Angel Paths for October 19 - Five of Disks
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The Five of
Disks
The Lord of Worry is most aptly titled, for when
this card comes up in a reading, there looks to
be financial, material or domestic trouble on
the horizon. Something poses a threat to your
overall security. This might be an unexpected
expense, or job worries, or maybe even a
disturbance in your family life.
There will always be something to worry about,
when the 5 of Disks comes up. But there's one
important thing to bear in mind - whatever is
causing the problem is much more of a threat
than it is a reality. Worrying about it might
just make it worse than it needs to be!
When the Lord of Worry is about, anxiety is the
emotion of the moment. We look to the future and
we see something nasty ahead. Then we sit and
worry about it. Try to remember - what you put
your attention on grows. So if you worry about
your overdraft, it will get bigger! That's not,
of course, to say you should not do all you are
able to DO, in an awkward situation - just that
once you have, there's no point in worrying
about it.
Sometimes we go through a stage in our lives
where we feel as though, whatever good comes to
us, it is bound to be undermined and darkened by
negativity and sadness, that we cannot help but
be disappointed. Yet just by holding that view,
we invite negativity in, to add to the real
problems we already had.
It isn't easy to try to be accepting and
positive and trusting when life is giving us a
hard time - but accept we must, if we don't want
to make things worse!
So - the 5 of Disks indicates a possible threat
to our security. It is important not to feed
that possibility with our own fear. Fear is a
powerful emotion. It can rule if we let it. When
this card comes up, remember that disturbance is
possible - not probable. Do all you can to avert
it.
Working with the Five of Disks
All the 5's in
the deck are demanding cards - the number five
relates to the planet Mars, which can sometimes
have a disruptive destructive energy. On the
other hand though, Martian power, strength and
determination are necessary attributes to break
through obstacles and difficulties.
The Lord of Worry is mostly about anxiety around
events which threaten our financial or physical
security - notice this card indicates the
anxiety, rather than the event itself. Often,
when we are under the influence of this card, we
worry needlessly about situations which have not
yet come to pass.
Sometimes, rather than our anxieties being
centred on finances, they can revolve around
basic family security - whether our partner
cares about us, whether things in our home
environment are as we would wish them to be. You
might find yourself worrying about your
children, your parents, your partner.
Anxiety has a nasty habit of creating yet more
anxiety. We worry. Because we worry, we become
stressed. As the stress level mounts we feel our
ability to cope recedes. That makes us feel
vulnerable. And then of course we get more
anxious.
What is needed here is a method of breaking into
the cycle of worry and distress, in order to
clear away confusion and get to the heart of
things. It often helps, when you feel like this,
to write down what you feel worried about. And
then you can go over the list deciding what is
real, and what imaginary.
Once you've whittled away the phantoms, you will
be left with a list of more realistic things.
Now cross off all those matters that either you
cannot alter, or have not yet made themselves
manifest.
Now you have only the real things to worry about
left. With a bit of luck, your list should be
much much shorter now. Therefore you can direct
all the energy you were using to worry into
finding workable solutions to your difficulties.
Affirmation: I can deal with my life - it is my
most precious possession.
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