Depending on what part of the world you’re in and on your own beliefs and traditions most people are preparing for Christmas and their holiday celebrations. But we’re also coming up to the end of the year and I hope that between all the gift giving and receiving, eating, drinking and socialising you will take some time to reflect on the year that has just gone by. Next month I’ll be sharing a lot of information about how to have the 2015 of your dreams, but before we get to that, I really think it’s important to take some time to look back at what has gone, at the path that has lead us to where we are now, just like we do in a tarot reading.
What happened this year? What were the highlights and what were the low points? What did you learn in 2014? Think about everything that happened and ask yourself, did you choose those things or did they just happen? Did you make a decision about how you wanted your relationships to grow? What steps did you take to have the career you desire? Did you make any decisions or did things just happen to you? Of course, we can’t control everything that happens in life. We can’t control the actions of others and we can’t avoid some truly awful things like the death of a loved one. I know, because I experienced that one myself just three months ago. But you still always have choices. How you react to any event is within your control; you choose to give yourself time to grieve a death or lost relationship, you choose to learn from what happened and never make the same mistakes again, or to continue in the same behaviour patterns.
I had some truly awful struggles this year, but looking back at them, I can see what I want from 2015. Whatever happened in 2014, no matter if you made good choices or bad, is over and done with now. The point of looking back is not to dwell on mistakes or beat yourself up again over something that happened. Congratulate yourself on all that you achieved this year and look at how you can build on that. For the bad, congratulate yourself for surviving it and know that you did the best that you could with what you knew then. Every experience changes and shapes us into someone new, what does this new you want to do with what you’ve learned?
One of the reasons I stopped doing tarot readings, the main reason in fact, was because I just didn’t feel like I was helping people anymore. Increasingly the readings were becoming ways for people to not make decisions or to take action, rather than using them as a tool for empowerment. Trust me when I say we never want our choices to be taken from us or have someone else, even a tarot reading, telling us what will happen or what we should be doing. Decide what you want and then if you need help with how to achieve your goals, by all means get advice and use tools like the tarot to help empower you. Know who you are and where you want to be and reflection and introspection can really help to show you that.
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