Since the beginning of time, one question has crossed the minds of every human being who has ever lived:
“What’s going to happen?!”
Fortunately, as long as humans have longed to unravel the mystery of the future, there have been fortune tellers, psychics, astrologers and mystics who, through the use of various tools, practices and knowledge of occult laws, have offered insight and predictions about what awaited us.
Let’s take a look at some of the different methods of fortune telling and how to best use them.
Predictive astrology
Astrology can be used to predict the future in many ways, perhaps the most valuable of which is examining transits through the birth chart.
Each of us has a birth chart, a map of where the planets were located at the time of birth, and this birth chart represents a complete portrait of your psyche and the spheres of experience in your life. As the planets revolve around the zodiac year after year, they make aspects to the placements in your birth chart, bringing about important life events.
This type of birth chart reading can be of enormous value and great comfort if you are going through a very difficult time, as it provides insight into the goal of your current suffering – that is, what lesson you need to learn from the current trial – and a time frame for how long it will last.
It can be a great relief to know exactly when the hardships will be over, and what skill or attitude you need to integrate into your personality!
When we knowingly embrace a planetary transition like this to elect Working to heal the weakness the planet is exposing can make the transition much easier because we don’t blindly resist change.
Conversely, birth chart readings also show when we have luck and good fortune on our side. When you have coincidental transits to the places of birth, you can take bigger risks and be more assured of success. Awareness of what is ‘in your stars’ is an excellent basis for making decisions in life.
Divination
Divination is perhaps the most common method of reading the future. When we use predictive tools such as Tarot cards, Runes, the I Ching or Geomancy, we are essentially holding a mirror up to a particular area of life, and allowing the mirror to reveal what energies or qualities are ‘at play’ in that situation. . The energies are depicted in symbolic language or images.
A divination reading gives us a vibrational snapshot or energetic portrait of the situation, revealing the key influences that produced the situation, their current state, and how these will unfold in the future if we continue on the current trajectory.
The purpose of such a reading is to be able to observe the situation from a “bird’s eye view” and then determine the best path forward for ourselves based on what we have learned.
For example, in a tarot reading, the questioner focuses on the issue at hand and draws cards from the deck. The cards chosen will reflect or mirror the dominant energies active in the domain of the question, as well as the natural trajectory of their unfolding.
The cards can show people, situations or attitudes that contribute to the current state of affairs or developments that will soon manifest themselves. Often the cards reflect the inner state of the questioner himself.
Fate versus free will
Once you spend time working with oracles, you will undoubtedly begin to wonder about concepts such as “destiny,” “destiny,” and “free will.” Many people struggle with the idea that the future can be predicted, because it implies that our future is already written and there is nothing we can do about it.
This is not the case. It’s more complex than that!
The truth is that the future is a to blend of ‘written’ and ‘unwritten’.
There are many paths available to you right now as potential paths for your future. It’s like you’re now at a crossroads with a hundred different paths in front of you.
When you consistently practice certain behaviors, or consistently make the same type of choices over and over again, or focus on and rigorously prioritize certain goals, activities, or feelings, certain pathways become more and more likely and thus begin to develop more and more strongly. concretely as the Way of your future, while other pathways become less and less likely, and thus gradually fade away from your vibrating intersections.
In other words, trajectories that were initially “possibilities” become “probabilities” over time and then eventually become “opportunities.” so likely that they essentially are certainties. This is due to the power of momentum that has built up behind the energy you have been focusing on in a sustainable way – intentionally or unintentionally.
So when you get a prediction from a divination tool like the Tarot or the I Ching, sometimes what is predicted is actually inevitable and “set in stone,” while at other times the future is more malleable.
When energy has not built up much momentum, it is more subject to conscious influence. If we have invested a lot of energy in a certain direction or practiced a certain behavior consistently for a long time, or if we have taken serious or dramatic action, then it is a lot harder to stop the momentum that has built up.
Often the Tarot indicates this malleability with an upside-down card, showing that the energy is in a weaker state, either because it is very new, very old, repressed, or dormant.
You create your reality
In many cases, the predictions given by a divination are highly dependent on your current approach or attitude towards the situation.
This is important to remember, especially if you experience a negative reading! If you change your approach, you can also change what the oracle predicts for you, because you will stop on the path you are currently on and choose a different path to take. This changes your options.
The best way to deal with a difficult fortune telling is to identify the source of the tension, recalibrate your approach, and then apply these changes to your life. After some time has passed, you can read again, and you will probably find that more paths to success have been opened!
One of the most valuable aspects of divination tools such as the Tarot of I Ching is that they help us become aware of our own biases and motivations, and show us how dramatically our behavior and attitudes influence the circumstances of our lives .
An excellent way to use these tools is to ask what energy, attitude, or approach would be most helpful to you in your situation. This places you in a proactive and powerful orientation towards your own future and is a much healthier way to use oracles.
Your future is not something that just happens to you, and you shouldn’t let a negative-sounding prediction from an oracle or an ominous warning from an astrologer discourage you from pursuing whatever you want.
There is always a path to what you want if you can stay open to life and be flexible in your attitude! Life is a sea of energy, and oracles help reveal the direction of the currents, and how strong the currents are moving.
Once we get an energetic reading, we can adjust our behavior to “go with the flow” and follow the path of least resistance!
