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Divination Systems: Be Your Oracle
It's All About the Energy!
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by James Wanless, Ph.D |
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A To be your own oracle means navigating life and manifesting goals by using intuitive tools such as tarot, runes and astrology, and by consulting readers, psychics and shamans. All of these mediums give you information which, you as your own oracle, helps you better determine your course and actions.
Divinatory ways and means are simply catalysts to your own inner knowing, so being your own oracle requires belief in yourself, trust in your intuition, and taking full responsibility for your life.
Once you get an intuitive insight that is true for you, live it. To be your own oracle is to "self-fulfill your own prophecy." You can do this through the time-tested and universal "magician's manifestation meditation" by imagining and feeling yourself being successful, affirming your ability to perform the intention, and by taking action. This process, which needs to be repeated and repeated for success, creates an "energy field" – the creative force that makes for manifestation.
The obvious and yet secret principle of achieving your life goals is the energy you arouse for the task. It is all about the energy! Self-determination is the first imperative ingredient for the arousal of energy. When we decide for ourselves what our right path is, rather than following what others think we should do and who we should be, we are in our authentic power, and that is pure, untainted energy. We are extraordinarily powerful beings, but unless we are true to ourselves, we compromise our creative force.
Because it's all about the energy, this is why passion is so necessary for fulfilling the prophecy. Loving and enjoying what we want produces the most highly charged energy that we can field. To be your own oracle demands great desire. To do what turns you on turns on the energy transmitter in you, which then calls in the opportunities and resources for results.
While we know how to visualize what we want, we often forget to feel in the wellspring of our heart the fiery cauldron of impassioned aspiration. Emotion puts things into motion! Feelings are the conduit for the life force to move through us to move us.
But following our passion does not guarantee success. Taking action, and invoking the gods and goddesses of good fortune gives us even greater energy to call in our desires. And yet, doing this only once may not be enough. Through repetition again and again of acting on our heartfelt emotions along with visualization and invocation, we generate even more energy for a greater chance of success. And using all of these magical faculties of ours is synergistic, exponentially enhancing our magnetic power.
The magic mantra: "See it, Feel it, Believe it, Invoke it, Act on it!" And, "Do it again and again!"
Knowing that it's all about the energy can also show us how we often get what we don't want. Let me tell you a recent true story of mine that illustrates why even magical thinking can go awry when we forget that it's all about the energy.
I was flying home from Jacksonville, Florida and I got a great seat on the plane. Exit row, aisle seat... perfect! There was another guy in my row but he's by the window, so there's an open seat between us... even more perfect! So, I affirm to my aisle partner that, "Nobody is going to sit in the middle seat. This middle seat person will be 'invisible' and for sure, not a large person." Indeed, I was into having this space open and having the perfect flight home. Everything looking good, and they were just about ready to close the doors; it seemed like no more passengers. But all of a sudden, here comes an American Airlines pilot coming on board and heading straight for my aisle. And he is huge! The biggest pilot I've ever seen. "Oh no, oh no." But yes, here he is, filling up the treasured vacant middle seat.
How did that happen? I was strong in my intention, vision, and even voice affirmation that the seat would remain open. What happened to my "magic?" Be aware that even negative energy is a manifester. If you have a great wish that something not happen, you might get exactly what you don't want, because you've put so much energy into it. Energy is the attractor; it's not the words.
My intention was to have something NOT happen. 'Not' is negative, yet is energy, and thus a creator of a negative results. It's all about the energy!
So, what to do the next time you don't want something to happen? Ask for the positive. So, instead of desiring that nobody sit in the middle seat, I should have wished for a wonderful flight. Who knows, maybe somebody meaningful in my life might sit next to me and make my flight even better than wonderful.
Let's remember to not say that, "I don't want." Transform that negative energy into a positive expression.
But even with the best of positive and energetic intentions, sometimes things can go in ways we don't want. Indeed, there are other forces in the world besides our own. No kidding. When that happens, it's best to let it go. To make a fuss about a problem creates even more of a problem – more energy to create more problem. This is not easy, and takes a "priestess" like quality of mental equanimity and emotional equilibrium to let things be as they are.
The "be your own oracle" way of living means to know that our greatest breakthroughs in life often come through setbacks. As I say, "setback equals opportunity," that is if you remember that adage and look for it. So there really is no point in ever being negative, for it energizes and manifests self-defeat.
Setbacks are great energizers! They can awaken us, and they can make us angry, which if channeled is a great, great creative energy resource. I love to see the "Anger" card come up in my Voyager Tarot Readings, as it represents a major opportunity for breakthrough.
Watch out that setback does not deflate you, for that lack of energy will certainly lead to even more setback and even stagnation. Energy goes into reverse. I call it "unergy." Unergy creates a void field in which anything can happen, and you are not your own oracle, not proactively creating the life you intend.
Where's your energy? Guide it to be your own oracle.
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James Wanless, Ph.D
Author & Creator of the Voyager Tarot Deck
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James Wanless is the creator of the best-selling and revolutionary Voyager Tarot Deck, a "modern classic" that has sold 250,000 editions since 1985.
A former political science professor with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, he has authored Intuition At Work, Way of the Great Oracle, Strategic Intuition for the 21st Century, and his most recent multimedia online study course and personal growth process entitled Way of the Seeker.
James Wanless has performed 7,000 Readings over a 28 year span while being a keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and teacher of creative intuition and symbology throughout the world.
www.voyagertarot.
com
www.jameswanless.
info
Phone: 1-800-676-1256
jameswanless@
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