Aligning mind body soul with Tarot
The Emperor and the Four of Swords tarot reading.
I heard Joe Dispenza talking about what he did first thing in the morning. He is adamant that if you haven’t taking charge of your ‘state’ and practiced the state you want to operate from by 10 am, your day is lost (not quite)
He starts by asking himself ‘What am I doing?
I love to wake up with a clear intention of what I am doing. I love being on a mission. But recently I’ve been waking up feeling a bit under par and thinking how can I get over the remains of cold? I won’t go into detail but the ‘remains’ are unpleasant and involve coughing.
With this question in mind, I pulled a card for some insight. It was the Emperor.
The Emperor and the Four of Swords Tarot Reading…
The Emperor is a powerful character. He’s strong, determined and nothing is going to stop him get what he wants. He empowers himself by armouring up his feelings, of fear, doubt, I can’t, I want, to have the discipline to follow through his mission. The two ram heads on his throne remind us of stubborn determination.
First thought therefore, was needing to have the discipline to do everything possible to get well. Not smoke a rollie. Dairy? I wondered what the Tarot would say? And so I pulled a second card, for ‘clarification’.
The Four of Swords. Which made me laugh because only the day before on the subject of ‘what am I doing?’ I had asked myself what card would embody that and decided on the four of Swords. because this is the card of taking time out, taking a pause to tune into your inner mind and align your thinking. Align our kundalini energy, the energy of the third eye, the throat and the heart so that they are coherent. Align our life force energy, intuition, self expression and feelings.
I could immediately see that managing my inner state was the important factor in ‘empowering’ myself. And that this was a moment for focus and discipline. As I had been feeling more like I was unravelling (five of swords) than working on being coherent.
There are lots of teachers that teach us to bring the heart and the mind into coherence with the breathe. And indeed I do a qi gong beathing meditation in the morning that does just that. It’s also very enjoyable as there’s a part when Robert Peng, the teacher on this occasion, asks us to imagine that we are a sponge absorbing Qi. Qi being a name for the universal life force energy that holds unlimited creativity and possibility. Apparently it is in this space that we are able to create. To manifest as I understand it. And to heal. Robert Peng says ‘I am in Qi and Qi is in me’ and reminds us to also break into a broad smile and feel the release of peace and joy and ‘all is well’ that comes with smiling. It isn’t possible to be miserable when we smile. Try it.
Teachers like Joe Dispenza and Dawson Church and Greg Braden (to mention a few I have followed) all suggest that it is in this state that we co create our lives.
Meditation. The idea seems to be that when we get to state where we drop our Ego, for a moment , take the pressure of the ‘I AM’, this is what I think, believe, my identity, and drop into a space where that’s not relevant…what is relevant is the experience of peace and joy and everything is ok and gratitude and let go and as a Osho used to say ‘Nothing to do, nowhere to go’. When the to do list and all the constraints of reality fade into the background you have a moment to regenerate.
This morning as I write this, I also love another idea about this. It is that I don’t have to have a mission. I don’t have to know where I am going. What a relief. I just ‘have’ to give my mind body and soul the opportunity to loiter in the rejuvenating energy of Qi and Universal Intelligence. It’s all out there. Anything we need to know is ‘out there’. We just have to sit and breathe, and relax, and smile, and be peaceful.
And it’s a start. A good start to the morning.
Joe Dispenza goes a step further and suggests we set up our meditation by….
Reminding yourself what you are not going to do
Reminding yourself what you are going to do
And in the meditation, once you slow down and enter a coherent state (four of swords) and are in an optimal system where you can change, you can reprogramme your thoughts by practicing the ‘feeling’ of the experience of what you are going to do. As if its already happened. Is Happening.
As he describes his process, he asks
‘What is the greatest expression of myself today….and then he brings to mind two memories and two behaviours to remember how I’m going to think, how am going to act, rehearse change, feel the feeling and feel gratitude. He practices bringing up the feeling with eyes closed so he can bring it up with eyes open, to stay in this state the whole day, notice where he did go unconscious…next day try again.
He says ‘When those synchronicities start to happen, the magic happens you don’t want it to end, you realise you are creating them….’
It’s always inspiring to listen to a master.
Something I was reminded of is when you are RELAXED in the heart we are more awake in the brain. Fear, Anxiety, Stress all keep us out of having a relaxed heart, which is one of the reasons I love reading Tarot, as the clarity it brings relaxes the heart so that our mind knows what to do.
Do come and have a tarot reading with me in person or online via whatsapp video. Either work well, because the connection is an energetic one anyone, of heart, mind and soul. Who says when two or more are gathered….