Future Tarot

In a recent Tarot Chat we had a querent who had recently experienced a very painful event in her life. During her reading I felt compelled to suggest a White Light Healing Visualization.

Many of us experience challenges in our own lives and I wanted to take this opportunity to share this visualization with all of you. May the white light of love, healing, and protection fill you in every moment and may peace and well-being come in with every breath.

A White Light Healing Visualization

First, make your physical body comfortable. You may prefer to sit upright or lay down. You may choose to be in a chair, on a bed, or on the floor. Be however you feel safest and most comfortable.

You do not need a great deal of time for this meditation. You could allow yourself to linger in it thirty minutes, an hour, or choose to go to sleep to it and exist in this healing space all night. But if you can only spare a few minutes at a time, those few minutes are long enough. The meditation itself, once you have become familiar with it through practice, can be done in less than a minute and how long you spend in each moment is entirely up to you. Listen to your heart and let it guide you. You’ll find yourself naturally choosing to stay in some places or speed through others and the places you linger are where you most need to be in that moment.

As you rest, comfortably, seek within yourself. Feel your physical body as it right now. Wiggle your toes and fingers. Close your eyes. Feel each breath you take fill your lungs with air. Feel your arms grow heavy, feel the muscles relax. Feel your legs, your calves, your thighs, feel your hips grow heavy. Feel your body sinking into a greater sense of calm and peace. Feel each muscle stretch and relax.

Now that you are comfortable, picture yourself sitting comfortably in a clearing. Under you are soft green grasses, and around you are trees and flowers. This is a beautiful garden, you’re safe and secluded here, it is your own private place where no one can intrude. You can invite others into this place and they will come when you ask them to but if you choose to be alone in this place no one will bother you.

As you sit there, on the cool grass, feel the warm sunlight stream through the trees. Feel the breeze caress your skin. Listen as that breeze ruffles the leaves. Smell the glorious scents around you. Taste the fresh air. Listen to the sounds you can hear. This garden is your garden and it will always look and feel exactly as you want it to. Take a moment to simply be in this place.

The sunlight gently warms your skin. In your mind’s eye, close your eyes and tilt your face toward the light. As you rest there, imagine light filling the clearing, feel the soft white light of healing energy gather around you, like the sunlight. This energy comes from everywhere, it’s drawn from the trees and flowers, it’s drawn from the grass and the earth beneath you, it’s drawn from the sky and the breeze and the air. It gathers around you in a glowing orb of white light, completely surrounding your body.

Allow the light to grow around you, enveloping you within it. Inside you breathe easily, you feel a gentle warmth on your skin, you feel the soft breeze moving through the light, you hear the beautiful sounds of nature around you, you smell the fresh, clean scents. Know that everything that exists within this light is positive and giving. It nourishes you. And within this light all sense of shadow fades.

Now, while the light surrounds you, seek out the pain and hurt within you and allow light to fill those places. Watch and feel the darkness and the shadows within you fill with glorious white light. See the darkness and shadows disappear as the light fills those places. Feel the light coming into you, filling every emptiness. Feel it flood the pores of your skin, feel it envelop the sockets of your eyes, feel it fill your lungs with every breath, feel it flood into your stomach and internal organs, feel its warmth loosen every muscle in your body, feel it healing you, soothing you, calming you. Let the light completely fill and surround you. Exist in the light, be with it for as long as you need to be in this moment.

You may choose to linger in this healing energy for as long as you wish. This sense of healing and love may be all you need at this time. When you are ready, invite into this space anyone you want to reconnect with. You may have lost a loved one, a pet, a child, a parent, a friend. Call them to you in this place and see them come to you. Greet them with open arms, embrace them and draw them into the white light that surrounds you. You may see that person now as an infant or child, clinging tightly to you as you hold them in your arms. They may be a teenager or young adult. This being may simply be a colored light, some other form, or you may simply feel and know that they are there with you.

This being exists to you in whatever way you can most comfortably be with them in this moment. However they appear to you, know that they are this being, and that you can be with them and hold them in this place for as long as you need to do so. While you are here, surrounded by the white light of love and healing you can embrace this being, feel their devoted, unwavering, unconditional love. You can, if you choose, spend time with one loved one and then the another, or be with more than one at a time, harmoniously, together. Know that their love is unconditional and they will come to you in this place whenever you ask them to.

In your arms, you can come to know them. Learn that their souls are at peace and that they hold no blame or sadness in their hearts. Feel their love surrounding you, joining with the light to fill you in every inch of your body. Spend as long as you need to here with them and know that even when you leave this place they are with you. This light of energy and healing, and their love and presence is with you always. You can choose to be in this space for as long as it suits you.

When you are ready, feel the warmth of love and light that still surrounds you. Feel the soft grass beneath you, listen to the rustling leaves, feel the breeze, hear the gentle sounds of nature. In your mind’s eye, see the beautiful garden around you. know that the light still surrounds you and with it you see all things clearly. See your loved ones as they appear to you now and know that they are safe and protected. See them held within their own white lights and guided by the loving hand of their spirit guides. Know that while they are with you always, they are cared for by the loving hands of spirit. They are safe and cherished.

Feel welcome to enjoy your garden for as long as you would like to do so. Explore and relax here. Allow yourself to feel the grass beneath you and the breeze on your skin. Smell the beautiful scents and taste the fresh cool air in this place. See the glorious flowers and trees around you and know that whenever you choose to come to this place it will be exactly as you want it to be and in this place you are always safe and protected.

If you feel it is time to return, or you are waking from having fallen asleep, take a moment to give thanks to your sanctuary and to spirit for this opportunity to connect and heal. Now, feel your physical body as it truly is. Feel your legs on the bed, chair, or floor. Feel your arms, heavy and relaxed, feel your thoughts light and at peace. Feel your lungs fill with air with each breath. Wiggle your toes and fingers then slowly open your eyes.

Take a couple of minutes to adjust as you feel the world around you. Reach with your mind and spirit and feel the white light still surrounding you, still filling you. Wrap it around your soul like a blanket as you go about the rest of your day.

Move slowly when you first come out of this meditation, and drink a glass of water. As I said earlier, you can take as long as you need to, or you can do this visualization in a spare moment. You can follow this visualization as often as you wish and know that the white light of love, healing, and protection surrounds you always. You are never without it and while you can embrace this visualization to truly see it and feel it, and to reconnect and feel at one and at peace, you are never without these things in every moment.

Our brave reader, Plaid Earthworm, asks:

To the great and mystically-enhanced Miss Michele, I have a question:

Will my upcoming conference be a positive experience for me, possibly resulting in some new work?

Miss Michele asks the Tarot:

What’s in store for our little Plaid Earthworm at her writer’s conference?

An overview of the cards reveals a highly positive reading. New beginnings, creativity, and wealth! Let’s delve deeper into this three-card spread.

The Ace of Cups appears as the first card, the heart of the matter. It reveals her wishes of new work. Not just any new project, but an emotionally-fulfilling, financially-profitable, steady client.

The Cups suite indicates activity primarily in the realm of emotion. She will leave the conference feeling renewed and invigorated—something she’s needed. Perhaps the daily toil of “submission, rejection, re-write, submission,” with the occasional acceptance letter thrown in, has gotten to our earthy little Worm. But money alone will not satisfy; she wants a project that means something.

The second card, the near future—let’s take that to mean events at the conference—is the major arcane, the Star. The presence of a major arcane indicates this won’t be just any conference, but will mark a significant step in this writer’s life. The Star indicates Plaid Earthworm did the right thing asking for guidance from the Tarot—it’s time for her to rely on her intuition, inner wisdom, and perhaps even psychic abilities.

Incidentally, this card often arises in people who have a renewed or newfound interest in the occult. Perhaps Plaid Earthworm regularly reads her horoscope or meditates. Now would be a good time to take this interest to the next level, in whatever form makes her comfortable. (Which she has, by consulting Miss Michele!)

This conference will not only mark a stage of professional growth, but spiritual growth, as well. The desired results are on their way. Miss Michele encourages you—don’t be afraid to exert yourself. You have the talent, you’ll make the connections… ask and ye shall receive.

The King of Pentacles in the spot of the third card, The Outcome, supports the Star’s assertions. Keep your eyes open for an older, fatherly-type editor, ready to hire you. This person may be blustery, changeable—a strong character—but you’ve impressed him!

Just remember, don’t sell yourself short on the money side just because someone is offering you a “dream project.” Or perhaps, dream projects—the King of Pentacles, corresponding with the Gemini astrology sign, indicates an ability to juggle multiple tasks and do two or more jobs at once. Financial security is important in the future, and it can be yours after this weekend.

Remember, the Tarot points to just one direction the future *may* take. You remain in charge of your destiny!

Readers, post your questions for Miss Michele in the Comments section of today’s post! *For entertainment purposes only*