There are two main models in readings:
The Fate-Based Model
- Believing that the future is locked. “The psychic said this would happen and so it will.”
- Being locked into a specific sequence of events and judging one’s success by meeting or experiencing these things. “It didn’t happen the way it was supposed to so I failed/I was unlucky/I am a shite manifestor.”
- Believing that something is “meant to be” and not wanting to entertain other options.
- Saying yes to something that is being offered because you “should”.
- Engineering situations to create one specific outcome with no reflection on whether or not this is for your highest good.
The Model Of Choice
- Just because an opportunity exists does not mean that we should take just that one or that we should not investigate or entertain other options.
- “Because it is being handed to you on a silver platter” is not always a good reason to turn your life upside down.
- Interpreting insights gained during a reading as but one way the future could unfold, based on the choices you are making in the now.
- Using things like business plans, goal-setting, or vision boards as guideposts and not absolutes.
- Allow for unexpected events and things beyond your control to shift the direction of your life’s path
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I am a much bigger fan of the choice-based model of chart interpretation. The fate-based model is how many readers operated for centuries. In fact, it is how many still do today. It simply isn’t how I like to proceed. There are always options and I like to explore them with clients. Will I point out the potential for a fate-based prediction to come true? Absolutely. Will I also show the client how they can make changes to affect the outcome? You’re darned tootin’ I will.
A business plan that tells you “Do this, then this” isn’t a bad thing. Neither is a diet plan that tells you specifically what to eat on different days of the week. Computer programs that predict business traffic and expected sales for the upcoming quarter aren’t bad, either. These are all manifestations of the fate-based model at work in our daily lives.
They become limiting when nothing else is considered. Is a diet menu that spells out your meals teaching you how to make better food choices? Do you know what to eat if you don’t have those particular items? Is it helping you to understand what you’re eating?
Does your business plan make room for your business to grow and develop as a result of the choices that need to be made every day? Is it growing your business? Does your software program consider weather patterns or other things that divert customer traffic like roadwork?
When we operate from a fate-based perspective, we’re always hanging back, waiting to see what will happen. When we try to see exactly what will happen before it does – so we can “prepare for it” – this can create a self-fulfilling prophecy. The two problems I see emerging from this are:
- We are powerless, waiting for this thing to just happen to us. When it doesn’t happen we look for someone to blame, we go after the prognosticator for being wrong, or we feel unlucky – all depending on the prediction, of course.
- We fail to notice or we discount where we succeeded.
When we operate from a choice-based perspective, we choose how to react as we come around the corner. We are not waiting fearfully, with full armor on, for the attack to happen because we have locked ourselves into a chain of events that must end in a specific way.
We can head forward at full throttle, knowing there will be bumps and that we will adjust accordingly as we meet the universe halfway. We may have less control over the events that life throws at us – we don’t have more control in the fate-based model, but we feel like we do – but we will become expert navigators and proceed fearlessly with greater resilience.
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