What Was My Career Plan For This Lifetime?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Tam.
Tam: Greetings to Bob, Cynthia, and The Council. I’m curious about my career path because I’m in my early 20s. I’ve always envisioned myself being internet famous with a YouTube channel. What was my plan for this lifetime regarding my career?
Council: You wanted to be very creative. You wanted to use your hands to create something that people would like to see. You wanted to be successful. You are on the path to find out how to do this.
Tam: What steps should I take at this moment?
Council: Well – and you may not understand this right away – but we suggest that you learn about past life regression, and near-death experiences, and you learn about helping others feel this, and see this, and understand it. You want to tell the story.
How you wanted to do it was to draw certain pictures, and perhaps create an animation to show it. So we would say #1, learn about past life regression and how someone can regress themselves. And in the steps you can teach the people, you see steps going down. And you number the steps, and there are certain colors. And when you get to the bottom a door opens, and what is it that you see? So you would draw this. With animation you would create the stairs, the colors changing, and the numbers changing so that people, when they learn how to regress themselves, will know how to do it because you will show it in a video or in an animation.
When you learn about near-death experiences, if someone tells you they’ve had one and this is what happened to them, you can create those pictures with animation. And that is a big job that will be very, very successful. So we would say, in the beginning, start slowly.
Also helping people see in which way their life is going. What do you see so far? So do you see them riding a bike and going down a highway near an ocean? You create the picture. What you see for them, you create the picture, and it helps them to understand more. And this will be very, very exciting.
Tam: What should I try and be good at? I’m studying design at university, and I do enjoy making 3D environmental art.
Council: Perfect.
Tam: I plan to turn these into animations or short videos…
Council: Yes.
Tam: …but I can’t quite see the next step yet, as I’m not sure what content I should put into these videos besides just showing the pretty art.
Council: Well you will learn about regression, and you will learn how to do it. You will draw it, you will make the video, and it will take off from there. You will get more ideas about what to show, how to show it, and people will love this, to connect to their past, and to connect to their future. So you will offer something that’s not being offered right now.
Tam: I also love doing tarot readings for other people and had a small business before, but haven’t been able to make a stable income. In the future I want to develop a website and provide my service up there to connect with people more internationally like Bob and Cynthia.
Council: Oh, this is wonderful. So you use the tarot to get information, and then you draw it. And you would say, “Well, how?” It will come to you, but people will be so happy, not just to get a recording with words, but to get pictures to make it clearer for them.
So you are on the right path. It is a huge dream, and it is possible. Believe in it and you will create it.
Tam: I’ve always dreamed of combining these two interests of mine together and make money out of it.
Council: Exactly.
Tam: Being able to be creative, but also able to guide and help people. I’ve been making small progress over the last few years, and I’ve learned a lot of new things, but haven’t been able to put the small details into the big picture yet regarding my career path.
Could you give me some guidance, as I’ve been envisioning this fame since I was a kid? Even back before YouTube had existed, I was already dreaming of making videos to post online. I feel like I’m so much nearer to this dream now, but it is still not clear yet.
Council: Well we have given you some ideas for you to play with and practice, and the rest will come because it will feel good. And when you are doing something that feels good, more and more ideas will come.
Tam: I will graduate at the end of this year, but I don’t feel comfortable with the thought of working at a 9 to 5 job…
Council: You will create and work for yourself. That is what was planned. That’s what you wanted.
Tam: …as I am a very sensitive person. I’d like to find a way to work for myself, work from home remotely, and could still be financially stable. Does The Council see me creating this in the near future?
Council: Yes, we see that, but only you can make it happen. You need to practice. See it the way you want it to develop. But we have given you some ideas in which direction to take this. And when you move in this direction, you will see the success that you wanted, coming.
And so we send you all love, and happiness, and excitement that moving along on your path, and all good things, all creation that comes to you, will come from higher energy and a higher vibration. And everything you wish to have will be created by you, and only you.
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Can I Change Something That’s Already Happened In The Past?
This post answers a follow-up question for The Council from a reader named, Leo Moon, who recently asked about tarot card readings. They’ve listened to The Council’s answer several times to understand it because they’re not very familiar with the concepts of multiple realities and parallel versions of ourselves that are mentioned during the session. Now Leo Moon wants to know if they can change the past, or switch over to a parallel reality with a different past than the life they currently inhabit. And they say for example: If I went to multiple tarot card readers and they told me someone cheated on me, could I reject that past and switch over to a parallel reality where that person never cheated on me? Is this even something that’s possible?
The Council says of course it’s possible because you’re the creator of your reality, but we want you to know you’re already experiencing that other life in another dimension. What you forget is that in your current lifetime you may have dreams to experience a different ending in this life, you may have visualizations or meditations where you can see your life ending differently, but it’s important to remember that you created this in another reality to experience it. But you’ve also created this reality to experience it the way it is now.
In your current reality you’d have to concentrate, visualize, or meditate with a very strong focus to spend some time in another reality so you can experience it, but you’ll always come back to your current reality. The part of you that created your current reality would always come back to this lifetime because you want to experience it. You’ll come back to your current reality where perhaps this person cheated on you because your higher self wanted you to have this experience, even though it may not feel like it.
With your focus and with astral travel you can switch your reality to experience an alternate reality for a brief period of time, but you wouldn’t get rid of your current life that you’ve created. A part of you will always be here. Unless you know how to time travel, which is a possibility, you’ll always have short spurts of another lifetime and then your focus would come back to your current lifetime. But all the different parts of you would experience your life in as many different ways as you wish to experience that situation.
Enjoy your current reality. Know that you can experience your current reality any way you desire, but you’ll still go on in it because you created it and you want to see how you’ll handle it, how you’ll feel, and how you’ll grow from it.
You wouldn’t change your current reality’s past because you’ve created it the way you wanted in a different reality. There’s no reason to change the past of your current reality. You can consciously try and visualize or imagine what it would be like until you actually get close enough to feel it and be in it for a few minutes or a few seconds and bring the feeling of that experience back with you into your current reality. But your current reality won’t go away. It’s something you wish to grow from. It’s something you wish to experience and see how you’ll handle this experience in this lifetime.
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Are Tarot Card Readings About the Past Always Accurate?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Leo, who asks if tarot card readings are always accurate when answering questions about things that happened in the past? The Council says, No, they’re not always accurate because of the person that’s reading the cards. Is anyone ever 100% accurate? What about the person who’s having the reading? Where’s their energy? What sort of signals are they sending out?
Leo says, I know tarot cards can only predict probabilities when asking about future events since we have the ability to change our thoughts and, in turn, what we’re attracting. The Council says this is because at the moment you’re having the reading, the reader connecting with you, your thoughts, and what you’re creating at this moment, is connecting with the direction of where your energy is going and what you’re hoping for. As soon as that begins to change, the reading will come up false or true. It’s what you are creating that will make the foundation of the reading wrong or right. As you change what you want, the reading will show up positive or negative.
Leo says, What about events in the past? I’ve had several readings on past events where I’ve received different answers to the same question and I want to know why this is. The Council says this is because there are many of you in different parts of reality. The reader will connect with one of these parts and the way you experience the past in this reality. If your vibration is strong enough, the reader will see how you experience the past in a different reality and there will be a totally different answer. It’s the person that does the reading, how they connect with you, and how strong your vibration is, and this is why you can get many different answers.
The reader will tune into the way you’ve experienced the past in your current reality. For example, they may tell you several things about a job in your past and you’ll confirm this is what went on. But another reader can tune into a job you had that you’re living in another reality because you wanted to experience the job differently. This reader will give you a totally different reading because it’s a different part of you living your life that way in this other reality. (Bob’s note: This idea can be a little difficult to understand if you’re not familiar with what The Council has said in other posts about different parts of yourself living in other realities. Click here to see a selection of our posts that appear in the Other Realities category.)
The Council says you can have four or five readings on one subject with one question and you can get different answers to those questions. For example, the direction your life is going in now, or the way you want your life to go and your hopes and dreams about it. This can be tapped into. Or the way you’ve already created your life in other realities will show up in the reading. Tarot cards are a lot of fun. Go into the reading with a questioning attitude, but the reader will get what’s coming through strongest in your vibration at that time.
Bob says, Leo seems to feel past events are fixed and it sounds like The Council is saying that the past isn’t as fixed as Leo might think it is. The Council says the past is fixed in your current reality, but you’ve also created other realities with the same subject that you wanted to experience differently. And these different realities are able to show up in tarot readings.
Leo says, If I’m asking about a fixed event that happened in the past, how can two different tarot readers give me two different answers to the same question? The Council says it’s because the two readers have tapped into two different vibrations that you’ve created.
Leo says, Tarot is something I’m really passionate about and have relied on quite heavily over the years. But the experiences I’ve been having recently are making me question its legitimacy and whether or not it’s capable of giving out accurate information 100% of the time. The Council says the readings are capable of being accurate. It depends on what you’re vibration is showing at the time of the reading. Whether it’s the way you wanted something to turn out, or the way something did turn out, whether it’s in your current reality or in another reality, it’s always about your vibration at the time you’re having the reading.
Leo closes by saying, Is it possible that my vibration or the vibration of the tarot reader is affecting the accuracy of the reading and causing the readings to give false answers a portion of the time? The Council says it’s not a false answer. It’s something you’ve created in another dimension.
The Council closes by saying, When you ask a question and you get an answer that makes absolutely no sense to you, but perhaps you’d like things to go in that direction, it would be wonderful to think: Somewhere I’m experiencing that. Wouldn’t that be fun, and then dwell on that answer. That’s the way you want your life to be. Keep thinking about it, and feeling what this feels like, and enjoying this so that you can bring this situation into your current reality.
And if you get an answer that you don’t want, you can reject it. You can decide you don’t want your life to go in that direction and start framing the answer in your mind in the direction you want it to go. You are the creator. You control everything that happens.
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What Should I Do With My Life?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Alethea, who’s looking for guidance on what to do with her life. I feel homesick at home. I feel like there are important things I should be doing and I’m just going through the motions instead.
The Council begins by saying that asking this question is the first step. You’re feeling homesick at home because that isn’t the home you wish to learn about. You wish to learn more about yourself as a spiritual being.
The Council recommends reading the book, Emmanuel, by Pat Rodegast. Learn about energy. Take courses in healing – Reiki is a very easy one. Learn about past lives. Ask questions about Astrology. Go for readings. Go into the alternative belief systems about spirit.
The life you live now isn’t fulfilling because it’s at a point where you’re ready to go in another direction. Learn about crystals. Have someone read tarot cards for you and be surprised when you get answers that make sense. Begin to wonder how much more there is to your current life. And be around people who’ve had similar experiences.
Read about people who talk to spirits that have passed on from this life and yet they are still talking with these spirits. Read about past lives and particularly about near-death experiences. You want so much more from your life at this time.
Learn about your spirituality, and learn to meditate. This will bring you closer to the spirit world.
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Why Do People Think Astrology and Tarot are Demonic?
This post answers a question for The Council from a reader named, Miyagi, who’s into Astrology and reading Tarot cards, but some of her family think it’s witchcraft and this scares her. A friend told her it’s demonic. Why do people have a difficult time believing in Astrology and the Tarot for guidance?
The Council says many people who don’t understand getting guidance from Astrology and Tarot are afraid of it and think it’s demonic. Most people who are afraid of Astrology and Tarot have experienced lifetimes where they misused it and so coming back in this lifetime they’re afraid of it.
Astrology and Tarot go very far back in time. The pagan religions, which are also thought to be demonic, were people who worshipped the stars, the moon, the Earth, animals, and everything that had life. In ancient times people worshipped many different gods. When Christianity came along this unfortunately changed things. They believed in Christ and if you didn’t believe their way they’d destroy your temples and punish you. There were Popes who changed the laws of Christianity to make all other religions evil.
Because Miyagi has the power to read cards and stars, the more she studies this the easier it will come to her because she’s done this in other lifetimes, and did it in a way that was good for people. Miyagi says she looks at everything as created from the divine source, but she’s confused about all this and wants The Council’s opinion. The Council says when you can see things through the eyes of creation, you’re on the right track because you’re looking at these things with love. We advise you to stay on this path.
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July 12, 2011 Thought for the Day
Astrology, Numerology, Tarot, I Ching, and Psychic Development
Are a few of the tools you knew, as spirit,
That would be available to you
To help you plan and guide your journey
Through your physical experience.
—The Council
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Since the blog is currently a project we do in our spare time it can take a while for us to do a session with The Council on a question and then publish a post on the session. Depending on the question and the session it can sometimes take weeks after a question is asked to publish a post with The Council’s answer. Please be patient.
The Council
Cynthia is able to communicate with a group of five non-physical spirit guides in a manner similar to the way Esther Hicks communicates with and speaks for the spirit guides, Abraham, and Jane Roberts communicated and spoke for the spirit guide, Seth. I (Bob) basically interview The Council as they speak through Cynthia during what we refer to as a session. Sessions generally last 5-15 minutes and are usually audio recorded. During the session Cynthia is aware of what The Council is saying and she also receives visual impressions and other types of telepathic communication from them.
The Council’s Basic Guidance
Since we began these sessions with The Council around 2009 they consistently emphasize a few basic ideas that we attempt to summarize here:
1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.
You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.
Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.
Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.
2) You are the creator of all that you experience.
As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.
If you’re used to thinking of yourself in a more limited sense, the idea that you are the creator of your experience may be difficult to understand. Our post, What About This Idea That We Create Whatever We Desire, offers insights into this idea.
3) You are here to expand the love you are into physical reality.
You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.
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