Better Tarot Readings
With EMO
Tarot readings are funny things. Because they are so fluffy and general in general, one can move forward and attach all sorts of things or "read things into the cards", as the phrase goes.
But in this case, this is a good thing.
Tarot wordings and images are very subconsciously placed and they evoke often quite unconscious responses of fear or sadness or grief or shock, triumph, hope, luck, all sorts, really. So as an excellent daily EMO exercise that will be different each time as well, and exciting at that, here's the Tarot/EMO Exercise for mind, energy body, intellect and psychic circuitry.
Tarot/EMO Exercise
1. Lay a Celtic Cross spread with your own cards or use the online Tarot machine listed below. This second option is advised if you are not immediately familiar with the meanings and energies of the cards or if you would still have to look up what the "7 of Swords" represents, for that would take too long.
2. As you turn each card over and get what it is and what it *means to you*, note your personal response in the EMO way - where do you feel that card and its messages in your body? Soften and flow until the card runs cleanly and you can breathe freely.
3. Continue on until you have the entire reading in free flow, and also the entire matrix mesh of those cards which is more than the sum of its parts.
4. Then take a moment to reflect consciously WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED about your goals, motives, and where you have new ideas, a changed mind, or what insights this has given you.
Thank yourself and the Tarot Cards and put them away.
If you repeat this exercise reasonably regularly, it represents a very good workout and cleaning for your energy system, as it allows through the cards unconscious problems to become manifest and reach conscious awareness.
You can also use this technique much more focussed and for one specific problem, to help you come to new insights, brainstorm new solutions and smooth out disturbances in your energy system that might have caused the problems in the first place.
This is done by focussing directly on the problem BEFORE the cards are shuffled and laid, and to speak the name of the problem repeatedly, or to ask the question.
Lastly, I might make the note that with a bit of practise, the cards and their *essential* meanings will become much, much clearer to you and more of a powerful, very subtle and rich personal development tool than you might have previously imagined.
Silvia Hartmann
03.06.2004
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