Why Predictions in Spirituality Are Always Pointless
I’m aware the title steps on toes. I mean no harm. Allow me to explain, including if you’re someone involved in predictive work yourself.
No AI was used in writing this text. Contains glossary links.
Predictions Galore
After the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, Humanity will leave behind war and its materialistic views and find a new path of peace.
In December 12, 2012 the world will experience a grand spiritual shift. Gateways will open, there will be mass awakenings, and the planet will be transformed forever.
Comet so and so is a probe/vessel from an extraterrestrial race that will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt intelligent life beyond Earth.
During the game X of sport Y motherships will land on the stadium and the aliens with introduce themselves to the world (not spiritual per se, but you these are interconnected matters).
The year N, Y, or Z is the year of disclosure (related to the above).
All manner of doomsday and rapture prophesies and predictions, religious or otherwise. The End of Days. Apocalyptic Wars. Global Destruction.
Also, addressing the golden child if I may: Earth is ascending, shifting, graduating, “transitioning to 5D”, etc.
The field of spirituality, along with others of an alternative or fringe nature, is no stranger to its fair share of predictions, announcements, and heralding of things to come.
Some bigger others smaller; some sillier while others less implausible; some handled with a measure of care and responsibility, while others perhaps not so much.
This may apply to things you receive on a personal level, for example when you go to the astrologer, or in the case of premonitory dreams or visions. But for the most part, here I’m mainly talking about “big” predictions: those that are written for the world to see; those that predict large-scale events; those you tweet about and create channels and podcasts and Tik-Toks to share and discuss.
To an extent, this is understandable. Mainstream, or common human awareness if you will, by and large doesn’t give credit to the perspectives prevalent in such fields, and may dismiss/belittle them. In particular, those who go through some kind of awakening, spiritual or otherwise, soon discover they’re bound to live in a world that for the most part doesn’t acknowledge what just became evident or at least plausible to them. Thereby restricting them in what they can share, when, and with whom. Otherwise their exploration remains largely reserved for private or exceptional places, finding little other space to exist in the world at large.
From there, it’s only natural to aspire to see something happening.
Something that finally has those things be validated, see the Light of day, makes them recognized, addressed, and/or confronted. If you have any sort of stakes in any such fields, some part of you to will wish to live in a world that reflects what’s true to you.
This gives predictions an expectant audience. If you can’t see something happening, the next best thing is its promise. Predicting, discussing, arguing, thinking about, etc. can give the surrogate impression of things “happening”, to the lack of a better alternative.
Thus, predictions will likely continue to occur on a regular basis, if nothing else to meet that demand. Choose any field to give your attention to where they abound, and not a day will go by where someone at some point goes “something big is coming up”.
But how many of those things end up becoming duds, not matching the level of expectation built up beforehand, or simply not occur at all?
And how many times will one remain willing to buy into the hope and excitement, only for it to end up in disappointment, disillusionment, or frustration in cycles of undelivered promises?
In this article I hope to explain how and why predictive effort as well as the tendency to make announcements is largely pointless — and when it isn’t.
Is It Possible to Predict the Future?
First and foremost, just so we’re clear on where we stand.
I perform readings of the Akashic Records for a living. In layman’s terms (and in my case) this boils down to uncovering past lives on other planets and on Earth for others, as well as reading into spiritual patterns, soul lessons, etc. for others, from distance, over the internet. With this I’m making it clear in no uncertain terms I’m well past the point of questioning whether spiritual things are “real”. I’m beyond doubting the metaphysical as well as the existence of a slew of things out there — both in outer space as well as all around us metaphysically.
Each to their own. There aren’t absolute or unquestionable truths. You’re invited to hold whichever personal beliefs and stances you deem fit, and to stand at whatever stage of your spiritual journey should that be the case. But this to say there’s a threshold of things I’m generally past the point of doubting.
From my understanding, the premise of metaphysically peering into the future isn’t automatically wrong or wielding false information. In truth, there are ways by which you can do so. I’d largely divide these methods in two main groups. The first is when individuals are born with and/or become adept at receiving premonitory information through intuitive means, such as visions, dreams, meditation, and others. The second would be the study of systems that facilitate prediction, in which I’d place something like Astrology for example.
One of the most well-known and influential body of predictions is the idea of Humanity going through a shift in awareness as it transitions from one astrological age to the next, Pisces to Aquarius to be specific. This was in the famous Mayan calendar prophesies which were associated with the year 2012. I’d also include in the same vein of predictive effort anywhere where mystical and religious works across affiliations reference things such as the End of Days, Rapture, Final Judgment, as well as even the New Age idea of Ascension: the idea you get to a point where things of a spiritual nature are measured and/or become more relevant in some way.
As far as I’m concerned, while again setting aside specific details (and insofar as you’re willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the writer’s discernment) at their core these prophesies are true: Humanity is indeed going through, and will continue to go through, a spiritual and energetic shift.
It turns out, however, that shift didn’t end up taking place overnight, at the dawn of December 21st or 22nd 2012, as some predictions seemed to suggest, imply, or sometimes portray explicitly. It ended up instead being a gradual transition, where things in a highly complex system are occurring slowly, on a step-by-step basis.
The biggest metrics by which this shift can be assessed pertain to consciousness and its gradual increase/expansion. It’s in how what yesterday was hidden in the shadows today becomes visible, or more visible; it’s on how collective consciousness is able to see and appreciate things yesterday didn’t; it’s how it’s increasingly unacceptable disrespecting life, disrespecting the planet, etc. Certainly you might argue things are always changing and evolving no matter the age; but we’re at a point where such things are taking place at an intense pace.
And it would be natural for such a shift to be complex and take time. A transition between the ages, possibly involving a movement between Densities, is a massive change: it may not be about weeks, months, or years. Instead I’d expect these processes, of an underlying energetic/metaphysical nature affecting the “translation” as circumstances of the physical plane, to unfurl and unfold in a very gradual manner while taking very long periods of time. Perhaps in the order of the decades, hundreds, if not thousands, yes thousands of years.
So such a transition likely doesn’t involve just one or two major things that change everything overnight. Nor is it something you can easily pinpoint large events that bear major influence. Instead we’re observing a myriad of small, interlocking steps of varying weight, in a process the cumulative effort of which gradually ends up reflecting the shift on the material plane.
In any case, you need not go very far to take a look around and witness the changes in energy and at what’s happening in our world today. As certain portions of collective consciousness and its patterns had been for a long time stuck, hardened, and sometimes even embattled, some can be challenging to move around and may not go quietly into the night. So this transition also involves upheaval, distress, and relentless intensity. It will at points feel as if things become insecure and shaky, with previously tried and tested solutions no longer working, safe and trusted spaces disappearing, etc. Much like a spiritual path on the personal level, a shift on the broader scale may feel like today’s crisis is followed by a different one the next day.
Even those who aren’t particularly “spiritual” will often, intuitively, feel things aren’t quite the same; and perhaps that they’re moving at a fast pace. So I would include these as signs and symptoms of the underlying shift, spiritual and energetic in nature, that is in the process of occurring.
The Mayan calendar and associated prophesies — or rather their gist, again setting aside interpretations of a more specific nature — is in my mind an example of what amounts to reasonable, functional predictive work (it’s also one of the more recognizable, but still).
The Maya used their astronomical/astrological knowledge and tools of their time to make their measurements, and in the process stumbled upon an assessment: at date so and so, our age/time comes to an end. It didn’t mean the world and the construct of time itself would literally cease to exist – that was the interpretation part. Although, to be fair, such interpretations would have been easy to make. The future, after all, is unknown. You take a look at a cliff’s edge before and see nothing beyond it; so what are you thinking about what’s going to happen when you get there?
Still, at its core the assessment was valid: it accurately measured a transition between ages while anticipating a degree of impact this could have when the time came. It touched upon the core idea that around this time Humanity would be going through a transition of a spiritual and energetic nature. Therefore it was a valid, let’s call it, anticipation of what was to come.
I would also see (the gist of) the ideas of Rapture, End of Times, etc. are also touching on the same thing, here in perhaps a more premonitory/intuitive capacity. There were those who connected with the insight that each one’s spiritual journey was what was at stake in this experience, and foretold a time when the levels of Light would increase, creating the possibility of of assessments and readjustments on a spiritual and energetic levels based on those journeys.
If today a person made an analysis in the terms I described above minus the specifics, I’d find no issue in it. The insights would allow us to paint a picture of what was taking place on the energetic/spiritual levels, better understand the spiritual context behind what was taking place in the material world, and maybe draw some guidance pertaining to when things were coming our way.
The shaky part in these assessments was only where the human mind met spiritual insight and tried to discern specific meanings to visions, and predict events and outcomes to match them.
The Pitfalls of Promise-Making
With predictive work of any kind, the problems begin when you start making promises.
This is when the person with insight into the future (even if valid) give themselves permission to be adventurous. It’s when they cease operating from a perspective of handling possibilities, and commit to only one of them. It’s when, based on what they see/sense spiritually, they rush to “call it” before it happens, and adopt their version of the if, what, and when. It’s when they do so without a healthy amount of caution and observation of the fact the future is always a web of potentials in a constant state of flow right up until the point it meets the present moment, with no exceptions.
The moment you make it specific and commit to it, you’re now making a promise. “X or Y will happen”.
What’s the problem with making promises?
The audience will inevitably tend to gravitate towards the more specific content of the promise rather than the energetic/spiritual gist that stood beneath and gave rise to it. At which point it’s the human mind, emotions, and ego at the wheel, rather than the subtler and broader consciousness — the one who works with the Light, the one who deals with breakthroughs, with things like the “ah ah” moments, and the one that could take advantage of the less specific, more subtle insights.
Further, in making a promise you’re creating something others are (or can be) lead on by. Those who perceive the thing as desired, good, exciting, positive, etc. will be tempted to get behind the anticipation for it. Promises are designed to play into this anticipation, intentionally or otherwise.
Understandable. We’re spiritual beings encased in physical bodies; we’re tightly strapped to a cart perpetually sliding down on tracks taking us to the unknown. Under these circumstances who wouldn’t want to know where the tracks lead? Who wouldn’t want to know the future if given the chance? And who wouldn’t want to be prepared?
I don’t want to portray the audience as hapless victims. Each is meant to use their discernment and learn from experience how to do so. Even so, I’m tempted to give them a pass. When you go through spiritual awakening specifically you become interested in witnessing large-scale spiritual change; and this can and will get you hooked on whatever puts forth promises about it. If nothing else, because the subject matter of that promise is that important.
But by wielding the knowledge without the aforementioned care and responsibility, the person making that promise (and/or implicitly letting the message adopt that tone) is allowing, inadvertently or on purpose, the audience to be led on by it.
Spirituality isn’t about getting hooked on anything – much less promises.
This includes even those promises made with the best of intentions. By those heralding a better future, a higher Earth, a world of peace and empathy.
The moment you focus on a promise and it finds a place in your brain, you’re being led by a carrot on a stick. You’ve lost track of the present moment i.e. what’s standing right in front of you (and within) which is where all that truly matters is happening. And you divert your attention, perhaps your sense of hope, perhaps your spiritual understanding, etc. — or parts of these things — to somewhere outside. To something hypothetical that hasn’t arrived yet. And might never will.
Then, the promise will rarely, if ever, meet expectations. Often it will either not match the built-up anticipation; not happen exactly how it was envisioned; or, and needless to say, just won’t take place.
But the buzz was tangible. If the promise was positive, it energized you, gave you hope, maybe something to look for. On the other hand, if it was fear-based it might have created doom and despair. Either way there was an intensity to it, which might have sustained your sense of spirituality, positive or negatively. Good but also even bad, there was something ahead; but once that fails there’s no longer something to look forward to. This can create patterns of looking for or getting hooked on the next grand solution, the next prophet, the next big thing that will happen. And as the individual and collective fall prey to more experiences of disillusionment, the cycle repeats. Not to mention the process can feed into “classics” such as the energies of drama, fearmongering, etc.
When you get caught up in promises, you’re missing the point. Your mind and ego are walking into a stranger’s car without asking for their name or intentions, and you let them take you on a path of their choosing.
Look. No one more than me would like to have events of sudden, positive, “big” change. Mass awakenings; portals opening to a higher Densities; darkness and abhorrent behavior being cast out because everyone “saw the Light”.
I work daily with metaphysical messages, concepts, and received information. I read the past-lives of others on other planets for a living. Just like every other practitioner, all I want is seeing planet Earth awaken, develop, and move on from 3D.
Even something like the overt revelation of (benevolent) ETs could fall in that category. Overall it’s a complex and risky field, but at least it would be a revelation of truths that had been hidden for a long time, heavily related to the history of Humanity and of Earth.
So if such things were predicted/promised, and then did occur: marvelous. And I’d happily stand corrected then and there.
I also understand we all need hope at some point, in one way or another. We all need something to hold on.
And I understand the temptation to make things specific. If you have an ability and/or tool to do so, you’ll want to share our ability with the world. To serve it spiritually, to make things better, to help, and to receive validation. If that’s the case, often you’ll be called to do so.
But, spiritual initiate, awakened person, believer, questioner, practitioner, etc, and I don’t care how respected, experienced you are or how long you’ve been doing this: you didn’t get on the path based on promises.
You did so because of the Light awakening in you. Maybe because the dissonance of not doing so was too much. And if you made some hard choices based on that Light, choices that drastically changed the course of your life — you did so because deep down you held that Light as true. For better and for worse, you choose to walk the path because it was something you had/have to do.
Not because you were being led by a carrot on a stick. And if you were at some point, you had to escape it first to get to where you’re now.
Promises don’t help your spiritual process. Neither yours, nor of the client, nor of the collective at large.
A prediction that came true might have helped you realize the metaphysical nature of reality in the beginning of your spiritual awakening. In that sense it might have worked as a coincidence/synchronicity. But past that point, highly specific predictions are seldom involved in spiritual advancement. And they can be counterproductive, especially if they have you get caught up in drama, emotional charge, fear, loss of hope, and cycles of excitement-disillusionment.
There’s absolutely a time, a place, and use for predictive spiritual work.
The title is purposefully chosen hyperbole. Predictive work does have a place in spirituality, as much as any other type of gift or study — if handled with the utmost respect and integrity. Under those circumstances, it can allow glimpses into possible potentials, prepare for energetic dynamics before they occur, and understand the background to things as they’re happening.
But the moment you allow predictions to become promises;
the moment you overlook dealing with the future is always an exercise in possibility, with zero exceptions;
the moment you commit to specific and literal interpretations of the energetic/spiritual gist of insights while excluding any other;
the moment you lean onto the emotional charge you might be creating, for others and for yourself;
the moment you allow yourself to navigate this work with anything else than the utmost care and caution;
… you make your predictions as pointless as they are counterproductive.
In this I absolutely stand by the title of this text. Not only will promises not serve a discernible spiritual purpose (other than perhaps being a lesson in exercising one’s discernment), they will feed dynamics that detract from walking the individual path in humility.
This general premise, about becoming lost and disillusioned with patterns of failed promises, also applies not just to the purely metaphysical but to any alternative fields where announcements of what might happen, what’s about to happen, etc. abound.
Let Me Tell You: How Looking Into The Future Is a Fickle Proposition Even in Best-Case Scenarios
I’m now continuing to speak about spiritual/metaphysical predictions, prognosis, announcements, and so on.
Let’s say you work with a spiritual entity or entities who help you assess the future. Let’s say it’s someone like an Ascended Master, or an Angel/Archangela, for example. And let’s say, for the sake of the explanation, it’s known for a fact these entities a) are real, b) are entirely benevolent and working under the Light, and c) their sole agenda is nothing other than being in service to Humanity.
Even in these circumstances the entity’s subjective perception of i) time and ii) future potentials is different than ours, and that difference might create distortion in how they transmit their messages. Even if, again, that is done entirely in a well-meaning and responsible manner.
An Ascended Master or angel operates from realities that are far more harmonic as well as observational relative to the physical plane. And there is no harm to that; but no matter how deeply they care and relate to Humanity, they simply don’t and can’t engage with events on the physical plane the same way someone incarnating there does.
This is to an extent unavoidable. It’s like being lent an object, tool, artifact, etc. of personal importance to someone: no matter how zealous you are, you may never match the meaning and importance attributed by the original owner. Or it’s maybe like watching someone go through a challenging situation from afar: no matter how much you relate and can empathize, you can’t directly know the experience of the one going through it firsthand.
A spiritual entity observing the flow of events and energy on Earth from afar is going to be operating from a different perspective of the time passing here. They’re also going to put more focus in their long-term assessments, in the process to an extent bypassing the minutia of what’s happening in the physical in the moment. And if and when the energy they perceive for the future is auspicious and upward-leaning, it’s only natural for them to sound/feel more energetic, talkative, upbeat, in a place of excitement, while transmitting it to you. Even if that future is something that to them happens in relatively short order, while for you might be taking decades, if not more.
“Don’t worry so much, it’s all going to be fine”, you’ll often hear. I can absolutely respect that perspective: it carries fundamental spiritual truths which are best observed in detachment. At the same time, it’s also something all too easy to say when they’re not the ones in the thick of it, staring down the barrel of a gun sometimes.
It’s similar when an extraterrestrial entity is channeled or communicated with, whom will typically be 4D or higher relative to our 3D on Earth. In the fourth Density, and generally any time you “go up” the Densities, one’s perception/experience of linear time is going to be flexible, expanded, and more from a bird’s eye point of view. Again leading to the same sort of effect.
Meaning, what to Earth humans will appear as weeks, months, even years, to them will register as mere moments that may hardly get noticed as they pass by. The mileage may vary, but to a 4th Density entity/being years or decades on Earth might go by “in the blink of an eye” and therefore feel somewhat inconsequential; while one hundred years may feel more similar to how a decade or generation on Earth to us feels like i.e. “the 90s”, or the “2010s” for example.
This to again say this difference in the perception can and will be pervasive to how events and previsions are seen and addressed. Something that to them might be “just about to happen” might take place within years, decades, or perhaps even centuries; while what you’re going to hear (and/or feel, interpret, etc.) is that it’s something just around the corner — because to them that’s how they might perceive it. Further, the diligence they might place when dealing with how timings can “slide” across the timeline can be somewhat relaxed, again, due to the difference in perspective that is inexorable and ultimately impossible to dispel.
This is not to say you must be suspicious of your sources (or of someone as a source) no matter what, even if you find them trustworthy. My point is that there’s always need to put things into perspective no matter the source, given how intrinsically relative things work.
Now, this is assuming in the above entities who are in integrity and in service on behalf of Humanity. Imagine that’s not entirely the case.
Imagine the entity has an agenda other than service to Humanity. Imagine they hold a certain “vision” for Earth they lean towards, that they hold with less integrity they’d probably should, rather than simply serving the spiritual beings in lesson on the 3D physical plane.
If the entity is at least 4D, these motivations are going to go over your head and be next imperceptible for you, no matter how wise or advanced you are. Especially if the entity doesn’t want you to see it.
On the other hand, it’s also possible for lower-vibration, less scrupulous entities to present themselves as spiritually advanced and able to foresee the future; when in reality they’re more or less faking it for the most part.
Energy is the currency of the Universe. Imagine the entity “gets off” by the drama/fear they create and attention they draw. Yes, the energy of humans is a commodity, one of the reasons Earth and humans can be seen as an appealing resource — always has been. So imagine the entity starts indulging just a little bit in the emotions and energetic charge they generate. It’s very appealing and seductive; they might indulge even if they didn’t mean to at start.
Imagine an entity purposefully aiming to generate fear, chaos, uncertainty, distrust in Source, etc. while presenting themselves as serving it.
Imagine holding yourself sufficiently advanced to be able to “catch” such situations; but perchance you get caught in a moment of less clarity, and you became involved in something without grasping it fully.
In short, whether you’re the practitioner or the audience, while delving in these matters one must always, unconditionally, uphold the highest possible caution and discernment they’re able to. If the best-case-scenarios described previously must always be upheld with the utmost care, that same care must always be present to account for such situations when that’s not the case.
Let’s now say you have a premonitory ability. You have dreams and visions; sometimes see things during meditation that happen afterwards; you can remote view into the future; or you otherwise receive information about the future in some way. And this has proven to be accurate: things you saw came into fruition; you might have got highly detailed things right, such as dates, addresses, names, and so on.
Spiritual Entities and such might also be involved in the process; one’s spiritual entourage always is one way or another. But for the sake of simplicity, let’s place this in an arena apart from the previous ones.
Under such circumstances, even if you were able to accurately predict the future before, it will always be possible for something you see with same methods to not occur, or not follow exactly what you saw.
The future is made of potential circumstances i.e. what could happen, and as I’ve mentioned several times, those circumstances are perpetually in a state of constant recalculation, right up until the instant it meets the infinite present moment.
Scenarios or events that at one point were (metaphysically) almost certain, virtually speaking close to 99% probability of happening, can be readjusted on the fly and be postponed, altered, or suddenly now have a low chance of manifesting.
When we predict things and then they happen (or, for example, when we look back and we see how life events seemingly articulated in a magical manner) we might go “wow, this is all a simulation”, “everything is so synchronized”, and so on. But if you see something in your visions that doesn’t end up manifesting, you’ll immediately question how things work, and/or if you got something wrong with your ability.
Nothing’s wrong with it. Assuming your inner insight had worked before, this time you simply saw a future potential, possibly at the time likely to happen, but that ended up being adjusted, for whatever inscrutable reason. Every future will always be a potential scenario with a certain probability for it to happen, and never something set in stone.
The future is brittle in nature.
Let’s say there’s a particular potential on the personal level that’s currently very active, with a high probability of happening. Let’s say the way things are going that scenario is almost certain to happen. Let’s say this is the metaphysical truth behind the scenes.
All it takes if for you to hear about that potential — for example through a prediction, or an astrological or tarot reading that brushes against it and puts it in words for you to hear — and a part of you disliking it… for that future to be re-evaluated instantly. Depending on circumstances, sometimes just hearing about and disliking something, even if purely within, in emotion/feeling, puts for the energy of disapproval which is then enough to make that same scenario, previously next to certain, be reevaluated and possibly instantly evaporate in terms of probability. So it never happens.
Not only does this mean the future is a web of possibilities that can be recalculated at any time — your choice being involved — but it also illustrates a) the intrinsic responsibility in handling, understanding, and sharing information about that future, since your consciousness can shift or dispel it; and b) since things can easily shift round, what you as a practitioner predict to happen at any point may not happen at all.
Not because you were wrong in what you saw; it was real. But because what you saw changed and is no longer there.
If on the individual level the future can work like this, imagine how exponentially complex things are on the macro scale, in how the future works for the collective.
Planet Earth isn’t one big monolithic thing. It is an melting pot of many different qualities of spiritual beings, in different stages of both broad and short-term (life) spiritual development, each with their own hyper-difficult trials, and all immersed in a broader context of a large-scale shift in energy/consciousness. Under those circumstances, the metaphysical, multi-layered calculations involved in bringing together each set of individual possibilities to form the potentials that apply to the collective as a whole, will themselves be both highly complex and also in a constant state of flux.
It’s not possible to assess such matters in any other way other than with the utmost caution and respect.
Further, because planet Earth spiritually isn’t a monolithic thing but rather a mesh of many different, complex, multi-layered factors piled together, it’s unlikely for one single “big” event to come and change everything all at once, for everyone, forever.
Even taking as an example something “big” affecting the entire planet at once, like the COVID pandemic. It was an event that created so much distress and upheaval; in some ways you could also argue it moved a lot of energy, and brought about much change. And yet, at the same time, the world carried on regardless and is still here. Much has changed, much was weathered, and in many ways we’re all on paths derived from those events; but at the same time it’s still very much the same Earth.
This to say change in such a complex system will more often come not in a sweeping, sudden manner, but rather by the incremental unfolding of many, often simultaneous, smaller steps. Such as even the Mayan prophesies aren’t happening overnight, but rather unfolding as we speak. So one must always exercise discernment with any predictions envisioning large, monolithic, sweeping motions.
If You’re Into Predictive Work:
If you engage in premonitory input, be it by meditation, visions, dreams, etc., and you share it with others (or wish to):
- Be conservative with any risk-taking when communicating your findings. Always assume one’s never dealing with certainties but rather assessing possibilities which are always fluctuating. I’m aware it’s not practical or respectful to your own work to repeat “this is one possibility” everywhere; but you must always hold that mindset and come from it at every junction.
- Avoid taking misses/failures personally and placing the weight of such expectations upon yourself. If you correctly predicted events multiple times in the past, and you then saw something that didn’t come to fruition, you’re fine, there’s nothing wrong with you. What you saw must have been recalculated at the last moment and didn’t come to fruition. Of which nothing is your responsibility, aside from how you presented and handled the information beforehand.
- Together with a certain potential, event, etc. a suggestion is to also give an estimation of the probability of it happening i.e. how “certain” you are/feel about it: 40%, 60%, 90%. This will give you leeway in what you’re predicting, might help you tap into the metaphysical probability of the potential, and it might allow you to analyze how your prediction efforts have been accurate over time.
If you’re engaged with an entity or entities whom you channel or receive information from, be mindful to place their perspective into… perspective. Allow them to have their opinions and assessments while also reserving space for your own. This is not a matter of trust or lack thereof: it’s a necessarily element of sovereignty in a relationship between equals. One can hold a certain source in highest regard, while admitting they’re an entity/person of their own, coming to you from an inescapable difference in how they might perceive your lived-in reality, as opposed how you do.
If you use predictive systems, the appearance/drawing of a well-known “trope” in that system doesn’t necessarily mean its most trendy or stereotyped interpretation will occur.
Sun in house ten in someone’s solar return doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll experience prosperity the coming year. It can represent the potential for increase in workload at work, possibly without matching recognition/returns. It can represent the potential for being socially exposed – for better or worse, depending on how the chips fall.
In Tarot, drawing the fabled Death Major Arcana doesn’t necessarily represent physical death, and doesn’t mean the person or someone is going to die. It can represent the death of a relationship; of a belief; of a situation; of something that no longer serves them. Death means transformation in consciousness; thus drawing it can be a form of guidance for the person should they accept it. It’s not a sentence: it’s an invitation for them to release that which no longer serves their greatest good.
Otherwise, as a spiritual practitioner you’re meant neither to save others nor give them illusions of hope.
You’re not meant to herald anything. Stop heralding. There’s nothing to herald.
Nothing’s going to happen. Until it does, of course. But until then, nothing is happening.
You’re here to teach instead positivity and benevolence are the true nature of all reality, and all that is negative and dark irrevocably depend on what’s good just to exist.
You’re here to teach others how the truest and most important spiritual movement is the one taking place right now, within, which is then reflected on the outside, individual and collectively.
You’re here to show spiritually Hope is its own reward and is something you’re responsible for cultivating irrespective of what happens outside. Its Light will steer your path at every step.
And you’re here to help where you can, improve what you must, and shed Light and clarity in the paths of others where needed. But you’re not here to make promises. Nor does the spiritual path work that way.
One’s spiritual path, much like the history of the world at large, can sometimes go through very dark places. But you’re not helping anyone by pretending there’s a bright sunny meadow up ahead. There might be; one might appear eventually. Ultimately all will be well and is well. But you don’t necessarily know nor can you offer guarantees of the if and when. So you can’t make that promise.
All you can do is to seek to be part of solutions as opposed to part of problems, in whatever you do.
Be the Light for others while they’re inside the tunnel, instead of announcing any at the end of it.
