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The Tarot Card Influencing 2024

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.

How to Get Everything You Want

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?

4 Levels to Spiritually Awaken

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.