I think it important that the reader (i.e., you) understand that I am only attempting to outline my beliefs, and that I am not trying to proselytize nor to attempt to influence. If you are looking for "answers", I truly hope you find them and that my rants herein may help in some manner.
I have to analyze (in retrospect) the events that have taken place to shape my life. All-in-all, I have been rather fortunate, having survived all of my various ordeals (in which, in order to avoid drama, I will not ask the reader to immerse themselves). My personal belief is that there is no way I would have survived these ordeals without a Guardian Angel looking out for me. I do not know of the shape, form, nor type of Guardian Angel that is caring for me, but I am firmly convinced that one does exist.
As a scientist, I have serious doubts about Astrology, Tarot, Ouija, and the like. One day while out shopping I purchased a set of forty-four cards called "Healing with the Fairies". Was it G-d that guided me to do this? My Guardian Angel? The Fairies? Chance? I promptly placed the deck of cards in one of my legendary "stacks" and left them there.
Sometime later, perhaps several months, my friend Richard came over from England. One day, whilst sitting upstairs doing nothing (and gosh, did that feel good to do nothing; seems I can only relax around Richard), I decided to open the Healing with the Fairies card deck. Being an estrogen-based lifeform now for over eight years, I read the instructions, which stated that I should shuffle the deck whilst pondering my "issue" and then deal three cards. The card on the left depicts my immediate past; the card in the middle is the "hurdle" or issue which I now must resolve; and the card on the right depicts what will happen once that issue is resolved.
Seem hokey? Seems simple enough to me, and while I did think it may have been hokey, I decided to do what the instructions told me in earnest and see where it took me. Richard was seated on my right and said nothing whilst I was "Invoking The Fairies". So I concentrated on my "issue" whilst shuffling the cards for a good three or four minutes. I then dealt three cards, all of which were face down, and I did not peek at the cards whilst shuffling them (I was shuffling them under the table whilst keeping my eyes on the horizon, as it were).
I dealt the following three cards: Sexuality, Detoxification, and Peace Of Mind.
My heart stopped.
Richard looked at the three cards, looked at me, and with typical British understatement said, "Well, that's about it then, idn't it?"
Sexuality was clearly my biggest hurdle for the first forty-one years of my life. Detoxification is what I clearly had to undergo then, as I was a smoker and was (and still am, to some extent) overweight. I may or may not have Peace Of Mind when the detoxification process is through, but I damn well for sure will look like that image once again. I did it before, I can do it again.
To quote the Healing With The Fairies book:
"The fairies are as just as much G-d's angels as guardian angels and archangels are. Fairies are the nature angels who help us heal, find happiness, enjoy happy relationships, and make the world a better place. You might say that the fairies are micro-managers and the angels are macro-managers...".
Sounds reasonable enough to me, scientist or not. Maybe one or more of the fairies is/are my Guardian Angel(s) - I know not. What I do know is, that reading took me back a bit, and showed me that maybe not all of the paranormal stuff out there is BS; that maybe some of it has some applicability in my life.
There are 44 cards in that deck. The mathematical probability of pulling those exact three cards is 1 / (44*43*42) or one-in-seventy-nine-thousand-four-hundred-sixty-four. Not the best odds. Okay, better odds than winning the Lottery, but hey, what the hell isn't?
Okay, you say, but I could have pulled three other cards that were just as intriguing. Yes, but for immediate past, Sexuality is one tough card to beat in my personal instance; my present issue is clearly the need for detoxification; and trying to find a third card that is more applicable to my personal situation than having my pre-fat image on the face of the card is, well, nigh impossible (I checked the other cards, and none of them look like me).
Still skeptical? Check this out.
About nine months after the first "Faerie Forecast", I did a second one. At the time of the second forecast, I had quit smoking (since I quit, about 3.5 months, I have only smoked about 8 cigarettes), and I had lost "some" weight.
Now if the Faerie Forecasts have any continuity, then there are only two possibilities: (a) I have the same issues, in which case I should get the same forecast; or (b) I have different issues, in which case the previous "current" issue should now be my "prior" issue. Remember, the leftmost card is my prior issue and the center card is my current issue. So either I pull the same three cards, which would mean I am not done "detoxifying" or I pull the "Detoxification" card as my first card, which would mean my center card is my new "current" issue.
So I turn on some music and begin shuffling. The music I chose to listen to was "Love Thing" by Joe Satriani from his "Live In San Francisco" album. I chose this song because it is very moving and I wanted my emotions to flow during this second "forecast" (I thought the stronger my emotions, the easier it would be for the Faeries to "read" them).
As it turned out, I then pulled the following three cards: Detoxification, Kindness, and Kick Up Your Heels.
As you can see, I appear to have "moved on" from my prior issue, and now my "current" issue is "Kindness". Which is interesting, because my therapist has criticized me for being kind to everyone but myself. So apparently the Faeries and my therapist are in agreement: time to be nice to me.
Mathematically, the probability of pulling the card "Detoxification" as my "prior" issue was one-in-forty-four. If you think that I got lucky, then fine, that's what you think. You can believe what you want, because as I stated earlier on this page, I am not trying to change anyone else's beliefs. I am simply explaining mine.
Since the existence of the Faeries or Guardian Angels cannot be proven scientifically (at this time), whether there are Faeries or not and whether there are Guardian Angels or not are personal beliefs. These are mine.
Caveat legens.
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