Cosmic Faery's Tarot Journal: Inspiration for the New Year: Optimism

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Inspiration for the New Year: Optimism

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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” - John Heywood

On New Year's Eve I received a timely reminder about the power of optimism from Thought For Today in my inbox, and I would like to share it with you today, the first day of 2013:

Optimism opens a door in difficult or hopeless situations.

No matter what the crisis, an optimist maintains the outlook that it is a sign - perhaps time for a different way of thinking or a different way of doing things.

Sometimes this sign has to be very clear - even harsh - otherwise we may continue in self-delusion and leave our true potential unfulfilled.

Take this sign as a step towards change, otherwise complaint, resentment, bitterness, cynicism or even desperation may emerge.

Optimism is power. It's a way of life that restores faith in yourself, your ability and your future. Optimism can help you overcome self-sabotage.

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” - Helen Keller

Optimism isn't about pretending that everything is fine when it isn't. It's about accepting a situation, making the best of it and striving towards improving it, because you know that positive change and transformation is possible and within your reach.

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

- Vaclav Havel

And even if things don't turn out the way you wanted them to, as an optimist you will have had a better time trying than gloomily awaiting your fate.

Make this year a year of optimism and see how it improves your life.

Wishing you a happy, healthy and abundant New Year!

Christiane

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4 comments:

Inner Whispers22 January 2013 10:35
What a fabulous take on the Star card, and so true - beautiful image and quote, once again, Christiane. Really looking forward to this deck :)
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Glossary

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Arcana - Latin arcanummeaning secret, mystery. The Tarot is divided into the Major (22 Trump cards) and the Minor (56 Pip cards) Arcana. Paul Christian, a student of the French Occultist and authorÉliphas Lévi, first used the term arcane for the two sets of cards in the 18th century.

Clairvoyant - "one who sees clearly"; the apparent ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through extra-sensory perception.

Divination - practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through communication with divine sources and through omens, oracles and signs. It attempts to make known those things that neither reason nor science can discover.

Extra-sensory perception - ability to acquire information independent of any known physical senses or deduction from previous experience; also called the '6th sense'; this includes precognition (seeing the future), clairvoyance, intuition.

Esoteric- Greek esoterikosmeaning inner, within, "inwardness". Esoteric knowledge is that which is available only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or specially educated people. Esoteric items may be known asesoterica. In contrast, exotericknowledge is knowledge that is well-known or public.

Intuitive - ability to sense or know immediately without reasoning; to have a 'hunch', 'gut feeling', following one's 'instinct'.

Magic (sorcery) - also spelledMagick - a conceptual system that asserts human ability to control or predict the natural world (including events, objects, people, physical phenomena) through mystical, paranormal or supernatural means.

Medium - a person, who has the ability to make contact with spirits of the dead, and entities such as angels and demons. A spiritual medium, also called spiritualist, may allow his or her body to be taken over by spirit entities and as a result may fall into a trance to pass on their messages.

Occult - Latin occultusmeaning hidden, concealed. Occultism is the study of occult or hidden wisdom. To the occultist it is the study of "Truth", a deeper truth that exists beneath the surface: 'The truth is always hidden in plain sight'. The term occult is often falsely associated with devil worshipping and black magic. "Even the simplest occult studies are dangerous for those who are not willing to lead pure and upright lives in any circumstances." Annie Horniman, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Psychic - Greek psychikosmeaning 'of the soul, mental'. Ability to perceive things hidden from the normal senses, e.g. describing unknown people, places, objects, events with uncanny detail.

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Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Inspiration for the New Year: Optimism

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