Freedom From Beliefs

Freedom From Beliefs

Most of the problems or life situations we come to the Tarot for have to do with all of our beliefs, not the major meta-beliefs, but the millions of little beliefs that motivate and inform our actions that get us into delightfully exhilarating and horrifying traps and experiences. Problems at work scratch up against our beliefs about how the other persons view us, employment changes tug on our beliefs of abundance-whether or not the world has the room to take care of us like everyone else. All day long we are involved in the process of acting according to our beliefs, though most of them are on automatic to the point that they feel like they are out of our control, and to make matters more interesting, many of them may be.

Release

The Tarot, on the other hand, is a great tool to consider which of our circumstances we can side-step, move through, or actually change to our advantage by reassigning meaning to. For example, when job-loss happens and we see a Sun in our future, we can make the simple but reasonable assumption that it was all for the best anyway, that we may have stayed where we were at forever, in order to do the Safe Thing, and can bet that when we look back on the situation later down the road, our relief and insurgence of energy and creativity validates this. We have assigned meaning, because we changed our beliefs. A minor operation compared to some of the manifesting the Tarot (and our spirituality) is involved in, but an important one.

Spread

When we look at our daily spread, we are viewing a composite and instant picture of a vast moving consciousness that connects us all, and gives a snapshot of what the evolution looks like for us personally. As soon as you see it, of course, frozen in your nine of ten cards (or one), it has moved on. Some of the information will seem like stuff you can do something about, some may indicate hints of what is going to happen to you no matter what, and some may just be commentary. But all of it has to do with your beliefs, and the not-so-subtle message is that it is all there, spread out before you, and you now have some distance from it to decide what to do.

Which Means

Which means that despite whatever message or information a spread gives you, the act of doing a spread day in and day out is teaching you indirectly that the major source of energy and power for transformation is the growing awareness that almost everything in our lives is a behavioral or emotional reaction to a belief, and though we may feel quite justifiably that we are in the vice grips of external circumstances that we have no influence over, it is probably more a matter of what we believe, and by practicing indirectly proven relief and freedom from those beliefs (every time we do a spread) we are increasing our potential ability to transform our outside circumstances in ways we never thought possible. Because the results are also external, we may experience these changes as luck, blessing, or synchronicity.

Spend some time, the next time you do a reading for yourself, to appreciate that no matter what it says to you, you are strengthening the ability to remove yourself from your beliefs, no matter how solid, and this is something that may come in very handy if and when the outside world gives you a roll.

Take good care.