Maybe 3 Is All You Need

Card 1. Your current struggle is an illusion.

Card 2. Just chill and know that everything is happening as it should. No action is needed yet.

Card 3. You will access a freedom you didn't know you had!

Reading this spread from left to right is exactly how my friend, Kathie read them when she laid the cards out in front of her. Her question for the cards centered around "what should I do?" And when Kathie turned the cards over, she felt lovingly witnessed and immediate relief.

Tarotpy doesn't have to be a mysterious, purely esoteric practice. I was sitting in front of my friend at a pancake house at 8am on a Sunday when she pulled those cards. The message she received was more meaningful than any advice I could've given her because the message came from her higher self/psyche, which can be difficult to access from the over-thinking, monkey mind.

The prefrontal cortex is excellent at linear projects, like accounting, analyzing, judging, computing, and assessing. Useful monkeys. But it lacks the ability to access the psyche/spirit of a human without some assistance from works of creators & artists.

Works of art, such as photos (remember the photographs found in Life Magazine? Those still-real-life pictures pierced your soul), paintings (Van Gogh’s "The Starry Night"), glass (like Chihuly's "Persian Ceiling"), sculptures, ceramics, symbols/artifacts (the Holy Grail), music ("Disintegration" by The Cure - talk about a vibrational, embodied experience!), videos, sound baths (check out Artemesia Healing Arts for sound bath events), movies (The Color Purple by Spielberg) illustrations (how about those Far Side comics? totes hilare.), books (The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan), stories, autobiographies, documentaries, recipes (like the one that brings you back to Grandma's kitchen), spaces (your favorite corner or room in your home), and last but certainly not least: the imagery, colors, and symbols of tarot & oracle cards. These hand-held works of symbolic art have the power to move mountains within your soul, if you let them in.

All these diverse, creative expressions help to awaken the unconscious, the psyche, the spirit of us. And when we heed its call, the prefrontal cortex starts to collaborate with us to make the experience more tangible, more embodied. Change becomes possible.

And if we pay attention and follow these breadcrumbs, we begin to recognize that there are benevolent forces working FOR us (not against us), for our highest good, our heart's beckoning,

our evolution.

I invite you to experiment with your cards. Start with an easy question, like "how should I spend this coming weekend?" Just pull 3 and let them speak to your spirit, your psyche.

What breadcrumbs are you being shown?