“What do the carvings mean?” I ask out loud into the vast emptiness.

From behind me a voice says softly, “When we take the human incarnation, we’re meant to move forward toward the light, to the soul, and not to dawdle or get distracted.”

“How?” I ask.

I am turned around to see a deep, endless tunnel opening right in front of me. The tunnel appears to be vast and limitless. From behind me a cat comes bounding out of nowhere and into the vast tunnel. At first, it runs forward powerfully and with purpose. Then, it slows down and stops and begins licking itself, sitting in the middle of the tunnel. It sees something small on the ground and knocks it around. The once powerful cat now seems confused and directionless, not moving towards the end of the tunnel, focused only on the details.

I wake up.

Am I like the cat, I wonder? Am I dawdling, getting distracted, focused on the details, and licking myself when I should be moving forward? I vow to hone my work more powerfully to show clients that their life stories are only the outer expressions of their soul’s intended journey: to use their gifts and pain to make the world a better place.

I vow again to remind people that their career choices can’t be made from the influence of trends, fads, opportunities or what others are doing. Their choices must come from the inner knowing, the intuition of the true naked self they came to share with the world. And from the knowledge that true abundance and success only come from aligning ourselves with this naked work - the work that lines up with our pain, gifts and dreams.

This is my true work: to share this knowledge of the soul’s intention with others. It always has been, even though I spent many years trying to fit into conventional ways of making a living, trying to be accepted by others, like the cat licking itself in the tunnel.
Yet I’ve always had the experience of vivid dreams that take me directly to other realms for knowledge that I’m blessed to remember when I awake. All my life, when I’ve met people, I’ve seen them doing things, following careers, that they’re not yet doing.

For more than 50 years, my logical, linear, left-hemisphere brain battled for dominance over this intuitive, all-knowing, wise right hemisphere that longed to meditate and dream, marinating in the knowledge of the other realms. Now they’ve made peace with each other, and as the right hemisphere slowly takes dominance, I can see more and more of this information.

Here’s my question to you: What’s your story? Who are you really? Who is hiding inside of you? It’s time for all of us to come out of the closet and own up to who we really are. We’re needed now to be our true, wise, intuitive selves as we guide humanity through this pivotal point in our evolution. Are you a healer who feels energy pulsing through your hands and yet you make your living as a lawyer? It’s time to own your truth. By not following your gift, a life is wasted. As money scares you into playing it dumb, realize that money follows your true work. When you’re on your true path, you’ll attract whatever and whomever you need.

I am meditating on a client’s path before our session. I see that he’s an earthy Taurus on an expanded five birth path—the path of the adventurer, sensualist, freedom-seeker and agent of change. I ask what this client needs to hear to move forward to his highest potential. I see images of an attractive man with great material successes, surrounded by cars, homes and trappings of success. Yet he is careening into the abyss of addictions--sex, and alcohol. What does he need from me?

The words come: reconnection to his spiritual path, a reminder of the soul’s intention to teach and inspire others. He came to experience the greatest passions of human existence, but got sidetracked into meaningless details and addictions.
I write it all down, making a note to myself to be relentless in reminding him of his soul’s journey, of waking him up to save his life. At the end of the session, he says “This is just what I needed. I don’t want to hide anymore.”

Months later, he tells me he’s become a corporate consultant who specializes in helping employees with addiction problems. He’s also getting a “Doctor of Divinity” degree so he can make his living as a spiritual counselor. His enormous passion for his new direction fills me with happiness, and lights me up.

Author and Career Intuitive Sue Frederick’s work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Natural Health and Fit Yoga, and at venues like The Crossings Retreat Center in Austin. She’s the author of Dancing at Your Desk and BrilliantDay. For more information, visit www.CareerIntuitive.org or call 303-939-8574.