THE ELEMENTS & THE TAROT YY WATER ~ if the card shows water, do I feel drawn to it? Do I want to immerse myself in it, drink it, anoint myself with it, look for my reflection in it, bathe in it or perhaps just paddle in it? YY AIR ~ if it shows air element symbology, do I want to breathe it in? Can I feel a soothing breeze? Is it blowing cobwebs from my mind? Is it whispering anything to me? Is it carrying things away or blowing things towards me? YY FIRE ~ if it shows fire, does it feel warming or burning? Does it feel threatening or purifying? Is it healing my emotions, like watching the embers in a log fire slowly marching across the wood, or does it evoke a sense of danger or warning? YY EARTH ~ if it shows earth, do I feel supported, at home, grounded? If there is a path, do I want to follow it? If there is a building or a room, am I drawn to enter it? Does it feel like home? Am I in a mountainous, rocky landscape where I need to tread more carefully, or is the way ahead clear and unobstructed?
YY TAROT MEDITATION I like to use the Tarot in the following way and if you have a Tarot pack I recommend you try this practice too. In this process, it is not so much about interpreting the symbology of the cards, more just feeling what they evoke in me at that time. You can also explore the elements that are depicted in the card you have chosen, which will give you another layer of understanding.
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Firstly, I settle and relax in preparation for a meditation.
do I feel the character(s) are doing? Do I feel any sense of
I prepare in my usual way and you can prepare in a way that
identification with any of them, and if so, what emotions are
is natural for you too. If you’re not familiar with meditation,
coming up in me?
then preparation means sitting comfortably, relaxing your muscles, and taking a few deep inhalations and exhalations.
2 Then I draw a card from my Tarot pack (The Tarot of
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Next, I consider what do the symbols, colours, landscape or surroundings evoke in me?
4 I then close my eyes and picture myself in the setting
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depicted in the card, in amongst all the imagery.
Keeping my eyes open, I just effortlessly let them rest on
I am in a meditative state and allowing my ‘inner eyes and
the card, without scanning it for any precise details. I am
ears’ to play. How do I feel now? Are there any sounds? How
simply allowing myself to sense the feelings I am invoking.
do the characters or symbols respond to my arrival?
I allow this sense of what is going on in the imagery of the
Are they welcoming, supportive, distant, harsh, wary,
card to gently emerge at its own pace. Then I explore the
loving, indifferent, interested? Do I feel I know them? Do I
feelings a little more. What do I feel is happening? What
want to say anything to them, or ask them something?
