There is Nothing Random in Your Life
Topics:
“A Tarot Reading in the Airport Security Line: Imagery of Openness and Freedom”
“Manifesting Energy and the Variable of Choice”
“Nothing Is Random”
“The Action of Your Intuition: You Put Yourself in the Path”
“There Is No Absoluteness”
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 (Private)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Jean-Francois (Samta)
“There is nothing random in your life – ever. There is nothing accidental, there is nothing coincidental, there is nothing that is random in your life. From every single individual that you encounter, whether it be an individual at a filling station that is putting fuel in your vehicle, or someone that you have an intimate relationship with, nothing is random. Every single individual that you encounter in your life is in your life specifically, precisely at the moment that they are and for however long they are, determined by your choices and your energy.
“But it’s more than that, everything – everything you do, everything you don’t do, every movement you engage, every direction you engage, everything. Nothing is random. It’s all precise, and it’s all about choices.”
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
JF: Good afternoon.
ELIAS: And how shall we begin?
JF: Ah. We might begin slow. I have to shift gears a little bit.
ELIAS: (Laughs) Very well.
JF: There’s so many things we could talk about.
ELIAS: As always. (Laughs)
JF: Yes. Yes. The first thing I want to mention is, on my way here to the United States at the airport in Toronto when I was switching flights, I was in the security line where they check your bags or they scan the bags. My bag got flagged, so I was put apart and the security agent was looking through it, and she came upon my tarot cards.
I had two decks. And so the first one, it was obvious from the box that it was a tarot. She looked at it, and she kept going through my bag and then she came upon a little bag which the other deck was in, and she was curious. She was like, “Oh, is this tarot?” and like, “Is this also tarot?” And I was like, “Yeah.” And then she was like completely unnecessarily starting to look through them.
And she asked me if I could do a reading (Elias chuckles) right there on the spot in the security line with people behind. And it was such an interesting piece of imagery for me, because there I was, in the midst of what I would consider to be society at its most controlled, society at its most conventional and all these things. In the midst of that, the desire to access information differently, unconventionally, emerged.
And it was such a beautiful piece of imagery for me for that very reason, because I do have lingering associations that this is too weird (Elias chuckles) for the average person. Well, that was as conventional and controlled a society as I could have imagined. (Elias chuckles) So, yeah. I don’t know if you have anything to comment on?
ELIAS: Did you do it?
JF: Yeah, I did. I mean, it was succinct. It was short, but she… I asked her to make a question and then she had trouble with that, so I asked her to pick a theme. It was about a relationship. And she picked one card and I did a mini-reading there. And I could see that the wheels were turning in her mind as she was listening to it, and it was a really fun presentment.
ELIAS: Congratulations!
JF: Yeah. I think this was a message or a signal to me that look, I can expose myself as much as I would want with this, and it’s safe and there is real interest, even for people who are in the molds of very conventional society. They may not necessarily always voice that or even be aware of that themselves, but yeah, this kind of avenue triggers a lot of curiosity in people.
ELIAS: Very much so.
JF: Yeah. Was there another piece of this imagery, you would say, that I’m not necessarily identifying?
ELIAS: No.
JF: No.
ELIAS: I would say that that is definitely what it’s about, is showing you you’re not as set apart as you think you are.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: And that it’s not as strange as you think it is.
JF: Right.
ELIAS: And that other people don’t necessarily have that perception.
The world is changing. It’s moving in a different direction. And all of these things on all these subjects that you thought of previously as being strange or scary or spooky or unusual, they’re not so much. People are much more open to all of that, and curious and wanting information.
JF: Yeah. Clearly. Yeah, I mean, if ever there was a time where people are looking for answers, it’s now.
ELIAS: And I would say that this was an excellent presentment and opportunity for you, beyond all of that, to actually move in a direction of stopping, not succumbing to the pressure of the situation – people waiting, or the people that work there or the situation, the scenario in itself – not succumbing to feeling pressure from all of that, not succumbing to the idea of what’s acceptable and what isn’t, what’s appropriate at what time and what isn’t, and simply allowing yourself the freedom to move in that direction and express, “Yes, I can engage this with you,” and there’s nothing inappropriate about it.
JF: Yeah, I did feel some degree of pressure, but not allowing it to influence me to the extent of not engaging it. So, yeah.
ELIAS: I would say congratulations.
JF: Ah. Thank you. It was a lot of fun. (Elias chuckles) It made me smile all day.
ELIAS: (Laughs) Excellent!
JF: Yeah. So, tarot picks up on energy. It reflects energy, correct? And how energy shapes up objectively. I’m going to read a bit, because I need –
ELIAS: Very well.
JF: — a bit of help focusing here. (Elias laughs) Okay, so let me read it out, what I have. It’s going to be easier.
So, tarot picks up on the energy, and how energy shapes up objectively what we have come to commonly call objective imagery is abstract. Sometimes the tarot images will somewhat literally reflect the form energy takes, but not always, and actually most of the time not. Right? The images don’t necessarily depict the end point of how the energy ends up looking in physical reality. And how could it? Because there’s 78 images, 78 cards, and the variety in which energy will coalesce into physicality is pretty much unlimited.
So, how can I know what form the energy will take? How can I use the tarot to know what form the energy will take, or what can I do to assess that? Because that’s what people want. You know, like an abstract reading, reading the energy, can be helpful for a person like me or people who are developing some sense of interacting with energy directly. But for most people, they’re not necessarily there; they want to know about what it’s going to look like. But tarot doesn’t necessarily —
ELIAS: Meaning what?
JF: Well, they want to know. Like maybe someone has the energy of fear about something. Well, how that fear will show up in this person’s life, there are so many ways that the energy can coalesce into physicality. And that’s usually what people are after in a tarot reading: the energy, yes, the qualities beneath the manifestation, yes, but what they really are after most of the time is they want to know what it’s going to look like. They want to know what it’s going to smell like, what it’s going to taste like, all these things. They want to know the shape the energy will take, what it’s going to look like, what they’re going to encounter. And I’m not necessarily asking this question from the position of future; I’m asking the question from the perspective of… Like, you know, like you. You can read the energy – do you know how it will manifest physically?
ELIAS: Not always.
JF: No. So—
ELIAS: You can’t actually definitively tell, because there is always that factor of choice. That is an enormous piece that creates a situation in which you CAN’T know. You can know pieces – meaning, as you expressed, you can know that you are reading fear, or you’re reading anticipation of something, or that it might have to do with relationships, or that it might have to do with a job, or there may be some significant change that is happening or about to happen in this individual’s life. And you might have overview subjects that pertain to what the individual is doing and what direction they’re moving in, but in relation to how that will actually materialize, every moment each individual is making choices. And with every choice they make, that moves them in a slightly different direction. And dependent upon WHAT choices they make, it may move them in a SIGNIFICANTLY different direction.
This is what I have expressed to all of you in relation to that feeling or that knowing that each of you have had throughout your lives of something that you think you’re destined to do, or something that’s going to happen in your life, or something you’re supposed to be, or something you’re supposed to accomplish. What you know is you have a potential, and you have talents in relation to that potential, but you have MANY talents, and you don’t necessarily know which one you’re going to engage. And sometimes – actually many times for people that have that knowing throughout their lives – how it materializes is in manners that you would never imagine, that you wouldn’t actually think of. Twenty years before you actually manifest something you aren’t saying to yourself, “I’m going to be a necromancer” or “I’m going to be a channeler” or “I’m going to be composing an amazing piece of music that is going to be stellar” and you don’t play an instrument. How would you think you would compose a piece of music if you don’t even play an instrument?
That’s the point, is that these are extreme examples, but for the average individual, you can actually give them perhaps more information because you can actually tap into a subject matter, such as reading their energy with the tarot you can actually tap into, “Oh, this is about a relationship,” or “This is about their work,” or “This is about something to do with their creativity,” or “This has to do with their family.” You have overview subjects that you can tap into that you can actually see. The tarot helps guide you with different subjects, and therefore with the average person, you DO actually have more information in line with what they’re looking for. I understand [that] they want specifics and they also want predictions, but you can’t give them predictions.
JF: And I’m used to dealing with the prediction piece, but what I’ve been wondering increasingly so about is that element of the specifics that the form, the appearance that the energy will emerge as being. And you say that it really is the choices defining the aspect of that? Because, okay, let me give you an example. (Pause) The same energy can materialize in a wide variety of forms, right?
ELIAS: Yes, it can.
JF: Which is why we say objective imagery is abstract.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Which is the challenge when you’re using a tool like tarot. So, the defining variable, or element, that decide how it will show up, what the appearance will be of the energy, is choice? We choose the specifics as individuals?
ELIAS: Yes, definitely. That doesn’t mean you’re doing it intentionally.
JF: Right. We’re not aware of doing that.
ELIAS: Objectively, many times no. But you ARE choosing. You are SPECIFICALLY choosing. There is nothing random in your life – ever. There is nothing accidental, there is nothing coincidental, there is nothing that is random in your life. From every single individual that you encounter, whether it be an individual at a filling station that is putting fuel in your vehicle, or someone that you have an intimate relationship with, nothing is random. Every single individual that you encounter in your life is in your life specifically, precisely at the moment that they are and for however long they are, determined by your choices and your energy.
But it’s more than that, everything – everything you do, everything you don’t do, every movement you engage, every direction you engage, everything. Nothing is random. It’s all precise, and it’s all about choices.
This is what made our group interaction so significant, because the subject was all about that: “What are you making important?” [Session 20211023] Because every moment of your life, you are making something important. Otherwise you wouldn’t be paying attention to it, because you only pay attention to what IS important. Whether it be what you like or you don’t like, what’s comfortable or what isn’t comfortable, what’s painful or what is bliss, it doesn’t matter. It’s a matter of whatever it is you’re paying attention to, you’re making that important, and that is influencing your choices.
Therefore, the specificity of what you express to someone in your reading I would say would be influenced by how in depth the reading is, how much time you are engaged with the individual, because the more time and the more in depth you ARE with them, the more you are reading their energy and the clearer you become because you have more information about what they’re doing, because THAT is determining what direction they’re moving in. Whatever you’re doing now shapes the future. Whatever you’re paying attention to now is moving you in the direction of what you do in the future.
In this, it’s all about what you’re making important. And in that, the more time you have with an individual while you’re engaging a reading, the more they show themself, the more they show what they’re making important. You don’t have to know what direction they’re moving in; all you have to do is pay attention to what they’re making important.
And in that, it’s not necessarily even about a subject such as work or family or relationships or something such as that. It doesn’t even have to be about that. They may be giving you significant and telling information in relation to what they’re making important in association with being very flexible or being very rigid, being very absolute and controlling, or being afraid, or being very curious, and not making a judgment yourself about what of those expressions are good and what are bad.
Someone can be very curious and can be leading themself in a direction of dangerous expressions and experiences because of their curiosity. Curious isn’t always what you think of as good. Someone can be very controlling, and in their situation it might be moving to their benefit – temporarily. Ultimately it wouldn’t necessarily be what you think of as good, but you can’t make that judgment in a blanket statement with yourself. That’s the reason it’s so important for you as the reader to be neutral and to be looking for the clues, looking for: “What is this person giving me and giving the cards in energy? What am I pulling from this person in that energy? What information are they giving me?” And then you can be more and more specific, but it’s about paying attention to what they’re making important.
JF: I have so many questions. (Elias laughs) They’ve popped up all the while. Okay, quick parenthesis: the neutrality piece, because that was actually on my list. I was going to ask you what would you say is my biggest strength and my biggest weakness, generally speaking, in doing tarot readings. And I would have said that the neutrality piece is pretty strong with me.
ELIAS: I would agree. But I would also say that your desire to find or define that solid piece is very strong. You want to do that, and that’s influencing.
JF: And that can be influencing of the neutrality?
ELIAS: It can.
JF: Okay.
ELIAS: It can. I would definitely acknowledge and commend you in relation to your neutrality and that you do express that very well, but I would say that you have a tendency to want to keep going because you haven’t found that piece yet.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: And that’s not necessarily helpful.
JF: And that can lead to distortion?
ELIAS: It can.
JF: Okay.
ELIAS: Because you’re pushing.
JF: Yeah. I want to give them more, yeah.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Yeah. And that also connects to enough, enoughness.
ELIAS: Yes. It does.
JF: Yes, it does.
ELIAS: Yes, it does. But also in that, what is the lesson learned in this? It’s about paying more attention to what they are making important.
JF: Yeah. It definitely is a process that unfolds as the reading happens. I had a series of interesting readings a short while ago with the same person, and she really wanted to machine gun through question after question, and so many of the questions were overlapping. It was an easy example to me, to notice what she was making important. It was also interesting because sometimes I do that, before a reading I pick a card for myself, to know how can I be helpful or what would be significant for me to know beforehand. And for her, I had picked Justice reversed, which gave me the impression that she didn’t want to hear the truth. Literally in the first two minutes of the reading, talking to her, she told me, “If you see negative things, I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear the truth. You’ve got to camouflage it. You’ve got to temper it.” (Elias chuckles) And it was very validating for me.
Another time, I had a similar card. It was the Ace of Swords reversed that time, which was perfect. Like you say, imagery is immaculate. It was immaculate because she was again in that mode, like “I don’t want to hear everything,” but it was more toned down. And the Ace of Swords would be a toned-down communication compared to the Justice reversed card, in relation to that. Anyway, a little parenthesis.
But I want to go back to this subject of the coalescing of energy into physicality. Let’s take the example of that encounter at the airport with the security agent. So, I was expressing, or had been expressing an energy, that would end up creating that encounter. And —
ELIAS: But not alone.
JF: In interconnectedness with this individual, and whoever, whatever else was involved.
ELIAS: And let me say that this is an excellent example of we speak about drawing to yourself, and what that means is that you put yourself in the path of something. It doesn’t mean that you actually pull something towards you; it means you put yourself into a path of something. In that, that’s what you did. Yes, you’re creating it, but this individual was expressing an energy and was open to that and very eager, and created a scenario in which she was making that happen. And YOU put yourself in that path, to be available.
JF: So, at what point did the energy that I was expressing that put me on that path, that made me correspond to that encounter, at what point does it become defined as “Oh, it’s an encounter with a security agent at the airport”? Because that same energy could have coalesced differently.
ELIAS: No. There’s no such thing as “that same energy could have coalesced differently.” Every expression of energy is different, and unique, and its own.
JF: But how does that fit?
ELIAS: And it can’t be expressed in any other manner.
JF: Okay. Well, it gets interesting. The plot thickens. So how does that fit with physical imagery as abstract, objective imagery as abstract? I had interpreted that to mean that a given energy could find form in an unlimited amount of ways —
ELIAS: It can! It can. But once it’s expressed, it cannot be expressed in any other manner.
JF: So every moment of energy expression is its own unique energy, basically? And it doesn’t get repeated? (Pause) Elias is nodding. (Elias laughs) For the audience.
So let’s bring this now to… (Pause) Oh, I lost it. (Both laugh) Oh, damn. Okay. Whatever. (Pause)
ELIAS: YOU were already in a state of being open.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: And, you also have been moving more and more and more in the direction of being open in relation to your expression with the tarot. But you also have been questioning how the average individual sees that, or questioning whether it IS still separate or whether it IS moving in a direction of being more mainstream and being more accepted. And in that, all of that energy is all moving outward and connecting with answering that.
That’s the action of your intuition: an energy projecting out from you, finding your answers. Therefore, then you create a situation, a scenario, an experience to give you an answer and to show you, but more than to simply answer that question. You’re also interconnecting with someone, you’re also having an experience in a different capacity, you are choosing to engage in a very unusual situation and to also disregard that pressure and what is acceptable and what isn’t acceptable, what’s appropriate behavior in this situation, and to allow yourself that freedom. Therefore, there are many actions that are happening from YOUR aspect of it, and there are many actions that are happening from HER aspect of it. And then there is everyone ELSE that is involved, everyone that is present.
JF: Yeah. And I imagine that the occurrence of anything basically is also tributary to the intensity of the energy expressed behind it?
ELIAS: I would agree.
JF: Like the timing of it…
ELIAS: But you didn’t just interact with that one person; you were interacting with all of those people and giving them an example.
JF: Meaning that we drew some attention.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. (Elias chuckles) That’s fine. That’s fine.
Upon completion of the Shift, will it be a commonplace ability to be able to and be interested in reading energy?
ELIAS: (Pause) Yes. But I would say, once again, that would be an individual choice. I would say it would be much more commonplace and normal, mundane, but I would also say that because of that, many individuals may ignore it. Just as individuals now may have certain abilities that they can engage easily and that they choose at times to turn off or not engage because it’s distracting.
JF: So it will be more known, but the engagement of it will vary?
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: And reading energy, that’s distinct also from manipulating energy. So when you said yes, did that also include manipulating of energy? Less so, right?
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: That will remain maybe more marginal?
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Okay. (Pause)
You know, a big part of how I am aware of energy seems to occur in a sort of a spatial capacity, surrounding me. I mean, obviously that would involve energy fields of whatever, which in physical expression also correspond to taking up space. But sometimes I have the impression that there will be components of myself or aspects of myself that I project in the space around me, even ideas and concepts, which I can then access again in an objective capacity by tapping into the energy that I’ve projected in that surrounding area around me. Is that accurate to say?
ELIAS: Yes. Yes.
JF: Is that commonplace?
ELIAS: (Pause) I would say it’s your method.
JF: Okay. It’s a bit idiosyncratic, isn’t it?
ELIAS: Yes. I would say that it’s what you do and that it is successful for you. There are other people that do similar actions. It is commonplace? I would say that that’s not actually an accurate question, because it’s a matter of everyone engages their own methods of how they engage energy.
JF: And there’s all sorts of slants on that.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes.
JF: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because sometimes it almost feels like I sense a piece of information that’s floating in the air, and I know it corresponds to something in me, but it’s like it’s projected outside and I can almost reach for it: “Oh, it’s over there.” It has that spatial quality to it, which I’ve been wondering about. And I’m asking this because in our last personal conversation you mentioned developing the talent of reading energy, which I think is a deeper layer, in a manner of speaking, of my direction, compared to the specificity of tarot?
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: And that sense that we were discussing is intimately involved with that energy reading.
ELIAS: Yes, I agree. And this would also include that factor of paying attention to importance.
JF: How so?
ELIAS: Because that gives you more information about reading energies, reading other energies. In that, the more you are paying attention to what is important to other individuals, that helps you to be more accurately reading that energy.
JF: Oh boy. Could we have a conversation about that right now! (Elias laughs) I’m not going there. I love everyone. (Elias laughs)
So, one subject that has come up many times over the years when we’ve discussed together a tarot reading that I’ve done, or discussing the process of interpreting tarot cards, is that I’ve had a tendency to have a black-and-white perception or interpretation, right? I kind of slice it one way or the other. I’m a little bit categorical about that. And I think it’s been loosening up, and certainly I have hit many walls with myself in relation to that tendency. So generally speaking, what motivates the black-and-white perception in me? What does that essentially stem from in my life story? Is there some piece that I’m not connecting to that would be influencing that tendency?
ELIAS: It’s safe. There’s no blurred areas. There’s no grey. There’s no questioning. It’s safe to know one direction or another, one expression or another. It’s either this or this, and that’s comfortable.
It also becomes habit, that that’s what you’re taught. It’s (sighs) not only what you learn but it’s what you lean into in relation to being safe, and it lends itself very strongly to the right and wrong.
JF: Yeah, the duplicity.
ELIAS: And people always want to be right.
JF: Me too, huh? Yeah. (Laughs) Yeah. (Pause) Well, what am I going to do with that?
ELIAS: What WILL you do with it?
JF: (Laughs) I mean, it’s like many things I experience. Sometimes a desire for change is first experienced as a lessening of interest in a direction that had been maintained.
ELIAS: I would agree. And I would express that this particular expression may not necessarily be that but may be a realization that you don’t have to hold onto it as strongly; that it’s acceptable for you to realize that you have your expressions of right in relation to your own guidelines but that you also begin to relax that, knowing that everyone else doesn’t have that same right. And in that, that will also help you in relation to reading energy and moving in a direction of that neutrality and holding onto that neutrality and not pushing for more of an absolute answer in certain expressions, but giving yourself MORE answers, or giving other people more answers, by paying attention differently.
JF: Hm. Yeah. Many times what will motivate me to push, as you say, is I think people want that absoluteness.
ELIAS: It doesn’t matter. You can’t give them that absoluteness.
JF: Yeah. Right. Okay.
ELIAS: They can’t give themselves an absoluteness.
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