This meditation came out of an advanced Tarot class I ran last year. We explored the relationship of different cards to each other based largely on the Tree of Life. This meditation focused on the three paths that originate in Kether - the first emanation from the primal unity. If you think of this as what happens right after the big bang you have an idea of where they come from. Try laying the cards out in front of you and looking at them as you go through. If you have a friend read it for you that might be even better.

The Fool, Magician and Priestess
You open your eyes and find yourself in a field of grass and flowers under a clear blue sky. The tall grasses around you gently swirl in the breeze. Looking around you can see nothing but the seeming infinite expanse of fields, grass and flowers. You feel calm and at ease here. The wind seems to open a path through the grass and gently pushes you towards it. Following this opening you find yourself navigating through the fields. In front of you there is a small bush with bright yellow flowers covering it. Fascinated by it you find yourself drawn towards it. As you near you are greeted by its fresh scent. The yellow of the flowers, the green of the leaves all seem brighter and brighter the more you look at it.

You reach out to touch it and suddenly there is movement. It is not the wind this time but the movement of a butterfly spreading its wings and taking flight. With wonder you follow its flight, at first with your eyes, and then with your feet. The butterfly takes a winding path circling in on itself, first closer, now farther. Paying no heed to your surroundings you are drawn after it. Like dance partners the two of you ride the winds like music.

A rustling in the tall grass grabs your attention, yet you turn your attention back to the butterfly. With glee you follow it dancing through the grass. Another movement and this time a sound brings you out of your reverie. What is there in the grass with you? Moving away from the unseen presence you head in the opposite direction. Hearing the sound of something following you, you pick up the pace. Behind you a large cat emerges from the grasses. You start to run and it follows. A hill rises in front of you and you bolt up it, tumbling off the hidden precipice on the other side into the darkness.

You find yourself floating in space. Calm and serene. A light come from inside you and as you turn your attention to the darkness you see many stars dotting the infinite expanse. Aware of the power of the light within you words form on your lips and find the darkness being clothed in images. People, places and things fill up the space that the darkness once occupied. Within each of these you are aware of the star – the spark of the divine – within all that you see. It surprises you that they are not aware of this truth.

You watch the movement of these stars as they move through their lives. You watch as needs and fears drive them to action. Their actions seem endless driven by the outside forces impacting on them. Turning inward you feel needs of your own, and as you perceive them you give them names. Naming hunger food appears, naming love a companion joins you, naming wealth opportunity and money flow towards you. You walk among them but no one sees you. You pass by stores, homes and buildings. You find a quiet place to sit with your thoughts and turn your attention inwards.

A building is raised around you but you pay it little mind. People come and kneel before you uttering their hopes and fears, their prayers and requests. From within you feel the swelling of your connection with the source. Silently you sit and commune with the source of all. Within each of those who come before you see the spark that permeates all creation.

From within or is it above you understand what each truly needs. You whisper to them the solution to their troubles but few hear. You lend them of your light but few feel. You speak to them of the infinite nature in each of them but the still hate and fear. They bring you flowers and gifts and you sit there silently. Always in touch with the source, always in touch with the world.

Please share your experience of this meditation in the comments with me. It really helps me get better to hear how these explorations work for people.

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More often than not clients have internal obstacles that are stronger, or perhaps even responsible, for their external challenges. They come to a reading asking for help dealing with their boyfriend, their boss, their luck, or whatever. Though the discussion certainly covers what is going on in the world, the reading – in the end – becomes about what they can do to let go, move on, change what they are putting out into the world. It becomes about what is going on inside them and how that interacts with the world.

The gateway into figuring what needs to change comes from asking the client the right questions and looking for what aspect of their lives is inconsistent with their goals. My favourite question is, “What is the most important thing to you?” By getting them to name their core goal it becomes much easier to see where they are stuck in other areas. I know that hierarchy can be a dirty word, but having a sense of what part of your life is more important, and which is not, is crucial to sorting out these internal blocks. If your goal is your career, then anything else that gets in the way needs to be dealt with as less important. If the goal is peace – then anything or anyone that does not bring peace to your life needs to be removed.

More often than not these internal blocks have their roots in the horrible monster ‘should’ – this beast in the number one block between people and their happiness. I should work on this relationship, I should want to make more money, I should want to do this or that. Should is a monster that keeps us tied to what makes us unhappy. If you look at the devil card it might as well say should on the chain holding the unhappy couple in place. If we are caught up in ‘should’ than our true path will be obscured by expectation. We have a harder time seeing what is. Our decisions are less clear because of the obscuring power of expectations.

What is your should?
Along our path we all incorporate some element of ‘should’ into our decisions. This exercise is geared at revealing what the hidden ‘shoulds’ are, so you can make a deliberate choice to keep them or not. This process requires you to work directly with your subconscious by answering the questions as quickly as possible. This is a very intuitive way of working with the cards and yourself so don’t get caught up in what the cards mean, or being too intellectual about the process.

Get yourself all set up before you begin. Shuffle your deck and lay it on a table with a pen and paper beside it.

READY
SET
GO!

What is the one thing you want more than anything?
Write it down

What are you doing to support it?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

What are you doing that works against your goal?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

What would shorten the journey to your goal?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

What do you need to do more of?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

What kind of help do you need?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

Where can you find this help?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

What’s the next step?
Flip a card and write down the first thought that comes to mind.

Don’t worry about writing out the questions or cards as you go you can do that afterwards. Don’t worry about being right, just focus on listening to and being open to the first thought that comes through. Just stay in the flow and allow the process to unfold.

After you have gone through once, you can review your answers and draft a secondary set of questions to help you go deeper and further. Be sure to avoid questions that involve why and focus on actions and beliefs.

And for goodness sake, don’t let ‘should’ find it’s way into your questions.

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