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hello everyone--
first of all,
let me just say, i don't believe in fortune telling. any fortune someone gives you is just one of many possibilities of what MIGHT happen... if you think back and reflect upon your life, you will notice many times when your life changed course, a certain moment of serendipity, either positive or negative, that completely changed the course of your life.
we are all only living the one life we have now in the present, and yet all the other lives we could've lived-- by free will and choice or by random chance or the collision of the two combined with everyone else's situations and paths-- are possibilities that exist outside our place in time and space-- and physicists are now debating the possibility that there ARE parallel universes- so that whatever COULD'VE happened, may have happened-- in a parallel universe--
personally i believe predestiny is just ONE POSSIBILITY, perhaps it is like the gifts you are born with-- you could be born with a gift for music or elocution but never be given a chance to develop it--
or you could stubbornly cling to some sense of self-righteousness (in a spiritual preserving kind of way)... and seek out opportunities-- for example, a homeless youth learning blues guitar from an old homeless man!
combining astrology and tarot you can get a pretty clear picture of what is happening in someone's life-- the astrology points to the likely possibility of their character and the kinds of tensions they are working with coming into this world-- tarot paints a picture of where they are IN THIS MOMENT IN TIME... and the likely possibility of what will happen, intersecting with others, into the near future
but far future "fortunetelling" readings are near impossible because there is so much free will and random chance involved
if the tarot reader predicted you and your girlfriend's reunion, then she was simply picking up energies that were present below the surface and translating them to the likely reality-- but it might NOT be what happened, if something random had happened to disrupt it-- or if you had chosen to rebel from it yourself--
that's what i believe good tarot readers do-- they assess and reflect where a person (the querent) is in time and space, and what business their soul is making in the universe at that point in time, and what energy is blocking or assisting them--
but what ACTUALLY happens, is up to the free will of the person, the energy of the situation, and a combination of random chance and the energies of the people involved and all of their free will working in collusion or conflict--
though i have never watched the movie the "matrix" i do think we are co-existing on a matrix of energy that can be tapped into and accessed by both artists and politicians and also by tarot readers and other spiritual guides... and people's opinions, thoughts and feelings make up clouds or colors that are easily detectable by highly sensitive intuits--
who then translate it through the medium of the tarot cards (which functions like an alphabet of concepts, in my opinion, spelling out the situation as it stands... but NOT WHAT YOU DO WITH IT)
your free will is sacred...
to suggest that things are predestined TO THE EXCLUSION of free will is ludicrous in my opinion
free will is the sacred thing that humans have, in addition to creativity-- it is what we do with it that counts
we are navigating our paths in lives. free will is what course we choose. tarot is a map or compass that guides us, depending on how we choose to use it.
sincerely,
serenaserendipity