How To Interpret the Financial Decline of October 2008

This is the Thunderbolt (Major Arcana #16) card from the Osho Zen Transformational Deck. 

It is a great pictorial of what is happening to the financial world and the impact on most people.

In the Tarot decks, the Tower card is usually about change.  In this picture, you can see what looks like a tower inside the meditating person.  The Tower is struck by lightening and the resulting fire sweeps through the building causing men and women to leap out of the buildings. 

Osho's interpretation of the card describes the process that is now going on world wide in the financial institutions - with stocks, futures, and money.  See if you agree.

" The card shows a tower being burned, destroyed, blown apart. A man and a woman are leaping from it not because they want to, but because they have no choice. In the background is a transparent, meditating figure representing the witnessing consciousness.

You might be feeling pretty shaky right now, as if the earth is rocking beneath your feet. Your sense of security is being challenged, and the natural tendency is to try to hold on to whatever you can. But this inner earthquake is both necessary and tremendously important - if you allow it, you will emerge from the wreckage stronger and more available for new experiences.

After the fire, the earth is replenished; after the storm the air is clear. Try to watch the destruction with detachment, almost as if it were happening to somebody else. Say yes to the process by meeting it halfway."

    ---- Osho----

This shakedown of what we believe in financially, is now headed for change.  It is what is needed.

Karen Bishop in this weeks Energy Alert from What's Up On Planet Earth, describes it this way:

"Another common scenario of moving from one vibrational level to another, is having an experience of seemingly everything breaking and needing to be repaired or fixed. What is occurring here, is that there is now a vibrational mis-match, and things need to be adjusted, or “fixed.” We have to set up new alignments for the new, and this is simply part of the process." - Karen Bishop

We are in the process of the Thunderbolt of change hitting us all in the pocket book because the way the economy works now needs to change....

Have a wonderful ride for the next several weeks as we go through the rollercoaster/tower ride!

Judith