Your Future: What's Inevitable and What's Not

You're only human; of course you want to know what your future holds. And your Guides—those angelic Beings who are at your side to help you have the experiences you came to life to have—know you want to know. They know being in a body on this planet isn't easy. So They'll give you the help you need, but They'll never foretell your future as if it were set in stone.

They won't because They can't. Your Future isn't fixed, but is dependent upon choices made now.

And not just dependent upon your choices, either. Every other actor who's playing a role on the stage of your life—not to mention every other being on the planet—is also making choices. They're all exercising their Free Will, moving forward or stepping back, saying "yes" to This or "no" to That, creating an unimaginably complex matrix of actions we call the Web of Life. This magnificent matrix is always in motion, always changing, always creating new possibilities. So the future, or What Happens Next in your life, isn't preordained. It can't be. Life is a work in progress.

And even if What Happens Next was an absolute set-in-stone certainty (which it's not), your Guides wouldn't tell you anyway, for that would violate your Free Will and spoil all the fun you're having playing the leading role on the stage of your life. (And yes, They insist that we are indeed all having a rollicking good time staring in our own little dramatic comedies. And, They assure us, we'll view all of it as having been marvelously great fun the instant we cross back over to the other side.)

But, while there is no one-and-only, preordained Future for you, there are probabilities about how the next scenes in your life are likely to play out if you and the other actors on your stage continue in your present roles. Just as you might go to a movie and watch the villains and victims play out their parts up on the screen, then turn and whisper to your companion what you think will happen next, so, too, can your Guides make an educated guess about what is likely to happen next on the stage of your life. Only They have much greater Sight, a much larger perspective. Not only do They know the emotions, motives and intentions of all the actors, They can also see what's happening backstage, behind the curtain and beyond your view, while you're caught up in the action on stage. Their advice can be valuable, indeed.

More, They know your soul's intentions, what You wished to accomplish in this life, the experiences You came to have. They know the role You wanted to play and how You wanted your script to go, even if the "you" you've become here has long since forgotten. They'll remind you of the Destiny you intended to have, all the while honoring your Free Will to create whatever destiny you choose through choices made now.

They'll do what They can to lead you to Joy and away from Pain. They might suggest a change of scenery, new lines for your script, or a more fulfilling role to play. They'll definitely warn you of dead-ends and detours, of unforeseen saboteurs or obstacles ahead in your path—anything that could detour you from the experiences you came to have. Yet remember that prophesies, especially dire ones, are never given for you to sit back and do nothing while waiting to see if it "comes true." Your Guides have no egos that need to be proven "right." Nor will Their prophesies ever be given so that you'll have time to "get used to" what you must helplessly accept.

Prophecy is given to be acted upon. Any ominous prediction, in particular, is given so that you can take the actions needed to avoid it. What you do with what is revealed to you, is, as always, your choice. And it is your choices that create your future.

No future is inevitable. The only moment that is inevitable, that is unavoidable, is this Present moment you are experiencing right now. This moment is already here; it's already happening. It IS whatever it is and there's nothing you can do to change it. Five years ago you might have been able to. Maybe even five minutes ago you could have said or done something to change what this moment would be. But not anymore. Resisting it by wailing and moaning or crying, "Why me?" will not help you deal with it. Nor will denying What's Happening Now provide more than just temporary relief, for Denial just pushes the experiencing of it forward into future moments.

This Present moment is inevitable—but what happens in Future moments is not. What happens in your future will be determined by how you choose to respond to What's Happening Now. If you don't like What's Happening Now, if you'd rather not have more of it in your future, then don't waste an iota of energy in resistance or denial. Instead, immediately turn your attention to figuring out how best to respond. What response—what words or actions taken now—would be most likely to produce the future you'd rather have?

If you're not sure, ask your Guides and heed Their counsel. They'll help you choose a response that will create the future You came to this life to have.

©2007 Gayle Goldwin. Excerpted from WomanSpirit Oracles: Wisdom of the Ancients, Solutions For Today. Gayle Goldwin is on a mission to redefine contemporary images of "femininity" and help women become the powerful, confident goddesses they were born to be. Read thought-provoking channeled Messages, get a Free WomanSpirit Oracle Card Reading and more at www.WomanSpiritOracles.com