Six images and six stories. Each one carries its own question, its own practice and its own way of checking what the return wants from you now.
It happens that you feel something familiar entering your life again, only this time it comes with a different face. Someone from long ago appears after years, an idea you set aside suddenly excites you again, an unresolved story starts asking for an answer, a family theme repeats itself in the present, or you find yourself facing a choice remarkably like one you have already lived through. And then the natural question comes: why exactly now?
This test is for the moments when you sense a repetition and still do not know what exactly is coming back and what it wants from you. It may be a person, a truth that is finally coming to light, a practical matter left without an ending, a family role you continue without noticing, a wish you pushed into the background long ago, or a decision life is offering you once more. The six images lead to six different stories, and each of them has its own question, its own practice and a different way of checking what the return means for you now.
The test will do more than tell you that “the past is coming back”. It will help you see what exactly it brings with it, which part still matters, what you have changed since the first time and what you can do differently today. In one result you will work with a mandala and sound, in another with movement and sensation in the body, in a third with a candle, a coin or a sigil. Somewhere the answer will ask for a conversation, elsewhere for action, and in one place it may simply turn out that the old dream has been waiting for you to stop promising it “some day”.
Look at the six scenes and choose the one your gaze returns to on its own. Do not look for the most beautiful one and do not try to guess in advance what it means. Choose the image that holds you a second longer.
Then see what from the past has come to you again — and why this time it may receive a different answer.
Touch the scene that draws you — and it will open right below here.
You chose the letter. One important piece is missing around an old story, and right now it is beginning to find its way back to you. You may hear something from a person you long ago stopped expecting an explanation from, come across a piece of information by chance, or connect two details yourself that have lived apart for years. As though life kept the draft and finally decided that the last paragraph can be read.
For you the return comes through words — an admission, a reason, a name, an explanation, a truth that was kept quiet or half understood. One detail is able to change the way you remember a whole story. You may learn why someone broke off contact, why they made a certain choice, what they felt, what they knew or what they preferred to hide. You may even hear an apology after so long that your first thought is: “Lovely, we only mixed up the year by a few seasons.” And late as they are, those words can still matter.
The answer can also come from you. At some point you understand why you stayed, why you left, why you believed a certain version, or why one episode keeps coming back into your thoughts. Today you are the person with more experience, able to see what stayed outside your field of vision back then. So the main question of this choice is: “What will I understand now that I did not know then?” The answer will leave what happened unchanged, and it can completely change the meaning that story has for you today.
For this variant I suggest a special mandala with eight petals and an empty centre. In each petal write one of the words TRUTH, FEELING, REASON, FEAR, CHOICE, GUILT, BOUNDARY, FORGIVENESS, and leave the middle empty. That is your own place in the story.
Draw the mandala however it comes to you. Artistic skill plays no part in the task, and fateful truths have so far never refused to appear because of a crooked petal. When you are ready, put a finger in the centre, close your eyes and turn the sheet three times. Then leave it in front of you and open your eyes. The word your gaze lands on first is your missing word.
After it, write one sentence. For TRUTH finish “I am ready now to understand…”, for FEELING — “Back then I felt…”, for REASON — “I still want to understand why…”, for FEAR — “What frightened me then was…”, for CHOICE — “Today I would choose…”, for GUILT — “I still carry guilt for…”, for BOUNDARY — “The word I should have said was…”, and for FORGIVENESS — “I am ready now to release…”. Leave the first sentence exactly as it came out. Give it three pages of explanation and the mind usually manages to step in and hold a committee meeting on the matter.
After the mandala comes sound. Close your lips and on one slow exhale make a long “Mmmmm…”, feeling the vibration in your lips and throat. Do it three times. Then open your mouth and on three more long exhales make “Aaaaa…”. The sequence is simple: M – M – M / A – A – A. The first part gathers the feeling inward, the second gives it a voice.
After the sixth sound, read the sentence from the mandala once aloud and stay in silence for about a minute. If one more word appears after that, write down only that word beneath the mandala. It may turn out to be more important than everything you thought beforehand, because it comes from what opened up after the exercise, while the search for the right answer is already set aside.
Over the next seven days write down only words and short phrases that hold your attention for some reason: a name that appears again, a line from a conversation, an old song, a message, a headline, a word you hear from two different people. Do not go hunting for signs and do not turn every advert into a personal message from the Cosmos — if your phone offers you vacuum cleaners three days in a row, the algorithm is probably just doing its job.
On the seventh day look at what you wrote and circle the repetitions. If one word or theme has appeared several times, go back to the mandala and see how it connects to the petal you chose. Very often the missing part of an old story arrives exactly like this — first as a small detail, then as a sentence that suddenly changes the whole meaning.
With this choice, understanding comes back. Something that was hazy before can receive a name, a reason or an explanation. After that you decide what place this information has in your present — whether it opens a new conversation, changes how you feel about a person or an event, or finally releases a story that has long been waiting for its ending.
In the Game of the SoulIf the answer arrives through coincidences, repeated names and small details that keep showing up, look at them in Signs. And if you want to see where this whole story begins and where it leads through your life, open The Traces of Fate.
Your signListen for the words that change the meaning. Those are your sign in this variant.
You chose the familiar figure, and for you the past has a face. It may be an old love, a friend, a relative, an acquaintance, or someone you were close to before life took the two of you in different directions. There are people who spend years around us and fade quickly, and others who stay in the memory after a few meetings, one autumn or a conversation that ended too early. With this choice, exactly such a person may appear in your field of vision again.
The return can begin very plainly: a message, a phone call, a mutual acquaintance, a chance meeting, a name you have not heard in a long time, or that innocent “I was thinking of you”, which sometimes arrives with a whole suitcase of old story. It is possible that the memory comes back first and the person only afterwards. What matters more is that meeting the past will put a new question in front of you: who is this person today, and who are you in relation to them now?
Memory has a taste of its own. It loves the good evenings, the glances, the songs, the places and those late conversations that sound even better years later. The less pleasant details are sometimes given a rather modest place in the archive. So a return can easily wake the old feeling before you have managed to see the person as they have become.
And time has passed through both of you. The old closeness may turn out to be alive today, and it may have a completely different shape. An old friend may become important again. A relative you drifted away from may find a way back to a conversation. A love from the past may appear and you may discover that there is still attraction, curiosity and a wish to meet between you. You may also realise that what you carried for so long belonged to a certain period of your life and has lost that power over you. Both are a valuable answer.
This result has one particular task: to separate the person from the memory of them. If contact is restored, watch the present. How do you feel after the conversation, once the initial surprise has passed? Is there interest from the other side too? Is there room for a meeting, for time, for conversation, for a continuation? Are you left with a sense of closeness, or does the main emotion come from what the two of you once were? The old feeling can open the door, and the life beyond it now happens between two people who have lived through a great deal more.
So the main question of this choice is: “Is there something alive between us now as well?”
For this variant I suggest a practice in which you choose two places in the room, a few steps apart. The first is your past, the second is your possible present. Leave out photographs and belongings of the person, because the aim is to feel your own reaction, with no object leading the story for you.
Stand on the first place, close your eyes and stay there for about a minute. Let the first scene you connect with this person appear on its own. It may be lovely, difficult, funny or completely ordinary. Then ask yourself out loud: “Who was I in that relationship?” Stay with the first answer that comes. You may have been in love, waiting, free, uncertain, cheerful, dependent, curious, angry, or simply much younger. What matters is feeling your own place in that old story.
Then physically step out of it. Take a few steps, pause for a moment between the two places and go on to the second. Stand there and ask yourself a different question: “Who am I today, and how do I want to feel next to this person?” Do not look for a beautiful answer. If “free”, “chosen”, “respected”, “wanted”, “heard”, “light” is what comes, take exactly that word.
Stay a little and feel the difference between the two places. The second may bring you more ease. There may be tension. There may be almost nothing at all, and that is information too. The body often reacts a few seconds before the mind starts writing a five-season script.
Finally stand midway between the two places and say once, out loud: “If this person comes back, I am ready to meet the person they are today.” Then finish the practice and let the feeling settle. You do not need a decision that same evening.
If the person really does appear and the contact between you continues, give yourself three real meetings or three substantial conversations before you decide what their return means. After the first, notice how you felt. After the second, look at the person themselves — how they communicate, what they carry in their life, how they treat you. After the third, ask yourself: “Would I choose this person if I were meeting them now for the first time?”
That question is a little merciless, which is exactly why it works so well. It takes the years, the shared songs, the old photographs and the favourite restaurant from 2014 out of the equation and leaves only the person in front of you today.
Notice the movement from both sides as well. When someone really wants to come back into your life, it gradually turns into presence. There is time, interest, initiative, consistency. One message can wake a whole story, and the continuation is written by the behaviour that follows it.
With this choice a person comes back, and with them the chance to see them without the old filter. Between you there may be a new chapter, a conversation, a friendship, love, or simply a meeting that finally gives this story its proper place in your life. The most important part is that you are now able to choose from your present.
In the Game of the SoulIf you want to look at the bond itself — what brings you together, what separates you and what part this person plays for you — enter My People. If the return opens an old attachment that is still alive in you, go on in Letting Go. And if the person appears and puts you in front of a real choice about the way ahead, the natural continuation is The Crossroads.
Your signLook at the person in front of you before you fall in love with the memory of them again.
You chose the third image, and for you the past comes back with a folder under its arm. Something concrete has stayed open: money, a document, a contract, a promise, work, an administrative matter, a project, a debt, an inheritance, or a decision that has waited a long time for its turn. Life evidently keeps accounts too, only it has the unpleasant habit of sending the notices late.
This result is very earthy. Here the return can take an entirely real form: an old client calls, a forgotten payment comes up, a document needs correcting, a contract appears again, a project asks to be finished, a promise from long ago finally has to be answered. It may also be something you left with the thought “I will sort it out later”, and “later” has already started to look slightly like a separate era.
There is a finer side as well. The account may have to do with effort you gave while the result stayed up in the air. You may have worked on something that stopped right before the finish. You may have put in money, time or trust and the story was left without a clear conclusion. Now a chance may appear to ask for what is due to you, to complete your own part, or finally to decide that there is nothing more to wait for.
With this choice it is important to look at the facts. Who promised what, what deadline there was, whether there is a document, whether there is a payment, whether there is a concrete action that stayed a good intention and nothing more. If a story can be closed with a phone call, an email, a signature, a transfer or a decision, there is no need to turn it into a twelve-season mystery.
The main question of this choice is: “What do I need to close in real terms, so that it makes room for the next thing?”
For this variant I would do a ritual with a candle, a coin and a sheet of paper. It is symbolic, and it is tied to a concrete action, because with this result a beautiful intention on its own is rather like an invoice without a signature.
In the evening, when you have time for yourself, place a white candle, a coin and a small sheet of paper in front of you. Light the candle and write on the paper only one thing you want to close. Put it concretely: “To get an answer about…”, “To pay…”, “To submit…”, “To ask for…”, “To finish…”. Leave the general formulations for other occasions.
Put the coin on the paper and stay for a moment with the thought of how this story looks once it is already closed. Then say out loud: “I am ready to complete my part and to release what has already ended.”
Then take the coin and place it next to the candle. The paper stays in front of you until the following day. In the morning do one real action connected with what you wrote. Send the email, check the document, make the call, pay the sum, ask for an answer, open the file, book an appointment, find the information you need. A small action is enough, as long as it is real.
The coin carries the symbol of exchange and value, so keep it in your wallet for seven days. Each time you see it, remind yourself that this story is already moving towards a resolution. On the seventh day use it for something ordinary — coffee, bread, a ticket, whatever comes. The idea is for the energy of everything held up to return to movement.
The candle does not have to burn all the way down at once. Put it out safely and light it again until you finish the concrete task. When you have done it, let the candle burn out in a safe place and tear up the paper.
After the ritual, give yourself three days for the practical finishing. Each day do one action connected with the matter. The first day is the contact, the second is the document or the information, the third is the decision. If something depends on another person, your action is to ask for clarity and a deadline.
With this result in particular you may discover how tiring it is for an old task to live permanently on the edge of your attention. Its weight is often greater than the time it actually takes to close it. A person can think for three months about an email that takes seven minutes to write. The mind is remarkably extravagant with time when there is something it does not feel like starting.
What comes back to you is a matter that wants a concrete ending. It may bring money, a decision, a document, a revived project, or simply that pleasant feeling that one open door has finally been closed. After it there is more room for the next thing, because part of your attention will no longer be taken by an old “I must”.
When the account is closed, the energy comes back to you. And life, happily, charges no interest on postponement.
In the Game of the SoulIf the matter comes down to money, debt, a contract or something that is due to you, look at it in Money. If it has to do with releasing an old commitment or weight, the natural continuation is Letting Go. And if the decision leads you towards a new choice about work, money or direction, go on with The Crossroads.
Your signAn open account closes with one real action. One more good intention leaves it exactly where it is.
You chose the old house, and for you the past comes back through something far deeper than a memory. In a present situation you may recognise a role you learned so early that for a long time you took it for part of your character. In the family someone always carried everything, another stayed silent, a third rescued everybody, a fourth kept the peace at any cost. In time the roles change faces, and the lines stay remarkably similar. The family line evidently loves repeats almost as much as television loves a successful series.
Exactly such a script may become active for you. If money in the family was tied to fear, you may feel guilty when you earn more or spend on yourself. If love came with waiting, sacrifice or constant uncertainty, you can easily end up in relationships where you are once again waiting for someone to decide what they want. If success was met with “don’t get above yourself”, you may come almost all the way to the goal and then slow your own pace. If someone in the family was always “the strong one”, you may have inherited the splendid privilege of everyone relying on you, while you wonder who exactly you are allowed to lean on.
This choice often comes at a moment when the present starts to look suspiciously like an old family story. You may hear a line of your own and suddenly recognise the voice of your mother, your father or your grandmother. You may make a choice and then realise that the same choice was made before you. You may find yourself in a relationship that carries the same tension, only with different names and more modern telephones.
The family script has one particular quality: it brings a sense of familiarity. That is exactly why we so often repeat it for years. The familiar is easily felt as natural. And once you start to see where a certain reaction comes from, you have the chance to decide whether it still belongs to you.
The main question of this choice is: “Which family story am I continuing without ever having chosen it?”
For this variant I would do a special sound practice of four sounds. It was created for this result and needs no particular frequency, recording or musical ear. Use a tone that is comfortable for you and let the vibration be felt in the body.
Sit with a straight back and place one palm on your lower belly and the other on your chest. Close your eyes and take three slow breaths. Then begin with the sound “Uuuuu…” on a low, comfortable tone. Repeat it three times. As you make it, picture in your mind the people before you — parents, grandmothers, grandfathers and those whose names you do not even know, thanks to whom you are part of this line.
Then move to “Ooooo…” and repeat it three times. This is the sound of belonging. With it, say in your mind: “I am part of this story.”
Next comes “Aaaaa…”, again three times. With it the attention is already on you and on the life you are living now. After the third sound say: “I am the one who chooses how the story continues.”
Finally close your lips and make one long “Mmmmm…”. Let the vibration finish on its own and stay in silence for about a minute. If a face, a memory, a sentence or a situation appears, remember the first one. It often points to the script that wants attention right now.
The sequence is U – U – U / O – O – O / A – A – A / M. You can repeat it for seven evenings, especially if the theme is strongly active.
For the second part you need a thread or a thin cord about a metre long. Make three knots in it. The first is “what I received”, the second is “what I repeat”, the third is “what I choose to continue”.
Take the first knot between your fingers and name one good thing that comes from your family: resilience, a sense of humour, capacity for work, care, courage, talent, the ability to start again. A family line is a great deal more than a list of problems; if it were only that, humanity would probably have wound up the business long ago.
At the second knot, name the pattern you recognise in yourself. For example: “I take everything on alone”, “I stay silent when I am hurt”, “I am afraid to ask for more”, “I choose people I have to rescue”, “I feel guilty when I put myself first”.
At the third knot, say how you want this story to continue through you. Put it simply and in the present tense: “I am a person who asks for help when I need it.” “I am free to earn more.” “I am able to love without losing myself.” “I am a person who says what I want.”
Keep the thread for seven days somewhere you can see it. After that untie the second knot and leave the first and the third. The meaning is beautiful: you keep your root and your choice, and the repeated script no longer needs to be the link between them.
Choose one family role you take on most often and for one day change only one behaviour. If you usually rescue everyone, wait for the person to ask for help themselves. If you always stay silent, say one wish of your own out loud. If you take on all the responsibility, leave one task to someone else. If you automatically give way, choose yourself at least once. If everything goes through your control, allow someone to do something their own way, even at the risk of the glasses ending up in the “wrong” cupboard.
In the evening ask yourself one question: “What happened when I stopped playing my old role for just one day?” The reactions of the people around you can be very telling. When one person changes their place in the family system, the others immediately feel that the script has stopped following the familiar text.
With this choice a family story comes back to be recognised in the present. It may show itself through love, money, guilt, success, relationships with parents, or the way you take responsibility for others. Once you see the pattern, you have a choice about what you want to keep from it and what ends with you.
You are part of your family line and you carry a great deal of it with you. And you are also the person through whom the story can continue in a new way.
In the Game of the SoulIf this variant opens a deeper family theme, the natural continuation is The Lineage. If you feel that part of the old role is ready to be set down, go on in Letting Go.
Your signKeep the strength you received. Change the story you no longer want to pass on.
You chose the fifth image, and something very personal is coming back to you — a wish that was once strong enough for you to picture your life with it, and then stayed in the background. It may be a talent you used and then left, an education whose moment never quite came, a language, music, writing, travel, work of your own, a move, a stage, creative work, or a completely different way of living. The years have a particular talent for filling the calendar with sensible tasks, and somewhere between the bills, the deadlines and “let me just finish this”, a person discovers that an old dream of theirs has become rather patient.
This choice comes when the wish starts reminding you of itself again. You may see someone doing what you once wanted and feel an unpleasant sting. You may come across an old object, a photograph, a notebook or a place and suddenly remember how seriously you thought about that direction. Someone may ask what you would do if you had more time, and the answer may come out far too quickly to be accidental.
There is one important detail: the wish may have changed its form already. The person you were ten or twenty years ago wanted one concrete thing, and today you may find a deeper need behind it. You may have dreamed of a stage, and today what you are missing is expression. You may have wanted to live in another country, and the real theme is freedom and a new environment. You may have dreamed of your own business, and underneath it was the wish to decide for yourself how you use your time. Once you understand what you were looking for through the old dream, it becomes much easier to see whether it still belongs to you.
With this variant the main question is: “Which of my wishes is still mine?” The measure is simple: is there movement in you when you imagine starting to live it. The years you have carried it make no difference at all.
Choose one wish, the first that came into your mind, and give it exactly one hour of reality within the next three days. If it is writing, write. If it is a language, do a lesson. If it is photography, go out with a camera or a phone and shoot with intention. If it is a project of your own, open a document and begin the first real part. If it is moving, look at neighbourhoods and prices. If it is education, find the programme, the deadline and the conditions. If it is travel, work out a route and a cost. One hour is long enough to feel whether the wish has life in it, and short enough that you can start without waiting for a special Monday, a new month, or the approval of the Ministry of Dreams.
After that hour ask yourself only three questions: “Did I want to go on?” “Did I feel more like myself?” “What would I do next if nobody were judging me?” Answer briefly. If your thoughts carry on by themselves towards the next step after that hour, that is far more valuable information than years of wondering whether you still want it.
This practice is different, because you will leave the great success out of the picture. Sit comfortably, close your eyes and imagine that the wish is already part of your life. Then imagine a completely ordinary Tuesday. Where do you wake up? What does your morning look like? What are you doing around midday? Who do you talk to? What is in your calendar? How are you tired in the evening? What bores you? What brings you joy?
Those last two questions are exactly the important ones. A dream worth bringing back has to survive the weekday as well. If you want only the beautiful scene, the applause, the plane ticket or the first day in the new home, you may be in love with the image. If you are ready for the exercises, the paperwork, the repetition, the learning, the costs and the Mondays, the wish already has far stronger roots.
After the meditation say out loud: “I am ready to see what this wish looks like in my real life.” Then write down only one concrete step you can take within seven days.
For this practice you need three ordinary keys or three small objects you can tell apart. Place them in front of you. The first is what I once wanted, the second is what I want today, the third is what I am ready to make room for.
Take the first and recall the old version of the wish. Then take the second and say how it would look today, without fitting it to the original script. Finally hold the third and say: “I am ready to make room for what is still alive in me.” Leave the third key in your bag or on your desk for seven days. Each time you see it, do one small action in that direction. One phone call, one page, one lesson, one enquiry, one application are entirely enough.
After seven days look at what you actually did. If the key has only travelled around with you like a decorative employee with no contract, the wish probably needs a new reading. If during the week you started looking for the next step yourself, you already have your answer.
Repeat it in the morning for seven days, only once, and keep it out of the homework pile: “I am free to ask again for what is still mine, and I am ready to give it room in my life today.”
With this choice, a part of you comes back that has long been waiting for more space. It may appear as an old talent, a wish for change, an idea that excites you again, or a direction that today looks possible in a way it never was. The most interesting part will be discovering whether you want the old dream itself, or the feeling you believed it would give you. Both answers can take you much closer to the life you want.
Not every old dream wants to be fulfilled in the old way. Some come back to remind you who you still are.
In the Game of the SoulIf this variant wakes a talent or an ability you want to develop, the natural continuation is Gifts. If the wish is already putting you in front of a concrete choice about the way ahead, go on with The Crossroads.
Your signThe old dream comes back on the day you stop promising it “some day”.
You chose the sixth image, and for you the past comes back as a question that has already been asked once. The wording may be different, the people may be others, the place may have changed, and the feeling is familiar: once again you have to decide whether you accept, refuse, leave, stay, take the risk, invest, buy, move, or let someone come closer. Life has a strange sense of humour — when it very much wants to know whether we have learned anything, it changes the set and asks almost the same question.
Years ago you may have turned down a job because the moment was wrong, and now a similar offer arrives. You may have given up on moving, and the chance of another city or another country appears again. You may have chosen security over risk, and now you find yourself once more between the familiar and the wanted. It is even possible that a new person puts you in front of an old choice: will you say what you want, will you wait, will you give one more chance, will you set a boundary? The script is recognised by the question it wakes in you, far more than by the outer circumstances.
The most interesting thing about this result is that the previous decision has already given you information. You know what followed from it. You know how you felt a month later, a year later, perhaps much longer. Today you have experience you simply did not have then. So a similar choice can lead to a completely different answer, and that leaves the first one perfectly valid for its own time. Then you were choosing as the person you were. Now the person you have become is the one choosing.
Notice one small detail as well: if the thought “the same thing again” comes up almost immediately, give it your attention. Stop and see what exactly is the same. The price? The risk? The waiting? The fear of losing your security? The wish to please? The habit of putting things off until the choice politely makes itself? That last one is particularly convenient, because afterwards we can always blame the circumstances.
The main question of this choice is: “If life asks me again, will I answer the same way?”
For this variant use two identical thin candles and a sheet of paper. Place the first on the left and call it “My old choice”, and the second on the right — “My choice today”. Leave enough free space between them for the paper. Work on a fireproof surface and keep lit candles in sight at all times.
Light the first candle and recall the earlier situation. Leave the whole story aside; choose only the moment when you made the decision. Then say: “I am the person who then chose what I was able to choose.” Stay with it briefly and remember what followed from that choice.
Then light the second candle. Look at it and say: “I am the person who chooses with the experience I have today.” Ask yourself three questions: what do I already know, what is different today, and which consequence am I ready to accept? Look past the answer that sounds brave or beautiful. Look for the one you can live with on a Tuesday morning too, when the magic of the moment has passed and real life begins.
Then put out the first candle. Leave the second burning for a few more minutes. The meaning is simple: the old decision has already given its experience, and the attention moves to the choice you are making now.
For this result I would make a sigil of my own from the phrase: “I AM READY TO CHOOSE MY OWN DIRECTION.”
Write the sentence in capital letters and remove the vowels and the repeated letters. You are left with the basic signs: M, R, D, Y, T, C, H, S, W, N. There is no need to write them legibly. Combine their lines into one symbol: turn one letter, place another on top of it, extend a line, close part of it in a circle. Carry on until the letters stop looking like text and become a sign that is yours alone.
Draw the finished sigil in the middle of the sheet between the two candles. Write the date beneath it. Then put your palm on the symbol and say three times: “I am ready to choose my own direction and I am ready to accept the life that comes with this choice.”
The sigil does not have to be beautiful. If it looks as though an ancient alchemist drew it after the third glass of wine, it will still do the job. What matters is that you can recognise it as the sign of your own decision.
Fold the sheet once towards yourself and put it away for seven days. During that time, leave it folded instead of opening it every day in the hope that it will produce an answer for you. The sigil reminds you of the direction, the decision is still yours.
Before the final decision, do something very practical. Take a sheet of paper and divide it into two parts. On one side write: “If I say YES, in six months…”, and on the other: “If I say NO, in six months…”. Finish both as a short account of one ordinary day. Where you are, what you are doing, how you feel, what you have gained, what you have lost, what you are missing.
Then read the two versions and see which of them holds more of your own life. Look at the feeling of being present in your own choice, and set comfort, prestige and other people’s approval aside.
There are decisions where both paths have a price. Then the question is already which price you are ready to pay. That is often far more useful than an endless search for an option in which everything is lovely and nobody loses anything. That option usually lives in the department next door to the unicorns.
On the seventh day take out the sigil and place it in front of the second candle. Light it again and read the phrase you made the sign from. Then ask yourself only one question: “If nobody is going to praise me and nobody is going to blame me, what do I choose?”
Wait for the first clear answer. If there is none yet, keep the sigil for another seven days and go on gathering information. The absence of a decision can also mean that you still have too few facts, and there is no prize for the fastest decision of the month.
Once the choice is made, you can tear the sigil into four parts and throw them away separately, or keep it in a notebook as a sign of the moment when you chose a different direction. There is no need to burn it; the candles have already done the symbolic work.
During the seven days use one short phrase: “I am free to give a new answer to an old question.” Say it once in the morning or before a concrete action connected with the choice. It has one task — to remind you that the old decision holds for that moment, and today’s answer is yours.
With this choice, the chance to answer from where you stand today is coming back. A similar situation may give you the chance to repeat the old decision, to change it, or to come up with a third option you could not even see back then. The most valuable question now is what you have learned between the first time and the second.
Life may repeat the question. The answer now belongs to the person you are today.
In the Game of the SoulIf the choice leads towards a new direction, the natural continuation is The Crossroads. If you feel that an old decision or an old fear is still keeping one door open, go on with Letting Go as well.
Your signThe old question comes round again to hear the answer of the person you have become.
The universe hears what you give
Everything you do from the heart — a word, an action, a gift — comes back. It arrives at the moment when enough of it has gathered. If these words have reached you and something in them has recognised something in you, then they came exactly on time.
And if you feel like returning a little of that energy, any amount is received with gratitude and turns into new content, new tests, new words that will reach someone who needs them today. That is how the circle keeps turning.
If your variant sounded familiar and you want the two of us to look at it more closely — personally, for your own case — write to me at imperatrice.eu@gmail.com. Tell me briefly which image you chose and what exactly keeps repeating around you at the moment.
And if you want to walk with your question every day, the place for that is FatedWays · The Game of the Soul — the rooms, the daily message and a path that remembers everything you have asked. The returns in this test have their own rooms: Signs, My People, Money, The Lineage, Gifts, Letting Go and The Crossroads.
And if you want the cards to say their part about the same return, open the tarot spread “What is coming back to you?” — ten positions and four directions: an old love, a chance to do with work or money, a family story and a dream that wants a place in your life again.
Where Does Your Soul Want to Return? Places and Past LivesWhy does a place feel strangely close even if you have never been there? What world your soul recognises and what you miss from it today.
Test: Which Place Recognises You? Past Lives and PlacesTwelve places from Ancient Greece to the New World. Choose the image your eyes keep returning to and see what your soul is looking for today.
Tarot Spread “We Have Met Before” — Past LivesThe symbolic story between you and one person: who you were, how you parted and why you are meeting again now. A tarot spread with 10 positions.
We Have Met Before: Past Lives, Karma and RecognitionWhy does a stranger feel strangely familiar? Recognition, karmic love, regression and past lives that still continue in your life today.