An artistic depiction of a purple night sky with stars over a desert landscape and an open road. In the center, there is a large, stylized creature featuring nature scenes, a black and white skunk, and a yellow and black skunk, with the word "56 Vibes" and the Route 66 emblem at the bottom.

56     VIBES

KEY CONCEPTS:  reputation, fronting, vibes, energy, guilt, coping with stress, recognizing the true nature of something, backlash, repercussions, pests.

MESSAGE:  Whoa!  Watch that smog you’re disseminating.  If you pulled this card today, you’re dealing with problems of attraction and repulsion.  You might be the bee’s knees, but no one will know it if you’re always rushing up to hug and pat and pet and squeeze them.  Clingy might be a great look in lingerie, but not in relationships.  The right people are attracted to you when you step back and let your true vibe speak.  Everyone has poles to repel and attract, even this polecat.  He might be distasteful to some but to another skunk he’s a hunk. You’d be a perfectly wonderful companion, too...if you’d just flip your magnet. 

History and current conduct synthesize to form your reputation.  Is yours a sunny day or funky fog?  Behavior brings consequences, like a dead skunk in the motorway ruining our day long after he’s gone. If you crossed his path you’ll remember him many miles before his foulness finally fades.  Is guilt gunking up your energy field?  You didn’t mean to run that rascal down, but it’s difficult outdistancing the shame.  Your energy creates your reputation.  Skunk reveals Vibes through putrid scents he emits when threatened.  Anyone can smell that attitude a mile away; it’s stress.  Is your tension giving off a funk?  A certain cartoon skunk garnered fame for spewing sloppy love energy.  He made a pest of himself through clinginess, thinking he’d concealed his insecure streak...but folks see when your true stripes show.  Whether highway ribbons, prison bars or the furry white lines on the black backside of this roadside legend--if you’ve been attaching through anxiety you’ve revealed the stripe of your character:  you’re a pest. 

Skunk’s notoriety is such that he needs simply strike a pose or flash one noxious glance to scatter would-be tormenters.  He could be frontin’, but do they really want to test him?  His smelly rep precedes him, forcing heroes and villains alike to break out the kid gloves.  If you’re not his kind, vamoose. Wouldn’t you rather evade him than risk picking up that stench?  Company we keep can corrupt us.  Stinging bees and thorny thistles make unsavory bedfellows…but they’re the only ones willing to hang if you don’t keep your conduct clean.

Take control of your brand today; change your Vibes to get in step with the truth.  Envision your outward form as a transparency for Infinity and let everything else gently fall into place.  Confidence is the most attractive quality; you cultivate it when you respect yourself.

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