Career advice --> psychic or astrologer?

[Eurobabe]

Anybody know/rec a good one? I am turning 50 next year, have a sales background, and really want to get into a new niche market. This Saturn transit has turned my life upside down, and I find myself someplace I never thought I would be -- it would be great to see if what I am seemingly manifesting is indeed the correct path for me to follow. It seems to satisfy so many of my needs/wishes. I just need to conquer some fears first. :yoiks:

Thanks for any input.

[BlueIris]

1. Neither.

At least, not as far as "is this the correct path" kinds of decisions go. Those should be made by your own free will.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Do some research.

Research on the inside. What do you love to do? What makes you happy? What really turns you on doing? Working with people? Working with things? Cut and dried problem solving? Helping someone by helping them make a correct purchase?

This is the approach of What Color Is Your Parachute?

[I Have A Dream]

3. I've had good astrological readings from both stellanoir & ricochetastroman.

There may be other professional astrologers here as well who are really good. (If so, please speak up!)

I don't know that they'd be able to tell you anything absolutely, but they may be able to tell you what astrological energies are currently hitting you right now.

I'm sure that we have some great professional psychics here also. I had a really nice session with Bonzai Bonnie, although I don't know that she would call herself a psychic, and I don't know that what she does fits what you are trying to find. (I'm not sure -- she'd have to say.)

As was already stated though, I don't think that anyone but you can decide if something is your path. It is good to get some additional data though through outside sources.

Good luck, Eurobabe. I hope that you find what you need! :)

[stellanoir]

4. thanks for the kudos and everything else luv

All I can speak to without birth data is the relative generic transit of the Chiron return.

It can often help align oneself with one's soul purpose and release old wounds in the process. It's peculiar like that.

Is 50 "the new 40. . .? "

Dunno, but having just turned 50 a couple months ago, I can only say that can be a total change in perspective,

A decent reader doesn't lay trips or project on you. We all have wildly different experiences and orientations. At best, we affirm what you already know and help with the timing of events, and transitions is all. If we've had similar experiences, it can help due to empathy.

Psychological orientations recommend that one not relate personal experiences. I take issue with that because of empathy.

That is what fuses us all and can truly only help.

Conventional wisdom can say everything is over when your over 50.

I can attest that is not always true.

My life has improved markedly most recently as I've seen with so many others of a similar ilk and epi-generation of late.

I can only be grateful for that.

Happy half a century to you when it comes. We of the 50th decade have an unusual wiring. Consider seeing it as a blessing, and not a curse.

best as always and may you prosper and find true happiness over time.

[BanzaiBonnie]

9. You are so lovely to mention me

We did have a really good session.

I practice Matrix Energetics, but it really opened up my psychic side so I often get messages or information for people.

Mostly what I do is hold the state in which possibility is open. Then we ( me and whomever I'm working with) follow the trail.


I love this work.

[NuttyFluffers]

5. i usually decide which divination tool to use based on my type of question.

any of these disciplines can work, but i find they show me certain strengths in different areas.

if i need to know the personalities involved on a deep level, and possibly any karmic ties that should be checked, i'll use astrology.

if i have a specific question on how to act in a situation, go with the flow, accord with the times, i ask the i ching.

if i have vague notions about oodles of stuff and kinda feel scattered and confused, or need vague glimpses of the future, or need self-psychotherapy, i use the tarot.

your situation sounds more to me like one that you have already made a choice, but you want to know if it's going down the right road, and whether you are according your behavior to the times. i this situation i would find the messages of the I Ching more useful in general. it discusses how your smaller situation fits within the greater flow of situations, and what sort of attitude/manner you should approach, as an individual, the greater world at this time. it also gives you indications what not to do and how it relates in context. granted, it's a very hard text if you have a difficult time with Chinese and its loose syntactical structure.

i'd give the i ching a whirl, personally. sounds better suited for this question.

what sort of divination methods are you familiar with?

[stellanoir]

6. I totally agree with the use of oracles

I would only add that I find Carol K. Anthony's interpretation on the I Ching especially gentle.

The classical Yellow I Ching book always seems as though it's screaming at me.

Could be a karmic deal, but I find her interpretations far more soothing than the conventional schtick.

It's worthy of checking out IMHO.

[Helga Scow Stern]

7. Have you tried Stephen Karcher's

Total I Ching: Myths for Change?

I really love it.

[stellanoir]

8. No I haven't.

But I will on your rec over time. Thanks

[NuttyFluffers]

12. i use Ritsema + Karcher, "I Ching: 1st Complete Translation w/ Concordance"

i find that they are very appreciative of the nuance in Chinese syntactical fluidity. very much a transliteration, if anything, letting the usage flow fluidly between words and let them join themselves as they will. sort of like how modern translations of Chinese poetry are reassessing whether they should bother with English syntax at all.

small example for this confusing idea:

En: I would like to drink a beer and gaze across the river, thinking of home.
Ch: I desire beer river gaze home

roughly the same idea, but it allows the reader to flow at their own pace, even create their own sense of spatial time and order of events. this is actually quite useful in divination to personalize a passage to the inquirer. seems hard at first, but once you get used to it, it makes the touchy feely long winded passages from other translations seem a touch too contrived and limiting. so much of divining is interpretation while letting the intuition play with concepts; the more you have simple objects to play with, instead of sentences with more-or-less fixed meaning, the more flexibility the intuition has to say what it really wants to say.

[Eurobabe]

10. none really (re: divination)

I'm pretty good with astrology myself, but I would like someone else to give me feedback. I went to a psychic once, she blew me away. Then I had a past life regression, that was a trip.

Yes, I have something in mind, and I know I could do it, I'd just like to make sure. Somehow hearing it from someone else, reinforces. :hi:

I've never done Tarot or i-Ching.

Thanks for the input, everyone, on this thread. :hug:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Another bit of advice.

Somebody down thread mentioned past life readings.

I have had those before.

What this meant to me was: What activities do I have real talent for, that are easy for me?
What countries, languages, cultures am I interested in? What philosophies/religions am I drawn to?

These things I was interested in were not part of my back ground, so I am sure they were from past lives. Example:I started piano lessons at age five, and violin lessons at age ten. I love music and have always loved practicing, sniging in choirs, directing choirs, etc.

My grandmother could play the piano a bit by ear, but my parents had NO musical talent and they knew it. They enjoyed listening to me play, though. So where did that huge drive to learn and ability to understand music come from?

Cultures: I am a white anglo saxon protestant woman who grew up in the South. I was raised liberal Protestant. What cultures am I interested in ? Romance languages, no. 1 is Italy, no. 2 is Spanish. Countries: China, India, Italy, England. Religions/cultures: Hinduism/Buddhism.

Time periods: Renaissance/Baroque Europe, the Silk Road of Marco Polo, ancient China, ancient India.

I was not exposed to these things, they are not part of my ethnic heritage or the ethnic heritage of any of my husbands, so why the great interest? I think it's past lives.

So look at your talents and interests for clues.