Another interesting question. This can apply to life lessons as much as it can to formal learning. And recently, I’ve learned a fair bit about both!
So, in terms of formal learning the last thing I learned was how to read the tarot. My business partner, Claire, taught me and we have since turned that learning into a course on our Skool platform. I’m going to shamelessly plug it here and say that I think it is one of the best courses of its type out there. It is really comprehensive, goes into a lot of detail and because both Claire and I are neurospicy and have neurospicy children, we respect and recognise that people learn things in all sorts of different ways. And the course has been built and designed specifically to respect that by providing a range of different learning modalities. I love reading tarot, I have done for myself for a long time but now I’m more familiar with it I am more confident in reading it for other people. Though spirit has decided to switch off communicating with me via tarot which leads me to another learning…
I have learned to hone my psychic-mediumship gifts through the use of tarot which is why spirit have turned off communicating via the cards. Essentially, I was using them as a prop because I was nervous. And they decided to combat my nerves by switching the cards off during a live reading on TikTok! It was interesting, but it proved to me that I could do it. I have learned a huge amount as a result. It has opened me up to so much, widened my understanding of the urges and drivers I have. I would feel very strong compulsions to do or go somewhere, to read something, to pull on a thread and I didn’t understand the whys or wherefores of it. I didn’t understand why I would drive through somewhere I had never been before and feel this really strong sensation around it and often mistake that for the place being somewhere I should perhaps consider living. It isn’t that at all, I know where I need to live. No, it’s about spirit just telling me something about the place. Showing me how it used to look, how it used to feel or what used to happen there. In the nicest possible way. It’s the spirits who still have an attachment to the place reaching out to me because they realise I’m open. I haven’t had any bad experiences from this, I haven’t encountered any ‘negative’ energies at all. I have just been given a beautiful sensation of how life felt in a village, say, 100 years ago. And it’s beautiful. Once I’ve experienced it and understood that, the feeling passes but I thoroughly enjoy it while I am experiencing it.
Other things I have learned recently include, as I have written on here before, finding out who your true friends are. And it is often very surprising. Those people can be within your family as much as within your friendship circle and, usually, it is about them not wanting to catch the apparent ‘contagion’ of your downward spiral. They will be the same people who will want to catch the apparent ‘contagion’ of your upward spiral. It’s so blatantly obvious I am shocked people think it cannot be seen. But my God, it can. I have learned I am a very good judge of character, actually, if I listen to my gut more. And I have learned that far from being the open book I tell myself I am, I am actually the opposite. Which has served me well with the parasites, and is something I am changing with those people who have been steadfast in my life.
I have learned what narcissism is recently, and just how truly damaging it is. How the narcissist can have a profound impact on your life if they are a close family member and that all those years I blamed myself, all those years I sacrificed to please the narcissist were not about me being a bad person. But about unknowingly serving the narcissist. Not anymore.
I think the best way I can sum up all of this learning is by saying that I have finally learned what standing in your power means. That it means deciding who you truly and as a result, what you are, and are not, going to tolerate and standing firm in that knowledge. It means being true to yourself and loving yourself first and foremost. That’s what standing in your power means to me, and I have all those people who have forced me to understand what it means to thank (though many of them will hate that!). It has added to my coaching and spiritual business endlessly. I like knowing I will make money from what they tried to defeat me with!
If you are interested in learning tarot for yourself or in joining a spiritual community, please do click on this link https://www.skool.com/soul-path-calling-888/about – it’s free to join and while the tarot course isn’t free, there is a huge amount of free information and material. And if you would like to learn more about personal readings or about coaching to stand in your power, please do drop me a line at hello@louisasimpson.com or find me on TikTok @louisasimpsonacr1111.
Louisa Simpson 