Posted By Amanda on September 20, 2011

Who would I be without money blocks?

One of the questions that I asked myself during my Personal Discovery Process was “Who would I be without these limiting beliefs and blockages around money?”

The answer that came back was “The Sun.”

There is nothing like a really clear, truthful answer from a tarot card!

If it were not for my determination to hold onto struggle and to life being, difficult, unfulfilling and lacking abundance, I would be SHINING my light brightly out into the world.

The Sun card symbolizes Joy, fun, youthfulness, playfulness, vibrant health and energy and SHINING from the True Core of BEING me.  This is a card of being totally happy with who I am and content in my own skin.

With the large red banner and the red feather in the child’s headdress, that is a vibrant connection in all my chakras and connected to the Universe. Red is the colour of fire, passion, energy and enthusiasm, whilst the white of the horse indicates Spirituality.

So, I kind of have to wonder why I am living my life playing small and not shining?

Just to check that this was not a fluke answer, I asked one of the other questions in the “Identify Money Blockages Spread”, which was “What is my potential for Greatness?” and out came the 9 of Pentacles.

This is a card of wealth, affluence, financial stability as well as influence out in the big wide world. It is a card of making a difference to the lives of other people and being handsomely rewarded on a financial basis for it!

The woman is quite comfortable with material wealth and quite happy to enjoy it for what it is and what it can bring.

It reminds me of a self- made multi-millionaire businesswoman that I was listening to the other day, who said that “Making fabulous money is part of my spiritual path!!!!!!!” and “The money I make, the more people’s lives I can enrich!”

Now there is a turn around in thinking from the old “money is not spiritual” idea!

So, yet more brutal honesty staring me in the face from a deck of tarot cards. I now have a choice as to whether I really want to stay in the comfort of the old, familiar ways or whether I am ready to step up and out into the rather scary, and totally unknown way, of shining the light of my True Core BEING out into the world, for all to see.

Have a great day.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

Tarot Author and Coach

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Posted By Amanda on September 19, 2011

Design Your Own Tarot Card Spread

At some point in your Tarot Journey, you will probably want to design your own spread using your favourite deck of cards.

There tend to be a few spreads that are very widespread, such as a simple 3 card spread for Past, Present and Future and the Celtic Cross Spread. These tend to work on the basis that you allocate a particular meaning to a position and you interpret the card that falls in that position in the light of that allocated meaning.

Even within well-established spreads such as the Celtic Cross Spread, there is disagreement amongst Tarot Readers and Writers as to the exact meanings of each of the 10 main positions.

When designing your own Tarot Spread, you may wish to simply re-name the positions in an existing spread to something that works better for you or you may wish to add extra rows or additional cards.

You can also design your own spread completely from scratch.

The first step is to decide what you want the spread to do and what answers you want it to provide for you.

Is it a general Tarot Card spread? Is it for a specific area such as health, relationships, career or money? Are you trying to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of a situation? Do you want to understand what two people might be thinking and feeling and how their perspective might be different to each other?

Once you know what you are trying to accomplish, you can decide how many cards you are going to use in your spread, whether you are using both Major and Minor Arcana cards and whether or not you are taking account of reversed cards.

You can simply lay your cards out side by side and read them as a sequence, such as from left to right or top to bottom. That can be a very effective way to read, as you see everything as part of a sequence.

If you are using specific positions within your spread, you need to decide what they are going to mean for you.  It does not actually matter what meaning is allocated to each position, as long as you remain consistent with the meanings for you in your readings. This is especially important if you get a card that seems to bear no relation to the position it has landed in.

You could allocate things such as Past, Present, Future, Good or unhelpful influences of other people, challenges, potential obstacles and a likely outcome.

Perhaps more powerful would be to ask a question of each position. I recently designed a spread to help me and my clients to identify unhelpful blocks and beliefs around money.

Some of the questions included: “What energy patterns have I brought from Past Lives?” What patterns have I brought from my family? What are the blockages that stop money flowing into my life? What are my true beliefs about money and financial wealth? Who would I be without these limiting beliefs? And what would need to happen for me to feel safe in releasing these blockages?

In this particular spread there were 18 positions, which consisted of 3 rows of 3 cards, with a 2^nd layer of 3 rows of 3 cards on the top, so the spread used 18 cards.

A Tarot spread is a gateway to your unconscious mind and the pictures on the cards are a trigger for that. Answers can often come out by looking at a picture on a tarot card and allowing thoughts to bubble to the surface, whereas you might have difficulty getting to the same insights by simply asking questions.

Be clear and specific on the questions you are asking, be consistent with the positions and allow your intuition and your heart to give you the clear answers.

Have fun with your spreads.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

Tarot Author and Coach

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Posted By Amanda on September 15, 2011

What would need to happen for me to feel safe in releasing  money blocks?

I have recently been doing a lot of work on identifying and releasing limiting beliefs about money and blocks to prosperity that I may be holding that are stopping money and financial wealth from flowing into my life. I have designed a Tarot spread to look at this, which I will be sharing with you shortly.

Having identified a few things from different sources, such as past lives and old vows, I decided to ask myself the question, “What would need to happen for me to feel safe in releasing these money blocks?

The card that came up surprised me initially. It was the 5 of Pentacles.

In readings, I have usually interpreted this as a lack of money or money being tied or lost in some way. There is a sense of material and physical poverty.  I could have understood this card if I had got it as a reflection of the current situation, but as an answer to me feeling safe in releasing old, long-held beliefs about money?? These are beliefs which to some extent have kept me safe and allowed me to stop myself from shining out in the world, so they were quite useful.

How can a card signifying a potential lack of money be the key to have more money flow into my life?

When you look more closely at the card, you can see that the beggar woman is completely oblivious to the pentacles of abundance that are in the window behind and is trudging along her weary way, so caught up in her life of pain and misfortune that she has no concept that there could be abundance there for her.

A few weeks ago, someone said to me that I might have an “addiction to struggle,” meaning that I have got so much significance, importance and connection with other struggling people, that I probably do not who I am without struggle.

The boy on the crutches seems to be more aware of the pentacles in the window and the idea that there could be a better way. Perhaps there is help from God, the Universe, a Higher Power or someone or something else? Perhaps that help is open to everyone and is freely available to all, if they are only willing to ask for help?

This was very interesting for me because another card that had come up in relation to Energy from the family was a sense of fierce independence, a desire to do everything myself and an unwillingness to let anyone or anything help me. This makes it quite difficult then to ask for help from the Universe.

So to answer the question, ““What would need to happen for me to feel safe in releasing these money blocks?” the answer is that I need to be willing to release my addiction to struggle, poverty, lack, being a martyr, doing everything myself and life being hard or difficult.

I would have to feel that there is a Higher Power out there, call it what you will, that is willing to look after me and support me. That does not mean that I treat this power like an open cheque book and expect it to pick up the tab for reckless spending.

However it means I need to trust that money and the things I need (and want) can come to me from a myriad of sources, most of which I probably have never thought about, with the help of a benevolent Universe.

I have to 1) Ask for what I want and need, 2) Expect that help is coming in some form, as I have asked or something better 3) be open and willing to receive it, 4) be grateful when something shows up for me 4) perhaps ask “how does it get any better than this?”

So , a huge lesson in a very simple card that came up in a particular position to answer a very specific question.

Have a great day.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

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Posted By Amanda on September 11, 2011

“Tarot Reversals in the Rider Waite Deck of Tarot Cards” – brand new BOOK – Just Released!

What do you do when you get Reversed Cards come in a Tarot Spread?

Some people ignore them completely and treat them as if they were the same as upright cards. Other people always make sure that there reversed cards in the deck before they do a reading, although I think the danger with that approach is that you don’t know whether the Reversed Cards belong to your client or were left over from a previous reading.

I tend to make sure that all the cards are in the Upright position before giving them to a client to shuffle, so that any Reversed Cards that come up are because they were meant to for that client and are significant for them.

Are Reversed Cards just an energetic blockage of the Upright?

I have heard people say that Reversed Cards are merely an energetic blockage of the Upright card and to some extent that is true.

However some cards can actually be more constructive and helpful in the Reversed position than they are in the Upright position. I have found this to be true of cards such as the Devil Reversed or the 5 of Pentacles Reversed.

Sometimes Tarot cards in the Reversed positions seem to almost take on a meaning of their own that is connected to but different from the cards in the Upright position. It is not always just an opposite meaning, sometimes there is much more to it.

Reversed Cards with their own Meaning

I have always taught people to look at the card, study the picture, notice what is going on, observe the colours, symbols, shapes and the relationship of people to the scene and then to be aware of any feelings that come up as you do that.

As I started to really do that with the Reversed cards, I noticed a lot more subtle differences and some of the cards looked completely different in the Reversed position and you could see things in the card, in the Reversed position, that are not obvious in the Upright position.

All the Reversed Meanings of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck

In my new book “Tarot Reversals in the Rider Waite Smith Deck” I explore all the Reversed cards and show you how to interpret them. I give you Quick Keywords for each card, as well as a more in-depth explanation of each card in the Reversed position to get you started.

When you look at the cards as different entities, rather than just a blockage of the upright card, you open your readings up to a whole new level because you are now essentially working with 156 different cards and energies instead of 78. It opens up a whole new level of possibilities to help and serve your clients.

Each explanation is fully illustrated with the colour card, so that you can see exactly what you are looking at.

I have included some Keywords for the Upright cards, so you can quickly see the differences between the Upright and Reversed Meanings.

Sample spreads

In this brand new book, I give you some sample spreads of combinations of cards in the Upright and Reversed positions, so that you can see how the meanings of the cards change from the Upright position to the Reversed position and how this affects your whole reading.

Downloadable Ebook

“Tarot Reversals in the Rider Waite Smith Deck” is currently available as a downloadable ebook, so you can be using it and enjoying it within minutes of me receiving your payment.

There are over 150 pages of Meanings of the Reversed Cards in the Rider Waite Smith Deck of Tarot Cards, as well as sample interactions, sample spreads and tips on asking the best questions to get the most useful answers and ways to really tap into your Higher Wisdom and Intuition.

Gor more information and to Order  “Tarot Reversals in the Rider Waite Smith Deck” please click on the link below:

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Enjoy your Tarot Journey.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

Tarot Author and Coach

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Posted By Amanda on September 7, 2011

The Devil Card – Unconscious Commitments

Over the past few weeks I have been going through a journey of Personal Discovery. I use that term because I believe that we are all whole, perfect and complete and we have simply accumulated a lot of experiences and beliefs that don’t really serve us.

The Personal Development industry has striving on having us believe that we are not complete and that we need to fix something that is broken or we need to draw into ourselves something or someone that is external to ourselves in order to be whole and complete.

My belief is that the True Core of all of us is Love, Peace, Joy and Abundance. Our job is simply to clear away what does not serve, in order for our magnificence to shine out.

This has been quite a journey and you can read more about it on my other blog – http://www.getyourdreamlife.com/dream-life-blog

I have been using my Tarot cards as the pointers to what needs to be cleared away and what I need to focus on next in my journey.

When the Devil card came up, I knew I was looking at some BIG stuff to shift.

The Devil card is about commitments. It can be about things such as contracts and agreements. Once a contract of any description is made, it can be very difficult to undo that arrangement and it can sometimes ending up feeling like a prison, where there is a real sense of powerlessness.

I have been looking at and releasing the energetic patterns I have brought with me from past lives and down my family lines, so there was some pretty heavyweight stuff in there, especially over money and identity.

These have also included vows of poverty and some very interesting patterns that involved pushing money as far away from as possible.

A few weeks ago, someone had said to me that I might have an “addiction to struggle”. Once I kicked back against this idea, I realised that were probably right. I wrote about some of my discoveries on my other blog and realised that were in fact quite a few plus points to staying poor – although none of them felt very nice!

This is precisely what the Devil card is pointing towards. What commitments have you made, consciously or unconsciously that may be causing you to give away your personal power to someone or something else?

These may be obvious to you or they may take some further digging. Sometimes simply being willing to sit with a pen and paper (and a cup of tea in my case) and ask the questions. Your Guidance and your Inner Wisdom will come to you with answers if you are open to that.

I have explored my family patterns in relation to money (or lack of it) before and thought I had released them. This had all been a bit of an intellectual exercise. What I had never done was actually FEEL Into them and get a sense of the energy that was around these patterns.

The Devil card often brings a sense of heaviness, powerlessness, helplessness and a feeling of insurmountable obstacles to get past. Yes, that pretty much summed it up! The energy felt heavy and stuck, like old treacle in a pot. There was a real sense of Not Enough, Never Enough, Not Good Enough and the really heavy stuff started to surface.

Money had always been very closely associated with the Identity. Who I had been in my past lives and in my previous family incarnations had always been very closely with money or lack of it. I had killed for it, been killed for it, used it as a means of control, manipulation, fear and every possible negative event you could think of. No wonder I have not been very keen on having money in my life in this current lifetime!

Once it started to come to the surface, then I could make the choice to release it.

The clues to the releasing are in the picture on the card in the Rider Waite deck itself.

If you look at the card, you can see that the chains around the necks of the people are not that tight and could be slipped off.

What often holds us stuck with the Devil card is the familiarity with what is known, although it may not be pleasant, and the fear of change and the unknown that is on the other side of reclaiming our personal power.

That is often easier said than done and the Devil card calls for Courage, especially if you are looking at breaking the bonds of habits or in my case “addiction to struggle.”

Remember, you are the Powerful One!

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

Tarot Author and Coach

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