Every soul book has a section at the end that I call the roadmap. It’s all the possibilities, the if/then’s of a life mapped out as actions (lines) and choices or options (boxes). I explain it as looking like an amazingly complex March Madness game schedule because it shows everything from birth to projected end of life and is constantly updating and changing even while I look. The handy part of it is that the choices already made, the life already lived, is marked in ‘ink’ over all the possibilities so it’s very easy for me to see where the person is currently…riiiiighhht…there!
The information I see there is invaluable as it shows me not only where the person is at and what influences are currently at play in their situation, but also all the possibilities laid out in front of them and what is supporting those being the next steps and not others. All of which can change during the reading as the client makes choices and thinks/feels about things during the reading.
Life is like a wave reaching the beach.
There are two major trends in what I see when I look at a roadmap. Either I’m seeing that the discussion is about what opportunities are ahead and where those choices lead or I can see that we aren’t going to be able to talk about future opportunities until we deal with the situation at hand. I sometimes feel as if life is lived like ocean waves moving towards the shore. We gather ourselves into ourselves, then begin to move towards a goal, releasing ourselves outward in a beautiful growing expansion that expresses our true nature, which changes in the expression, which stretches out until every last drop has been expended, then we retreat inward gathering ourselves again. Many times when we are at the point where we have completely expended ourselves we can see the shore, see the next possibility and then we despair that we’ll never get there. We feel empty and used up and frustrated and injured and lost, but we don’t allow ourselves the grace to regather, to move inward and replenish ourselves so we can move forward again. We strain to stay in this place, never wanting to change, forming our world around the fact that this feeling of over extended, stressed, painful never quite thereness on the shore is all there is and all there ever will be.
I see this time and again when looking at roadmaps. Clients come to me in the stretched out state wanting hope that things will change. And they will. But you have to let go. You have to let go of the identity that says this is all there is, that things will never change, than the world is meant to keep you in this pain, that there is no hope and nothing left within you. It’s there, but you have to let go. Let your identity change. Let the old you slip away so you can replenish the new you that is forming. And when that happens you’ll be able to see the shore with all its possibilities and reach for it without strain, in the fullness of all that is possible and probable and magical.