DISCOVERING DESTINY: Relationships are Like Tarot Cards

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How can you interpret your own future?

This Sunday, at our Center in Nyack, NY, we hosted a Wellness Day – a wondrous community

Michael Sherman of Courageous Loving

event with lots of healing practitioners and merchants.  As host, it was my job to make sure everyone felt welcome and comfortable, but I also took advantage of this orgy of blissful bodywork and spiritual dialogues.  I was particularly fascinated by a reading I received, and a realization came to me suddenly: RELATIONSHIPS ARE LIKE TAROT CARDS.

Here’s the deal: the other people in our lives are reflections of us.  Whoever shows up for us at different times and places are like the figures and designs of Tarot Cards – as if the people we interface with represent symbolic meanings beyond the everyday here and now.  There are people who sustain our health, people who are the bridge to wealth.  There are people who bring us trouble and crash us into a fiery suffering. And there are people whose presence keeps us from claiming the true nature of who we really are.

I see this in my clients.  It seems like the people who arrive to me for coaching offer me a mirror of what I am going through at the time.  Their work is my work, or an extension of my work.  I am attracting people whose destiny is shared with mine, and our journey together is linked by the resonance of an inner search. I am of service to them, a reflective guide as we cross over difficult terrain.  Even though I share a simple hour a week with them, and even though when the time is done, the boundary between my life and theirs seals up once again, I am still a presence with them traveling through their darkness into the light.  How could I be there for them and not see myself reflected in their courage?

TRY THIS: Take notice of the small, but powerful interactions you have with people over the coming days.  Ask yourself some questions and do some reflective writing.  Think about who showed up for you and why? What are they leading you to?  What are they asking you to think about?  Why would a person like that suddenly appear in your life at this moment in time?

One example: In the middle of a frustrating conversation with Amy, as I boarded a plane after a week long training, I pathetically dropped my bag of snacks in first class, right in front of James Arthur Ray, the “guru” whose recent actions at his personal transformation seminar led to the deaths of several people at a sweatlodge in Arizona.  At the time, this was like meeting a hero for me – but then only a few months later, he was in the news because of this devastating event.  Why would I experience a chance meeting with him, and not someone like him who was less controversial?  Why would my life be intertwined, even for a moment, with someone who shifted from a spiritual celebrity (a featured speaker in The Secret) to a public enemy in a matter of weeks.

Think about that.

And think about those small, but significant interactions you will have in the coming days.  Think about them like cards you have chosen for a Tarot Reading.  Relationships leave all the clues you need, if you allow yourself the open curiosity required to interpret the clues.

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