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Energy and Associations 

There a lot of different ways to read the minor arcana in tarot, but the framework that works best for me is based on the elements.

I have been reading tarot since I was 13. I find it helpful to journal on my readings. This gives me a chance to reflect on the cards and whatever situation I’m reading on.

As an AuDHDer with alexithymia I find tarot, journaling and dreamwork especially helpful. Not the kind of tarot where you throw down cards hoping for a glimpse of what’s coming. The kind where you write and reflect and arrive at something new.

To me the elements can provide a good starting point (for the minors).

Swords

Air | Winter

• Current of divine / archetypal inspiration 
• Human intellect and insights
• Clarity
• Thinking and reasoning
• Overthinking and anxiety

Cups

In this video I share bit about the concept of the map maker in dreams and spiritual experience. I talk about why I think that sharing these experiences matter.

The video shares a recent experience triggered by somebody else’s dream. Whether you consider this second-hand dream guidance or a synchronicity, I think it says something about what is available to us.

I also talk about my nonfiction project which is a part AuDHD memoir and part spiritual journey. Probably the most interesting thing about all of this, is how it helped guide me back to that project.

I think that matters.

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