I'm the Ace Of Spades Today

I already know what you are going to think about this, but I'm telling you, it is eerie how accurate these are, and not just because I "want them to be accurate", etc. My badass friend Kelly turned me on to this system of astrology called "Destiny Cards", and I find it to be wicked accurate. My life card is the 8 of Hearts, but each day you are a different card, and different cards influence your year, etc. Plus there are 52 day cycles you go through as the year proceeds, etc.

Here's a brief explanation from their website, although it's far more in-debth than this:

Each birthday of the year is governed by one of the 53 playing cards (52 plus the Joker). These cards represent personality archetypes, symbols of our personal expression that reflect with amazing accuracy what the important elements of our life will be like. When you study the meaning and significance of your Birth Card, you will have some invaluable knowledge about yourself. You will understand what your natural gifts really are, what sorts of work will bring the most satisfaction, how you interact with others in personal relationships, what are the biggest challenges you are facing this lifetime, and how you can get the most from your life by using the energies that come most easily and naturally to you.

But, beyond self understanding, the Book of Destiny also has an uncannily accurate record of your entire life. Each year of your life is divided up into seven, 52-day time periods. Each period will be governed by anywhere from two to eight cards which will accurately reflect what will happen to you during that time period. This system has been called the most accurate one ever discovered and everyone who has learned to use it, which takes about 2 hours, is amazed at what they discover.

Destiny versus Free Will
All the cards for your entire life are in the book. They are fixed and unchangeable. However, each card has both high and low manisfestations. Those whose lives are successful and happy have accessed the higher levels of expression for their cards. Once you know what your cards are, and the possible modes for expressing them, you are challenged to transform your life into its highest expression. This is where your will makes a definite difference.

How you can learn to read the Book of Destiny for yourself:
This ancient system has been revived just in the past 5 years, being relatively unknown since its first introduction to the world in 1894. After years of studying the system and using it to give personal readings to many individuals, Robert Camp wrote books describing step by step how to access the information. His first book is called The Cards of Your Destiny. This book leads you step by step through the process of doing yearly, monthly and weekly readings from the Book of Destiny. Everything you need is in the book including all of the Yearly Spreads of Cards for each of the Birth Cards and the complete meanings of all the various cards in the 10 different positions that they can occupy in your Yearly Spreads. With this book, you will be doing your first reading in a matter of an hour or two.

Robert's second book, Love Cards, gives you all the information that his first book didn't cover. It gives you a detailed description of each of the 52 Birth Cards and the Joker. It tells you how people of these cards behave, what their karmic patterns are, their strengths and weaknesses and how they act in personal relationships. But it goes beyond this to present you with a quick and highly accurate method of doing compatibility readings between any two people. You can look up your card and compare it with anyone you have ever met and know exactly how the two of you relate, or would relate, in an intimate relationship. This book is 340 pages long and is full of interesting and useful information that will get you looking up everyone you know.

Like I thought this was interesting. I don't check these every day, but this is today's card, which would directly support the "breakthrough" I made today, psychologically.

My personal card for today is the Ace of Clubs.

The Basic Meaning of the Ace of Clubs
The Ace of Clubs means a strong desire for knowledge of some kind or the birth of a new idea, plan, or way of communicating with the world around you. This could also mean a desire for some specific information, for an education, or to pursue some new plans you make. The Ace of Clubs always means a new beginning of some sort. This could be a new job idea or just embarking on a new way of thinking and communicating with others. The exact nature of the beginning will depend on the position of the card and the circumstances in your life at the time, but in general, this is a good time to plan to start something new.

Seriously, you can go to http://www.7thunders.com/ and do free readings yourself. I haven't bought the books yet because I just use Kelly's, but I definitely want to pick them up. They are worthwhile!

My 52-Day Cycle Right Now

So, like this is what I'm talking about, right?

My card for this current 52 day period, which began like almost right when I got to Thailand and ends right when I'm leaving (oddly enough), is the Eight Of Clubs.

The Basic Meaning of the Eight of Clubs
The Eight of Clubs is the card of mental power, the ability to focus one's mind on a goal or objective and see it through to a successful conclusion. This power is usually applied to some mental or educational task. It bestows the power to overcome all problems by focusing one's thoughts and it usually occurs when there is something that we need to learn or accomplish on the mental level. The Eight of Clubs is one of the three, 'fixed' cards. When it appears, we have the opportunity to fix our mind on certain goals and objectives. It is the card of focus of the mind. Out of that focus and concentration, success is assured.