Card courtesy of Tarot Illuminati by Erik C. Dunne and Kim Huggens
Welcome to your next stop on the Tarot Blog Hop! Your previous stop should have been John Marani's blog. I hope that
you are seated comfortably and are enjoying your journey so far.
I have always felt an affinity to the High Priestess card
because she represents receptiveness, intuition, and information coming to
light She is a perfect representation of
my gift, empathy. If you are not
familiar with the term, an empath, very simply put, is someone who is highly
sensitive to the feelings and vibrations of other beings. An empath will take on the feelings of others
that are around them but it isn’t always feelings for some people. I have been an empath my entire life only I
didn’t really know what was going on for a very long time. In my family, I was just known as being over
sensitive and I have struggled to find a way to shield myself so I can better
discern my feelings from everyone else’s.
There are varying degrees and while some people have a handle on putting
up a shield to keep other feelings at bay, others have a difficult time doing
that. Not only do I take on other
peoples feelings, but I can take on other people’s ailments as well. Let me explain….I can physically feel what
someone else is physically feeling.
Several years ago, I was having some very bad leg
pains. I went to the Dr. to get checked
out and they found absolutely nothing wrong.
The pains weren’t consistent but they were very painful. Now, at the time, my mom and I weren’t really
talking but I felt that I needed to call her (not having to do with the leg
pains) so I called my dad to see how she was doing. As it turned out, she had clogged arteries in
both of her legs and needed to have bypass surgery in them in order to fix the
problem. She would wake up in the middle
night because the pains in her legs were so intense. After I talked to her, I realized that it was
her leg pains that I was feeling and that I was being told to get in touch with
her.
For a long time I just took the pains as they came, most of
the time not knowing where they were coming from. It took awhile before I figured out that I
could tune into this gift so I started testing and practicing. A couple of years ago, a few friends and I
went to a cemetery to walk around and visit the deceased and to look at the
head stones. We came to one headstone
and one of my friends stopped and asked us if we could feel anything from the
person that was buried there and she didn’t let anyone see the front of
it. I felt a pain in my chest, felt as
though I couldn’t breathe and when I closed my eyes I pictured a bubble. As it turns out, we were at the grave of a
man that had drowned when the Sleepy Hollow mine flooded in Central City, Colorado
Now the absolutely fun, and practical, part of this gift is
that I knew when my kids were faking being sick in order to stay home from
school. They, of course, did not know
this until very recently when I was telling someone about it and my youngest
did a double take. The look on her face
was absolutely priceless.
Empathy helps me tune in as a tarot reader and a Reiki
healer. When I am with a tarot client, I
can tell if they are testing me or if they aren’t being honest with me. I also have a way to be able to get to what
they really want to know about and I can access their feelings, knowing what
they are really feeling rather than putting up a front, enabling me to react to
a situation appropriately. My empathy
helps me to get more in touch with my Reiki clients, being able to scan them to
see where they may be having health issues so I can spend more time on that
part of their body if necessary.
It can be a difficult gift to wrangle but it can be amusing
and extremely interesting.
A fun tarot spread to try, if you are not so empathic inclined
and you like to cruise cemeteries (like I do), is to take your cards and use
them to read one of the residents. Here
is simple spread that you can utilize on your next trip. Once you have results, you can always take it
a step or two further and do some research on the person that you read to try
to verify your findings.
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1 2
3
1. What did this person do for a living?
2. What was this person like?
3. How did this person die?
4. What legacy did this person leave after their death?
If you happen to try out this spread, please drop me a line
and let me know how it went.
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Happy Litha and happy hopping!!!
