The Tarot Card Influencing 2024
Last year my daughter turned me onto this idea that there is a Major Arcana Tarot card that informs the overarching energy of the year.
One way to think about this is as the TONE for the year on a global scale, reflecting the energy that might be arising.
It’s actually quite simple to learn which tarot card it is for the year. Simply add the numbers of the year together. So, for this year it would be: 2+0+2+4=8
The Card that correlates with the number 8 is STRENGTH.
Immediately that feels heartening, don’t you think? As if it is inviting us to call on our own inner strength, knowing that it’s there for us always. Perhaps it’s an opportunity to cultivate strength even more since we may need this quality as 2024 unfolds.
Last year my daughter turned me onto this idea that there is a Major Arcana Tarot card that informs the overarching energy of the year.
One way to think about this is as the TONE for the year on a global scale, reflecting the energy that might be arising.
It’s actually quite simple to learn which tarot card it is for the year. Simply add the numbers of the year together. So, for this year it would be: 2+0+2+4=8
The Card that correlates with the number 8 is STRENGTH.
Immediately that feels heartening, don’t you think? As if it is inviting us to call on our own inner strength, knowing that it’s there for us always. Perhaps it’s an opportunity to cultivate strength even more since we may need this quality as 2024 unfolds.
When I think about accessing strength, one thing that I consider is how can we be firm AND harness our authentic authority, without being aggressive or pushy?
In other words, how can we be gentle and brave?
What might that look like?
Those two qualities are often seen as opposites, but perhaps it is simply that we don’t have many role models for strength on the world stage, people who act from a place of love rather than fear.
Some ways we can embody this kind of gentle strength might be:
1. To set clear boundaries – to know what you want and don’t want to do, and then be
clear about that in a kind way.
2. To state how you think and feel without negative emotions (anger, upset, guilt)
3. To offer support from a place of seeking understanding first without pushing an agenda
or idea onto the other person or situation
4. To genuinely listen and hear what another person in saying
How can you exhibit strength from a place of compassion and kindness?
Any ideas?
It will be interesting to see how strength appears in your everyday life as this year unfolds.
Don’t you think?
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How to Get Everything You Want
I recently wrote to a friend and shared this story with them.
Last year I was feeling frustrated. I was working hard but not seeing the kind of rewards I was expecting.
You know that feeling, don’t you? When you put everything into a project only to see it flounder, or not yield the results you were expecting?
By December, I was in a right mood about it. And, honestly, pretty irate with God. Because years earlier, in 2015 in fact, I’d received a very clear and loud message that said, “you can have everything, you know.”
In the years since, I’d been working with that idea, opening up to receiving everything.
Only last year, it felt like I had hit a wall. Why was I not feeling like I had everything? Why wasn’t I creating exactly what I wanted?
I recently wrote to a friend and shared this story with them.
Last year I was feeling frustrated. I was working hard but not seeing the kind of rewards I was expecting.
You know that feeling, don’t you? When you put everything into a project only to see it flounder, or not yield the results you were expecting?
By December, I was in a right mood about it. And, honestly, pretty irate with God. Because years earlier, in 2015 in fact, I’d received a very clear and loud message that said, “you can have everything, you know.”
In the years since, I’d been working with that idea, opening up to receiving everything.
Only last year, it felt like I had hit a wall. Why was I not feeling like I had everything? Why wasn’t I creating exactly what I wanted?
Finally, in my little tantrum with God, I got an answer. Here’s what I heard:
“You think that this everything is outside of you. But you already are everything, so you already have everything.”
That guidance stopped me dead in my tracks. And I saw how indeed I had been feeling like I was outside of this “everything.”
And so, for this entire 2023, I keep reminding myself. “You already are everything, so you already have everything.” This mantra brings me so much solace and peace. It has also allowed me to relax and be more in the flow, knowing that as I step into what is mine to do, everything else gets taken care of.
In truth, what seems to be coming to me loud and clear, is that the more I open to the BIG love, to allowing that abiding sense of joy and peace and acceptance in, and the more I remove the internal blocks that prevent me from experiencing that love, the more I allow myself to receive everything else.
What about you?
Can you see how you are already everything?
What would it take for you to step into the truth of that?
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4 Levels to Spiritually Awaken
At the beginning of the pandemic, I shared the 4 Stages of Spiritual Development that Michael Beckwith, the Minister of the mega church, Agape, in Los Angeles developed. If you aren’t familiar with his work, he’s a profound spiritual presence and a phenomenal speaker.
In a nut shell, these are his stages:
Stage 1- Victim Consciousness: Life is Happening to Me
In the victim place, we often wonder why things are happening to us, why we are being punished, or are experiencing suffering.
Here is where we fundamentally lack a sense of will, or even the belief that we can affect change. We feel helpless to control our life circumstances, believing that we are alone and apart from everyone including God/Universal Consciousness.
At the beginning of the pandemic, I shared the 4 Stages of Spiritual Development that Michael Beckwith, the Minister of the mega church, Agape, in Los Angeles developed. If you aren’t familiar with his work, he’s a profound spiritual presence and a phenomenal speaker.
In a nut shell, these are his stages:
Stage 1- Victim Consciousness: Life is Happening to Me
In the victim place, we often wonder why things are happening to us, why we are being punished, or are experiencing suffering.
Here is where we fundamentally lack a sense of will, or even the belief that we can affect change. We feel helpless to control our life circumstances, believing that we are alone and apart from everyone including God/Universal Consciousness.
If you are ready to evolve from being in victim mode, the invitation is to release feelings of blame, shame and guilt. In other words, take control of life.
When you do, you move into:
Stage 2- Manifestor Consciousness: Life is Happening for Me
Here you open to the recognition that God (source/love/consciousness) is within. This allows you to remember that the world is an effect. In other words, you are creating your life. So manifest whatever you desire!
At this stage, you tap into your will and activate the doing (male) aspect of life, because you are in control of your thoughts which are creating your life.
Employ visualization techniques and affirmations to imagine and speak your dreams and desires into existence. Have fun with this!
If you’re keen to continue the evolution process, the next step is to relinquish control and the illusion of power.
I know, it sounds scary, and when you’re ready, you’ll move into being:
Stage 3- Vessel for God: Life is Happening through Me
When we get to this stage, we’ve already built a solid foundation, recognizing that we have authority over our lives, and that we can create change.
But now we’re ready to relinquish control, and let God/source be in charge because we know there’s even more to life!!!
Here, we tap into the feminine aspect of receiving. This calls for faith AND the willingness to relax, as we allow God (source/love/consciousness) to move through us. As St Francis says in his prayer, “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.”
At this stage, we invite the ego to step aside, allowing spirit to work through us. When this occurs, we move into grace, living in the space of non-duality. We allow love to love through us.
This is the state when you become a vehicle through which God’s love can grace every person, every encounter, every situation you find yourself in.
The final stage is when we are ready to relinquish the belief in separation altogether. In other words, when we remember that we are not a separate body, that we are and always have been part of God (source/love/consciousness).
When we realize this, we move into:
Stage 4- One-Ness: Life is Happening as Me
Here is where we release the sense of having a separate self and unite fully with God (source/love/consciousness), recognizing that we are one.
We have moved from knowing the truth to being the truth, achieving unity with the divine, mystical mind. The non-dual state.
If you’re interested in being in that space, and hearing the voice for God, meditation #76 Access the Voice of Truth, on my podcast, Love’s Refuge, is for you!
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If all of this feels like too much, don’t fret! The truth is, all of us are constantly moving back and forth along this continuum.
Use these stages as a way to check in, to see where you are at any given moment. Don’t punish or berate yourself, but rather see this as a tool. A tool you can use as a gentle reminder to return to the truth and awareness of who you really are - love and unity.
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