Chapter 6 6.From swan to phoenix, are you ready?

"Are you a prophet?" "No, I am not." "Then it's TAROT, and TAROT is the real prophet!" I still shook my head smiling. "There is only one true prophet, and that is yourself." The last time I saw Serena was in the spring of 2008. At that time, I had just finished revising the first draft of a new novel. And Serena had a time that was enough to make her unforgettable. When she saw me again, she had changed a lot. The clothes became simple and plain, without any cumbersome jewelry on his body, only the wedding diamond ring on his ring finger shining with pure brilliance.Her expression was serene, she applied light powder, slightly tired, and there was some strange look in her eyes that I was not familiar with.

It is difficult to describe such a radiance in words. The little girl hidden in her body disappeared, and the Serena in front of her eyes seemed to be a woman who had experienced fate and was about to mature. "I'm not here to draw cards today, I just want to chat with you casually." Then, there was a long silence. The experience of the past few months is by no means clear in a few words, so I took out the TAROT as usual and put it in front of her. I believe that the communication this time will be different from any other time. Once with the help of TAROT, it is up to her to decide.

Serena washed it without saying a word, and cut a piece calmly. The upright death card. "I regret that." This means that the Tower is a reality, and Serena's Mister has not escaped that disaster. Serena smiled lightly at me. "This is the phoenix card you mentioned, it means death and life after death." I nodded, she was right, and the nightmare-like fear was no longer in her eyes. "This incident is indeed a fatal blow to my husband, but it may not be a kind of luck to me. You said that a good life is the most difficult exam question in life." "It's not too late for you to begin to understand the meaning of that statement."

"Actually, it's too late. If I could have met TAROT and you earlier, maybe I could have avoided this disaster." "Once something happens, everyone will think like this. In fact, it is impossible. Even if you meet the right person at the right time, you may not change, and the result may not necessarily be worse." Serena smiled and nodded: "That's my homework, not yours. Until now, I really understand what you and your TAROT are doing for me. This will change my whole life." Serena's tone of voice has never been so calm, and her inner self has undergone a qualitative change that even I can't imagine.

"Can you show me that tower card again?" I was not surprised by her request at all. After the storm passed, it was definitely a different feeling to look at the tower again. Serena looked at it carefully and slowly realized that I clearly felt a soft and slightly strong energy circulating steadily between us. "Looking at the death card together, I suddenly discovered that the tower is actually just a warning. Before the tower, I had many opportunities to change it." "You're starting to understand TAROT." I wholeheartedly admire Serena's savvy. "Phoenix people, I am afraid that they will rarely encounter high towers."

"On the contrary, they are looking forward to the appearance of the tower all the time, and because of this, they are much more likely to encounter the reversed tower than the swan, because they are on the other side of fate." "Choose the side where you control your own destiny." "yes." "Once the tower becomes reversed, it means that you have grasped the turning point of bad luck. Usually, the result is either that the person involved avoids the disaster, or he successfully solves it before the disaster strikes." "Therefore, no one will be unlucky all his life, unless he never knows what it means to be prepared for danger in times of peace and what it means to take precautions before they happen."

Serena fully understood the profound meaning contained in the tower card. "The truth of destiny shown by the tower is that we always have one foot in the established destiny. The key is whether destiny is a 'destined encounter' or a 'necessary existence' for you? These two attitudes determine There are two completely different forms of life. The former is passive growth and coping, let us compare it to the slow lane of life, and the latter is active growth and coping, that is the fast lane of life, no matter which way , as long as you drive on the road, there are always risks. However, people in the slow lane usually encounter risks that they cannot foresee. The only advantage of the person in the fast lane is that he knows how to avoid them. As I told you Like the story about the swan and the phoenix, the swan regards death as a "destined encounter", so it confines its life in the axis of fate of "living well before death". However, the phoenix's understanding of death It starts from another angle, it thinks that death is a necessary existence, it first accepts this kind of predestined existence, and then sees whether it can obtain a higher meaning of rebirth in the predestined existence by its own strength, these two There is no absolute right or wrong for this choice, but it creates two different life situations.”

"Like a guy driving in the slow lane." Serena took my words naturally, and we seemed to have become a pair of scholars discussing fate. "You have already decided that a car accident is an inevitable risk, so you tell yourself that before the car accident comes, I still have to be careful; however, someone who drives in the fast lane fully understands and accepts that being on the road and risk exist at the same time, Therefore, he will study the journey from various angles, plan a safe route, and avoid existing risks as much as possible.” "Completely correct."

"And my question is, can the risks established by fate really be avoided by one's own strength?" I laughed, she didn't circle the question back, she just needed a definitive answer. I asked Serena to cut another card, and sure enough, the correct Wheel of Fortune appeared. "This card is the best answer. Remember when I told you that TAROT will never tell you the answer you want, but the answer you don't know. "The so-called prophecy is not some unfathomable mystery, but it's just the risks inherent in those fates." Serena suddenly realized, exuding a renewed joy.

"You gave me a new feeling about TAROT. I always thought it was just a deck of cards for fortune-telling." "TAROT is not used to measure fate. Calculating fate cannot solve the problem, because fate has been a mystery since ancient times. We all know its existence, but no one can tell what it is? The task of TAROT is to help us explain Fate, what is fate? How does it affect you, and how do you affect it? Is fate controlling you at this stage, or are you controlling your destiny? These are all things TAROT can tell you, but choose to stand Which side of fate, what you plan to do in the face of risks, these are not things that TAROT can help you solve, these can only be determined by yourself.”

"With TAROT, I can experience fate information that I don't know at any time, but whether I can deal with it reasonably and avoid risks is up to me, not any TAROT card." "That sums it up brilliantly." Serena at this moment made me feel amazing, as if she had been reborn into another person. "Is there anyone who doesn't need TAROT?" She asked this question curiously and seriously. "I think we don't need it most of the time in life, unless, you are a professional TAROT analyst, or take TAROT as a spiritual course that is very important for your self-improvement, and choose lifelong. For example, in In your eyes, my identity is the former, while my requirements for myself are the latter. TAROT is just a tool to help you assess the risks of fate, sort out obstacles on the way, and improve your life performance at the right time. The interesting thing is Once the swan people discover the mystery of TAROT, they will become addicted to it, and then rely on TAROT crazily, and transfer the responsibilities they should bear in life to a set of cards, hoping that the magical TAROT can help them deal with the big and small things of fate, But you can’t blame the swans, that’s their instinct, yet when they find out that TAROT doesn’t actually solve their problems, they think it’s just a set of fortune-telling cards.” "If you were replaced by a Phoenix person, what would you do?" "They are the masters of destiny, and usually have extremely strong self-confidence and self-discipline. Relying on others is not their life principle. Phoenix people will occasionally use the power of TAROT. When they feel that they have gone astray, when they When facing a major destiny test, or when they accidentally turn the wrong lane, they will come to seek help from TAROT, for them, it is not a mysterious thing, it is just an efficient and easy-to-use life tool." "Unexpectedly, I am such a standard swan!" Serena couldn't help blurting out. "It's a bit different now." "You mean, the swan suddenly grew phoenix feathers?" We both laughed out loud at the same time and it never felt so good. "It's really enjoyable. I've never had such a feeling in my life. It's great." "Congratulations, you have found your own wheel of fortune." "It feels like everything has just begun, and there is still a long way to go. I don't know if I am mentally prepared enough." "Then draw another one, maybe TAROT can give you some advice." Serena's last card is the upright sun card. On the screen, the clouds cleared and the sun was shining brightly. The scene full of light and hope made her teary eyelids instantly. There is no doubt that Serena's life is falling into an unprecedented predicament, but in front of her, there is a brand new opportunity waiting for her. "Oh, it turns out that you came to me today not just to say goodbye, but also to convey good news to me." "Have you ever had a bad instinct?" she asked half-jokingly. "Of course, it's a pity that the two of us are in a surprisingly good state today. My intuition has never been so clear. It's all thanks to you." For me, the most interesting thing about TAROT analysis is the intuitive interaction with each other, which itself is a very effective self-improvement. The good news is that Serena's husband is negotiating a new project in Australia with a friend in the same industry. The investment amount is not too large. Once a decision is made, it means that Serena is about to bid farewell to the luxurious life of luxury and food, and enter another period with her husband. A journey of adventure that starts from scratch. "At the end of last year, at the worst of the situation, he had filed for divorce." Serena told me not without emotion. "He felt that he no longer had the ability to let me live the life I had before. You can imagine my mother's reaction. She felt that my chance for good luck came again. I could finally leave my current husband and marry A qualified son-in-law in her mind." "Your mother was the happiest swan I ever knew." Serena nodded incredulously. "When I resolutely refused to divorce, my mother repeated the old trick and asked my husband to accept the financial support from my natal family. She knew that the company was my husband's painstaking effort for half of his life, but she underestimated my husband's integrity. I found that, We've been married for so many years, and she doesn't even know what kind of man my husband is." "You have to forgive her, because she has never met such a man, and even if she does, she may not make the right choice between bread and love like you." "This time, I took my husband's side and told her that I would rather create a new life with him from scratch than repeat the old one." Indeed, without complete death, how can there be a magnificent rebirth? I was finally lucky enough to touch another kind of freshness in Serena's life. Although she is still very young, she is full of strength. I asked Serena if she still needs to use TAROT to experience her husband's new business partner and the prospect of cooperation projects? Serena replied with a smile: "You said that fate is for learning, not for relying on. The same is true for TAROT to me. The wheel of fortune is already in my hands. In the future, if one day, when I find When I fall into the slow lane of life again, I will definitely come back to find you!" That was the most sincere and comforting passage I have heard in those six months. The moth trapped in the dense net finally broke free from the shackles of fate, and thus started a new life.