Knowing Yourself

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Knowing yourself

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Mirrors for your shadows, your depths and your next threshold.

Blind Spot «What do others see in me that I hardly notice myself?» 4 cards · medium Secret of the High Priestess «How will things go on – and what deeper meaning lies in it?» 9 cards · medium Door Spread «What awaits me behind the next door?» 11 cards · advanced Seven Deadly Sins «Where do I lose my center – and how do I find it again?» 7 cards · advanced Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld «What lies unresolved within me, and how do I find access to it?» 15 cards · advanced
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Blind Spot

4 cards · medium

«What do others see in me that I hardly notice myself?»

  1. 1What everyone sees in you – you and the others.
  2. 2Your blind spot: what others perceive in you.
  3. 3What only you know and keep to yourself.
  4. 4What is at work deep down – still hidden from everyone.

Begin with position 1, then 2 and 3. Compare the two: position 3 shows your image of yourself, position 2 the image others have. Position 4 gives you the most – whatever comes to light there, you can shape consciously. Feel free to leave the cards out for a few days and look at them again and again.

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Secret of the High Priestess

9 cards · medium

«How will things go on – and what deeper meaning lies in it?»

  1. 1·2The theme as two impulses that strengthen or rub against each other.
  2. 3The influence that is strongest right now.
  3. 4A force that is growing.
  4. 5A force that is withdrawing.
  5. 6What is at work in the dark.
  6. 7What lies in the light and is conscious.
  7. 8Where the journey is heading.
  8. 9The book: face down at first, revealed at the very end.

The spread follows the image of The High Priestess: the cross on her chest, the three moon phases of her crown, the dark and the light pillar, the crescent moon at her feet. Read the moons in the order 5, 3, 4 – from waning to waxing. Finally, card 9: A Major Arcana card reveals the why and what for behind your question. A Minor Arcana card stays face down – the secret can still wait.

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Door Spread

11 cards · advanced

«What awaits me behind the next door?»

  1. 1The name of the door: this is what it’s about.
  2. 2A first look through the keyhole.
  3. 3The lock: what has kept the door shut so far.
  4. 4The handle: what you need to open it.
  5. 5What led you to this door.
  6. 6Your hopes and fears.
  7. 7Your attitude toward the door.
  8. 8What really lies behind it.
  9. 9Where you find the door.
  10. 10What happens when it opens.
  11. 11The key that fits the lock.

A very vivid spread for anyone who likes working with images. First read 1, 2, 10 and above all 8: Is this door worth it? Then compare 6 with 8 and 7 with 10 – expectation and reality. Finally: What do you need (4, 5, 9), and which key (11) opens the lock (3)?

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Seven Deadly Sins

7 cards · advanced

«Where do I lose my center – and how do I find it again?»

  1. 1Pride.
  2. 2Sloth.
  3. 3Envy.
  4. 4Greed.
  5. 5Wrath.
  6. 6Gluttony.
  7. 7Avarice.

The seven ancient deadly sins as a mirror: excesses that tie up a lot of life energy. The cards lie at the points of a seven-pointed star. Read each one on three levels: How do you handle this theme? Where does it show up? What price do you pay for it? Begin with the bright cards – the areas you already live well – and then turn to the difficult ones.

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Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld

15 cards · advanced

«What lies unresolved within me, and how do I find access to it?»

  1. IYour bright side, the way you know yourself.
  2. 2What the descent looks like from the outside.
  3. 3–9Seven gates: what you may lay down on the way down – habits, expectations, ideas.
  4. XYour shadow – the hidden gold.
  5. 11Who or what helps you from above.
  6. XII·XIIITwo forces that bring you back to life.
  7. XIVThe new, whole person.
  8. 15What you give up for a while.

Based on the oldest recorded myth of a resurrection, the Sumerian journey of the Queen of Heaven into the underworld. Fill the positions with Roman numerals with Major Arcana cards, the others with Minor Arcana. First let I, X and XIV sink in – light, shadow and their reconciliation. Then follow the descent (2 to 9) and the ascent (11 to XIII). A spread for longer inner work.

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