I often feel anger and snap at my partner, even when they have done nothing wrong.

• I go on shopping sprees, even though I want to get my finances under control.

• I eat even when I don't feel hungry or have no desire to eat.

• I get angry with myself for having feelings of guilt.

• I spend most of my time doing things I dislike.

3-step exercise
If any of these apply to you, include them in a list of the five most frustrating behaviors you engage in and try this 3-step process:

1. Describe the pattern
After you've identified the behavior, describe the pattern in detail (how it comes about, what ensues, the fallout and the resulting feelings). Try to put into words the degree of this behavior's intensity. Is it subtle or very obvious? Can you brush it off or does it stick with you for hours, weeks, years? In just a few sentences, explore why you find this behavior to be negative.

2. Pinpoint potential payoffs
Keep in mind that we wouldn't engage in a negative behavior if it didn't have a potential payoff. The potential payoffs can be monetary, psychological, spiritual, physical, social or related to achievement, and they help to keep you trapped in the behavioral pattern. Next to each of your five most frustrating behaviors, write down the potential payoffs associated with them.

3. Question potential payoffs
Question and test the potential payoffs that feed these negative behaviors. Honestly answering the following few questions can really help shed light on why you behave the way you do:

• What do you gain through this behavior?

• Does is it make your life easier? At what cost?

• What risks does it enable you to avoid?

• What pain does it allow you to escape from?

• What immediate results are you trading for what deferred results?

Future change
Finally, consider the change you want and need in your life, and imagine yourself living it out. Write down in detail the story of how this change would take place and the challenges you'll face along the way. Be sure to include in the story what you are willing to give up along the way and what you want to hold onto.

Change always requires risk. Identifying unconscious patterns that drive unhealthy behavior can help to empower and give you the courage to step out of your comfort zone and enact the change you want in your life!


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Friday, June 5, 2009

Duplicity in Love

Is your lover two people? by S.K. Smith
Source: California Psychics

Relationships are hard enough to navigate when the partners involved are open and communicative with each other. But add a chameleon into the mix - you know the type, friendly and warm one second, cold and cutting (or at best distant) the next - and the waters can become impossible to steer!

After all, how are you supposed to determine if you're compatible if you're too busy trying to guess which side of your partner is going to show up to dinner? The good news is, you can take inventory of even the most complex personality and determine which of their many faces is the real one. Here's a hint: odds are, it's all of them! The trick is deciding what (and who) you're willing to put up with!

Circumstantial evidence
Uncovering the truth behind any situation requires honing your powers of observation. The same goes for understanding a seemingly duplicitous partner. If you want to understand why they're behaving in a way that confuses you, you have to pay attention to the circumstances surrounding that behavior and learn to trust your instincts. Odds are there's going to be a pattern that will inform you about the root of the problem.

So, for a simple example, if your partner is sweet and loving when you're alone, but as soon as you go out in public, they won't hold your hand or show you any affection and it bothers you… well, it's an easy distinction, right? The mitigating factor is that you're out with other people when the negative pattern rears its head. Now comes the telling part. It would be easy to jump to the fact that they really don't care about you or conversely, to convince yourself that they're just shy about public displays. To know which it is (and of course there are many other options too), you need to look a little deeper at the specifics, taking note of what resonates.

Look closer
Is the distant behavior more prevalent when you're with specific people? Do you get the idea that they're ashamed of you or are they simply the type of personality to embarrass easily or succumb to peer pressure around friends who haven't settled down (or those who may not approve of their choice of partner)? Answers to these questions will decide how you choose to deal with the situation. But if the sincerity of a partner's feelings about you are in question (which is the very core of duplicity - the inability to trust what they're telling you), you've absolutely got to do something. Otherwise, the only thing you'll be guaranteed is the ultimate failure of your relationship - whether you break up or not!

Of course, most situations involving questionable feelings are more complex than the previous example. For instance, if your lover is generally level-headed and rational, but occasionally they fly off the handle or retreat into "no talk" mode, you may find yourself frustrated and unsure about what you've done. Most likely, you haven't done anything (except possibly trigger something that's an issue for them), but until you step back and look at the situation objectively, it can feel like you're dealing with someone you don't know at all! That said, if you observe for a little while, odds are you will notice common denominators like money, family or work involved in what sets your partner into "evil twin" mode.

Talking points
Given that information, the last thing you want to do is confront them armed with their Achilles Heel. Since these issues are clearly difficult for them to deal with, your best approach is to talk to them about yourself. Begin by finding a time when your mate seems approachable and tell them that you've noticed a change in them when x, y or z comes up or happens. If they ask for examples, be willing to share them, kindly and without judgment. Then, open up to them about how it makes you feel when they react to you in that way. "When you clam up about money, I feel like you don't trust or respect me." "When you yell at me about what I said in front of your parents, I feel like you're embarrassed by me and wish I were someone else." No one can argue with feelings.

That said, not everyone is willing to change, and sometimes, if you're under the impression that something is off, it very well may be… whether they admit it to you or not.

Ultimate acceptance
Some people just take time to trust and soft spots are the hardest to be open about, but there is nothing saying you have to wait around forever for someone to tell you what's really going on in their heads or hearts. Besides, once you've addressed the behavior that's throwing you for a loop, they'll either become aware of their behavior and work on it, or they'll continue on as usual, vacillating between attitudes. And therein lies your answer about whether or not to stick around. Unintentional duplicity is a very different (and less diabolical) beast than purposeful deceit or non-disclosure.



Remember, even those who do make the effort to change will occasionally slip up. After all, the things you don't like about them may be amendable, but most of them won't be completely eradicated. Nobody's perfect. But if your lover is aware that a behavior of theirs is hurtful and confusing and they continue on without thought for your feelings or any meaningful attempt to address the issue, they're not the only one being unfair to you. You're being unfair to yourself!



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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Surreal World

6 psychics reveal career moves


Source: California Psychics

Can you imagine growing up psychic in a family where an outing to buy a first deck of Tarot cards is a rite of passage? Or, being the only child of intellectual parents who were frightened of their infant's natural ability to do things that defied logic? What would it be like to wake up morning after morning knowing that your uncomfortable vivid dreams, or even your nightmares, could come true?

Six of the latest professional psychics to join the California Psychics team have given us a poignant look at the awakening of their psychic gifts in their early years and the decisive moments when they understood that it was their fate to use their gifts professionally for the common good.

When psychic gifts are somehow incorporated into your DNA and your immediate family members acknowledge your gifts, childhood can run a lot more smoothly for a born psychic than if your gifts scare your parents - or nobody seems to understand you.

When psychic Catherine ext. 5116 was very young she could see spirits in her room that would sometimes speak to her. She had memories of who she had been in past lives and even recognized people from previous earthly experiences. "I learned to keep these things to myself as there wasn't anyone around me who accepted my experiences. Finally, as a young adult I began to meet others who were open about their gifts… and I learned from them."

Catherine studied the Tarot and experienced a tremendous growth in her work as she became very aware of her guides and angels. Eventually, knowledge and the understanding that her gift could strongly benefit others who also felt alone over their own issues in life, moved her towards a career of psychic guidance.

Samantha ext. 5138 was born to parents a bit frightened by the fact that they had conceived an unusual child. Her family lore tells the story of an event that occurred when she was only three weeks old. "One night, as my father went to check on me in my crib, he let out a bloodcurdling scream. My mother ran to my room sure something horrible had happened. She found my father pale, shaky, sweaty… as if he had seen a ghost. 'This kid got in my head. She knows everything I think and feel! I was just holding her and I felt it...' My mother replied casually, 'I can't believe it took you this long to notice!'

Samantha was subsequently nicknamed "The Spook" by her father. Her mother who later studied astrology, came home from her first class with exciting news. The teacher had analyzed Samantha's birth chart during the class and announced that there was no doubt in her mind that it was the chart of a future professional psychic.

Even with that prediction in the back of her mind, Samantha went on to work in a recording studio in Los Angeles - a job she loved. When she was let go, she began doing readings out of necessity. But the many years of being called "a spook" took its toll on her confidence. She still wasn't sure if the voices she heard were spirit guides, or as she describes with a sense of humor, a sign that she was just plain "koo koo."

"I decided to go home to sort it out. On the train from Los Angeles to Chicago I began doing readings that amazed me! I walked on for a five day ride with $6 in my pocket and before long people were literally throwing money at me, picking up my meals - and I still didn't get it!" Soon, a Chicago bookstore reading led to reading at parties and private clients. "That did it," Samantha recalls. "I was booked solid and I finally realized that there was a plan for me."

Even our psychics who understood that their gifts were inherited sometimes fell into their destined career path randomly. When Annunciata ext. 5128 was 14, she began having predictive dreams that scared her. She reached out to her mother who explained that the dreams were a gift… then she took Annunciata shopping for her first pack of Tarot cards.

Years later, she quit her job as a mechanical design engineer to do readings at psychic fairs. But, it wasn't until after both grandfathers had passed that her father revealed the family secret. It was the piece of her psychic puzzle that helped her realize her path. Her great grandmother had been a professional psychic and healer!

Shamira ext. 5125 and her cousin pooled their psychic talents to do parties and fairs together. Her cousin looked into a crystal ball while Shamira read the Tarot. "I just thought this was the best!" After the young psychic lost her cousin to cancer, she decided to lay her cards down one last time professionally. "I will never forget what happened next. One client folded my cards and asked if I could talk to the dead. She had just lost her brother and I was able to give her messages! It was a sign that I was to continue on my own."

Other intuitives had great teachers who not only helped them to develop their talents, but also ushered them towards their professional destinies. As a member of a Scottish family with a long lineage of psychic ability, as a teen, Teva ext. 5141 used her psychic gifts to help her friends with their love lives. "These readings were fun for awhile, but as I studied and grew psychically, my teachers encouraged me to follow my heart and be of help to a much wider audience."



The doors to the future of Judianne ext. 5129 were opened with a dramatic welcome by a renowned psychic she had been advised to see. As Judianne was welcomed into her home, the older woman announced, "Oh my God, you are so psychic you should be reading me!" She became one of her teachers at a spiritualist center where she developed her gifts for the next six years.

Choosing a career path is rarely a direct route from talent to professional journey. It requires the study, confidence, leap of faith and passion that all career dreams require to come true.


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