If we look at reality as chaos, information, and an energy field, we can extract some teachings from that. How do reality and energy organize in a way that impacts our lives? Can the way reality organizes teach us something about ourselves? What is reality made of, and does it have a purpose? How can we best interact with life and reality to bring forth the best in ourselves and the world?
Since I was a teenager, I have been fascinated by the signs and symbols of the Tarot. I was and still am fascinated by going deep into the mystery of life and attempting to grasp some understanding of the symbolic realms. One such journey is when we try to immerse ourselves in the right mindset to discover something, or to decipher a complicated puzzle, or to find the doorway when walking through a labyrinth.
I believe that my fascination with the mystery of how life works and unfolds is one of the main reasons that brought me to the field of Psychology and Spirituality, since I wanted to learn how these two fields relate to and blend into each other.
Understanding the mechanism that makes things the way they are and the way they work is not a simple matter. It is difficult to grasp the way things organize themselves and become something else. We have to consider the ways they transform and the impact that we have in the process of transformation.
Fascinated by the possibility of discovering and understanding the depths of my own being, over the years I learned that this is a lifelong journey. At the same time, I have also tried to understand my relationships with others, both in my personal life and in therapy. I have often attempted this self-understanding as a spiritual and professional practice, in my own psychotherapy and by witnessing others in sessions with me.
Professionally, I have always been in awe every time reality unfolds in an oracle session. I can intentionally or unintentionally facilitate a “healing moment to be born,” or any of the avenues to it. This is usually done through inquiry and dialogue, applying different healing techniques. I am simply present for the other, or in some situations I share myths that resonate with the client’s journey at play. Or I may analyze archetypal patterns that at certain moments in life are holding the client back.
What has brought awareness and insight for my own growth, and I believe for the growth of my clients, has been reviewing the ways of perceiving inner and outer realities and trying to grasp what is constellated between them. By becoming conscious, we are able to transform that perception and change it in and outside ourselves.
Most of all, this learning process of awakening in our own inner and outer realities brings us the awareness we need. This magic wand or oracular lens, which holds all the pieces of us together, is a tool inside of us that is called “inner awareness” that creates an “aha moment.” This is a place where reality can be transformed into something more beautiful, coherent, and meaningful.
Does that sound appealing? Is that not what life reaches for moment to moment? To make us vivid and full participants in the mystery of life at play? Yes, the truth is that, whether we like it or not, this is happening all the time, all day long, as an infinite re-creation equal to life itself.
To reach some of those moments as we go along and find this kind of meaning inside ourselves helps us to come back, once again, to that place of inner completeness—the place where all the pieces fit together! In doing an oracle, if it is done well and with the appropriate time and mindset, that is what tends to happen.
When we do this vulnerable process with another, it can be even more amazing, mysterious, and powerful in many ways! I promise! So, we all need to be constellating those moments because they are times of genius. In fact, they are contagious and simply _______. Here I would like you to choose your own word to capture this moment, since we all know how it feels when we get there in the company of another. It gets richer!
On the positive side of psychology and the positive side of life, which embraces beauty and harmony, what matters most is to discuss how we get into the harmonic and beautiful part of life when we are swimming in the nasty and negative side of it, which we call conflicts, dilemmas, or problems.
Experiencing the positive all the time would seem to be a miracle, like doing magic. But we all know, consciously or unconsciously, that the road there is not a permanent route. Mostly it is an arduous and tricky process that does not come right away! Or if it does, it stays for only a brief moment and then goes away as simply as it came. We all know the ups and downs of those moments, but there is a protocol or mindset that favors the process to become clearer, more expanded, and more conscious.
If we had a lens that only sees beauty and perfection all the time, we would think that it is an illusion. It is hard to hold such a lens for long periods of time—unless you are already enlightened!
In this regard, we are all like magicians and co-creators of our reality, and we can get better and better at that if we practice. But the truth and potentiality in this bold statement is there for us to embrace. Magic is definitely present all the time in our relationships and interactions. It is in that magic that healing resides! Oracles provide space for us to tap into that healing. How do we make space for it?
It is a matter of looking deeper into what happens when we do the oracle. That is when we learn what needs to be discovered. While we make space for things to occur and gather all the signs that show us personally the (re)solution we need, a new road is revealed in front of us, or a new idea comes our way that takes us forward.
In my own clinical practice, in order to provide the best service for my clients, I know how profoundly important it is to cultivate the skill of listening deeply—that is, listening to what is emerging and needs attention in the present moment and in the middle of the unknown. While the present is co-created by the client and me, we can read the information that can bring a better future for the client.
If I am not in a state of full attentiveness or mindfulness, which often gets mixed with being in full tune with my intuition, then I am not in alliance or resonance with the present moment—neither with life nor with the person in front of me. At such times, I have to acknowledge that the work gets harder and more complicated.
We all have our best and worst days. But what is most important is that, over time, things come together as we practice listening to the inner and the outer simultaneously, making space for the client to participate. The newborn reality that gets constellated between the two—you and me, you and the cards, you and different parts of yourself—is the information that is needed to analyze the work that needs to be done.
The healing oracles are fascinating and help us to be transformed through the magic of life itself again and again. With this practice, the images and the energy of the flower essences that are imprinted on the Tarot cards provide the information that we can read to understand our conscious and unconscious minds. We just need to be ready to read the information properly and interpret it as precisely as we can.
One of my major goals in cultivating this mindful presence is to preserve the psychotherapy as a form of “art” that allows us to connect with and synchronize with our soul purpose and get the clues we need to embody that.
Over the years, I have collected all sorts of Tarot decks: the original ones with the major and minor arcana, the angel cards, the Osho cards, the animal medicine cards, etc. All of them have something in common, which is that they bring us images that provide us “reflections” in the form of texts to ponder when we are open to receive help. All the decks come with full explanations that can reverberate meaningfully to a skillful reader. I am only the facilitator in this process while the information is revealed.
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