CosmicWise

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Questions

Focus: Once upon a time an old woman dropped her needle. A passerby saw her searching in her garden and offered to help. After looking for some time without success, the kindly stranger asked the woman exactly where the needle had fallen. He was amazed to learn that she had dropped it INSIDE the house. "Then why are you looking out here?" he asked. "You will never find it." She replied that her house was too dark, so she was looking outside, where there was more light.
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Comment: Most of us are like this woman. We look for our lost happiness only under the comfort of life's bright lights, despite the fact that it may not be found there, ever. The fundamental flaw in our efforts is that we don't ask enough of the right questions, on the one hand, and on the other hand, we continue to hope to find whatever it is that we are desiring without ever doing anything differently than we've ever done it before.

After years of reading tarot cards for others, one of the things I've learned is that people tend to get very stuck in their minds regarding what they want in their lives, hence, the types of questions they tend to ask are equally limited. I know this because often, during card readings, despite the fact that the client and I have focused on a particular question, the cards will begin addressing something completely unrelated--turning out to be more relevant to that individual's (spiritual) growth than to the (mundane) matter we had hoped to get an answer to. These types of unexpected readings are always interesting because they focus on issues the querent doesn't give much importance to (or rather, awareness) yet once the querent does in fact address the issue, the successive readings are generally more consistent.

With this in mind, I've concluded that many of us not only don't ask ENOUGH questions, believing we have all the answers, but more often than not, we simply ask the "wrong" questions. We sincerely believe that to be happy WE must order life to conform to what we WANT--so we keep asking the same questions.. the ones related to the things we think we ought to want. It doesn't occur to too many of us that being happy might mean LESS expectation and demands from us, and MORE trust in the Universe to know (being Omnipotent and all) precisely what we personally need for us to be happy. More openness and receptivity to the inner voice on our part would allow us to connect with the "good" questions. The good questions afterall, infuse our lives with a sense of anticipation because it allows our lives to take on an air of adventure and the undercurrent of that much desired hero's quest.

On the other hand, when our focus is too narrow, what we are doing is EXPECTING a limited life experience, and getting just that. Then we sit around wondering why it seems like others are getting all the breaks. We settle for believing that our limitations are due to a lack of luck, or even heredity, which is simply not based on the cosmic facts. The truth is there is no such thing as good or bad luck, just choices that lead us in certain directions. What we fail to see is that what often passes as good luck is merely "preparation meeting up with opportunity". And blaming heredity is so old-school.. in short, it is no longer an excuse--biologically, on the cellular level, we know now that the nucleus, where the DNA is stored, in NOT the brain of the cell itself, as originally thought. Instead, it is the membrane surrounding the cell that is the brain after all. Translating in terms of human experience, this means that WE are not products of our genetics as we once supposed. What we inherit from our parents biologically is only a starting base.. our environmental experiences, and how we respond to said experiences are what truly shape us.

Demitra M.N.