Tarot Reading for 09-06-2009 18:39:30

1 Covers You: Knight of Wands The atmosphere and influences affecting the situation. Focus The focus is on crossroads in life concerning living quarters, business arrangements, partnerships, love affairs, important documents, and impending decisions. There will be stress and difficulty, but eventual success. 2 Crosses You: Page of Wands Obstacles that stand in your way. Disappointment You will be disappointed because you will have to put things off to another day and also because the one who wants you isn’t the one you want. Others You will want to “move,” incite, or motivate others. And though you may act distant, indifferent, or contrary to your nature, you will inwardly long for what is meaningful. 3 Crowns You: Ace of Pentacles Your aims or ideals, the best that can be achieved in the situation. Guidance Mundane: It may take time, but what was cut back or pruned WILL spring back. “All things come in time.” Esoteric: If you’ve come to a dead end, it’s because you lack the kind of knowledge that only time and experience can acquire. Success Your success will come through pleasurable pursuits and profitable investments of time, money or energy. 4 Beneath You: Three of Pentacles The foundation or basis of the situation. What the past has given you to use. The Home You will be actively involved in your work or hobbies and an unexpected caller will arrive bearing gifts or opportunities. Inheritance You will be inspired by a new vision, project or product that you can do in your home and sell, or that you can adorn yourself with. 5 Behind You: XI Justice The recent past. Influences passing out ot the situation. Endings Bogged down commercial activities and annoying financial conditions will come to an end. 6 Before You: Queen of Wands Immediate future. Influences passing into the situation. Beginnings You can expect a sudden surge in your love life, with advances from an intriguing foreigner or someone from a different country, culture, or background. 7 Your Role: Three of Wands Your significator, your position and attitude in the situation. Focus The focus is on faith-testing or -evoking situations; checking theories or beliefs; promising unions, business ventures, or partnerships; large or small companies; contracts or documents; and unexpected “wins.” 8 Environment: King of Cups Your “house”. The circumstances and immediate friends that influence the situation. Friends Expect to get a call from an old friend or lover — someone who cares for you a great deal and will show you or tell you so. The Home Something new is about to be established that’s going to change your outlook — something good. This could be news from or the arrival of a lover. Family Your relatives will be experiencing emotional difficulties due to their partners or financial conditions. They may discuss the possibility of moving or coming to live with you, or vice versa. 9 Hopes & Fears: Knight of Swords The hopes and fears of the situation. Anxiety You’ll be worried that others are not keeping to their agreements or commitments or that they’re unreliable, irresponsible, or inept. Desire You have established a link with someone (or something) and want the chain of events to continue. 10 Culmination: Seven of Pentacles The culminating card, the final result of the situation. Outcome Because you are determined to succeed, you will apply the type of constructive energy it takes to insure success.

The Sharman-Caselli Tarot Deck

Multi-dimensional, multi-disciplined, and multi-lived, for the first time in this book, Drunvalo begins to tell his stories of 35 years spent in service to Mother Earth. Follow him around the world as he follows the guidance of Ascended Masters, his two spheres of light, and his own inner growing knowledge. His story is a living string of ceremonies to help heal hearts, align energies, right ancient imbalances, and balance the living Earth’s Unity Consciousness Grid— in short to increase our awareness of the indivisibility of life in the universe. We are all—rocks and people and interdimensional beings—one!

“Life may seem to be business as usual, but it is not. We are changing fast . . . Remember this for life is going to present stranger things to you in your lifetime, and they all have meaning and purpose . . .Only Mother Earth and ancient Maya know what’s going to happen.” —from Serpent of Light
• Part travel adventure, part spiritual instruction—a firsthand account of a once in 13,000 years process.
• Drunvalo Melchizedek has a story to tell—an adventure story, a story of healing ceremonies that takeplace from the Yucatan to Kauai and Moorea to the Grand Canyon and New Zealand and to Peru.
• See what can happen when we choose to open our hearts and follow the path of light.

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True

The core concept of this book is that a child is able to survive an abusive childhood by developing a “gift” of an adequate defense system. Alice Miller serves as the medium to articulate childhood suffering and describe the adult’s lack of empathy that develops toward one’s own fate. This book is designed to serve as an affirmation of and sympathetic message for the neglected, battered, and abused adults as well as the damaged child he or she once was. Miller emphasizes that children who are belittled and manipulated by parents are damaged much like those who are brutalized.

The book is a first person account of a psychoanalyst who describes her experiences of being a gifted child and the work she has conducted with such clients. The Drama of the Gifted Child serves as a source of validation, normalization, and empowerment for adults who maintained and developed themselves to conform to other people’s needs as a means of survival. An adult often does not realize that his or her experiences were exploitative nor do they consider themselves as having stemmed from abusive childhoods. Miller gives the gifted child a title and description in words and concepts which are often not recognized or accepted by society or the adult client.

This book would be useful for clients in conjunction with psychotherapy, but should be appropriately assigned and discussed. Miller’s work is rich in psychoanalytic terms and concepts. It was designed for educated adults with an above average knowledge of psychological jargon combined with the ability and readiness to probe the depths of his or her childhood memories. Miller, herself a therapist, discusses and directs some of the dialogue in the book toward “parental” children, another term for the gifted child, who grow up to become therapists themselves. She discusses how the child’s ability to perceive and respond intuitively to his or her parent is then extended and perfected. Later, the parental child not only becomes a parent, confidant, comforter, advisor, and supporter of his or her own parent and siblings, but eventually develops a special sensitivity to the subtle signals to the needs of others. Miller remarks “No wonder that the gifted child chooses the psychoanalytic profession later on. Who else, without this previous history, would muster sufficient interest to spend the whole day trying to discover what is happening in another person’s unconscious?” (p.9). She discusses that the development and perfection of such hypervigilance, which once assisted the child in surviving and now serves as a profession, also contains the root of his or her narcissistic disturbance.

Miller helps the reader intellectualize as well as emotionally experience the past use and abuse he or she underwent as a child and how it, in turn, has affected the client currently. The book is useful in facilitating discussion regarding how, why, and to what degree the client identifies with the literature as well as allows the therapist to discuss the rationale behind assigning the work as a supplement to therapy. She explores methods to recapture the real self by advocating the disregard of the parent’s expectations, which have since been internalized and carried into adulthood. Miller discusses allowing the adult parental child to mourn and repossess the true self. She focuses on eradicating the emotional unavailability and inaccessibility in adulthood, which is a result of being aware and sensitive at an early age. The book serves to help the gifted adult regain the lost capacity for genuine emotional responses by advocating definition, identification, and education from the past and feeling repressed emotions in the present. 

This book focuses on the author’s and her clients’ individual case histories rather than generalizing about society as a whole. Miller presents the reader with self-disclosure combined with psychoanalytic theory. The author is candid about her feelings of sadness and pity for the gifted child as well as for the parents who perpetrate and perpetuate such a role in their own children. She acknowledges the abuse that a parental child has endured and reassures the adult that his or her true self does wait for reunification.

A psychotherapist should be cognizant that Miller’s book has weaknesses to its use as a therapeutic tool. The primary difficulty is understanding the terms utilized in the book. She builds up on psychodynamic concepts and incorporates them into her book without definition or reference resulting in limited comprehension and a vague understanding of her key points. This makes it cumbersome for the lay-person to decipher what the author means by “abused,” “gifted,” “true/false selves,” and “narcissism” since, out of the context of the psychoanalytic approach, these words may take on different meanings. The title itself could be confusing given that the gifted child is often easily confused with a child who is intellectually gifted.

Miller’s book serves as a complementary technique to the therapeutic process of the parental child client. The author offers respect, admiration, and empowerment for the reader who was rewarded for his or her lack of emotion as a child, yet punished as an adult by the loss of the self. 

Editorial Reviews

Review
‘Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence…her examples are so vivid and so ordinary they touch the hurt child in us all’ NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Product Description

Miller’s wide and profound book about childhood trauma has provided thousands of readers with guidance and hope, and is essential reading for those interested in psychology, psychotherapy, and more.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author

Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of childhood traumas. She is the author of many books, including The Truth Will Set You Free, Banished Knowledge, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, and For Your Own Good. She lives in Switzerland.

Synopsis

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