Tming, Predictions and Strangling Spirit
The most common question I receive is, “When is ________ going to happen?”. People have this misconception about spiritual advisors: We are fortune tellers, crystal ball gazers, a gypsy with a quick fix. This not only frustrates me, but makes what I do more difficult.
Timing is a tricky subject. Nothing is set in stone. In fact, I have yet to encounter anything that Spirit hasn’t told me, “Yes, this can be change if _____ does _______.” This is the hardest thing to get clients to grasp. Timing predictions are based on what SHOULD happen given the client continues on his/her path. We are not given just one path to follow in life. God is not that greedy. We have choices, winding roads, all which will lead us to the ultimate goal, which is our soul’s purpose. Isn’t it nice to know that our number one purpose in life isn’t to fall in love with the “right person” at the “right time” and have him/her contact in divine time? I know for me, free will, when it comes to timing, makes life a heck of a lot easier to deal with. If everything was divine and I had no choice, I’d be mighty disturbed.
This brings me to free will. Yes, On Sunday I see Jim might call you on Wednesday but he could meet Sheila at the grocery store on Tuesday and decide he is no longer interested in calling you on Wednesday. Instead, he calls you on Friday. Make sense? Your predictions are about you and your path. When I started learning this, I made sure to never put too much bank into a prediction involving another coming to fruition. Sometimes I see that he IS coming back, but it’s not going be for a long time. In fact, so long out there that his free will has the possibility to step in and even stretch out the predicted timing or alter the prediction completely. This frustrates people. They want the instant gratification. At this time, it’s my job to let them know they DO have a choice. We cannot rely on the free will of another, we can only rely on ourselves and what Spirit guides us to do.
Often Spirit has a reason, a real heavy duty learning experience, for why we must go through the crap. I have been there: In my darkest hour wondering how everything turned out like this because I really know it should be like, “x, y, z”. Yeah, right! From these points, I learned a great deal. Each of our winding paths is riddled with lessons. I am always given the visual of Alice in Wonderland at this point hehe… We walk on our path, are presented with lessons in the forms of people, situations and events and if we pass the lesson (Yay for person growth!) we get to move onto the next lesson. Some people backtrack on their path, jump over to another pass, but the one thing that we cannot avoid are those lessons. Life is about growth NOT instant gratification.
For some people, they follow their spiritual advisor's advice: stay on the path, break through the lessons and their predictions do come true. I love when people follow their path. I don’t love when I see someone has decided to hand over their personal power to a spiritual advisor and, as a result, has completely lost touch with their own intuition. Of course I want clients to come back, but part of all of our lessons is to learn to grow in faith and trust in Spirit. After a certain point, clients will be dependent on predictions, expect them to come true and Spirit will say, “Hold on. I gave you a million freebies to trust in me. You’re holding onto all of this too tight. You are still afraid. What do I need to do to get you to walk in faith?” More than likely, Spirit will not give you this lesson in the form of a brand new fluffy kitty. Nope, she provides real tough lessons. This is when people need spiritual advisors the most—NOT for predictions but for guidance on how to let go and let God.
Of course, many will go around and around, getting kicked by Spirit over and over again. I was one of these people. Heck, I still get kicked. The only difference now is I try my hardest to learn the lesson so I never have to get kicked again. Eventually, we all will come full circle and say, “Alright, I get it. I choked the life out of my predictions, didn’t have faith and was acting out of fear. I’m ready to just let the universe do her job.” The psychic obsession stops, the madness stops, overwhelming fears subside, the thoughts of “When??? Why??? How???” all stop. Everything becomes still and peaceful. Spirit loves the stillness. This is when you can connect with your true self and you are your greatest spiritual advisor.