Psychic and Spiritual
How to use divination tools
Medium Matthew James gives instructions for beginners on how to effectively use divination tools, such as Tarot and Oracle cards, Runes and the like.
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n this introduction to the use of divination tools, the Tarot cards, Oracle cards, the Rune stones, the I Ching, and others, we are going to practice making connections.
Consider this to be a first training session on how to make an initial connection with the divination tool you have chosen. You need to have them in front of you. For the purpose of this session, we will describe the tools as cards. By becoming intuitively linked with the cards themselves, it becomes relatively easy to interpret the universal symbol behind the images and create your own meaning of the cards. Disregard the “book meanings” in order to create your own: “personalities” for each card. A brief understanding of the basic card meanings is a bonus, but is not essential. Here are the steps to follow: Start by working your way through the deck taking note of the feel and the appearance of the cards. When you feel you have attuned yourself to the energy of the cards, choose FOUR cards that you are especially drawn to.
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Remove these cards from the deck and place them on the table before you.
Study these cards as if they are people, each with their own personalities. Look closely at the images, and begin to formulate a sense of meaning of each of these cards.
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How does each card make you feel? What do you understand them to represent in your life at this time, and do you understand why you chose these cards?
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Spend a few quiet moments to study all the thoughts, images and emotions surfacing in your mind at this time.
Are these responses a result of the images before you? If so, can you discriminate which card has generated which response within you? Study each card in turn to uncover their effect on you. In these quiet moments you are actually programming your thoughts and feelings into the responses required to work with your cards. It is important to remember these responses because they represent your own “meanings” for your divination cards. In
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