{"id":625,"date":"2008-10-28T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2008\/10\/what-will-you-do-once-you-know\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:15:00","slug":"what-will-you-do-once-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2008\/10\/what-will-you-do-once-you-know.html","title":{"rendered":"What will you do once you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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images from the <\/em><\/span>Robin Wood Tarot<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

Last Saturday I went to the RE Halloween Party and did Tarot readings. I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect, reading Tarot for a bunch of skeptical UUs, but I had no shortage of customers \u2013 I read for about 90 minutes straight (which is rather exhausting!).<\/p>\n

The readings went much more smoothly than I expected. The cards seemed to speak to me \u2013 I pointed out details that I rarely notice when I\u2019m reading for myself. I found trends, patterns, and correspondences, and most of the people I read for seemed pleased. I only had one reading that was difficult to interpret, and that was at least partially because I knew the person fairly well and I was struggling to just read the cards and not inject my own feelings. No sirens went off, so where I saw difficulties coming for folks I tried to express them generally and not scream \u201cNO!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

I had one card in one reading that made me jump. Both the card and my intuition told me something that, if correct, would be some fairly personal information. I started to ask if I was right, and then stopped. I didn\u2019t need to know, the person might not want me to know, and since it was clearly in the past it wasn\u2019t like I would be negligent for not warning the person about something.<\/p>\n

There is an Inuit saying: \u201cwhat will you do once you know?\u201d It reflects their very pragmatic culture that while deeply spiritual has no gods (here\u2019s a link to an excellent article<\/a> on the subject from Indian Country Today<\/em><\/a>). That attitude is antithetical to my own \u2013 I crave knowledge for the sake of knowledge. But at some level it\u2019s right. If you\u2019re going to go to the trouble of consulting an oracle (even an amateur Tarot reader at a Halloween party), what are you going to do with the information you receive?<\/p>\n

As the Otherworld draws near, we should remember that the messages we receive aren\u2019t given for our amusement. If the gods and ancestors go to the trouble of telling us something, we owe it to them \u2013 and to ourselves \u2013 to put it to good use.<\/p>\n

The cards tell us what will be, not what must be \u2013 we have the free will to change the future by changing our actions. What will you do once you know?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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