Tower or Treasure?

When we experience a powerfully shifting change in our lives, this can sometimes be associated with what I would call a “Tower Event”.  As pictured in the Tarot Card ‘The Tower’, something has shaken us to the core, we may feel as though the carpet has been ripped out from under us so to speak.  Things have been shaken up and the news is not good, carnage has occurred and the bodies are flying.  This can denote such unexpected changes as a marriage ending, getting laid off or fired from a job, major plans falling through or having to pick up and move your business to a new location.

These abrupt changes, though they may appear to have come out of nowhere, have actually been brewing for quite some time.  The marriage or job didn’t just end on a whim one day.  Though we may not want to admit it, there have been problems there for a while.  We may have been unhappy in the job,  relationship or space but have “reasons” for staying.  The more fearful we are of the change, usually the more reasons we can come up with not to change our current circumstances.  Though we may have been “dealing” with it, our head has been buried in the sand to the fact that we need to grow.  Things are stagnant, we have outgrown our current circumstances in some way.  The Universe gives us chance after chance to make a change on our own, we receive sign after sign that something in our lives isn’t working and needs a shift.

But change can be scary, so if we don’t take the plunge out of the nest on our own….along comes Mama bird to give us a push and the Universe delivers us a Tower Event in a nice little package of forced change.  The messier and more dramatic the event, the more intricate the planning that went it the creation of the event.  The exact people, places and circumstances must come precisely together in a perfect storm to clean the slate for us.  Karma may be being played out to be cleared as well.  This event would have been coordinated in every way down to the last detail.  The horrifying moment can be realizing we are actually the creators of these periods of seeming chaos in our lives. 

The good news is there’s a treasure in there somewhere.  We can play the martyr, the victim, have a pity party wondering why the whole world has conspired against us.  Or we can look for the treasure…...and wonder how the whole universe is conspiring to help us.  It’s in there somewhere amidst the dust and rubble.  This shining precious treasure is what we take with us as we learn, pick up and rebuild.  The treasure is the lesson, the experience, the journey.  This is a tremendous opportunity for learning and growth.  I often think of the child knocking down his block building to restart and build again, something newer, bigger, better.    You can’t build  a new house on a shoddy foundation so down it all must come.  We rise to the challenge and create something new that matches our current vibration, needs and circumstances.  This is the Phoenix rising from the ashes, more beautiful and ascending to the next level of existence. 

With every ending comes a new beginning and while our little space chosen by the Fairies 3 years ago has served us so well, it is time to spring from the nest and transform to the next level of our evolution of as the Cape’s best metaphysical store, intuitive healing center and school.  Thank you for your support, business, referrals an friendship over the last 3 years.  I have learned and grown in ways I couldn’t have even imagined at the time The Sanctuary was being created.  I can’t wait to see what is to come next and I hope you will continue this beautiful journey with us as a new sacred space is created you.  This girl is on fire so watch out world as this Phoenix rises to new heights! 

Love & Light, Amy

So why do we resist?  Change is coming.  It is as inevitable as the seasons rolling on, forever in a cycle of growth, change, death and rebirth.  When we sense change coming or know it is inevitable, do we dig our heels in and resist or do we walk ahead willingly into the unknown?  How we handle this transition will greatly affect the outcome - weather it’s an easy transition that flows with ease and grace or it’s difficult with bumps and obstacles at every turn.  I have learned from experience the more you resist, the more difficult the waters of transition are to traverse.  For resistance brings more resistance. 

When we surrender to the flow, things move forward effortlessly as if being guided by some magical force…which of course it is.  So it is always therefore, in our highest and best interest to move with the flow even when that tide is shifting and changing the landscape of our reality, dragging the old stagnant unused energy and situations out into the ocean to be transmuted to a new higher vibration and washing ashore new experiences for growth, renewal, transformation.  Experiences, some of which will surely push us to our limits.  When we look back on the most challenging times in our lives, even those filled with the most turbulence and pain, these have surely been the biggest growth and learning experiences in our entire lives.  For that is the nature of existence, the nature of nature. 

Many times our faith is required as we face enormous change.  We usually cannot see what things will be like beyond the other side of the change.  By working to open your intuitive guidance system (IGS) you can be better prepared by knowing when change is coming and the types of shifts it will involve.  You may be able to see into the most likely outcome of a situation or various outcomes based on the feel of the energy or choices you make.  There will always be times however where no amount of cards, pendulum dousing or praying will produce the answers of what lies ahead.  I have found during these times there are several reasons you may not be able to intuit an outcome.

1)     There are other people involved who have not yet made decisions or are changing their minds. They have mixed emotions and have not themselves been able to gain clarity on the situation.

2)     The information is not supposed to be known because it will change an important outcome which must happen such as a death for one example.

3)     If you knew this information you would lose the experience of learning it and thus lose the lesson.  Unfortunately when we don’t really understand the point of the lesson we usually have to have a do over which can be unpleasant.  Are you being shown the same lesson over and over again?  Then you haven’t actually gotten it yet.  You’re still working on mastering that one.

If you need help working through a transition or getting clarity about what lessons keep showing up for you, please contact me for a reading.  If you are interested in opening your own intuitive guidance system one on one or in a group setting, please contact me about mentoring or my Spiritual Development workshop series.                                                                                                                                    

Have faith that surely whatever lies on the other side will be exactly what you need right now.  May all your transitions be filled with ease and Grace.

Love and Light, Amy