Dear Searching,

This is a great question and I hope I can help. You want something definitive, but personally I feel that faith by its nature cannot be defined. It ebbs and flows and comes and goes. Even the most fervently religious people are likely to suffer a crisis of faith at some point.

You know. Something awful happens – some unfathomable tragedy and next thing you know, it’s “how could you do this to me, God?” And they feel like that for a day or a year or even for just a minute, before something shifts and they’re able to transcend things. For reason non-specific, their faith is restored and they are able to see things in a more universal way.

Now with a chart like yours, these sorts of rhythms dominate your life. Regardless of what you call it, God, Spirits, Nature, the Universe… the tide is the best analogy I know of to describe how faith works.

The tide goes out and comes back in, reliably, but it’s out of your control. Sometimes it goes out, leaving various treasures on the beach. Other times, the water recedes and you’re left with some ragged old boot, or other junk you don’t want. And that’s it! That’s all you have to work with until the tide comes back in, bringing relief and restoring your faith.

And higher power? Well who thinks they’re a higher power than the tide? So if you think of “higher power” in terms of the tide, you will understand it is always there. It’s always happening, even when you’re left holding that boot.

But you asked when you would trust. Well, once you’ve seen the tide come in a few hundred times, you’ll have no problem at all believing.

Good luck.

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