Month: October 2017

Today is a day to dream of possibilities.  It’s a day to explore choices and fantasies.  Imagine if there were no limitations to stop you?!  Dream big!  There’s no need to be realistic or practical.  Exercise your imagination.  Every amazing thing you’ve created began as a dream.  This often means that you have so many choices available to you that indecision will prevent you from choosing anything.  It could also mean that you have your head in the clouds.  Dreaming of all that could be is keeping you from focusing on the here and now and making any progress.  If you have a lot of structure and stagnation in your life, this card could indicate the need to shake things up in order to recognize alternative paths you could take.  The Seven of Cups also represents altered states of consciousness, dreaming and visualization.  It is good to dream and experiment, but beware of your experiments and fantasies standing in the way of healthy development.

Something that was once close to your heart now feels uninteresting or draining.  You need time alone to contemplate your emotions and decide whether leaving is the best route.  Leaving could have literal meaning, or it could mean changing homes, ending a relationship, quitting a job, going on a trip to find yourself, or leaving behind hopes and dreams.  Whatever it is, you are tired of feeling disappointed and hopeless.  It’s time to let go and move on to better things.  Perhaps your inner cravings for deeper spiritual meaning in your life are driving you forward, up and away.  Today, take some distance from that project or relationship.  You  may come back to it; you may not.  What’s important now is to replenish yourself emotionally and spiritually.  Although the retreat is voluntary, it is also painful.

Your greatest strength is in being vulnerable today.  Let your defenses down.  Stop hiding, especially from yourself.  With a sense of unconditional self-love and compassion towards your self, feel your feelings completely and honestly.  It is time to pull upon your deep inner strength.  It may be that you have pushed away your wild, animalistic desires and impulses for the sake of logic and spirituality.  Strength is urging you to work with that wild part of yourself.  Find a balance between your basic drives and higher aspirations.  You may be surprised to find that getting into your body, whether through exercise, feasting, or sex, actually opens up new spiritual doorways for you and increases your personal power.  If there is conflict in your situation, Strength may be advising you to face your adversary with love and compassion.  Don’t worry: you’re not giving up, only taming the beast.

Think before you communicate today. You are putting off making a decision for now.  You may be feeling ambivalence or uncertainty. You may not want to offend or hurt someone involved.  You need to withdraw in order to contemplate your options.  It’s likely that you’ll decide to say nothing at all, or hold off on making a decision until another day.  That’s all right.  Be rational in making a decision.  You might need to know more facts before you can make an informed decision.  Give yourself the space and time you need to think things through clearly.  Perhaps, you’re feeling like Spock:  you could be ignoring your emotions by using logic to deny how you’re feeling.  Perhaps you may be denying a truth, or compartmentalizing some aspect of your life in order to not have to deal with this truth.

If you’re feeling sad or down today, honor those feelings.  Don’t try to push them away. Whatever loss or disappointment you’ve experienced lately deserves to be felt.  When you take the time to really feel your feelings you can process them, learn from them, and then move forward with greater self-awareness and wisdom.

It’s time to admit that something is over.  It’s time to let it go.  Stop thinking about it.  Stop talking about it.  There’s no need to get in the last word.  Let it go and move on.  If you don’t, you’ll only be dragging out your own suffering.  Something new is awaiting you!  Create space to let it in.