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| WORKING WITH A CARD |
| Learn to enter a card with all your senses and your intuition. Have paper and pen nearby. Enter silently and with reverence your Sacred Space. Pick one particular card that intrigues you or that needs further analysis or clarification. Look at the card and write down one word that would best describe it, or that would reflect your personal feelings toward it, or both. Give the card a title. Now, slowly and with intention, describe the picture in front of you. Talk to yourself, to the picture. The idea here is to establish a dialogue that will engage you completely with the card. Identify all the elements and figures in the card. Try to find something that you hadn't noticed before. Now, try to describe the card with your senses: What does it look like? What does it taste like? What does it smell like? What does it feel like? Is it hard, soft, velvety, silky, rough? Working with the specific energies of one card is an efficient way to understand the language of Spirit. It engages your intuitive powers in a most personal way. You must learn to communicate directly through the images and the meanings that are unleashed. After all, it is your own personal dialogue. Find the common language with Spirit through your intuitive power. After you finish writing down all the sensations elicited, try to identify the energies in the card. This is not as easy as it sounds and you will need to really go within. Even if it sounds strange, jot down your feelings, your impressions, try to make this exercise as fluid as possible. At this moment in time, what does this card mean to you? Why did you pick it, out of 78 possible choices? What energies should be released? Contained? Redirected or Changed? Is there anything in particular that you strongly identify with in the card now? Why? Is anything or anyone you know reflected in the card? If given the opportunity, what would you add or delete to make the card more relevant to you or your current situation or point of view? Imagine yourself drawing, creating a new card, with new elements or taking out anything you don't like in this one. If you gave the card a title at the beginning of this exercise, give it now another title. Compare both titles. Go to Example |
| Keep a journal, do this exercise with the same card, different deck and compare impressions |
Copyright © 2009 Yolanda M. Robinson, PhD
