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This Oracle answer is about travelling to new places, and bringing your own beliefs, knowledge and background with you. Thus, you have a powerful impact on the locals – or your hosts. You’re a stranger in a strange land and once the trip is over neither you, nor they, will be the same.
It takes confidence to bring yourself, your ideas and your opinions to a place where they seem so new and different to those around. You need to feel certain of your own particular philosophy of life in order to confront – and perhaps educate – those who also have their own fixed viewpoints.
It’s important to judge people accurately in order to understand how much they are prepared to accept, to learn from, and to take on board. Some people may be quite resistant, so don’t push it. Others may be longing to discover more about your particular background or part of the world – thanks to your influence.
Being a stranger in a strange land also means an exchange of ideas and information. Try to resist the temptation to shield yourself with what you already know, or hide behind your temporary role as guide or ‘teacher’. Others have just as much to teach you. They too have their cultural or spiritual rules.
It’s important to find a balance between protecting yourself and your way of life – the things you hold dear – and being open to everything which is new and different. If you are too open you may lose yourself and where you come from. If you are too closed you will miss a chance for a genuine life education.
Even though your family, your education or your own ‘school of life’ experiences have given you ideas which you feel perfectly at home with, never forget that they may seem quite startling and even peculiar to those you meet on your trip. You both seem foreign to each other, so special tolerance is required.
There comes a time in everyone’s life when it’s not enough to have good ideas, plans or projects – they have to be taken elsewhere. This Oracle answer describes a real crossroads in your life, when you will have to choose between staying put, and moving forward. The location may be close by, or even overseas.
Of course it can be confronting to take such a risk. What if you meet with rejection? What if others have got there before you? What if the difficulty of uprooting yourself and your ideas fails to pay off? These are just some of the issues that turn up when this Oracle answer appears.
At the same time you’ll never know, if you never go. This is also something that has to be considered. If you turn your back on this chance to export what you’ve got, it might not come again. You may be left in a position where you are always wondering what might have been. Perhaps you’ll live with regrets.
It is possible you could send your ideas into new areas without actually accompanying them. But you appear to be deeply attached to at least one of them, and maybe more. Can you really trust others to do these very special concepts justice? Can the projects sell themselves, without your help?
These are all useful questions to explore when this Oracle answer turns up. If there are practical issues getting in the way of your mission, it may also help to look at the possibility of prioritising what you can take, and leaving the rest behind. Perhaps travelling a little lighter is the most effective way to go.
You are onto something good. Something with potential for the future. Now, what are you going to do about it? You not only have to think about the chances of success for your ideas – here or there – you also have to think about yourself. What would staying (or going) do for your soul? That might be the bigger issue.
Sometimes your brain is in gear, but your soul disagrees. You’re mentally ready to make a new start, but your spirit feels otherwise. At other times, it’s your body which isn’t physically ready. Your head is saying ‘Green light, go!” but the rest of you is simply out of synch. A fresh start in life can thus become a mixed start.
This Oracle answer is deeply reassuring because it lets you know that this time round, your mind, body and spirit will be in complete harmony, as you prepare to break new ground and pursue a fresh chapter in your life. There are no inner contradictions that might get in the way. You’re functioning as a whole.
This should let you know that what you have in mind really is right for you – not just right for the moment. A substantial change is very likely. It may be an alteration in your lifestyle, in your working world, or in your personal relationships. A good example would be a new health regime. Or even a new partnership.
At other times in your life you have to compromise. Something which feels right physically (an affair based on lust) may leave your soul feeling rather empty. Or you may give up smoking (another new start) only to find that your body is still hooked. There are many examples of this kind of inner schism to consider.
That’s why this moment is so special, and why letting it pass could be a source of regret later. Only very rarely does this Oracle answer turn up. When it does, you know you are in possession of quite a significant piece of good timing. You may have made new beginnings in the past, only to see them fail – but this may work.
Common sense says that when all the different parts of you – mental, emotional, psychological, spiritual, physical – are in harmony, you are more likely to stay the course. It’s basically easier to do so. If what you have in mind really is an enormous new chapter in your life, this may also transform your world.
