What you ask for may come in a different package.

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Working with the law of attraction, I’ve seen many changes in my life that if it were written as a television or movie scenario would seem highly improbable. Every time I see a door close, a window opens almost instantaneously, or I think about something and it manifests moments later.

To give you a few examples, I was working on my computer one night and thinking to myself, ‘I should really do more shows where I introduce myself to new people.’ A moment later, I’m looking through my junk email before dumping it, and there I find an invitation accidentally mistaken as spam by my email program. It’s asking me to participate in a new all-day show for International Women’s Day in a nearby town.

As a single mom on a limited budget, I manifested snowsuits for my four children just by wishing for it. The next day, a neighbour shows up at my door with snowsuits, asking if I could use them. She was cleaning out her closets the day before.

I’ve wished for a pair of Italian leather shoes and a second later walked by the house of some university students just moving in. They’d left by the sidewalk the things they didn’t want to keep. There were my shoes, exactly as I envisioned them, with the price tag still on them! When I needed a car, one was provided free of charge. It’s as though the universe likes to knock me on the head on a regular basis to let me know it’s got my back. I don’t need to worry. I see a sense of humour in the way things come about, as though the divine wants to point out in manifesting the mundane, that much greater things are possible than snowsuits and shoes.

Maybe it’s my belief system. I feel that if I am walking my path, doing the work I came here to do, the universe will support that. In fact, every time I think I should get a regular job, I meet with some kind of resistance – no interest in my resume, or the jobs turn out to be a bad fit in some way. I get the message – stick to what I came here to do.

So, I’ve been actively working with the Law of Attraction lately, putting out there that I want abundance for doing the work I love, so that I am supported in that work in the longterm and able to continue helping others.

The caveat is that if you put out to the universe what you want and you imagine it coming to you, you must not lose faith if what you thought you wanted is suddenly no longer available to you. It just means that the universe has something better in mind. I experienced that yesterday. I was exploring a few avenues in which to do my work, and one I was counting on seemed to be closing in a rapid and disturbing manner. I drove to a nearby town, pondering my situation. Though I was upset, I reminded myself that this sudden, unexpected turn of events must have something to do with the wish I’d put out there. Sometimes, we aren’t open to the next opportunity unless an old, reliable solution disappears. I reminded myself that working with the Law of Attraction isn’t operating within the realm of the rational. Answers won’t always come in a linear fashion or in the guise we expect.

When I arrived at my destination 45 minutes later, I distributed posters for a tarot event I was giving at a local cafe. I stopped at another business nearby to offer a few posters and met two people who invited me to work at their facilities too.  The message from the universe was undeniable: your wishes are always answered, but not always in the way you expect. Put your desires out there and open yourself to all possibilities.

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The New Rational Thinking – The King of Pentacles

The Aquatic Tarot. Author/Artist: ©Andreas Schröter 1995-2002

Drawing the King of Pentacles is a good reminder that science and rational thinking are valuable tools as long as we don’t allow them to run the show and subvert the intuition. Both aspects of consciousness need to work together for balance.

There are new possibilities opening up in the world of science regarding the value of intuition. Increasingly, quantum physics is serving to verify what metaphysicians have always believed – that the world of thought creates the world of matter. Quantum theory has shown that matter is affected at the atomic level by the act of measuring it. In other words, the observer affects matter by the mere act of observation.

It’s been extrapolated that we make up the world of matter each day, based on our expectations. We see what we expect to see. In other words, this material world is not that different from the dream world, except that here certain laws about gravity and matter seem to apply.

In the dream state, achieving lucidity means being as awake in the dream just as we are in the waking world. When we are lucid, everything appears as real as the waking world, except all bets are off when it comes to the laws of physics. Here, we can walk through walls, fly, swim without holding our breath, travel anywhere at the speed of thought, and change our dream scenarios just by thinking about them.

Years of research into lucid dreaming have yielded new realizations that affect our scientific view of the material world. People have trained themselves to share dream states and have corroborated details that verify having met in a dream. Healers are enhancing their skills by applying them to patients during the lucid dream state. Experimental subjects are finding ways to indicate to researchers that they are lucid while in the dream state. There is a crossover now between dreaming and the waking state that is consciously driven.

Moreover, very adept lucid dreamers are discovering a state beyond waking and lucid dreaming, known by Tibetan Buddhist dream yogis as the “clear light of seeing”. In this state, all objects and environments disappear and one is in a state of beingness where a personal identity does not exist.

So, science is now traversing new ground that will ultimately help us realize in a direct and profound way that the waking and dream states are still layers of illusion. Eventually, with training and practice aided by modern dream research and ancient techniques, we will experience reality as it is, free of assumptions and illusion. It is the balance between rational-based research and intuitive realization that will lead us to the deepest understanding of who we are and how we fit into the universe.

Do you uplift or destroy with your logic? The Ace of Swords

The Aquatic Tarot. Author/Artist: ©Andreas Schröter 1995-2002

Today’s card is all about the kind of clarity we derive from rational and linear thinking and the danger of being too rational in ways that disrupt relationships and cause alienation.

Sometimes, holistic thinkers are all over the place, and it can show itself in their environment and in the way they conduct ourselves. The office worker whose desk is always a disaster can actually manage quite well for a time, knowing what is where on his desk almost by intuition. An employee who thinks holistically might make a proposal to her boss in a roundabout manner, because she sees the big picture and has trouble communicating in a linear fashion. This can drive a linear thinker crazy and make them impatient.

The office worker needs to take time occasionally to tidy his desk. Both parties in a discussion need to understand how the other communicates. Rational thinkers need to give holistic thinkers time to get to the point, and holistic thinkers need to structure their communication better so as to be heard by rational thinkers and not try their patience.

When our homes, offices or lives are in disarray, applying a linear strategy is often the most expeditious way to get the problem solved. Make a list of things to tackle. Start at one end of a room and clean to the other end. You’ll feel better and more organized afterward. The new year is a great time to start off with a clean slate, so use the holidays to tidy up and get organized for January.

On the flip side, we need to be careful not to be overly rational when facing an emotional situation. Sometimes, we can escape into our heads when our hearts feel overwhelmed. It takes courage to be truly present when a loved one is hurting or when we ourselves are upset. When we get together with friends and family over the holidays, we can avoid conflict by trying to understand our different communication styles and being patient with someone who may say their piece with more emotion or in indirect ways. We can keep our heart open as well as our ears.

Rational thinking has its place in terms of organization and helping complete tasks efficiently, but it must be married to the softer, intuitive side of our nature so that we maintain our compassion and humanity in all situations. When that balance is struck, we move forward in our lives in harmony.