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Jul 10 2016

How Can The Seven of Spades Help Us Live Our Multidimensionality?

How can the 7♠ help us live our multidimensionality?

This week’s card is the 7 of Spades. It is the card of Faith and Trust. It can mean that we might be going through some difficulties, stress or an inner struggle that helps us grow. Of course, stress and difficulties can result in an illness because our body holds what we’ve yet to process. Stress lowers our immune system and we catch colds, have allergy attacks or sometimes worse.

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Think about how your life is a particular way because of a belief you hold. Let’s use the example of believing in aging and that you start going downhill after age 30.

Due to that belief, you seem to have more aches and pains than others your age. You find gray hairs early. You get tired more often. You seem to no longer enjoy life or things fall into a very boring rut.

Then due to a variety of things, you realize that belief doesn’t serve you well and you change it. You let go of that belief and you take on the new belief that YOU are in complete control of how your body ages and that you don’t have to assign any particular age as any particular way of being.

Suddenly, your life changes. You feel younger. You find things to do that make you happy. You have more energy. You create a list of all the things you want to accomplish and you set out to do them. You stop cringing at birthdays and your friends notice how much younger you look.

THAT change in you, in your life, in your experiences is a new version of you. It actually changes some of your cells, it can affect how you look, feel and think. You are different. There is a new version of you. It sets up a new reality for you to live in.

You now have a new focused frequency!

Because time isn’t linear, the old you still exists. There is that version of you – the one aging quickly and not enjoying life – that still exists. And there is the new you. A new you simply because you changed a belief.

Because of the new belief, new people, experiences and feelings will now flow into your life. You are now heading in a new direction in your life.

Several things can happen now – and this is where the “trust” of the 7♠ comes into play.

You are eating differently now. You are out enjoying life now. Then, suddenly, something happens that scares you or makes you think your change is bogus (like losing friends because of it).

At that point you have to make a choice. You can’t have one foot on the dock and another foot on the boat. You are either all in the new way, or you go back to the old way.

Trust is an energy and we place that energy on things and beliefs. A child easily places their trust – all of it- on what they believe is possible. But, as adults, we tend to start rationalizing things and we wavier or split our trust energy up, hoping to hedge our bets.

Now you have split and dissipated energy. Your trust is no longer at 100% on the new belief that you are in control of your aging. It is like you took that new wide open door that Source was flowing new things to you through and you shut it part way.

What you have done is dissipated your own power.

100% trust and faith is 100% of your power to have what you truly want.

If you have had any type of religious background, faith and trust might mean that you have to believe in a God and that you just go through life blindly – following the will of that Higher Power. That can feel unsure because how can we know the will of said Higher Power? At that point, we hand over our power and while we might be told that we are living with blind faith, we are actually denying our birthright power to live who we are.

The Faith & Trust that the 7♠ speaks to us about is the 100% power that comes with 100% trust in a belief.

A belief is only as strong as the amount of trust energy we place in it. When we fully trust in a belief, it is very powerful and can change our lives.

100% trust equals 100% power.

Powerful people place their trust energy fully in what they believe in, directing that energy into what they believe is possible and to what they want – increasing their ability to manifest.

You choose a new reality – a new you- when you place your trust 100% on a belief about yourself and life. That 100% trust opens a door that allows a new reality to happen for you. A new dimension of you is born. That trust energy is not bound to just the physical. It is now part of your consciousness and it reaches beyond the limits of time and space.

This way of being – this ability to choose a new you and to have that reach beyond time and space is living as a multidimensional being. You have the power to make a choice – to choose what focused frequency you want to live at any moment.

Let’s go back now to the 7♠ card. In a forecast, it can speak to a possible struggle, an illness, stress or an event that challenges our faith and trust in something. (A belief.)

Seven’s always speak to “spiritual challenges,” BUT – what it is challenging or what it is helping to show us is a belief that might not be serving us, or is blocking us from what we really want in life. How this plays out is filtered by the planetary period the 7 card is in.

Using the example again of the belief in aging – let’s say that that person had the 7♠ in their Saturn period. Their belief in aging is suddenly highlighted due to their unhealthy lifestyle habits – let’s say they have been holding onto negative thoughts about themselves for a long time – such as I’m too old now to have fun or I have too many responsibilities to enjoy life. These thoughts have manifested as an illness and a lot of stress at work. They eat on the run and only processed food, ignoring any indication that their body gives them about needing real nutrients to thrive. Let’s say they end up with severe chest pain and they have to go to the hospital and have tests run for several days. They are finally forced to do something about their unhealthy lifestyle (which resulted from their belief in aging fast and no longer being able to enjoy their life.)

This becomes a challenge that presents an opportunity. (All challenges present an opportunity for us.)

While most people get told to make some changes by their doctor or they get put on some prescription drug (which can actually escalate an issue, but I won’t go there in this post!) and things might change for them, the person who is seeking to make their lives better (and uses guideposts such as the cards) can take this opportunity to check in and see what needs to change in their lifestyle and ways of thinking – aka — what belief has created this issue.

The 7♠ wants us to ask ourselves: Where am I placing my trust energy? Am I placing it 100% on a belief that is causing this issue? Or, am I 50% here and 50% there, thus dissipating my power? Am I using my full power to change my life and choose a new reality – a new me?

We might cringe when we see a 7 card in our forecast. We might look at the 7♠ and think it means we need to have faith in God. There is nothing wrong with that – the power in the belief that God will take care of you is like any other belief – it yields results based on the trust energy given to it.

The vibration of belief is unstoppable.

Living as a multidimensional being means we can take that card – that indicator of a potential challenge that is an opportunity — and choose a new reality – a new life, a new you – because you are a multidimensional being!

Apr 05 2016

How The Jack Of Spades Helps Us Stay Out Of The Drama

In this post, we’ll learn what the Jack Of Spades shows us about dealing with the idea of…struggle.

And, at the time of this post, we are a few days away from a New Moon in Aries…a New Moon that tells us to act in our best interest…to reinvent ourselves! (More on that at the end of the post)

The Jack cards always represent a dynamic, “young” energy. It speaks to one having innate talents, but immaturity and a lack of self-discipline can undermine that vital “young” energy.

With the Jack of spades, the energy can be erratic and inconsistent.

The Jack of spades is a wonderful representation of….drama.

As a matter of fact, the Jack of Spades is considered to be the card of the actor.

On the show, Downton Abbey, one of Violet Crawley’s lines (played by actress Maggie Smith) is: “Why is life always a fight to the American.”

As I worked with this card, I kept wondering: Why do we (Americans) love to live in and through drama? (Did you know that America’s birth card is the Jack of Diamonds?)

Why are our troubles and hardships so important to us? It can seem that we strive to have the most woes among our friends and if our life is smooth and peaceful, well, we’re boring and viewed as either hiding something or crazy.

The crazy thing is, life isn’t meant to be hard, full of troubles or sad. The Universe is not made of woes and sorrows, the Universe is about expansion, joy and bliss (and we are innately that!)

You see this sense of wonder and joy in a small child—they have it because they’ve yet to have it taken away from them. If the Universe wasn’t about joy and wonder, babies would be born feeling sad and lonely and depressed.

We do use conflict and strife to expand. Conflict gives us contrast, so we can view something and say, “I don’t like that; I don’t want that.” We can then look for the opposite and go for that. This is a part of the Law of Polarity. The dark is not dark unless the light lets us know it‘s dark; the light is not light unless the dark lets us know it’s light.

The Jack of Spades sits in the Mars line (Mars & Uranus)

While Mars speaks about action and how to receive what we need to reach our goal, it also speaks to going about things differently then the traditional way of attaining something new.

There can come a point, when you feel like you have to go out and get it. A panic might set in because the idea of not concerning yourself with the how-to’s and not running around like a chicken with your head cut off in the typical “masculine” way of reaching a goal, will feel odd, maybe even scary.

So, we busy ourselves, we worry, we go back to past patterns, our friends keep asking, “Why aren’t you hustling? Why aren’t you out there pounding down doors?”

The struggle is what we seem to be so fond of. It’s like a badge of honor, proclaiming that because we are struggling so much, we must be working really hard and our struggle surely is greater than anyone else’s struggle, which means we must be doing it better and when we reach our goal, parties and more badges will be delivered to us, cuz you know…..we walked uphill through the snow with no shoes to reach our goal!!

We love to talk about how hard things are, how many battles we’re facing to get there and as creatives, we feel even more in love with the struggle, because isn’t art about drama?

What good is a painting full of butterflies? What good is a story with no conflict? What good is a slam poem without some turmoil to raise Cain about?

How can we portray real life if we don’t live in struggle, so we know about the pain?

Oh the beautiful pain…or as Dr. Smith would say on the TV show Lost in Space…”the pain…oh the pain…”

The spades suit is all about the challenges and struggles in life. They help to fine tune us, to make us wiser, stronger and with each battle, we step up.

But with a life of lawsuits over every little bad feeling; kids given prizes for no reason; pills to take away all and any pain, do we even allow challenges to uplevel us?

The Jack of spades is the drama we love, the pain we love to taut and the struggles we’d rather focus on, instead of becoming more because of our struggles.

The low side of the Jack of spades is to stay in the struggle.

If we glorify the struggle, keep talking about it, keep the struggle energy our main focus, keep our thoughts, feelings and environment pointed at the struggle, what are we accomplishing?

More struggle.

That is all.

Just more struggle.

On the flip side, the high side of the Jack of spades is about situations that act as your initiation into a new way of being. That is how to view this card. It is a reminder of those things that come along to help us become better.

We might learn about a new way of eating that makes us feel better, or take up some study that makes us more aware of our potential, or meet someone new that helps us see ourselves in a more positive way – all of those types of experiences uplevel our lives in some way and that is what the Jack of Spades represents.

Here’s the twist: you can better yourself without the erroneous idea that it takes struggle. You can take what seems like a challenge and use it to uplevel yourself. You can have the dream job, the relationships, the home, etc., without going through the drama.

As I’m writing this, I’m going through one hell of a struggle. I know I drew this card because I needed to hear this. It sucks when it feels like life has thrown shit in our face and is laughing about it.

I’ve been angry, felt immense hurt and that my happy rug was pulled out from under me.

To be honest, I wish a handsome knight in shining armor would come sweep me up and take me into the sunset, promising all will be well.

Instead, each day, I have to face how I’m reacting.

Am I sending out a distress signal? Or, am I holding onto the truth that my non-physical, connected Self has it all under control and I just need to get out of the way and trust.

The Jack of Spades card doesn’t indicate challenges or that we will be facing struggle (like the 7 cards might), but it does indicate that what we might be going through can be a doorway to something much better. We just need to stop resisting and stop getting caught up in the struggle.

This card is a reminder of your transformation and that while it might still make you twitchy to be going about things in a new way, you WILL succeed and fulfill your desire.

Don’t glorify any struggles. Use them to point out what you don’t want to have in your life any longer, but then move forward. Don’t rehash the old stories. Don’t let your thoughts run wild with the old stories. Don’t let the low vibrations linger and keep you down. Release them.

Exercise:

When you begin to have any erratic, inconsistent thoughts, feelings or you feel panic about something that has happened to you, take the time to sit down with a pen and paper, take some deep breaths and write them out.

Get them out of your body/mind and onto paper. Fold the paper up and write on the outside:

Universe, Dept of Ego Panic

Attention: Jack

Put this folded paper away somewhere.

Now, go do something creative.

**The New Moon in Aries coming up on the 7th: What better time to reinvent yourself than this?

Many times when difficult, unexpected things come along, it gives us the perfect opportunity to do just that – to step back and see if how we are currently living is really what we want, or is it just habitual?

This New Moon is conjunct Uranus – the planet that shakes things up and says, “Hey, you are more than you think you are, so you should really get out of your rut and go check out what that is!!“

If you’re feeling the urge to try something new or things have happened to you that seems to be forcing you to change – the energies to do that are ready for you – create that leap!