THE SCIENCE OF MAKING CHANGES

As a “change agent” by my tarot coaching work, I’ve always pondered how do we most effectively transform. One way is through the traditional NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION. This works by doing the following, which is based on my personal experience, recent studies of human behavior, and the tarot’s archetypal map of life.

THE SCIENCE OF KEEPING “RESOLUTIONS”

We all have the best of intentions of changing something in our lives, but how often do we actually keep them? Only 19% of people stick to their New Year’s vows for two years. But the simple act of making a resolution improves your chances by a factor of 10!

Golden Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Fool Child)

IT’S YOUR APOTHEOSIS

Recognize that your resolution is your destiny. Your nature is pulling you towards fulfilling your potential (apotheosis) by keeping your resolve. Surrender to this “future pull” and let the flow take you along. It’s easier than we have been taught. Let go and don’t get in the way by working hard and thinking it’s only you that is at work here. There’s a much bigger life force at work. Your resolution is your spiritual path and practice.

First rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Magician)

ANNOUNCE YOUR RESOLUTION TO OTHERS.

Speak of your Resolution to people and perhaps even put it online. If you don’t do this, the chance of you not following through is great. Not announcing your intentions shows your lack of confidence and reluctance. Speaking out has power, it’s a principle of Magic!

Second Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Priestess)

ANALYZE WHY OLD BEHAVIOR HAS SERVED YOU.

Once you understand how your old habits worked for you, it’s far easier to see new alternatives and healthy substitutes. This is a magical process that’s revealing, healing and revolutionary!

Third Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Empress)

THERE WILL BE PAIN

The laborious part of birthing is pain. It hurts to change and create. Ushering in the new and getting rid of the old is painful. We hold on to the habitual, and the more holding, the more pain. Be brave, accept the discomfort and even the agony. But it’s impermanent, the pain will pass and ecstasy will come! Keep your eye and heart focused on the outcome, the most sacred thing – new life!

Fourth rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Emperor)

ONE STEP AT A TIME.

Take baby steps. Break your resolution down into incremental steps. Make your action and steps “doable” so that you can keep doing the do! This way you create a new “habit.” Make your change a habitual part of your life.

Fifth Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Hierophant)

BE PREPARED FOR SETBACKS.

Nobody is perfect, we all screw up here and there. So? Get back to your new habitual routine. Don’t let setbacks take your down and feeling like you can’t do it. Restart. It’s a fact of life.

Sixth rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Lovers)

GET ALLIES.

Enlist like-minded friends. As a member of “resolutions anonymous,” we all need a buddy. It’s hard to do it alone. Everyone needs support and some kind of support community. If you resolve to walk, join a walking group or having a walking partner.

Seventh Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Chariot)

STAY MOTIVATED!

The best and most natural way to maintain your original inspiration is “The Magician’s Ritual” – a meditation in which you imagine and see yourself being successful, feel that success in your heart and body, affirm to yourself that you can and are succeeding, visualize your next immediate step, and ask the universe for help. Keep doing this.

EIGHTH Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Balance)

CHANGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT. It’s difficult to quit smoking if your live or are surrounded by smokers. Alter your environment to support your new behavior. Get out of of your own personal “Dodge.” Release and let go of who and what’s not working for you. Get free to find your community, your place of power.

NINTH Rule for Keeping Your Resolution: (Hermit)

SUCCESS IS INSIDE OUT

“Success Is An Inside Job.” It’s all about YOU! Nothing changes unless you change. If you don’t take command of your life, you are powerless – unauthentic, unwhole, and become a victim, a despondent, pitiful me, aborted person.

Tenth Rule for Keeping Your Resolution (Fortune)

REWARD YOUR COMPLETIONS

Every action and step done is a completion. Acknowledge your small fulfillment. Reward yourself. Say nice things to yourself. Do whatever it takes to be happy with what you got done. “The journey is the destination,” so enjoy the journey, one step at a time, one day at a time.

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” James Wanless will guide us into exploration of the past and coming years through the Voyager Tarot. Those who already know James realize that as the developer of Voyager Tarot, he is often called Captain Pic-A-Card and you can do just that on his website: http://www.voyagertarot.com/
Once there look for ‘Card-A-Day’ and click to get a card. For the call, I suggest that you buy the deck (well, it IS a GREAT DECK!) anyway, if you don’t buy the deck (and do that immediately so they come in time AND tell him you are an All-Star when you order) pick a card or three before the call or have his site up during the call so you can do it that way.

To me, the Voyager deck is the best there is: it is filled with contemporary images and symbols, stated with language that resonates in our time and the companion book; VOYAGER TAROT – Way of the Great Oracle, is also a wonderful reference.

HOWEVER – you can get the Card-A-Day for FREE – please accept that this endorsement is from me, Dan Cleary, because I like this stuff and Wanless is that good!

If you already know James then you already know this is going to be a great call and a lot of fun! If you are new to tarot in general or Voyager in particular, you will be amazed.”

Thanx Dan! Can’t wait to talk to all of the listeners. So call in!

Voyager is a mythic story set in tarot cards as an oracle for the 21st century. It’s about a real journey to wholeness – a path for living long and living well (healthy, happy, holy and wealthy, enough).

To achieve this, a person becomes a voyager who explores the universal archetypes found throughout all cultures and history. The gateway opens with the realization that we know everything and nothing – a true Fool and Child. That it’s all mystery of one interconnected phenomenon called life. And that we are here because of curiosity, the life force that drives us all to know and grow.

In that quest, the voyager in us experiences power – the ability to walk and speak and create – the archetypal Magician. As avatars of this great magic, we express our gift for “fortune creation,” a way for fulfilling our own prophecy of visions and dreams.

But how do we know that we our aspirations are not deluded and are true and right. The Magician knows not. The Priestess, who sits within, waits for the talented Magician to ask for guidance. The voyager seeker enters the portal of the Priestess temple. She tells of a future blessed with the love and life-giving power of the great mother, the Empress.

From the mating of the primordial life forces of power and truth, the voyager as Empress is born. In 2010, which adds up the three (the sum of the number one Magician and two the Priestess), it is the “Year of the Empress.”

To realize your destiny of wholeness, be the Empress. With love, compassion, creativity and nurturing, it is your charge to birth, grow, protect and fulfill new life – your babies, your projects, your relationships, your livelihood, your health, your wealth, your growth, yourself.

James Cameron began his Avatar script years before making Titanic. Some things of creation take time! The project lying under your table, in the closet, or on some file in an old laptop has value and may yet blossom forth! Do not lose hope and belief in yourself.

In nature, not all seeds sprout quickly. In fact, some seeds took 10,000 years to sprout in Antarctica. Seeds in the huge Yellowstone fire finally opened up because of the right temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

In terms of our human creativity and production in these fast times, if something takes time and more time, it’s considered be procrastination or some other kind of dysfunctional behavior. Possibly, but perhaps it’s waiting for the ripening of conditions within yourself and in the social environment. Of course, not all seeds are meant to break forth, but those dormant seed ideas and projects have value – they do prepare the way for something new in you.

Re-view your history and herstory of your half-baked, undone creations. This is telling. What you’ve done in the past is, in a way, a true forecasting. Go back to go ahead. The ancient future beckons.

I’ve always had this thought of a “TV Tarot” series or something like that. Tucked away and hibernating, now may be the time. Having just met an interested television producer in Atlanta may lead to a breakthrough. The version of this particular seed is the “TarotWare Party” – an ‘edutaining’ event. Maybe it’s the right seed, but if not, spring hasn’t yet come. So what. Your thoughts?

It was 14 years ago that I made my first Green Wisdom Card, a Deck of 99 cards, yet unpublished. Unlike making a Tarot deck, there is no pre-set structure for a nature set of cards and so is far more daunting to produce. To know and be faithful to nature, I was not ready back then. But conditions have changed. Green is greening, now. Everything has a season.

My Cameronesque Titanic production of Voyager Tarot took only 4 years. The Green Wisdom oracle, my own “Green Man” avatar at work, has taken me considerably longer, but in spite of pressure within me and from the world, I knew. Wait, be patient and keep working! You gotta’ love what you do to persist and produce.

Now that Pandora’s jug has been opened, “uh oh,” or maybe, “aha!” A 3-D deck of cards? Holographic? The seed has been planted.

Things happen in life and always apply to you. Every happening, every person you meet, and every movie you see has meaning. The creative, intuitive, growthful life is informed and inspired by these intersections of you and the world. Pay attention and you’ll find an endless fount of resources for self-manifestation.

Having just seen the 3D version of “Avatar,” what does that tell me? Like, where did my tail go? Am I standing up for nature as guardian of the trees and creatures? What’s my source of life force and for connecting soul to soul? So many possibilities, but two stand out for me presently – thinking and living mythically and naturally (like nature).