This exercise
can be found in Mary Greer's, "Tarot for Yourself.
Have pen and paper ready for when you're done. Ground
and center yourself.
Look at the
card. Really pay attention to every detail. Commit the
image to memory. Close your eyes and try to see the card
in your mind. Check the card and see if there was anything
you left out. When you can see the card in your mind exactly
as it is in front of you, you are ready to begin.
Close your
eyes and see the card in front of you. Slowly enlarge the
card seeing it get bigger and bigger in your mind. When
it's life size, step over the boundary of the card into the picture.
You are now in the card. You are free to walk around and
interact with everything and everyone. The beings in the
cards are ready to help you. This is your deck you are
in. It,s on your side.
Everything
can talk. You can fly, you can walk through walls, you
can move mountains. Spend some time interacting with the
card. Ask lots of questions. Take special note of
what happens. How do you feel in the card? Use all
your senses. What does the place smell like? What
sounds do you hear? You can even taste things. Run
your hand over textures and feel them. Pick things up and
play with them. You can do anything.
Whenever
you are ready, you may leave the card. It doesn,t matter
how far you,ve flown, just turn around and step back out of the
card, the same way you came in. Immediately write down
everything that happened. Write down what you experienced
and how you felt about it. Once you,ve written in all down,
do back and read it again. Underline any important words
and phrases that jump out at you.
These three
exercises form the core of this study. Do them with every
card. They are simple to do and don't require any special
equipment. By doing these exercises you will develop your
own personal vocabulary for each card. You will learn to
recognize the energies represented by the cards as they play
out in your own life. As you learn how you relate to these
energies now, you will gain the ability to change how you use
these energies.
Entering
the Card | Recall an Experience | Keywords
& Affirmations.