Who is Your Character in This Game of Life?

Ready to play in Leo Season with the awareness of how we frame ourselves and reality

As we transition from Cancer season into Leo season, I felt compelled to share elements of my personal journey. I do so not just for self-expression but because I believe in the profound importance of each person determining who they are. It’s essential for each of us to move through the world sharing our authentic selves. We cannot look to others to define who we are; instead, we must illuminate our own paths and, in doing so, inspire others to do the same.

Weekly Tarot Reading:

For the weekly tarot reading this week, I did a triple reading. It’s the reading I do for clients when they book a 1-hour Skype call with me. One way of looking at the reading is that we cover three different areas or questions, and I chose General, Material, and Relationships. If this was my only intention behind the reading, I wouldn’t have done it. This kind of literal message reading does not work well for general readings, as we all have different things going on, especially when we start to hone in on work and love. The main thing I wanted to illustrate, and the most important aspect of life and any messages that arise, is to be able to see the connecting threads. The first thing is that because we are what each of those situations have in common, the first connecting thread is us.

I was going to go through a ton of personal synchronicities and messages, but the details don’t matter. In fact, I have seen too often the problem within myself and others when we get lost in one repeating message, synchronicity, event, or theme. I think too often we get stuck because of one question: “What does it mean?” I have learned that the meaning may not come until much further down the road, and for now, we take it for what it is. The greater problem here, from my perspective, is the fact that we keep looking to the outer world to give our own existence meaning. I don’t just say this about repeating angel numbers, tarot readings, and astrological transits, but also political and economic systems, social ideologies, fashion trends, and just about everything else.

Life as a Game:

I have to admit, I do see life as a game, which is very much in keeping with both Gemini and Leo, which have childlike, playful energies. But I’m more of a create-your-own-adventure kind of person than being a non-playable character (NPC) in a game designed for the pleasure and amusement of another. As we leave Cancer season and head into Leo, we have to remember that we are all the stars of our own shows—the main characters in this game called life. We can become so focused on different areas, situations, and relationships, but do we live as though we are players of our own game, interacting with other players who are also the main characters of their own? We are each on our own quest, with our own objectives.

I’ve been reading the ‘In Times Like These’ series by Nathan Van Coops, which is a set of stories based around time travel. In the second book, ‘The Chronothon,’ the hero, Ben, a novice time traveller, is forced to participate in a deadly race across time. I like to read fiction because no matter how bizarre, I can see the threads of our humanity even in the most fantastic of situations. It helps me to frame what matters to me and who I am, in the same way as the stories I tell about my own reality show me what I am focusing on and what recurring themes I have going on.

Framing Our Lives:

It all comes down to framing. I’ll give an example of what I mean. I was hanging out with friends last night, and we were putting the world to rights, as we usually do. We’re all very different in terms of our interests, personalities, and temperaments. We often joke that our conversations probably have us on every list of problematic individuals because, even though our interests vary, we’re all interested in and hold opinions that would no doubt be considered wrong-think in many public circles.

I am very interested in AI and emerging technologies and what they mean for the future of humanity. One of our group is very suspicious and maybe even concerned about what this means for humans, and I can absolutely understand that. I told him that I find it really sad that humans are worried about AI taking their jobs because I think AI should be taking our jobs. If you want to frame what I am saying in the context of astrology, this is the full moon in Capricorn to me and also Pluto finishing up its transit of Capricorn. My friend raised the valid concern that we need money to live. So what are humans supposed to do? This, to me, is an example of where we have forgotten who we are and have been reduced to being defined by the rules of a game we are being forced to play. I said I find it sad that humans would fight to keep getting the tokens that keep them confined within a game. This literally makes us NPCs.

The Bigger Picture:

Be it AI, climate change, war, aliens, or anything else, before we can come together and find solutions that benefit the whole planet and allow each of us to have the adventures we came here to have, we have to know how we are framing things. AI taking our jobs is only a problem within the current system. It’s only a problem if we allow technocrats to make decisions for their own financial gain, that literally affect all of us. It’s only a problem if Achievers are seen as people who increase their own personal wealth and status, and the rest of us have to play the role of consumers. This very quickly then becomes Huxley’s ‘Brave New World.’

Every statement is an I-statement, so let me translate what I just said in the context of my own life. I will not make decisions based solely on my own financial gain that will affect others and give permissions to others on a much grander scale than my sphere of influence. There are no rules that apply to Elon Musk or King Charles III that do not apply to me, and vice versa. If we have the eyes to see and the ears to hear, we can observe statements of values from ourselves and others. We may all be on our own quests and in our own games, but they are happening within the same world, be that a simulation or one reality within a multidimensional existence.

Shining Our Light:

We talk about shining our light into the world. What is that light? In the context of Leo, it is first being aware of your framing of how you see yourself in the context of the bigger picture. That bigger picture may be your relationships, your family, your work, your town, your society, your communities, your country, the world. How do you show up in the context of what you want?

Let’s add another dimension to this: time. Because I do see myself in all those pictures, but more and more I see myself in the context of time. As the living, breathing expression of a dream my ancestors had and as an ancestor to the future. I see myself as the current incumbent of this planet, this reality, and this part of human evolution. I am this part of the thread and this part of the story, as is everyone else. When I hear the spiritual explanations of 3D, 4D, 5D and hear them described as places, I feel that something has gone very wrong in our understanding. To me, those dimensions represent states of consciousness and awareness. They are not something to aspire to, but states of consciousness that we can all experience as we expand our framing of the role that we play in physical reality, both in a literal, practical, personal sense, and in the greater role as a fragment of the whole universe experiencing itself.

So, to shine our light means to understand that our light is the ability to be aware and to observe and draw meaning from a more encompassing level of consciousness. To take in all these levels, and to recognize our own thread and our own contribution to anything and everything. We get to choose how we direct that light through our actions and intentional ways of moving through situations and the world at large. Cancer season has helped me to determine what matters to me from an emotional and spiritual place. The full moons in Capricorn have helped me to determine the structures, rules, expectations, and roles that I am no longer bound by. (For full transparency, I am writing this just after the new moon in Cancer, so I have yet to experience the second full moon in Capricorn this season.)

Stepping into Leo Season:

I step into Leo ready to play and engage with the world, ready to ask the question, “What do I really want?” knowing that I am equipped with the inner resilience to face the challenges ahead, but not afraid to be whoever I am. Do you know what you want? Are you ready to show up as yourself, standing in your own sovereignty? Do you still need someone else to define and tell you who you are? Do you still need the world to be easy, or are you ready to come and play, knowing that each challenge just makes this game more interesting? No one can or even should answer these questions for you. It will take the bravery of looking within your own heart to find these answers and to have the courage to act on them.