I have never had an opportunity to take her up on her kind offers to read my cards gratis… until recently. I have never had my cards read by anyone, so it was all new to me.
My relative was using a “past lives” deck of tarot cards, so her reading would be related to my past lives. She knows that I have trans issues, yet she was shocked that the first card I drew out of the tarot deck was the Male-Female card.
According to the book that accompanies the deck of cards she was using, the Male-Female card “signifies that you’ve lived most of your lives as a different gender, than the one you embody in this life. For example, you may now be living as a female, while in most of your previous lifetimes, you were a male.
“In such cases, gender confusion and even health issues are often related to this change of gender over lifetimes. Because for most of your lifetimes you lived as the other sex, you may not feel comfortable in your own skin. If this is your first lifetime as a woman, you may develop gynecological issues or even experience infertility. If this is your first lifetime as a man, you may not relate to traditional masculine roles.
“This card asks you to have compassion for yourself, and trust that our soul is doing the best it can. Remember that your soul is the result of all of your past experiences.”
Wow!
As a young child, I had many dreams that in retrospect, indicated to me that I had at least one previous life and that I was a woman in that life.
Being a more scientific person and not so much a spiritual person, believing that I had past lives was a leap of faith. But it all added up considering my gender issues in my current life as a “man.”
As I mentioned above, I never had an opportunity to take my relative up on her kind offers to read tarot cards for me. Actually, I avoided the opportunities because I thought that a reading would reveal things that might be embarrassing, specifically transgender things, even though my relative was well aware of my trans issues.
My reading affirmed my guess about what the reading would reveal, that I was a woman in my past lives and as a result, transgender in my present life!
My wife and sister were sitting beside me during the reading and they just shook their heads in agreement with what the cards revealed.
You may or may not believe in past lives, tarot cards, etc., but I have seen how accurate my relative’s readings of other people have been and now I have seen it first hand as it relates to me. I definitely think there is something to it.
And I just want to emphasize something regarding the reading. The description of what the Male-Female card signified was not the reader’s interpretation of the card manipulated to fit what she already knew about me. Rather, as quoted above, it was the printed word right out of the book that accompanied the tarot cards!
And so it goes!
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That's why tarot card readers and fortune tellers are successful. They find out (or know) details about the person they're reading for, and tailor the reading accordingly.
ReplyDeleteExactly. As a woman of science, I thought you'd know better, Stana. It may have been just like James Bond in "Live and Let Die" when the tarot cards were stacked in his favor and not Solitaire's so he could become her lover.
DeleteI shuffled the cards before I drew the Male-Female card, so the deck was not stacked.
DeleteVery interesting story Stana! I have always believed there are things on this earth that are true, but which we have no explanations for.
ReplyDeleteWho is to say about past lives, but this fact remains. The dust that we are made of today, is in some cases the dust that made up others in the past.
Another strange coincidence; I was thinking of the Cher song “Dark Lady” all week. I dug it up and listened to it last night. A bit later I checked out Femulate and saw this post today………….
Norah
Very interesting. That explains a lot. Don't know if I believe in past lives, but that would explain a lot of things. The world's a lot more spiritual than we give it credit for sometimes. Regards, Randi
ReplyDeleteMy ex once commented that I was probably a woman in my past life and that's why I'm the way I am. I said "maybe. Maybe I'm auditioning for my next life when I'll be a woman. For the record, I chose the name "Meg" because that was my name in a past life regression!
ReplyDeleteI have read accounts of well documented "past lives," so the concept should not be dismissed as impossible. Usually children who experience these thoughts eventually stop having these memories, but I think those memories will shape how they live their current life. As a very young child I had a "vision" that I had been a young woman in a prior life who had been brutally murdered. At the time I had this "vision" or "visitation" my family did not have a television set. There was no way that I would have been exposed to such information. Years later I was drawn to wear the female attire that woman was dressed in, dead in a field.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing that experience. It’s something I often wonder about myself. Where did this all come from? Paula G
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