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Program 10-5-22: Inquisition

Firm convictions that become a strength when they leave everyone the right to live in their own way.

  • convictions held
  • others’ autonomy
  • grip relaxed
The essentials

Program 10-5-22: Inquisition at a glance

A strength

Nothing turns this person from their course: they follow their convictions despite comments, cultivate broad and original interests, and think off the beaten path. Open to the changes life brings, they grasp situations quickly. Their constancy and passion serve as a base for those looking for an example of coherence.

Something to watch

Wanting to settle other people’s lives is the slope. Firmness turns into coldness, then into control: unrequested advice, a way of doing things imposed, loved ones deprived of their autonomy. The method sometimes tells that the person knew this pattern as a child before repeating it. Realizing it is already enough to ease the pressure.

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The card 22
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By Thomas Guilhot · updated

What this program carries

This program gives a remarkable loyalty to one’s convictions: the person keeps their course without yielding to other people’s opinions.

Its strengths

They cultivate broad and original interests, in several fields at once. Open to novelty, they welcome the changes life brings with ease, understand information accurately, and think outside the box. Aware of who they are, they devote themselves to their passion despite the comments.

Where it can get stuck

In the most difficult cases, this firmness turns into coldness, even tyranny toward loved ones. The person constantly feels the need to tell others how to live and to bend them to their way of doing things, convinced that only their vision is right. Those around them then lose their autonomy and the right to exist in their own way. According to the method, they may themselves have been subjected to this kind of hold in childhood and now reproduce the pattern on their own children.

What helps

Seek the company of someone like you: seeing yourself as in a mirror, you will gauge how futile it is to try to impose your rules on everyone. The method warns that, without change, life will put someone of the same mold on your path, only harder still. Let others make their own mistakes and lead their lives as they see fit. As you loosen this hold, the pressure you feel from circumstances eases too.

In everyday life

At a meal, your child or partner prepares the dish differently from you.

The reflex rises: take the spoon back, correct, explain. This time, let it be. Taste, say thank you, then ask what the person wanted to try. The silence of your judgment gives the other space. And the tension at the table, like the tension you were carrying, slowly drops.

A symbolic reading of the Destiny Matrix: food for thought about yourself, never a verdict or an established fact.

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How is it calculated?

First calculate all the points of the matrix, then look at each line of three points.

Frequently asked questions: program 10-5-22: Inquisition

Am I authoritarian with this program?

Not necessarily. You are mostly faithful to your convictions, which is precious. The risk appears when this fidelity turns toward others as a common rule. Notice whether your advice is asked for or not, and let everyone make their own mistakes. This is how your firmness stays a strength rather than a pressure.

Why do I keep finding the same situations with loved ones?

Life seems to place people of the same mettle in your path as long as the pattern has not changed. It is not a punishment: it is a mirror. As you relax your rules, you notice that relationships soften. Observe what bothers you in the other person; it tells you about yourself.

How can I pass on my values without imposing them?

Show them through your actions and explain them when asked. Then let those around you choose, without insisting. A child or loved one who feels free adopts more willingly what speaks to them. Taking pleasure in seeing someone do things differently from you is already moving from rule to trust, and that pleasure can be cultivated.

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Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.