Manifesting - Getting Beyond the Pain, Opening to the Magic

 Top 10 lawyer in the United States John Tarantino had emerged as a global spiritual guide with his 2023 Ted Talk "Redemption Stories." So far that "parable" has had 23 million views by those seeking direction and healing. 

In the early 21st century, as a legal blogger, I had covered John in the courtroom. More recently, as a full-time tarot reader, I cover this transformation into what I understand to be a kind of "secular priest." 

This summer John has presented in Belfast the talk "Think Manifestation." He digs into the complex mystical subject of how our thoughts, visually positioned and packaged as impassioned acts of faith, can and often do influence outcomes. 

A boomer, he provides the story of his mother who, years ago before fertility clinics, was informed by the doctor that she wouldn't have children. She manifested a family. A year later John was born, then later his siblings. 

In the tarot the card which symbolizes to me manifesting is the Magician. 

Look at the card. All the elements are there for success in any venture. The magic happens through the willingness to believe that your version of "magic"can happen. The usual wrench in the works on this one is that there is a disbelief that you "deserve" abundance.

This morning in a reflection following the meditation session at the Cochise Zen Center, Bisbee, Arizona, Master Teacher Hye Mun (Barry Briggs) noted, "Life is always knocking us around." That's the human condition. 

In the dramatic works of William Shakespeare the lightness of being of the comedies is followed by the dark patches of the tragedies. 

Too many might internalize that being knocked around as being doomed. Their conclusion: They can't open themselves to the blessings which the universe has available to them. The pain of being human has shut them down. 

Both John's mother and his father had their share of being knocked around. Immersed in poverty they started out life with no education. Yet they didn't lose their ability to visualize creating their own version of The American Dream through producing a family. They bypassed the obstacles.   

Pain is pain. It hurts, often deeply. But, as John hammers in both of his two major presentations, it can be transcended. The tarot card warning us not to get stuck in the pain is the Five of Cups - sometimes called the Spilled Milk card. 

Notice that the human being in that card is bent over in defeat, the water which stands for emotion is turbulent. Pain has won out. This broken human is unable to look beyond the present to the future which seems so far away in the card. 

I wish I could get John Tarantino and Hye Mun in a single space to raise the vibration on our aspirational thinking during these confusing times. 

Jane Genova * Tarot Card Reader * Intuitive Coach * Medium.

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