Follow the White Rabbit

You are being asked to trust the deepest creative parts of yourself to guide you wisely.

Like Alice in Wonderland you are being asked to follow the White Rabbit, a symbol of trust. In choosing this card you may have lost your sense of trust as you judge some of your past choices as mistakes. Alternatively, you may be in the process of making a decision and do not trust yourself to make the right choice. In reality you, along with your Higher Self and guides, have all the information you have asked for. You are not yet able to access this information because you don’t trust the deepest creative parts of yourself to guide you wisely. This card is the journey to trusting your core self.

Trust is taught by example. Children learn through consistent words and behaviours from parents or other authority figures. These words and behaviours create an alert system with signals like the green, yellow and red traffic lights. These signals are there to set the boundaries to make sure you are safe and don’t repeat mistakes. They tell us when to stop, slow down or go ahead. In your case your teachers were inconsistent in their guidance and so you have been left with a divided mind never quite sure if red is green, green is yellow or yellow is red. You have not yet developed the skills to understand which boundary to acknowledge – yours or your parents’. In navigating these traffic lights the divided mind questions everything. It second-guesses your judgement and possible outcomes leading you to mistrust. You continue to listen to the divided messages from your teachers instead of listening to your core, to what you already know, to your gut. The truth is trust already exists as energy within you yet you are still looking for external validations for trust. It is your job to give or place trust whether to a person or situation by first placing the trust in oneself.

Choosing this card indicates the energy of trust is confusing within you because it both identifies and combines fear and safety. When you experience something that triggers your fear, this fear signals a boundary beyond which you judge yourself to be unsafe. An undivided mind (trusting mind) will call forth the awareness of this boundary (rather than going into denial) to create an opportunity to open the doorway to expand. This awareness links you to your core – the deepest part of self – which always knows the answer. This way requires the emotional skills that exist when you trust. At the moment you are still developing these emotional skills. Therefore when you experience something and identify the boundary which is being determined as safe or unsafe you are unable to set the boundary because you lack the clarity of trust.

When you hit this boundary – where fear and safety are attached – your mind divides and is jumping from safety to fear, giving more energy, however, to the fear. This divided energy creates a radiating energy field of doubt. This doubt swirling in the universal field of energy acts like a boomerang and returns back to you what you radiate outwardly. Your thoughts are uncertain: ‘Is he cheating? He has all these female friends; he says they are friends from the past he doesn’t want to give up. He always changes computer screens when I come into the room. Shall I continue to go out with him?’. You are unable to trust your own boundaries so you swing like a pendulum from feeling safe to unsafe reflecting your internal division. In the end confronted by your internal conflict you throw your hands in the air unable to set the boundary, and either go into denial, take no action or let the other person decide for you.

The resulting internal conflict acts like play dough or putty and is moulded by your thoughts and feelings. If you cannot trust and have too many options, and are fearful of your thoughts and feelings, you mould the universal field of energy around you to reflect and return it back to you (the boomerang) in exactly the way you feared – a lot of options, no clear answer and a fear of making a choice.

Being confronted by a lack of trust is a call for you to grow. The growth is in the expansion of your mindset through a belief in and beyond yourself. Let’s say you need more income. In your current mindset when you think to yourself, ‘I need a job, I better go and find one’, you only trust certain aspects of your path forward. You begin to take action in these areas that your mindset is trusting of, such as sending out job applications to recruitment specialists in the areas of work in which you feel most qualified, for jobs that you know you can do based on your confidence in yourself. These jobs, however, are part of a history that has left you unfulfilled and wanting more. You know that you would like to expand to other work possibilities more aligned with your ‘dream’ job or creative pursuit, but your mindset has not yet expanded to believe that these opportunities are yours to experience.

These areas represent the unknown to you and because you are not able to move beyond the boundary of what you know, you stop in your tracks.

You don’t trust your abilities in these new areas. You question how well you will perform, how well you will deliver your message, how well you will be accepted in areas such as cold-calling, presenting yourself in a different way with a new offering of skills. These are your doorways to learning trust – areas in which despite your fear you find your way to Source. It is in facing and accepting the paradox of the opposites – fear and trust being connected – that enables you to see clearly the paradox of the opposites existing in harmony. This is trust.

Look at any skills that you lack – the areas that you do not understand-and recognise that your alert system of red, yellow and green signals is unclear. You do not have an internal stop/go signal that you can trust. There is confusion. You do not know what to do, as the signals have not been developed. Each stop/go signal is actually a boundary that is there to keep you safe, a boundary you have yet to set for yourself. Yet because you concentrate more on the fear of which choice to make instead of making a choice based on your internal value system founded upon your boundaries you struggle to trust (as in the example of the boyfriend above). By learning to set the boundary with the internal ‘stop’ or ‘go’ signal – a boundary you can push against – you learn and trust the signal’s message. At the moment you are repairing the divided mind within you, bringing to you the clarity that comes when you know yourself and what you value. With this clarity you will know immediately what action to take: ‘This man is out of my life!’ When you know where your boundaries lie you can trust in them. The boundary tells you what action to take.

So behind your fears around relationships or a lack of financial freedom is the real question or journey of whether or not you trust yourself. Your divided mind, which cannot accept itself, was taught that you are not good enough and you therefore do not trust yourself. You lack self-esteem, which is in turn based on lack of safety in early childhood development. In the past when you faced people or situations that brought your fear directly to the light you would immediately lose trust in yourself and disconnect from your core self. In the past the inability to set your boundaries left you unable to trust. You disconnected from your gut, from your Source and supply, from the universal creative energy of love. In choosing this card you are currently experiencing situations designed to show you how to trust yourself. Trust issues are never about the other person. They are always about going within to decide for yourself what you want and what to trust.

The key to healing trust is to return to the point where the mind is divided from its emotions. Knowing one’s mind, and aligning one’s actions and feelings to these internal traffic lights (boundaries) is how we trust and create the outcome we are seeking. Like Alice in Wonderland you are ready to trust the deepest creative parts of yourself to guide you wisely. Follow the White Rabbit within you. Trust in your core self.