Today’s Oracle takes us to the Capricorn weely for Oct. 5, 2010
So many trials and tribulations are behind you that you really have just one thing for which to be alert — and that is your tendency to doubt yourself. You’ve been through one of these phases recently, and I trust that you learned, at least, that you’ve had enough of self-defeating ideas. They don’t actually add up to improvements. I suggest you address the issue on the deepest level, at its source. Here is a question for you: do your current friends affirm your most positive perception of yourself, or do they reinforce your doubts? What about your lover, partner or current love interest? Don’t let them become a projection screen. You don’t need them to ‘doubt you on your behalf’. What you need are strong, affirmative, loving people around you, and I suggest you find them.
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It’s lovely to share with you too! And if you do “fail”, it is always an opportunity to pause, look around, notice body language, and then move gently forward. There is always growth my friend. But it really sounds like you’ve got amazing footing!
Daniel, I hear you. Especially “why do people gravitate to those individuals who freely give of themselves and, in their warmth, feel so amazing about themselves.” To me, there are so many questions about projection in this — what am I getting from that person that I can’t give to myself? …and is it possible that I maybe could learn to give that to myself?
For me, the brilliant thing about this whole projection dynamic is that our own needs are easier to discern when we see them reflected (often “acted out”) in another person — i.e. “X makes me feel attractive/unattractive.” Well,is it possible that the feeling I get from X is something I don’t want to own about myself?
Lately, it’s been about me doubting I am any good at my work. And owning that I’m afraid to fail and/or succeed at this at least puts the energy in my hands, where I can work with it, instead of resenting my friend who “doubts me.”
Anyway, I’m with you. Lovely to hear your voice 😉
“What you need are strong, affirmative, loving people around you, and I suggest you find them.”
I love this.
I hear that Strawberry! It feels like loosening the hold of the doubt so that it doesn’t attract it. Like saying, I am bigger than doubt; I am better than fear; I am productive and expansive! Part of this eclipse/Saturn whack-a-mole season is seeing this transition (for me). Then when I look at people who come into my life, I can discern a whole lot faster about how this person makes me feel, and then feel a whole lot more empowered to decide to stay or leave based on this emotional information. Then there’s the question of its true source. For example, why do people gravitate to those individuals who freely give of themselves and, in their warmth, feel so amazing about themselves? And further, how do I feel when I am by myself but thinking about this person? Do I always need validating? Or are my thoughts about this person further inspiring the growth I’ve initiated?
Several months ago, Amanda made a note about calling in our projections. I couldn’t access that at the time — I kind of got what it was about, but couldn’t find in me the energy of how that worked. Something about this oracle makes it so clear — that the doubt I’m seeing in those I love is just my doubt, framed by the way I understand them. And if I can own that doubt, I no longer have to see it in them. How wonderful. I just gained a few more people in whom I can now see an unflagging belief in me. cheers!
Saturn transiting natal Mercury, still…. this too shall pass.