SCORPIO - "OMG! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT'S COMING!" Tarot Reading

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And here we have the princess of swords. Now, this is a very curious energy. I feel like you have a very active mind. I feel like you're very analytical, very intelligent. Yeah. I feel like you like to learn. This is a student energy. [clears throat] Okay. This is somebody that is probably interested in a whole heck of a lot of things. Very curious. We love the process of getting immersed in a new subject or meeting a new person or like going down another rabbit hole. Yeah. Um, and I think that you have you have a lot of things that you like, a lot of things that you're interested in. This is the card where we say we don't want to let the princess drive the the car, right? We don't want to let her drive the boat. Um, we need to make sure that we're in conscious intentional control over this sort of rabbit hole curiosity. you know, um there's the possibility here that we've got too many things we're interested in, that there are too many rabbit holes to go down and how do we choose and how do we sort of bring that energy back to the center and use it deliberately. Okay, we can't study everything. We can't learn everything. We can't get to know everything. We might have too many goals, too many competing priorities, just too many cool things out there for us to learn about.

You know, let's put this into a little bit of context now. See, this is a good problem to have. A lot of people aren't interested in anything. I feel like you've got the opposite problem. Yeah. Five of swords. Exactly. Right. too many uh interests, too many priorities, too many things that we're we uh we want to do. I think also with the five of swords, there's too much stress, too many worries. Yeah. Let's keep going. A lot of air energy here. We got a devil card. Very good. We've got a magician. That's what we need. The magician is the one that's organizing all this. And there we go. Uh organized and finding that sense of purpose. and you know um uh the undivided sort of um destiny path that you're on. The magician, the devil, this is everything that we need to focus the the air energy. And again, it's it's really a good problem to have. A lot of people, I hate to say it, not a whole lot going on up there, right? You've got you got too much going on. Um but that's a problem that we can work with. Okay? [snorts] It's much easier to narrow your possibilities down to one or two kind of pathways than for you to just suddenly develop some curiosity. Yeah. To suddenly develop an interest in something. Right. It's much easier to narrow it down.

There we have the seven of swords. More of that uh that air energy and also the ability to tune into the signal and reduce some of the noise. Okay. Yeah. And there the emperor. Beautiful major arcana energies for you and the fool and the nine of wands. Yeah. So, um yeah, you know, I think that sometimes here your energy gets a little scattered. Okay. You're what you're doing here is you're kind of reclaiming your direction. It may feel like things have kind of stalled out a little bit or you know that there is just like this this increase of stress or we just kind of feel scattered. We're reclaiming our energy and we're focusing it in the direction that is, you know, that is best for us. I just I kind of think you just have too many goals. You know, we see the star and we think the universe is full of them. There are so many potentialities. There are so many potential, you know, destinies for us. There's so many stars out there. Sometimes it's hard for us to know which one's ours. Yeah. Because I think you're so capable. We got this devil. We got this magician. You got the emperor. You're so capable of fulfilling any one of these possible destinies, you know, and that's kind of again that's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem, you know, but you're so good at so many different things. Well, how do you choose? You may be trying to really like fulfill fulfill every possible part of yourself at the same time. Your energy is split. Your energy is being divided across too many different directions right now. You can't improve everything at once. Yeah.

Let's select our mystery card, bonus card, confirmation card. This is a random card from the Smith Weight Tarot. We're going to set this down right over here. And we're not going to look at that until the end of the reading. We need to select a guardian to sit on top. Now, who are we feeling here? Um, I kind of am drawn to Danny, the eight of pentacles here, simply because I feel like you're kind of reaching out for too many things at once. Yeah. Uh, if you have a prediction for that card, Scorpio, please let me know in the comments. All right. We should use our intuition. Uh it's a good thing to sort of practice. Yeah. And I do feel like that's a big part of your big part of the message here for you is like get out of your head, trust your intuition and choose the one thing couple of things right that are going to be the highest priority for you. But first, let's look around the room. See a lot of major arcana. 1 2 3 4 five. Half the reading is major arcana and basically half the reading is swords cards. We've got luckily a nice uh a nice willpower there at the end. Um [snorts] but really it's you know it's kind of like your your destiny is calling you and your mind is scattered in all these other things that seem so fun, so possible, so interesting. Right? Progress might feel kind of slow right now because your attention keeps shifting. Okay. Do you have like a lot of like a lot of unfinished projects or like I feel like you got too many tabs open somewhere. You know what I'm saying? Like um you also seven of swords. You might getting like you might be getting conflicting advice from people. Yeah. You might be listening to too much of other people's recommendations. You know what this is? Someone's got a bad case of the shoulds. Yeah, you should do this. You should do that. I should do this. I should do that. Should is my like least favorite word in the English language, you know. Um, if you speak another language, I'm sure you do. I'm pretty sure you do. Uh what's the equivalent in another language for that word should? Like you should do this, you should do that, I should do this and this and this and a million other things. I feel like we got a bad case of the shoulds. Yeah. Um so we've got a lot of majors. We got a lot of air cards. Yeah. And really the the princess of swords, like I said, it's a good problem to have. At least you're at least you're smart. At least you're curious. At least you're into things. You want to know everything about everything. And so you probably have a similar problem to me. Uh every night when I go to bed, I've got about an hour where I can read and I spend the whole hour trying to figure out what to read, searching for books. Ooh, these look interesting. I read a couple pages and be like, "Yeah, that one's really interesting, but oh, this kind of reminds me of that other vibe or that other subject or that other philosophy or whatever, right? that other science or and then I start going down that pathway and pretty soon you're taking all of these detours and it just feels like I'm just stressed out, you know? I just there's too much clutter in my mind. Yeah. So, we have to use this energy here to really say, okay, what deserves my attention right now above everything else? There's a bottleneck. You know, there is too much. You're you're interested in too many things. You're you're good at too many things that you cannot possibly do all of them. You know, there is more life in you than you'll ever have the chance to live in this incarnation. There is more curiosity. There is more potential in you than you'll ever get to experience in one life. And that's just kind of the sad reality of it, right? So, um I think like there I think there's this is kind of an issue that's creating um more pressure throughout the entire system is that our mind is just is is honestly a little bit undisiplined right now. There's too much stress. It's the stress of having to choose. It's the stress of of too many possibilities. And I think if we do something about that, it's going to create a lot of flow, a lot of momentum, a lot of growth, a lot of movement in other places in our lives. Okay? There's too much complexity here. And I think I think ultimately your intuition knows what you should be prioritizing right now. Okay. So this five is saying, "I don't know. I don't know what to do. I don't know what I want to do. I want to do everything and so I don't know how to choose and I'm starting to feel stressed out. I'm starting starting to feel kind of [snorts and clears throat] just discouraged, man. You know, starting to feel kind of defeated by that because I don't know what to do. I don't know what to choose. I don't know what my target is. I don't know what subject I should grab on to and say this is it consciously, right? But unconsciously two of swords this is the card really that is holding the key. It's saying stop thinking about it so much you know um in a way stop thinking and just do it. Um take a leap of faith and just get into it and and but it really it's saying something else. It's saying that we we need to go through the process of analysis. We've got to use our mind. You got one you got to use it. You got to analyze. is you got to split things up into little pieces and look at all the little pieces. But then you got to stop thinking and you have to trust that something inside of you knows. Okay? Something inside of you knows what you're supposed to be focusing on right now. It's your intuition, right? It's that little crescent moon at the top of the card there which we can only tune into the signal right when we try to turn down the volume on the noise. We're trying to do too much math. And I think it's it's not really a math problem because when you do the math, every number is infinite. Every answer is the right answer. Every destination seems equally possible and plausible because you've got everything it takes. You've got the discipline. You've got the curiosity and the the faith. You've got the intelligence. You've got the ingenium. You've got the drive. You got the motivation. And you've got the, you know, the inspiration. You've got everything you need, right? And so it's kind of hard to really for the mind, at least logically, to decide on one thing because you have what it takes to accomplish anything ever that you can possibly conceive of in the history or the future, the entire lifespan of the human race. You can do whatever you want. Sometimes that's a burden to carry, isn't it? Sometimes that's a problem. Again, a good problem to have, right? And we've got the devil card in the background here because I feel like this is that driving force. You want to create something. This is what's pushing you. You're and I think it's this is kind of like spirit. Spirit is pushing you to create something that is going to extend beyond your ego. Something that will last a lifetime or more. Uh something that other people will benefit from, not just you, right? Creating a future, leaving your mark on the universe in some way. Spirit's pushing you to create a life that is pleasurable, that feels good. You know what's missing from the reading? The water. Where are the cups? Where's the Where are the cups? Right? We need pleasure. We need a paradise here, right? We have no earth. We have no water. What is earth and water? Paradise, right? Empress energy, right? It's building a life in the physical realm that actually feels fulfilling. It's building a house that feels like a home. Okay? That's what you're being motivated to do. Use all of your talents and skills and and spiritual gifts to build something that's going to last for a long time and that's going to feel freaking good. Okay. Now, what is that going to what's that going to be like? So, it's kind of like we we're getting out of the present moment. we're getting at just what seems exciting or what seems interesting now, but like what's going to have a long-term benefit for me? What do I need to f what's the priority? What do I need to focus on now that's going to give me the most bang for my buck that's going to really make a difference like down the road? you know, I could read some kind of, you know, just some random kind of fiction books or something. Or I could really really focus on studying something in in in a more structured way, not haphazard, not just like, man, I'll just whatever whatever I I feel interested in tonight, right? But maybe having more of a of a long-term kind of plan in mind, kind of a graduated step-by-step kind of thing. That's something the devil card can do is can endure, right? That I don't just I don't jump to another topic when I get bored with this one. Yeah. And uh and so that's I think that's part of this kind of endurance, this motivation to stick with something even when it's when it's boring. Even when our mind starts saying, "Let's just let's read a different book. I've read a chapter and this one's boring." I feel like this is also um you know that sense of discipline and that sense of like I am creating something fulfilling but sometimes that gratification is is deferred. Okay. I think right now there's just there's too much complexity. The even just the devil card is very simple as just saying I want to create something. I want to build something. I don't want to just pursue things that just have really like no no kind of meaning to it. Just random kind of curious things. No, I want to build something that actually is going to be worth the effort, you know? And then of course we've got our magician cuz you're you're magic, right? And it's really I feel the magician has that power of concentration. Yeah, you're a magic maker. It's time to make some magic. We don't have any pentacles here when nothing's changing. What what's ch the only thing that the magician is changing is our mind, right? We keep changing our mind. So I feel like this is that card of concentration. We need to choose one target and we need to commit because that concentration now when you when you concentrate your mind, you can accomplish anything. You can move mountains. You can build universes. When you concentrate your mind, concentrate your effort, the magician can create a new reality. And we do that by focusing on the target and committing ourselves one habit, the project, one financial goal, one practice. Focus creates force. Okay. The magician, it's the it's the maestro. The magician is the conductor of the whole orchestra. And so we're controlling our devil. We're controlling our fool and our emperor. Controlling our thoughts, controlling our efforts. That's the magician. That's what the magician means. Where I'm taking responsibility and I'm taking control over my faculties. It's one thing. I got a I got a devil here. I got a fool. I got a an emperor. I got a I got a curious mind. None of that means anything if you don't have, you know, you can have I got the violins, I got the the timony drums over here, I got the symbols, you know, I got the piano, I got some flutes. And it doesn't mean anything if there isn't a a conductor, you know, standing on that little podium thing waving that little wand around. I got one over here I use for Terologic, right? waving that wand around and orchestrating this whole thing, directing your magic where it needs to go. Okay. And I think that's that's exactly what we need right now. Yeah. The path forward to your destiny, to your fulfillment, it's not hidden. It's kind of buried underneath all these options. Okay. So, we're choosing one thing. We're moving toward it. Everything is going to become clear. We're bathed in this divine light, this healing light. It's going to feel easier. It's going to feel less stressful. It's going to feel like you're in the flow. You're still going to have to deal with your mind getting tempted to go get distracted by something squirrel, right? Something shiny over there. May maybe a shiny squirrel. I don't know. A little squirrel wearing armor, I guess. Um, I'd be curious, but it's go you're going to recognize the the correctness. You're going to recognize the alignment of that. Everything is going to become clear. This is the path of destiny. You're moving toward you're moving forward toward your star, the one that you've sort of found in the night sky. And you said, "That's the one. That's the habit. That's the project. That's the conversation. That's the goal. That's the practice. That's where I'm going. And you follow through. Okay? And we don't stop, you know, like the devil's going forward, climbing that mountain, going toward that star with determination and motivation and endurance. We don't stop and say, "Ooh, squirrel." And then we just get lost in all this, you know, we get lost in these other options because I think your your heart's in the right place. Okay. But I feel like spirit is highlighting the mental energy because in order for the magician to create magic and cause change in the physical world, okay, it that spiritual current has to go through your heart and your mind. And right now your mind is kind of like refracting the light refle refracting that spiritual current.

Now at the end we have the nine of wands which is perfect alignment right strength willpower. It's the strength. This is the strength that says I am committing to something and I'm sticking with it. Not forever. It's not like I I focus on one like you're going to study um I don't know you're going to study some philosophy or something like this. You're going to study some practice or you're going to learn jiu-jitsu. Oh great, now jiu-jitsu that's my entire life. Nothing else ever again. That's my one sole purpose in life, right? No. No. But it might be the priority for right now. Yeah. The idea is we can't keep changing our mind. That's not the right kind of change that the magician needs to do. I think it's about holding our mind to our concentrated chosen intentional path until we deem we've reached the you know we've reached the goal there and and I can you know continue on uh with my journey in another way. So it really is kind of you know depends on how far away that destination is. Yeah. And so nothing nothing has to we don't have to feel like something's permanent, you know. Because I think that's part of it. I think you say, "Well, if I commit myself to jiu-jitsu, that means I'm never going to be I'm never going to play baseball or basketball. I'm never going to volunteer fire department. I'm never going to do music. I'm never going to learn piano." Because you committed to jiu-jitsu, right? And so we think, "Oh, it's my destiny. It's my true will. It means I'm just going to do jiu-jitsu forever now and gosh, that would be boring. You know, it'd be boring to just say I got one thing in life and that's it. No, but I think we understand how this is kind of the other um the other problem here, right? That um we have we have the ability to commit, but we're scared of it because we're scared of losing all the other options. We're and and that's not the way it's supposed to work. You don't have to commit yourself. Your your purpose in life, your destiny, your true will is not one thing and then you got to do it for the rest of your life no matter what. That's terrible. That sounds like a prison, right? That's not the way it works. But for right now, we have to have that kind of discipline because otherwise we're just scattered and we're not we're going the opposite extreme where we're not committing to anything, you know. And I because this is someone who's always changing their mind. This is somebody that's always saying, "Oh, I'm going to read this book. No, no, I'm going to read this one over here for a few minutes, a few days. No, skip it. I'm going to do something else." Right now, we need to lock in on that commitment. And we need to view one particular thing as our destiny. That's my whole will right there. Okay? But we know it's not forever. It's not permanent, right? But sh just No, we need it for now. Okay?

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Your general energy is the seven of swords. And this is first of all a card of distraction. And sometimes I I get focused on something and then ooh squirrel ooh something shiny ooh another thing that seems really really cool and before we know it we're in this labyrinth of rabbit holes when I sat down to read one subject I wanted to study about black holes or something right but then I'm just moving all you know going down all these other little side paths and now I ended up on the cooking channel and I say how did that happen? um we need the ability to resist that mental distracted energy. We're training ourselves to concentrate, training ourselves to focus. And so that means that for now your purpose is one goal, one thing, one habit, one financial, you know, um path or something, right? One practice. Not a thousand different things. Yeah. just to train our ability to focus. That's the name of the game. So, we'll pretend that your destiny right now, your purpose in life is that one thing. Okay? And this card becomes that signal to noise ratio. I'm locked in on the signal and I need to use my magic. I need to use my will to turn down the volume on the noise so I can stay fixed to this signal. so I can resist distractions. We're simply learning how to focus. We're learning how to concentrate, okay? Because it's not easy and it's it's hard, you know, and and I get to that point when I'm trying to read a book that I'll get a few pages in and it'll get harder to concentrate. And that's when I think I need a different book. And then we're just jumping around book to book to book to book to book for an hour and say, "Okay, go to bed. Try again tomorrow." you know, and so we have to hold oursel to the task past that point where our mind starts saying, "I want a squirrel." We start to get kind of restless. We have to ease oursel through, right? And um I'm neurode divergent. Okay? So, it's not easy and sometimes it's actually like mentally painful to try to stay locked in on something that I don't really want to do. Um, and so we don't have to go to that extreme where we just force oursel to do it for hours and hours and hours. But, you know, push yourself a minute or two past that point of of discomfort. It's a muscle. We got to exercise it. And like any muscle, you don't go in and try to deadlift a,000 lbs. You start with one of them little 5 lb little like weights, you know? Um, and you work it. Yeah. and we get better and and better at it. Uh the emperor here in the environment, well, that's your fortified ego. This is our ability to say, "This is my goal. This is what I'm doing. This is our discipline. We're taking it seriously." And the emperor is kind kind of like a a parent, a parental figure for the princess that's saying, "No, we're not going to change our mind again every 5 minutes. We're going to sit down and we're going to do our homework. And if we can push through a little bit of that discomfort, then we can get a cookie. Okay? Otherwise, um, we're going to feel like we're not making any progress and and we're not idling away our years. Okay? You're very active, very busy, you're very curious, you know, but we're not actually making progress anywhere. And we don't got a lot of time, you know? So, I feel like we're we're learning this process and and trust me, it's not easy. I know that. I mean, it seems easy in a tarot reading. It seems pretty obvious, right? We got all this all this air energy. It's too much sores. And what we need to do is discipline our minds and and I need to be able to say, "Okay, tonight I'm studying my math book." Oh gosh, that sounds like torture, right? And so I'll do that. I'll study the math book and I'll say, "I'm going to work on it for, you know, I'll work on it for for 10 or 15 minutes." And then, ooh, I start to really get that like restless mind energy. Right. Okay, there it is. There's that threshold. Now, I'll extend it a couple minutes. The point where I usually will quit. I'll push myself a little bit. Lost. No, I can do five more. I'll do five more minutes. Okay. And then you end you say, "Hey, that was a success. That was good. I just exercised my discipline. I didn't just give in to the to the discomfort the second it it showed up. I pushed through a little bit. That feels like a win, you know, and I feel like that's kind of the emperor. We need to take it seriously. We need that discipline. We need to have an ego that is cooperating with us. We have the strength. We you have that divine gift of discipline and and concentration. Okay? We just we have to exercise it, right?

What we have here is the fool in the position of the fear, worry, and concern. This isn't your inability to concentrate. It's not that you have a weak mind or it's not that you you don't know how to do hard things. The fear is that if I lock in I commit with discipline to this thing over here, it means I'm thinking about all the other things that I don't get to do. That's the torture, you know, cuz I'm sitting there reading this book. I picked up a sci-fi book last night and I read I was reading like the first chapter and and I was reading and reading and but then in the back of my mind I was thinking I'm missing out on all that those other great books. Oh my god, I really should be reading. I want to start studying the E Jing again. And I really should, you know, read that philosophy book or oh that other book I got, I really wanted to read that or I should get back to uh CS Lewis or it's like, wait a minute, what just happened in this sci-fi book I'm reading, you know? Um, and so I feel like we kind of need to sit down beforehand and say, this is what I'm doing, and I have to tame this part of myself. This is a very curious fool energy that wants novelty. We thrive on novelty. We thrive on curiosity and on discovery. You need this card. You need this spiritual energy. Okay? This isn't something that we need to get rid of or we need to like silence this. We don't need to to exercise this from our souls. This is our soul, right? This is me realizing that I can learn and study anything I want in this infinite universe. I can accomplish it. I could get to know it. There is never there is never a dull moment. Uh there is never a lack of new, right? There's never an absence of novelty in this universe. You know that, right? The universe is infinite. In any moment, there is an infinite uh available potential, you know, uh novelty that's there for you. That's a that's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem, right? Because you like everything and you're good at everything. But we need this kind of curiosity, but we just have to tame it. Okay? We have to be able to harness this and apply oursel to to what's important right now. Pick your target and say, "I'm going to do it. I'm going to push my if it takes me a month, I'm going to do it. It may be uncomfortable. I'll push through the discomfort for at least a minute or two or whatever. Um, and then I'll put the book away and I'll go do something else. We don't want to break our mind. You know what I mean? And I feel like, you know, a lot of us are are kind of feeling that way right now.

The nine of wands here at the end, this is strength. This is willpower. This is backbone. Sometimes concentration, focus, willpower, they need to be trained. Sometimes it's like I have a hard time sitting still and and uh concentrating on one thing. So I might sit and stare at a door knob for five minutes. As uncomfortable as that is, right? We have to practice. Practice will make us stronger. This is mental practice. All the sevens, right? Are you pushing yourself past the comfortable place so that you can grow? It's hard and hard things make you stronger, right? It's very very elementary. I know that it's meant supposed to be supposed to be simple. Yeah. Cuz the complexity is what's preventing us from really getting further down the road here. Yeah. So, this is a building up of strength for you where you're able to utilize all of these wonderful spiritual gifts that you have. Yeah. And you're able to to really place this energy, your magic, your magic wand, you're able to point it at anything you want in the universe and make it happen. You're honing your magic maker ability.

Now, let's look at the mystery card. Stay tuned during this reading, too, because we're doing an extended reading as well. Uh, it's a bonus reading for you, Scorpio. And so, I wanted to just go straight into the extended reading just so everybody gets a gets an idea what the extended readings are, you know, and if you feel like uh joining the channel, becoming a channel member or joining the Patreon, you're you're free to do that. Okay. Um, so don't uh don't hang up after the mystery card. Okay. What do you think it's going to be? I I want pentacles and or water. I want an empress card really. I think pentacles would be good because we need to like we need to identify the target and take the step. Maybe an ace of pentacles. Let's see. Ace of wands. Hey, that's good too because this is the concentration of will. This is your magic wand. This is your pointer and saying that's what I'm going to do and I'm going to put my will. I'm going to focus my attention. Your attention is your currency, right? It's cash, right? Um and and you have to pay attention to what's really important and you have to you have to focus on that target. Now, I think I think that you already know what the priority is. And I feel like it might be something we're kind of avoiding because we know it's going to be difficult. I know I I should be studying that thing, but it's so much more fun to just read some, you know, sci-fi horror kind of, you know, easyto read kind of book or something, right? I know I should be focusing on on what is going to bring me more long-term benefits. There's no there's no law that says we can't do both, but we can't avoid the difficult thing in deference to just what's easy or or what is going to be um we can't give in to that that part of our mind. Okay, this is that laser pointer concentration. Instead of having eight different tabs open, let's focus on the work we're doing on that one. Okay, at least for a certain time. Now, maybe we do that Pomodoro timer thing, right? We say, "I'll do 25 minutes, 5 minutes, I'll do whatever I want, and then 25 minutes I'll get back to reading that very dense philosophy book. 5 minutes I'll play Angry Birds or Snake. I like playing that snake game on the phone, you know. Let's do our extended reading." Okay, there's a link in the corner. There are links in the video description if you decide you want to join the channel or join the Patreon. And, you know, check out the website, too. All right. Uh, so let's dive into the eging Scorpio. We're going to consult the book of changes. We'll do some oracle cards and probably some tarot cards, too. Yeah. But well, we'll see. So, let's let's get into it. 33. Retreat. Okay. And that makes that makes sense. I feel like that's kind of what we've been doing as we approach that. um that sort of mental tension of discomfort, right? The the mental discomfort, that's when we will retreat and we'll change course. We'll change our mind. We'll change our goal. We'll change what we're reading tonight. Okay? Creating success. Constancy is going to yield a small harvest. Retreat means withdrawing from what can harm you as a way to keep yourself whole. when you retreat, you hide yourself away so that you won't lose yourself. Okay? So, this mental tension and literally like sometimes when you're forcing yourself to concentrate, it's literally uncomfortable. Like it kind it literally like I don't know like it almost hurts when you're trying to force yourself to do something that like um you know it's not easy to do, right? And so we retreat because we feel like well this is uncomfortable. This is this is stressful. It's tension. It shouldn't feel this way. So, I stop. You know, it's like they say when you're when you're stretching, it should feel nice and easy. If you're stretching and it hurts, stop, right? That's what they say. But this is the mind. And it's the same kind of thing. But it's like we have to keep stretching it. We have to keep pushing it a little bit further so we can develop that power of picking our goal, following through, getting her done, making some magic, and moving on to the next thing. Okay? In a way that is intentional and and sort of um uh well, I think productive in offering no resistance and creating no friction, retreating bears fruit in small and conspicuous ways. What must you do to stay safe and whole? And how can you change your relationship so they support your integrity? I think changing your relationship with your mind, okay? And realizing that, okay, it's it's going to be a challenge for me to just pick that one goal and focus on that and not retreat from it, okay? But I got to try to discipline myself to stretch my ability at least a couple minutes a day, you know. And just like your body, if you stretch your body every day, pretty soon you're going to be able to do all sorts of stuff, you know. Um, and that's kind of the thing with the mind as well. And that's that's big time. That's the focus here. All right. Okay. I think that hexog is right on the money. We're going to do a fortune teller card now as a mystery card. Put that right there. And we're going to summon your spirit animal, the frog spirit. Look at that. Clear out the clutter. Yeah, clear out the clutter. Okay, there are just too many tabs open. There are too many things going on. Too many things of interest. you've got too many books that are open on your table. It's like we've got to close all these books, focus on this one, and read it for a set amount of time, and then say, "Okay, now I can just find that squirrel in the shining armor or something." You know, we got to clear out that clutter. Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense. Here's an oracle of the radiant sun. And we got this protection. Well, that's the retreat. Okay. That's the retreat. And I think that it's, you know, we we kind of are in that old habit, that old pattern of, you know, like if it hurts, you stop, right? Um, and things should always feel easy and we should be in the flow state and if I'm really meant to do it, it should just be a breeze, right? This isn't a breeze. Sometimes it's a it's a stormy kind of mental weather. Um, and the mind will always try to find the easiest route. That's kind of what the mind does. It finds the path of of sort of least resistance, you know, like a like a draft trying to enter a house. It's going to the wind is going to find just the little cracks where it can just find the the easiest kind of thing. Um, so I feel like we're we're kind of protecting our energy, but it's we're doing it in a way that is is actually scattering it, you know, and I don't think it's I don't think it's honoring these spiritual gifts that you really truly have. And it's it's no put down on you, right? It's no offense to you. At least I don't mean it that way. Um, I feel like we I feel like you recognize how much power you really do have. And I think that it's something that we're we're working on. It's something we're going to continue to to spend time on because it's worth doing. Yeah, it's worth doing. And whatever your goals are, well, this is how we're going to achieve them. Let's do an oracle of empowerment. The candle of hope. I am hopeful. Every day I make the choice to be positive. No matter what happens around me, I guard the flame of faith within. At the moment when all feels lost and I face a dead end, hope lights a new way. We got to stay positive and optimistic. We got to realize that this is not perfection. That we are not master magicians. Uh the universe is slowly training us to be better and better and better magicians. This is part of your training. Here is an oracle of manifestation. It says, "The heartfelt petition. Ask spirit for help and express gratitude for what you have. I receive in divine timing." Express gratitude for all of these spiritual gifts and say, "I'm going to honor these spiritual gifts by accomplishing my my my goals." You know, I'm going to honor my spiritual gifts. I'm going to honor the universe by getting her done, by creating the life that I truly desire. I'm going to do that. And to do that, I we kind of have to we kind of have to get focused. Yeah. Beautiful. For the path of the serpent, let's go ahead and use the Pamela Smith Tarot. You have the 10 of cupsy. There's the water. There's the life that you really, really desire. And if you if we exercise and we practice and we stretch our mind and we get focused and we avoid too many of the distractions right now, we're not perfect, but we're going to try, we're going to get that dream come true life. We're going to be happy and healthy and wealthy and wise. Beautiful. Two of Pentacles, right? Um it's all about in how we respond to well, in this case, how we respond to our own mind. And we can respond gently, but we have to direct oursel back. It's kind of a a process of of meditation. There's that two of swords. Okay. And really, the two of pentacles is a card of change. So, we have to change our relationship with our own mind if we want to change the reality of our lives. If we want to change the, you know, um the the the structure of our universe. the two of swords here. Um, making a choice and not feeling like there's always there's always another option. There's always kind of an equal an equal but opposite choice. Um, we don't want to delay the choice. I think the two of swords sometimes is this card of procrastination. And so it's it feels like delay. It feels like I've been spinning my wheels a lot, but I haven't really made a lot of a lot of uh progress anywhere, you know. And honestly, I feel that way when I think about about my studies. You know, I've always been pretty studious. Um, but lately, it's been really difficult for me to just kind of pick a book or pick a subject and intentionally spend some time immersed in that subject so that at the end of the night, I feel like, okay, yeah, like I I did something, you know, um, I'm kind of bouncing around too much between different things, being indecisive. Okay. And that's just that's kind of dwindling dwindling the candle there, right? And um dwindling the energy that we got the five of pentacles. We have to push through the difficult part of it. If [snorts] we stop when it gets challenging, we're never going to make any progress here. So I think the five is also a card of change. Yeah. And I think that it's it's going to be so much easier for us to change our reality when we get control over our our mental process, you know, and that the kind of the the mental the conscious like mental experience of life. Yeah. Let's look at the fortune tellers card. A sacred symbol will bring you protection and guidance. Yeah. What is that sacred symbol for you? Yeah. Um maybe it's the maybe it's the uh conductor's what do they call this? Did they just call it a wand? Any of you in band or orchestra? What is that thing called? Probably just a wand. I guess maybe that's the sacred symbol for you is the the ace of wands. the actual wand, the fire, the vision, keeping your eyes on the target and and setting your setting a goal up for yourself, saying, "My target, my goal is to run from here to the fire hydrant." Okay? As challenging and as painful as that's going to be, that's what I'm going to do. It's within reason, though. You know, it's not like my goal is to run from here to Antarctica. No, no, no. Just here to the end of the block, maybe. Right. It's got to be within reason. So, uh, anyway, new readings for Scorpio Wednesdays and Saturdays. Like I said, this was a bonus reading for you. Make sure you watch both of your regular scheduled readings. Yeah. 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