How I Got On The Tarot Train ☮ Blog


January!  As explained in my New Moon in Aquarius post a few days ago – January is like a ‘getting your shit together month’.  After the silly season/New Years and holiday time, we get to the end of this month and feel that….we really, really like holiday mode…and we want that often.  We realise we need to find that balance of being financially abundant whilst being able to sip cocktails by the beach (if you please), so we gotta get our thinking caps on and figure out how we can do that.
I could go on a big ‘law of attraction’ rant here, but to summarise….you have to know that you don’t actually have to do a job or be in a situation that you loath.  You can do something you love AND make a living from doing it – that’s a fact.  Yes, there may be transition periods, it may be a slow process and nothing comes without ups and downs…but believe me when I say that you should go after what you love doing.  Don’t wait, start taking the steps…small steps, one foot in front of the other, one thing at a time…..GO!  There’s a lot of eccentric humanitarian energy in the air at the moment so you better inhale some of that goodness to make some positive change in yo’ life!

There’s also a lot of wind in the air.  I’m sorry, I feel like I’m now one of those people who constantly comments on the weather…but NZ….this wind, stahp.  Please stahp. 

 

Anywho…with all this change in the air it’s been busy in tarot world with doing readings, it has been great to talk to people I know about it and also newbies who email me out of the blue.  I’ve also been behind the scenes designing some products for my website and upcoming markets, which has been both fun and slightly concerning when I stuck my fingers together with superglue making crafts.

 

I also want to explain each month a bit about tarot and the ins and outs of it and wanted to start off with how I got into it (quite coincidentally, or as fate would have it).  Over 2 years ago I went for a short trip to Sydney, I was staying in Bondi and walked into a crystal shop I’d seen before.  I had never thought much about tarot prior but the day I walked into the shop and saw the art nouveau packet with daisies on the front (daisies are a running theme in my life), I knew I was meant to buy that deck.  I took it out of its packet, looked at the pretty pictures, put them back in the packet….and didn’t touch them again for about 6 months :P

 

It all seemed very daunting learning – every – single – card (there’s 78 of them) and the THOUSANDS of different interpretations of the cards/numbers/colours/illustrations/symbols/spreads – brain overload!  So I put it in the ‘too hard basket’.  I knew that when I was meant to learn the cards and when the time was right, it would all make sense to me and come easily.  In that time I had packed up my life in NZ and actually moved to Bondi, and soon picked up a job in a clinic as a chiropractic assistant – I knew it wasn’t what I wanted to do as a job ( I wanted to try and build up my personal training business) but took it for financial security to get me started.  One day a woman came into the clinic and I knew there was something about her – every time she came in for her appointments we chatted briefly, I knew nothing about her or what she did, but had this underlying feeling that she had something really special for me.  The doctor that I was working for at the time knew I was into all my spiritual jazz and that I was studying Reiki and one day after the she had left, the doctor out of the blue said ‘oh Belinda’s a bit kooky like you too!  She does tarot readings!’.  ‘Hokaay that’s my cue’ I thought!  The next time she came into the clinic I talked to her about it and arranged to go and see her for a reading – I had previously had readings but not with the tarot cards.  My first reading was amazing and that day I went straight home and got out my packet of cards and said ‘RIGHT!’ and one by one, I learnt them.

 

During my reading (which was mostly about my personal growth) she also randomly mentioned that I would be moving to the Northern Beaches of Sydney.  I thought it was a bit weird and I didn’t really think that was true because I loved living in Bondi and had no desire to move from there.  During the next week, work at the chiropractor’s clinic was (to put it politely) farken rubbish.  I was taking on extra hours that I shouldn’t have been doing but the student assistants kept calling in sick (aka had overdue assignments to do :P ), the staff and patients were being pushed about, and the whole feel of the place felt anxious, negative and bleh.  I knew that I didn’t move to Sydney to just be stuck in a shitty job for 8 hours a day and especially in a soul destroying environment, so in an epiphany moment, I through my hands up in the air and said (not so politely) ‘fuck this shit’.

 

Don’t worry I didn’t actually say that around my boss or co-workers!  (I did the dramatic gesture in my head, not in real life :P) When I made that decision in my mind, it was scary, nerve-wracking, crazy and I had visions of living under the Sydney harbour bridge and perhaps having to learn the banjo to busk for money – but it was also the most liberating feeling I’d had in a long time.  I had reached another level of standing up for myself and believing in my cause.  I didn’t know if I would find another job straight away, I didn’t know if I would be able to build my PT business up quickly enough to financially support me, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to afford my rent in another months time (Bondi rental prices fark me) – but I had such an overwhelming feeling that this was an extremely positive action, and that everything was going to be just fine.

 

One morning I got up and went for a sunrise walk along the beach coast, I sat down in my favourite spot in the whole wide world, and something in my head said it was time to move.  I got my phone and looked on a flatmates website and on the first page of the website, without even having to scroll through hundreds of places – one apartment caught my eye.  I clicked into it and it explained that the owner of the apartment lived there, she was a writer (as someone who aspires to write a book one day, this was very exciting to me!) and lived in a beautiful peaceful beachy town up in the Northern Beaches (and rent was $150 cheaper per week that what I was paying in Bondi!).  I couldn’t believe how perfect it sounded.

 

I briefly talked to the woman on the phone and arranged to go and view the room.  When I got there it was just as perfect as I thought it would be!  And also, coincidentally (or again as fate would have it!), the woman (who is now a very close friend/Australian Mum :P) was a Reiki master and….tarot reader!  I remember talking about our synchronicity and knew just as the tarot reader in the clinic was meant to cross my path, this encounter was meant to happen too.  From there I have flourished and learnt so much with tarot and I know this is a road that I’m meant to go down (clearly, by all the in my face signs! :P).

 

When I was doing coaching appointments as a fitness trainer, I got to the point where I felt like I knew there was a much better way to help people with their health and wellbeing – that wasn’t to do with telling them to do a booty workout or putting them on a diet plan.  For so long I was in this transition period where I still wanted to help people but didn’t know how, while I still very much love personal training and will pick it up again one day, I knew during this time it was to be temporarily phased out to make way for something else. By giving up fitness training I was lost for how to guide people – and when tarot came along it allowed me to talk with people about their health/wellbeing/personal development and growth on a deeper level which got right to the root of the problems we have in our lives and how we can overcome and grow from them.

 

That was probably a really long winded story and hope you haven’t checked out of reading this blog just yet, but anyway to summarise I have a few points for you to take away:

 

  1. Listen to the signs – so many people DON’T do this and I think its crazy!!  Sometimes you may not always need them, but in times of confusion/sadness…look around and see what the universe is trying to tell you!
  2. Don’t settle for something you don’t love, if you have trust that you will be supported on your authentic endeavors – you will absolutely be rewarded
  3. There is something out there for you that you are truly passionate about.  Everyone has something where you can do it for hours on end and it feels like time doesn’t exist.  Something where you forget about everything around you and you are glowing from the inside out.
  4. Be patient.  Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare?  Slow progress is still progress, and you will always win and reap the benefits if you’re patient.
  5. There are MANY different ways of making your body healthy, the outside of your body is a reflection of whats going on on the inside – so it makes sense to be working on your personal development and inner self love instead of physical looks!  If you’re happy in your mind, your body reflects that :)

 

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Love/happiness,


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