What the psychic told the pilgrim

I read this book by Jane Christmas entitled What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim. It was about the 50th birthday celebration pilgrimage made by the author.  She was familiar with a psychic in her area and went to see her before she left to walk the Camino.  It was a funny book because she was guiding a group of women, there were 15 of them in all, on this pilgrimage.  The psychic told her she would be walking alone, that she would meet someone along the way, and that she should not take any personal belongings that she did not want to lose.  She proceeded to lose her companions during the first week of her walk on the Camino, she did meet a man that she was still in touch with three years after her pilgrimage, and she lost a pair of diamond earrings at a hotel in Lisbon as she was warned not to bring them along. 

I've had a long fascination with psychic ability and have known a few different people with clairvoyant abilities.  So I decided to contact a person that I was acquainted with sometime over a decade ago and try the same thing.  Her response recognized all the work I have done to create a better life for myself.  There is a sort of wheel of balance that is part of having a happy life which includes a spiritual, mental, physical and emotional balance.  Each one carries a gradation of balance, but of course the wheel is best balanced when each is equal distant apart.  I have reached a good balance mentally and spiritually, and now I must work on the physical and emotional.  The walking and the pilgrimage takes care of the physical for me.  She said she saw me walking with someone as well.  This will clearly be my emotional wellness challenge.  I am looking for a person, a place, and a home that is caring and kind.  That is something I have posted before. I have hoped I can find those things through this Camino.  The psychic I talked to said I would, I only need to be watchful of those people who do things solely for themselves.  I have had so many of those people in my life and she could see that. I have been taken advantage of so often I should be an expert at recognizing when someone is not a kind and sharing sort of person.  But we all seem to do our best to be good to others.  So my test is in saying "I'll think about it and get back to you soon".  That gives me time to analyze and understand where a person may be coming from and offers me an opportunity to make a decision that is for me and not for the benefit of others.  This is not selfish, it is balanced. 

I won't share all that I heard here and now.  But the expectation of this journey I am on is that it will end very well for me.  She told me to embrace my enthusiasm.  I am a person who loves adventure and I have created the opportunity for a great adventure in my life.  I will take it and see where it leads me.  I am open to the possibilities, whatever they may be.  And I look forward to whatever my bright future has in store.