Is that the side of the room where the bad children sit? I suppose I’ll head over there, but I must pass by the podium and create just cause.
How many of us feel crappy, but know our health would be much better if we lost some weight, and instead – we go to the doctor?
How many of us went through therapy for years – and never accomplished anything?
How many of us take medicine (SSRI’s) to smooth out our emotions and responses – without solving underlying issues?
We have perfectly good and reasonable illusionary justifications. Except that yours are justified (LOL).
And there’s nothing wrong here. The Medical Industry alone has built an empire on the masking of symptoms – and not finding cures.
Seeking guidance for the same thing over and over is what has kept Doctors, Lawyers, the Clergy, and Readers employed since the dawn of man.
Coveting the spouse of another is as old has history itself. Perhaps older. What’s that bible story? David and what’s her name? He just killed the husband. Problem solved.
Often, many of our sitter’s questions fall into two broad categories.
“How do I regain what (I’ve or has been) lost (finding lost/gaining what we don’t have/separation anxiety/ need vs want).”
And “Why me?”
Now the answer for the first is simple, “You didn’t lose it (or him/her or the car-keys), you buried (it/him/her) under some stuff you thought was important at the time.”
The answer to the second is, “Because.”
Heck – why pull out them Tarot cards at all!?!?
But some day…that same person walks in, and the cards say, “Wake up! Daddy likes his Gumbo! You got the wrong Mr. Dream sweetie, he’s been right around the corner the whole time…”
See, they’re putting all their hopes and dreams on some pie-in-the-sky. Sometimes ya gotta help them out of the moonlight. Imagine spending all your time in the dark, in the other tower…and they’re lost, they cannot find their way out…
“When’s (he/she) leaving their spouse for me…” is a “Why Me” and a “Lost love” combined. It’s happiness deferred to an ‘out there/separate/not in control (entity – situation). So I can’t ‘get it’. It’s in a place as good as lost, if I can’t ‘get it’, it’s not ‘mine’. Oh poor me…
The whole global economy works on folks wanting the same thing over and over.
Who needs Tarot cards, "“You didn’t lose it, you buried under some stuff you thought was important at the time.”
I used to have this sitter who came with the same question over and over. Boil it down, take out the verbiage, she was bored. She couldn’t see the rut she was in, she had relationship issues. Until I told her it was time to buy a house.
Everything in her life changed.
For us, it’s easy to see. Same client, same question, same cards, different day.
But for them? What is it like for them? Perhaps they are waiting for us to have that one day the cards come up a tad different and something strange and beautiful floats out from between our lips…
What if…?
What if…?
I’ll head over to the other side of the room now…