A good friend of mine started a heated discussion about how to maintain one's blessings and prosperity in life. Being psychic and keen to the vibrations of the spiritual realms, he insists on avoiding interfering with others' fortune this month, because it is well known as the month of ghosts in the Chinese Taoism tradition. Also he was worn by certain signs that it is definitely not a good time to get involved with certain matters in other people's life. Just about now, Mercury has slowed down and getting ready for the retrograde. That on top of the traditional Chinese month of ghosts is more than enough for most people to stay low, let alone working against the energy of such dark month by helping others.
We have been on different patterns of thoughts for a long time. He knows that I am using Tarot for helping friends to get over the current rough time, and I see it as a way of my spiritual practice. Recently I have failed the tests to become employed by the Chinese telecom. According to him this is due to me sticking my neck out to do the tarot reading for people. The reasoning behind this is one has to trade in his good karma in order to help others escape the grasp of misfortune. He even warns me to stop my practice until the month of ghosts are done and over with, which could really save me from further danger in his opinion.
It really brings me to the cross roads of whether to give up Tarot or not. I know the knowledge is genuine and I can use it to help others, but his view of life and related matters is also very true and it has been written in the sutra that fortune telling is not a good way of spiritual practice in Buddhism. It is either give it up all together or keep on practicing and ignore his warnings. I do feel strongly about the tarot, but I also want to make advances in Buddhism. I visited a psychic before and she has supported my practice of Tarot. Now it seems that I have to think long and hard about whether to go on the path of Tarot or not.
All of the sudden, I think of the Wheel of Fortune in Tarot. One of its interpretations is Life itself woven by the Divine. The three Goddesses of time --- the past, the present, and the future --- all work together in weaving what we come to know as Life itself. I decide to call on the power in this path to reveal the clues of my life. Perhaps it would do me some good to see how I was, am and will be. I do not know what this may bring. Also calling on such powerful magic entities during the Mercury retrograde might create some chaotic events for me. I figure I have not done much of the path working for a long time. It might be a good time to refresh the lessons. No matter what comes from this, it is one thing that might give me more information, so I will give it a shot and see what the practice may bring...
