Astute duckie

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by Nicole in Victoria, Australia.

Dream : I entered a room and observed a psychic giving a tarot read for a client. I passed them then, felt drawn back. The card reader sensed my presence and smiled. Next, I communicated from inside a card on the table. Three ducklings stood on a flat, rocky ledge. One duck held down a black rain hat in a gust of wind. Another peered over the edge with a sword. The third spread wings, ready to fly.

Predominant Emotions : curiosity, reassurance, preparedness, lingering fear.

Interpretation : To detect a psychic draws attention to the unknown, your destiny and hopes. You may worry about uncertainty and believe answers about the future lie outside yourself. Part of you realizes you’re an astute observer of what is really happening, but you’re unsure about whom to trust or when to voice your views.

Ducks tend to highlight spiritual freedom and unconscious traits. These multi-talented creatures walk, swim, fly and generally adapt well. They reveal that you acknowledge your own versatility even if you struggle to boost your confidence. You may find reason to rethink negative slants to the phrase "sitting duck." What are you waiting for? Stop ‘ducking’ the real issue. Choose to confront it instead.

Swords symbolize perseverance, inner strength, faith, and severing ethereal ties that need releasing. Hats may mean you repress feelings or hide from aspects of truth. Rest assured, you have tools at your disposal to overcome the perceived obstacles.  You need not feel as though you squeak by 'on a wing and a prayer.' 

3 Tips to break away from guilt

Many people would like to experience peace of mind yet, their sense of guilt makes them weary. Would you like to relieve some burden and heal more than your mind?  Learning to reframe your perspective will lighten your load and jumpstart your life.  Consider these tips to help you along your road to emotional recovery:

1) Releasing others releases yourself.  You restore your innocence and guiltlessness whenever you choose to release others from perceived burdens.  Forgiveness has restoring power.  As long as you permit yourself to feel guilty, or act in ways to influence others to feel that way, you are choosing to listen to the voice of ego.  

2) You are in charge.  You may assume people must choose to forgive you before you can truly forgive yourself.  That's not true.  You are in charge of how you view yourself.  If you wish to be free from emotional pain, you only need to exchange your sense of guilt for innocence.  What other people think begins and ends in you.

3) Those who have not yet learned need teaching, not attack.  Not everyone knows that freedom is only a thought away.  If you look for guilt in other people or reinforce reasons why other people should feel guilty, then you aren't doing yourself any favors.  Any negative energy you nurture or direct will reverberrate back on you.

What is the basis for your curiosity?

Paranormal skills confound some people and intrigue others.  You may seek to redefine your views of the truth.  You may even dream of developing some new abilities.  Come what may, it would be helpful to uncover the reasons behind your apparent curiosity.  To do so, you benefit from asking yourself the following:

1) What are your initial impressions?   Some people get their first exposure to paranormal skills in popular culture such as film, articles and other media. Where did you first learn the term 'paranormal?' What about these skills appeals to you? Do you believe it possible or illusory? Who have you seen on read about with such abilities? How does it make you feel?

2) Why are you seeking further information?  Perhaps you are intrigued with a particular person you've heard about and would simply like to learn more about him or her.  Then again, you may have different underlying motivations. As you learn more about yourself, you are actually preparing your mind and perception to learn.

3) How do you hope to use these skills?  You always have a plan for your initiatives.  It may simply be unconscious until you discern and openly acknowledge it.  How you evolve and grow is highly dependent on whether you aspire to use developed skills for service or other purposes.

Is it only you?

You may dream of different kinds of relationships than those you know and wonder if your frustration and other negative emotions stem purely from 'you'. You may spiral back at the result of some past decisions and re-examine your initial impressions of people you thought you knew. It’s all good. You’re always evolving but may be unaware of benefits in these changes. Consider new ways of sensing your emotions:

1) You may be processing ‘generic’ energies. This isn’t like laying the blame conveniently on someone for things you’ve done. It’s a matter of opening your mind up to realize you pick up on mental and physical energy all around you from indirect sources. To grasp this is to learn you can detach from external events and not permit your mood to fluctuate based on them. You are in charge of how you react.

2) You may be the object of transference. People who recognize your susceptibility or vulnerability may unload their emotional baggage or energies onto you. This may take form in complainers, and people who express unhappiness to your attentive ears. Whenever you choose to listen, you absorb energies. This can affect your thoughts and mood unless you decide to shift the conversation and your life.

3) You may not know yourself as well as your think. Since we each invite people into our lives based on how we think and feel, you may be unaware of aspects of your own mind and what you aim to learn. Each person is there to offer you a lesson. Life is all about growing and expanding. What you choose to get out of each relationship will impact its nature and its duration and  people who will come next.

Why haven't you seen them yet?

Since angels seem to keep quiet and hidden, you may wonder why it is you haven't sensed them.  You may not yet realize the frequency of your thoughts, the nature of your emotions, and level of judgment can obscure or expand your senses beyond your wildest dreams.  Ask yourself a few questions to help guide your journey:   

1) Why do you wish to see angels?  If you seek heavenly proof to bolster your faith in yourself or other things, then you need to understand what you experience is determined by your own belief systems, confidence and sceptism.  You see and feel based on external conditioning as well as your own core ideas from within.   

2) What do you fear?  If you imagine angels might be scary or, you don't think you've earned it, think again.  Whatever you encounter, nothing can destroy you.  At this moment, regardless of a physical body, you are energy.  If you fear this life is all there is, well, what if you shifted that view? To move beyond fear is to learn to raise your vibration and begin to sense things you had missed before.  Angels transcend human views of time and space.  They work divine magic in their own ways.

3) Do you really know what you're looking for?  You store up knowledge and experience that feeds your expectations.  Your understanding of angels and how they present themselves could be limited to popular culture or what you've been told.  Consider listening to yourself.  If angels are examples of unconditional love, they will be energy sources that are comforting and reassuring.  Perhaps its time to build on what you think you already know.  Learn to look beyond your preconceived notions.