Inauguration "Prediction"
2021 is off to a troubling start. I’m not surprised based on the Timeline Spread but I underestimated the attendant turbulence of the New Era.
Beginning around January 3 I’ve experienced a low grade anxiety of impending disaster. It’s not that I was exactly worried about the Georgia Runoff election but as it approached I felt an inexplicable heightened dread. (BTW, the dread had nothing to do with the election results. I was prepared for it to be business as usual in Georgia and the Democratic contenders would lose to the Republican incumbents.) I can only describe it as feeling deeply unsettled.
And while I was happy with the outcome of the General Election it didn’t last for me. I’ve always had my eye towards January 6, been wanting us to get past that date so that I could actually believe America was turning the page into a new chapter.
I can’t put my finger on a specific event or premonition. I didn’t have visions of a mob. I didn’t see the Capital under attack. I didn’t have visions for those events. While I didn’t see a vision, I did experience a global, collective emotion. I think.
Empathic Absorption?
The best way to describe the experience of “global, collective emotion” is with two examples. I’ve already described one of those experiences here. It’s the night Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died I experienced something akin to a mild panic attack in the middle of a nap. The first time it happened was the day Notre Dame burned down. I was oblivious that day, the t.v. was turned off and I wasn’t following the news. I was practicing a new spread and the first card pulled was The Tower. Shortly thereafter I felt a sudden, acute feeling of depression overtake me.The sudden mood change took me by surprise and I even asked myself what just happened to my mood? The last several days were good for me with level emotions and an upbeat sense of optimism.
Shortly thereafter I turned on the news and learned of Notre Dame’s fate. I mentally heard the phrase, “It needed to go” throughout that day. Each time I heard the phrase it felt like it was injected into my thoughts. I certainly had no ill-will against Notre Dame. Like everyone else I was distraught seeing it aflame and sad for all those that mourned the devastation. It needed to go was not a thought I harbored, but it kept barreling through my head that day. In the subsequent weeks I’d discuss Notre Dame with friends and twice my friends uttered the same phrase I’d heard that day, “It needed to go”. I’d never shared that phrase with anyone yet there it was being echoed back to me from different people.
So why I am telling you this? Because I’ve experienced a similar feeling and dread since the beginning of January. Of course, it could just be my own personal emotions bubbling up as anxiety rather than an ‘attunement’ to collective emotion. I’ve gone back and forth on this. 13 days into January and I’ve experienced more bureaucratic blindsides in this short span than in my entire life. Not to mention quotidian family matters that, given the pandemic, feel especially draining. I’ve discussed before that it’s dicey for a psychic to place too much stock in body dysregulation. It’s hard to determine how much of a psychic’s emotions originate from her interior world responding to external stress. Or, how much of an emotion/emotional response is a function of empathic absorption, which is the phenomena of taking on someone else’s emotions (which, BTW, is not an entirely psychic experience, it applies to highly sensitive people as well). Then there’s the possibility that somewhere on the spectrum of psychic ability is an attunement to collective emotion.
I haven’t had enough experiences to feel confident in claiming that I attune to a collective, global emotion. While I do think I dialed into something the day Notre Dame burned, I’m just guessing at an explanation for why I’d hear a phrase that was subsequently repeated by others. I don’t really know why my mood and emotions took such a drastic turn that day. Naturally I’ve considered that my mood change may have originated within my biology and psychology. It’s possible - but having been a long observer of my emotional patterns, I don’t think that was the case. It literally felt like a depression switch turned on in a very short span of time and it lifted once I became aware of Notre Dame burning. What especially stands out is how I consciously register the incoming emotion, it feels like a fog rolls in very quickly or like I’m standing in the sun and suddenly a cloud blocks the sunshine.
There are many events that grab our global attention when I don’t experience an empathic resonance, like the depression with Notre Dame or the anxiety with Justice Ginsburg passed away. I have no explanation for why I experience some events but not others. Perhaps there’s a threshold of emotional expression that needs to be reached before it hits my psychic register?
I do know that since early January I’ve been exceptionally tense, which is unusual for me. I’m fairly good with maintaining a level temperament and am not prone to extended phases of tension and anxiety. In other words, I’m usually a good self-soother. But I’ve been holding my breath this entire time. Whether I’m “attuning” to a collective apprehension or it’s just my own sh*t, I decided to pull cards for Biden’s inauguration. I needed to know if my fears were a premonition of more violence.
My Theory(ies) on Why Psychics Fail to Predict Big Events
I had no foreknowledge of the Capital insurrection. Never saw a vision for it or sensed a specific event. It’s never really clear why psychics can pick up certain events while missing other events entirely (like a global pandemic). I theorize it could be for several reasons. First guess is that we’re not meant to have omnipotent knowledge of all future events. What does come through in a psychic reading, or with a premonition, is revealed precisely because we can affect the outcome. My belief and understanding of psychic intelligence is that the events revealed in a reading are made known because action can be taken to alter the course and make the most of a situation. In the case of COVID nothing would have been done differently if a psychic had convincingly predicted the pandemic and warned health officials in advance. My second guess has to do with the personal style of reading for psychics. Using myself as an example, I focus my psychic attention to the personal level and being of service to clients. Which is to say, it’s not really my thing to be a doomsday prophet. I show clients their next milestones, obstacles and opportunities. My psychic intelligence feels sharpest and clearest when I focus on the next three months for a client. If I go further out the variables stack up and predictions become much less reliable.
My third guess is that it takes an exceptionally evolved individual to both tap into the human collective and tap into the chaos of future events. It requires a practitioner with anunderstanding of human ego, appetites, emotions, human chemistry, and instinct. This person will need to have filled their life with a catalogue of experiences that spans locations, cultures and religions. How on Earth can anyone think they can predict human behavior unless they’ve immersed themselves in as many experiences as possible? We develop comprehension and compassion and empathy not by isolating ourselves but with immersion in humanity. This person needs to have developed a profound love and understanding of humanity, either earned in this lifetime or many lifetimes. I believe such individuals walking this Earth are rare, and it’s even rarer that they are psychic and make psychic predictions. In other words, in order to predict a human-engineered global event it requires a being that’s lived a broad life, both geographically and emotionally, and in the course of acquiring those experiences fell in love with us hard, awful humans.
I’ve digressed. Back to my inauguration “prediction”.
So here I am, going on week three of my now casual existential, inexplicable dread and I finally decide to do something about it. That something is pull cards and ask, “What needs to be know about Biden’s inauguration?”
Full disclosure: based on my existential dread and the recent Capital insurrection I fully expected to see cards of ruin and destruction. The reporting of the Capital insurrection has been disheartening and discouraging. I’ve begun to despair for our democracy on a visceral level that even my Leo rising optimism cannot presently buoy.
Well color me surprised to see these cards arrive. Talk about the calvary arriving. If you had asked me to guess which cards might appear I never would have ever guessed Two of Cups and Eight of Wands, they are just too optimistic for the current conditions. What did get my attention, and TBH kept me from ditching the pull, was the appearance of The Fool card. You may recall that The Fool card is the exact same card that coincides with the week of the inauguration. That it would appear again, in a specific pull for the inauguration makes me sit up a bit taller and pay closer attention.
When I saw these cards I actually said, “Get out. No way these cards are for the inauguration.” They seem so discordant with the current state of affairs I really didn’t even want to publish the picture. After thinking about it for a day I decided to publish. The more I thought about the outrageousness of the cards, with the title of “Love” and “Swiftness”, the more I felt compelled to write the blog post.
Another honest and painful disclosure: I have no idea what they mean in the context of the inauguration. I am stumped. There’s not much value in me posting pictures of three cards unless I offer my interpretation and “prediction” but I can say that I am a total blank for these cards. I get no vision in my head or sense a premonition. The more I strain to interpret the cards, the harder it feels to see. Sometimes I have luck reading the guidebook or other resource. There will be a turn of phrase or metaphor that triggers an association and then I get a hit.
A few notes about the cards, images and excerpts from the guidebook, Book M, Liber Mundi:
Both Two of Cups and Eight of Wands depict entwined animals. I respond to themes and patterns seen across cards.
Both cards contain images that roughly shape an arc. Two of Cups with the spouting water streams and Eight of Wands with the rainbow
Both cards feel optimistic and emanate positivity
M. M. Meleen explains for the Two of Cups that the hippocampi (horse figures) form a perfect polarity. The depiction of white and black symbolized polarity coming into harmony.
The augur for the card reads, “A harmonious pairing triggers the beginning of love and gestation.” As previously noted, the cards for January emphatically point to a new era and new beginning and the appearance of this augur underscores that message.
That’s all I got for now, regarding this “prediction”. It’s less a prediction than projection of a hope perhaps, that we turn the page on an ugly final chapter of the old administration and move swiftly into the New Era.
I pulled a Timeline Spread for February and March 2021. Stay tuned to see how this hope plays out through winter and into Spring.
Excuse me psychic overlords, what the heck are these cards for the inauguration?