Ep 46 Blog The Power in a Deck of Cards
There are many ways to engage wisdom in the world. One way can be as simple as a deck of cards. I am not talking about those you will find at the blackjack table and such. That is about a different kind of wisdom.
I am talking about the kind that serve as empowered objects
to assist us on our journeys of enlightenment.
What decks you may be drawn to is because something in you
resonates to it, just like the other things in your life. What appeals will be
unique to you and that is good. The deck may call up old memories, in this time
or another or it can serve to awaken and develop new sensory ranges in you.
There are more different decks of cards to play with and
enjoy than ever before. Remember it is always about enjoyment. Encode awareness
with enjoyment and those things that we each deal with over the course of our
lives get easier.
I tend to enjoy decks that reflect different bodies of
knowledge and thoughts. What they have in common is they all reflect a
lightness of being about them for me. Could be Angel cards, Messages from the
Universe, Creative Actions, Thought of the Day, different Abraham decks, BEing
Present, What to be grateful for, The Power Deck and the Sacred Inner Oracle
cards. All kinds of decks. I even have a children’s deck of Disney heroines
that represent for me, different shades of feminine models. I think I have 16
decks out on my console to be enjoyed. I use them together, separately, in
conjunction depending on the occasion. Sometimes I draw one card, sometimes
combinations, just depends. I use different spreads at times. When working with
another I might tend to draw from a certain deck, what ever is showing up in
that moment.
For me they are all powerful as I hold them to be powerful
tools of awareness. I have made up cards out of books of knowledge at times for
they represent different ways of embracing energy functions and dynamics. I see
them as extensions of wisdom in easy clear patterns of information sometimes
just out of reach that can gain and guide my attention. I can spend a fleeting
moment on my way out the door or I can sit with them and play in awareness.
They can be a focus of meditation and my day’s orientation. They serve me at my
whim and discretion, just waiting.
I have empowered them to serve me. I respect them. I like
the feel of them in my hands. They connect and open me up to avenues of modalities
and teachings beyond my personal knowledge and experience. They represent the
expanded interactions of human senses, out beyond. They connect with our core awareness,
our intuitive range and capacity. They can bring into focus what is present,
what was past, what to be aware of, what the future is open to and where I am
right in this moment. They help bring into the immediate what is not always
right in one’s face in that moment.
If I am drawing cards for another not present, I sit and
let them be present in my minds eye. If I hand you the cards, we are in a state
of respect for will come to pass. I am not flippant with them though the
recipient might initially hold that viewpoint. I always respect what comes up
as I know it is truth in that moment even if it is out of the individual’s
awareness and liking.
I allow my wisdom to speak in my approach and I honor that.
Not my attachment, my wisdom. Cards are fun for me and embody truths in our
actions and thoughts and illusions, mostly of our illusions. For if one is not liking what is showing up, we
are in our illusions that are blinding us.
They bring one back to center.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
