by Rebecca Williams
What is truth? In our world of ‘fake news’ and contested facts, truth can be difficult to grasp and even harder to hold. How can we look at an interaction or event and come to such dramatically different conclusions? To perceive it accurately requires a level of objectivity and nonattachment few of us possess. It is almost impossible to separate who we are and what we hold sacred from what we perceive. Truth is challenging to witness—it can be simultaneously terrifying and awe inspiring. Just when we think we understand, it suddenly gives way to a profounder meaning—a soul shaking reality that moves us to the very core of our being.
There are those who plumb this deeper truth, seeking to bring its wisdom and light to the surface to help and serve others. As humans we have always sought methods to better understand who we are, what to do in times of change, and how to navigate crisis. This is exactly what tarot readers, psychics, and other intuitives do. We use our skills to help you understand your world and give you the tools to make positive, life affirming choices. As a tarot reader, I use a large deck of cards with distinct pictures and images painted on each card to guide my work. Tarot cards provide a pictorial map, describing our current lives and metaphorically illustrating our journey to what may become.
I purchased my first tarot deck 30 years ago and have used many throughout the years. The tarot decks I use for readings I’ve specifically chosen for their ability to anchor the words, metaphors, and images I receive in a reading. Like old friends, we work together to tell the story of a life and where it’s going, or peer more deeply into current events and why they are occurring. Our brains process images differently than words—images can provide another doorway for a deeper wholeness to emerge. When combined with intuition, these sacred symbols illuminate our own inner wisdom. Powerful A-ha moments of insight occur when the words and images shift confusion and chaos into truth and wisdom. Every person has a deeper understanding of their own nature, however cloudy it may be at the moment. This is your truth. The more I can engage your own inner wisdom, the more the tarot reading will resonate and positively echo in the future.
That brings us to a common question people have about going to a reader—can he or she see the future? The past? Or can a reader only see the present very clearly, if at all? I believe time is just as hard to grasp as truth, even more so given we think we can parcel it out in specific quantities of minutes, days, and years. Indigenous cultures often see time as a circle—cycling through periods of death, disorder, and decay before new life emerges with strength and vigor. Think of the endless cycle of the seasons from winter to spring, summer to fall, and back again. Western society sees time as linear, with only one direction—the future. The past is important only as it relates to how we got here and where we are going.
I believe time is more of a spiral. Through the spiral of time we live the seasons of our lives. Each period may feel similar yet is different, just as this winter cannot be the same as last years. We go through times of challenge and pain before returning to normalcy and routine, cycles where everything goes right before heading into tumult and sorrow. I have seen potential futures—both those that occur and those that don’t. Is a foretold event that doesn’t happen a mistake? A worthless shot in the dark? I have seen futures change during a reading when a client has a sudden flash of insight. Through their own realization, that once immutable future has shifted into something different. What was an unwelcome future is now a more desired one.
So it is with any prediction. What is heard cannot be unheard. Forewarning may help avoid it or better prepare for its potential reality. Tarot readers and psychics shine a flashlight into your being and detail what we see in the surrounding environment. Through this clarity you can shape your actions and face all your realities with presence—and hopefully patience, joy, and love. When we do that we become better versions of ourselves and make wise choices leading to more harmonious futures.
Receive a Tarot/Psychic Reading with Rebecca Williams on Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom.
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