Spiritual Counselling

For centuries the Tarot’s twenty-two major arcana have been part of foundations of an energetic inter-play that extends our entire lives.  These allegorical archtypes form the basis of our journey through this life and past lives, but they are also the basis of who we are as we manifest these different energies in our Soul Contract chart.

In essence, the Tarot and the Soul Contract Reading can be used in conjunction with each other to illuminate each system even further.  Using the Tarot as both a tool to further inform your soul contract reading, and also as a tool to define where you are at now, illuminates our talents, goals and challenges further.

The beauty of this is that the twenty-two major arcana show a symbolic journey, encountering real internal and external challenges on the journey.   Yet if we look deeper we can also find real answers to these challenges faced.

For more information on this, please read my article that explains in more detail how some of the numbers in your Soul Contract chart would connect to the major arcana.

Feelings are real, emotions are not, although they really do feel it.  There has always been much confusion between these two words.  Telling the difference takes some awareness, practice and inner certainty.  The soul communicates through feeling, for example you feel that you need to do something, or call someone.  Emotions are chemical reactions that we cannot easily control unless we learn the tools and devote some practice.  Reacting to our emotions in the way we react to a feeling can mean we say things that we didn’t mean to, or act or think in a way that causes upset for others.  Our emotions have consequences, especially if we don’t keep them under wraps; at least, that’s what we are told.  Suppress your emotions, we are told, but actually its emotional stability for which we strive.  But what of feelings, well, they are quieter, subtler, gentler; they whisper to us and we can barely hear them unless we want to be listening.  Yes, you need to listen for feelings, but you hear your emotions loud and clear.  This is why when you hear an emotion, listen intently to what it’s telling you about your feelings.  Because hidden beneath the flurry, there is something real that needs to be acknowledged.

Our conscious thoughts inform our behaviours.  But only rarely.  Most of our behaviours come from seemingly nowhere.  It has been labelled the deep, dark, hidden area termed “below the tip of the iceberg”.  But it is is best termed “the space in between” - otherwise known as the “unconscious”.  What goes off here probably controls 95% of our actions.  The space in between that is not occupied is the part of us that we need to bring to the light.  By bathing it in light, we can begin to use our will to do something about what behaviours create.  We see it playing out; the screaming, the shouting and crying, the repetitive phone calls, the stalking and we then choose differently.  It takes great will to change behaviours, particularly ingrained behaviours.  This is where ‘being’ comes into its own - the seat of the will.  When we decide to ‘be’ a non-smoker -  our will is kicking in.  There can be no argument with our will, it’s a decision that our spirit decides over any indecision of our mind.  We outgrow behaviours, or rather they outgrow us, and when we decide to be something else, this can be powerful beyond any medicine.  Strengthening the will takes dedication, persistence, channelling and clarity of thought - all which can be arrived at through compassion, acceptance and healing.

Sometimes we can be so confined to our heads that it feels like we cannot escape ourselves.  Our thought processes can really take over our lives, causing insomnia, destructive thought patterns and strongly affecting our emotions.  Being a prisoner of our heads can be extremely draining.  Escaping our heads is easier than we actually think, and halting negative patterns of thinking can sometimes involve a simple intervention.  Eventually, feeling free of of heads can release the joy back into our lives, allowing us to feel our senses once again.

Often relationships bring us our greatest joy and our deepest pain.  Our greatest pain can be deepest joy and our deepest joy can be our greatest pain.  Have you ever felt joy and pain at the same time?  Certain relationships can be addictive because they bring us these extremes.  But letting go of these extremes, outlived relationships bring on new growth, for everyone concerned.  And after all relationships are always forever, although they change within the frame of ‘forever’.  We always share a relationship with everything and everyone, but it is the nature of that relationship and when relationships change, or need to change that cause the problems.  Letting go of relationships is not necessarily always what is needed, sometimes it’s just a change to our expectations, and a reassessment of our needs.

For far too long now, our intuitive and instinctual nature have been relegated to tools of the dark ages.   On the very fringe of society, intuitive people used to be feared.  Now the rational, logical thinking side is just seen as superior to all other senses.  This is finally beginning to change. 

Intuitive people are often the most sensitive people, their special skills now need to nurtured and encouraged.  Their skills to be harnessed by the organisations in which they work, and our institutions who educate.  Through openly accepting and acknowledging intuition as a poweful gift and tool that we should be using we can begin to shift thinking.  

A highly intuitive approach to counselling, utilising channelling or even mediumship skills is extremely valuable for the client.  This is because we are asking our intuition to deliver and guide.  This part of us is connected to a higher perspective than our rational minds can offer, giving us a more precise understanding on what should be the best way forward.  As a therapist, it is all too easy to get caught up in what you think the answers should be as opposed to the client’s best interests.

More than anything, an intuitive approach to counselling usually involves being guided to ask the right questions rather than bringing forth any answers, which empowers the client.  In fact this is the very direction to which even mediumship is heading, a new innovative way of working with our understanding of the sphere of the present, rather than fortune telling the future.  The best mediums know how important counselling is in readings.

Developing our intuitive skills is a lifelong journey, a career and path in its own right.  Some acquire, some develop and others are simply born with this gift to link in and communicate with spirit clearly.  Although there are still more questions than answers surrounding our communion with spirit, what is clear is that through this process we are tapping into still relatively unexplored waters that offer deep, penetrative levels of transformation.