{"id":15102,"date":"2013-03-26T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=15102"},"modified":"2016-03-16T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T00:07:27","slug":"the-politican-todays-aha-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/the-politican-todays-aha-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politician (tarot): Today’s AHA for me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"elections\"<\/a>Every so often, I pull Tarot cards in the morning to see what wisdom the card may bring for the day. Today, I pulled a card from the Osho Zen deck called Politician<\/i>.\u00a0 This card is about the true and false faces that we put out into the world.\u00a0 The political and false face is the one we use to manipulate the environment around us, and the true face is our deepest sense of Self.<\/p>\n

As my day continued, I went into a deep meditation and a client’s dilemma showed up.\u00a0 A slightly different form of the Politician<\/i> card came up again. It showed a bunch of compartmentalized boxes filled with all the big stuff in our lives: work, family, friends, community, self, and money. The visualization for my client’s life included many disconnected boxes all locked up and not integrated in any way.\u00a0 This disconnection causes suffering and unhappiness for my client and manifested itself as a sense of being disconnected with life itself.<\/p>\n

This image could have described my life many years ago.\u00a0 There were many faces of myself.\u00a0 I was often told, you are so different at work(hard core, maniacal, demanding), then out of work (funny, caring, laid back, light-hearted). But really, it was a symptom of a problem.\u00a0 My life was disconnected, and not integrated at all.\u00a0 Like a politician, I wore many faces and put on the face that suited the situation.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I have worked at regaining my wholeness and connection to all of my various selves and buckets, and started filling in my “Self” bucket.\u00a0 Sadly,\u00a0my”Self” bucket\u00a0was empty thirteen years ago.\u00a0 Sure, I had multitude of tests (Meyers- Briggs, Conflict Style tests, Enneagram, etc) telling me who I am according to a standardized test.\u00a0 However, I never did my own self-assessment or made any true progress on discovering who I am and filling my “Self” bucket.\u00a0 For me, the “Self” bucket goes hand and hand with my spiritual path.\u00a0 In retrospect, I realize that the Self bucket that was missing from\u00a0my equation ended up being the most critical bucket of all .\u00a0 The\u00a0core bucket is\u00a0my “Self” bucket.\u00a0 The Self bucket\u00a0is where all the other\u00a0buckets (work, friends, community, etc)\u00a0plug into like planets orbiting around the sun.\u00a0 The “Self” bucket in where all of our power and energy resides.<\/p>\n

As I drove in my car today contemplating\u00a0how this\u00a0fun intuitive game ended up\u00a0so rich in meaning for me,\u00a0I had another insight about the Politician<\/i> card.\u00a0 As we move to integration with our Core Self, becoming whole, and filling in our Self bucket, the next part of our spiritual journey becomes recognizing that we have disconnected ourselves from the big WHOLE; the universe, God, or whatever you may want to call it.\u00a0 The false face or False Self (Political) is the part of us who looks, feels, and sees the world as separate.\u00a0 The False self is the part that thrives on competition and differences.\u00a0 The true Self sees that we are all connected and the stranger’s face that I see across from me is my own.\u00a0 Now, that’s\u00a0the BIG Ahaa….<\/p>\n

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Every so often, I pull Tarot cards in the morning to see what wisdom the card may bring for the day. Today, I pulled a card from the Osho Zen deck called Politician.\u00a0 This card is about the true and false faces that we put out into the world.\u00a0 The political and false face is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2740,4500,4129,4510,4508,1731,4509,4506,4501,4504,4511,4503,1657,4507,4502,2399,4499,4505,1788,1728],"class_list":["post-15102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/elections-150x1501.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22065,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions\/22065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}