My Friend and His Superstitious Cards

Lately, a friend of mine has been very interested with card-reading, either using Tarot or Oracle cards. On one fine day, just recently, he asked my permission, out of a blue, to read my soul using his Oracle card; to see what's going on in my life at that moment and discover any advice in dealing with the situation.

I'm one of a person who does not really trust that kind of thing, but I decided to enjoy the experience for fun. My eagerness as well as my other friends' to test his ability in reading cards and the cards' accuracy made him felt fully supported yet challenged. As he began his demonstration, he told me that his method will involve picking up five cards according to his intuition while shuffling the deck and displaying the picked-up cards in a row based on the first to come out.

The first card he drew, which represented my present, said "Trust the Divine Plan." My friend who read the card said that I'm so much affected, waaaaaaayyyy tooo much, with my failures & hurts in the past that I let the pain consume my faith in my life journey I've traveled so far. Because of the pain, I became overly defensive with my surroundings and very doubtful with the good outcome from an incident in the past.

Since it was a public reading rather than a private one, I pretended that it didn't mean a thing, only smiled and nodded.

As he continued, he told me that the card advised me to appreciate what had happened to me because it had happened according to the plan from the Creator. The incident I have experienced so far has shaped me into a very wonderful, creative soul (he used word 'soul' since it was a Soul Oracle Card). In the end, my friend said that the card told me to appreciate and respect my life. Although it is very hard to understand what I have encountered so far, the experience was very essential for my journey and was not a mistake. It told me that I'm still on schedule with my life's agenda.

I said to myself, "whoaaaaaa... what a very deep one yet it hit the nail" while only saying "okay, I buy that one" in front of the group while they cheered to my card reader. Indeed, something terrible and unforgettable had happened three years ago where I learned through pains and torments.

The session became very interesting that I was very curious to find out what the next cards would tell me.

The second card, which represented my past, said "Forgive and Forget." It told me that I'm still hurts so much from betrayals and disappointments from my past that I refrain myself from any deep, intimate relationship with people (my goodness, can this card be anymore accurate?). It told me that I have to knock down any threshold that stopping me from receiving support from other people. It said that my life is now shifting that I needed to open up in order to move forward. (Hmmmm... does 'open up' mean something or anything in specific?). My task now is to love myself and gather my self-esteem back in order to forgive and forget things from the past that hurt me in present situation. I've hurt, I've survived, I've learned (the hard way) and now it's the time to move forward. That was what the card told me.

What my friend told me was just a coincidence, I believe, because the other three cards did not gave me such same effects. The third one, which represented my immediate future said "Quietly Served,"which advised me that I had to run my daily, boring routines peacefully and joyfully without the need to expect something great; which an act that shows my spiritual maturity.

The fourth card, which represented what I've failed to see said "Refine Your Attention," which advised me to find another focus or get focused in my life. Last but not least was the fifth card which represented my long-term opportunity. It said "Laugh at Your Demons," which advised me to laugh and not to let anything stopping me from being positive. As I laugh, I should believe that everything will all straighten up.

My friends cheered as I told my card-reader, "you should be a professional card-reader and earn money from it." From every now and then many people in my campus will wait in line to get opportunity to consult with my friend and his cards. Hahaha...

Hmmm... did the card really read my soul situation at that time, or was it just a serendipity?