January 4, 2007

• State of the World Reading

  A couple of days ago, Greyfox posted his predictions for 2007.  Last weekend, when he told me of his intention, he suggested that we each post predictions for the new year.  My response was tentative.  I said that I generally don’t make predictions, but I’d think about it.

  Several weeks previously, the_bear had made a somewhat different request.  I had been telling him about my arrangement or “deal” with my Spirit Guides.  In brief, it’s like this:  almost forty years ago, when my Third Eye first opened up, I had become obsessed with knowing what was going to happen.  In addition to the prophetic dreams I was having, I did predictive Tarot readings for myself every day.  Life as it played itself out then became filled with moments of deja vu.

  I began to miss spontaneity and surprise.  It just felt weird, living that way, so in meditative consultation with the Guides who had been indulging my hunger for foresight, we reached a new agreement.  I would deal with each ordinary day as it came, and they would let me know if there was something really momentous, pivotal or critical just around the corner so I could be better prepared to deal with the big stuff and to grasp important opportunities.  After I told the_bear about that, he asked me to share with him whatever my guides might reveal about upcoming events. 

  When I dropped the obsessive focus on future events, I turned my focus onto NOW, paying attention to what’s going on right here where I am and to the full range of all my senses.  As I perceive what is, and detect the trends of where it is going, I reason about what might become from it.  All I have been getting from my Guides lately has been general confirmation that what I surmise, from my observations and the news I hear, is reasonable, logical, probable. 

  What I can surmise from that is that earthquakes are likely, but planetary collisions with asteroids or big cometary debris are unlikely.  Continued war and ecological destruction are more likely than a sudden outbreak of peace and sanity.  The super-rich will continue to grow richer, while the merely wealthy and the striving middle class become more resentful of the super-rich, and the list of tools, toys, opportunities, necessities, and luxuries enjoyed by those classes, without which those of us in the lowest economic class must exist, will continue to expand.  Despite all that, for those of us who are awake and aware, there are ever-expanding opportunities for joy, growth, and attainment on the inner planes.

  As I said above, I don’t generally make predictions.  When I do readings for individuals, I concentrate on telling them what is going on now, particularly what they may be ignoring, denying or failing to notice.  When I’m addressing the whole world, about the whole world, it’s a little hard to guess what my small audience of individual readers might or might not be denying, so I’m just telling it like it is in as much detail as I can.  Previously, I had used either a ten-card Tree of Life spread or a 21-card Gypsy spread for such readings, but today the Guides suggested that I focus more on our collective spiritual state, with the 9-card Cross and Triangle spread.  For it, I am using only the major arcana from The Enochian Tarot.

  It lays out something like this:
  [(R) indicates a card reversed]                       

  2.
  #26 DES
  Reason
  
  5.                 1.                 3.
  #6 MAZ       #18 ZEN        #28 BAG
  The Urn (R)   The Vault (R)   Doubt (R)
  
  4.
  #5 LIT
  Arrow of Truth (R)
  
  8.
  #30 TEX
  The 4 Regions (R)
  
  7.                9.               6.
     #7. DEO       #1 LIL       #17 TAN
  Love (R)      The Babe     Scales (R)

  I have been using this spread for individual readings for some time.  This is the first time I have used it for a group reading.  When I generalize in terms of our species or “most of us,” I mean that this is an overall predominant “tone” or strong theme, rather than statistical norms or averages.

  As a species, we tend to be lazy and selfish, willing to exert ourselves only when threatened with loss of something we value.  As values differ from one person to another and in various cultures, so do the ways vary in which we choose to exert ourselves.  Those qualities of selfishness and laziness will tend to make trouble for the species and the planet to whatever extent we individually ignore basic collective needs, such as breathable air and unpolluted water, to focus on competitive goals and idiosyncratic values.

  At this time, in 2007, the species is, as a whole, so relatively unevolved that what passes for “spirituality” amongst most of us isn’t an experience of the spirit, but rather one of the mind.  Instead of looking to the Spirit within, the general populace depends for spiritual guidance on logical assumptions based on false premises, and obsolete principles engraved long ago in stone, imperfectly communicated, reinterpreted, and mistranslated many times.

  Rather than thinking for themselves, most humans trust the dubious “wisdom” of the herd and have faith in the unenlightened beliefs of their ancestors. They tend to believe leaders who make grandiose false but comforting promises, and reject those who express rational doubt or uncertainty, or who tell them they must exert themselves or accept unwelcome trade-offs in order to survive and prosper.

  Materially, physically, ecologically and economically, the species has taken a very dangerous and destructive path.  Our errors and failures threaten not only our survival, but that of every species in the biosphere… with the possible exception of some viruses and bacteria, and maybe cockroaches.  The way things are going, the question of whether you might survive depends on how fast you can mutate and evolve.  We’d be more likely to survive if we could and would reverse the “way things are going.”

  The destruction already wrought by us and our ancestors scares most of us.  Most of us are afraid, too, of the destructive power and impulses of everyone from teenagers to terrorists and everything from viruses to nuclear explosions.  Nearly everyone, to some extent, fears the unknown and dreads change, even when reason tells us that more is unknown than known, and that life always has to involve change.  Fear paralyzes many individuals and provides a handle for the use of other equally scared but less paralyzed ones in controlling them.  The predominant emotional tone of the dominant species of this planet is fear.

  The central conflict of this time is between a fear-driven urge to get and use a share of what’s left of the planet’s vital resources, and an equally fear-born drive to restrict everyone’s use and conserve the resources.  That which can resolve that conflict is courage:  a fear-transcending acceptance of and satisfaction with what is, and willingness to allow each other the freedom to be and to do according with each one’s level of awareness, while working in accordance with one’s own evolved knowledge. 

  The sense I get is that it will not work to try and force others to change or to do without.  Those who understand the need for change must be content with changing themselves, not pushing, but leading from in front, hoping to be followed.  To the extent that humanity can behave that way, we will manifest a satisfactory renewal.

  

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