So the new point of my daily practice is that the actual process is the thing that stays the same, so the card I draw is the variable. I thought since there were so many cards in a deck it would be a neat idea if I drew one card every day and then on an index card, drew something in correlation to it, and to write down three words that I think the card might mean. Then, on the back (or the lined) part of the card, I would write down the actual meaning. It’s sort of like a bizarre, emotive version of flash cards.
So today is the first day I am trying these new methods. I went home this weekend, so to me it felt a lot more comfortable to read the cards, since I was in my normal environment. Also, I did a lot today, so I’m more exhausted than I normally am. When I set up my process I found it really easy to visualize everything I was suppose to. I only wandered away on the thought stream once or twice, but the feeling of cards in my hand usually brings me back pretty quickly. The card I drew was the three of shields reversed. Actually, because it was reversed (aka upside down), it brought a lot of really symbolic things to me right away because since the image was upside down I didn’t really see it as the picture it was, but instead blobs of shapes, colors and light. It was like in that article we read about drawing upside down.
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The second time I did my daily practice, I was back at school. At the same time, I was still sort of mellow from having been home, so I didn’t find the visualization as easy as the first time I had tried, but I could still stick with it. I wasn’t distracted much, though I was awfully tired so that might have something to do with it. I went through the whole thing and then was surprised because the card I pulled was the same card! It was the three of shields again, only this time it was right side up, so I drew a different picture, wrote down new estimates of its meanings.
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The third time I’ve tried this reading, I found it really hard to stay with the visualization. Since I went home this weekend I have a lot of work to catch up on, so my mind and body are full of stress. Needless to say it wasn’t easy to stay focused. The process felt like it took me a lot longer because of all of the mental setbacks. I drew the card again just like always, and I had a feeling about it before I flipped the card over, and sure enough, it was the three of shields again (this time reversed like the first time). Here I had been thinking it would be easy to get different cards each time I tried to do a daily practice! I drew a new interpretation and wrote down three words again.
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Instead of doing the reading at night, like I normally do, I drew the card in the morning instead. I didn’t have quite so much on my mind yet that day, so I didn’t find it very difficult to visualize things the way I was supposed to be doing. And I knew when I flipped the card over it wasn’t going to be the three of shields anymore. Oh- by the way, the question I ask for the single card is “what is something that is in the near future for me?” I was, however, surprised to see that I drew the three of spears, reversed, and that it’s meaning was incredibly similar to the three of shields, when it is reversed.
I’m also including a picture I took of what some of the cards look like.
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