Social media is full of discourse about a very popular (former) tarot reader denouncing their tarot practice. I won’t name names because there have been a few and the thing is, they aren’t the first and they won’t be the last. So naturally, I’ve gotten a few questions about it – am I going to leave spirituality? How do I feel about it? What do I think happened?
Well, am I going to leave? Not today. Or tomorrow. I won’t say never – I have no idea what the future holds. I can read into the energy of the future, but energy changes frequently as we move through our lives. 5 years ago, I never would have guessed I’d be here writing this to you. I can only imagine where I’ll be in another 5 years. What I can say with (some) certainty is that I, personally, won’t turn to religion. What I’ve come to understand through this journey is that religion is often giving away your power to someone else’s understand of how the universe works. While I think there are bits of truth scattered throughout all religions, I also think human egos become embedded in the structures eventually to serve some outside purpose. That’s part of why religion has never resonated with me. I also tend to need to learn things the hard way by doing it for myself (through dowsing or meditation for example) and most religions/sects are vehemently against that. I’ll continue to explore and learn from various religions at a distance, but I’m unlikely to ever pick one and stick to it.
So what do I think of the few that have denounced their previous practices? Is this a new trend? What do I think happened? I think life happened. People grow and change and move in all sorts of directions. The few that have recently left are not the first to denounce their previous practices. Many of you are familiar with Doreen Virtue’s work, especially with the angels. She’s one that later denounced her work and no longer associated with spirituality in the name of fundamentalist christianity. Anne Rice is another that quit her work in writing vampire novels in favor of religious themed works. Although it isn’t obvious if Anne believed her stories or not, she went back and forth with religion in a very public way until she passed. The point is, I don’t think this is a new or changing trend. People come to spirituality, move to religion, move to non-belief and back again in all sorts of different ways throughout their lives.
So what do I think really happened? Changes like this usually come with some sort of major event. For me, my spiritual awakening came with a Kundalini awakening I didn’t expect (you can read more about that here if you’d like). Death or trauma can cause major shifts. So can getting fired or going through an intense breakup or any other major life event. Change doesn’t always happen that way, but it’s common enough to call a pattern (in my eyes anyways, there’s no science or data on this that I’m aware of).
In reacting to news like this, whatever way you feel about it is valid. I’m a little sad when people go through converting to some religious sects, because to me it feels like giving up power over their own sovereignty. I want people to decide for themselves what they want life to be, not just do what they are told. I let my feelings end there though, whatever they are going through is their own journey to discover. Also, trying to tell them how they should be or what they should do is kind of hypocritical for what I think it should be. Other people’s beliefs are outside of the things I can control, so I’m not going to try.
Life happens and will continue to happen. It’s all a cycle and some people experience those cycles over shorter or longer periods of time depending on their place in this journey. TLDR; It is.
What do you think of the recent news/discourse? Did it change your perspective at all?
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