Tag Archives: Thoth

Fortunate Man.

7 Jan

This year, I find my fortune.

The birthday is a perfect time to reassess your life, look back on what you have accomplished, and look ahead at where you are going.

To aid in my planning, I draw a Tarot card every year, to help me navigate the road ahead. This year, I drew the Ten of Trumps, Fortune.

(A nice card to draw, for obvious reasons.)

Last year, I brought together opposites, in the Year of Art. I combined the disparate passions and skills into a unified entity, and created a business that allows my artistic side and my intelligence equal say in my craft.

The year before, I went on an adventure, as the Fool.

This year, I am culminating my vision, my audacity, my skills, and my business, to create my fortune.

In many ways, I am relieved. I am so fortunate already; looking back on everything that has happened to me in the past two years, I have transformed my life into something beyond amazing. I live in tropical paradise, on a mountaintop in the jungle. My family is healthy and happy. I am supporting everyone doing work that I love.

Life is good. Very good.

I attribute this change wholeheartedly to the change in my mindset.

Through a systematic study of the great masters of positive thinking and the Law of Attraction, I went from working in a job I hated in the rainiest city in the country to doing work that I love in the tropics. This was not accidental; it was through diligent work on myself internally.

I have accumulated a wealth of exercises that helped me get to this place; I am considering transcribing my formula for others to use.

Would you be interested in seeing it? Leave a comment and let me know why.

The Year of Art

7 Jan

Art, or Alchemy, is the XIV Trump in the Thoth deck of Tarot cards.

Every year, on my birthday, I draw a card that symbolizes the coming year.  Last year was the year of the Fool, whence I drew the 0 of Trumps, that beginning of journeys that leads you into the unknown.

At the time, I was very excited.  Having worked for three years in corporate sales, wearing a tie to the office every day.  I was ready for an adventure.

And I got one.  A very foolish adventure, that left me unscathed, but with a healthier respect for my abilities, and an assurance that I would not go to the grave bemoaning my lack of amazing accomplishment.  My life at 32 was incredible, it shook up my whole world, it stripped me of all my comforts, and left me out on the road in the midst of a journey, wondering where I was and how to get back home.

In short, I loved being the fool.  But now I am ready to return to my Capricorn-loving stability, and I do so this year, with Alchemy. (more…)

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