Try Using Tarot Cards

Tip: When developing your intuition, do a daily intuitive check in.

 Try: Using Tarot Cards. I like them for daily check ins. They are great because there are 100’s of different kinds of decks. Go to your local bookstore or metaphysical shop and take a look.

Power Animals

Mythical Goddess Tarot

Goddess Oracle

If you don't know which decks to try, please comment below , and I will recommend a few.

How do you do a daily check in with Tarot Cards?

Hold the deck in your hand and ask a clear question. Try using open-ended questions.

Ex: What do I need to know about ______ [work, family, health, my spiritual path] today?

Look at the colors, the symbols, the words, and the overall image on the card. How does the card correlate to the question that you asked? Give yourself a moment to connect to the card and the message. 

If you feel stuck, use the little book that came with the deck. Remember that intuition is not just what we decipher on our own, but also using all the resources we have. I like to keep the card out so that I review it and keep reflecting on how the message is showing up through out the day.

Be a Psychic Detective

Tip: Be like a detective with your intuition.

Try: When you desire guidance, ask questions. Don’t give up. If you receive guidance you don’t understand, ask more questions. I find that asking open-ended questions works great. Start with what do I need to know right now?

Please keep in mind a few things: 

1. If you feel like giving up? Please remember that depending on how your intuition works, answers can arrive in different ways. It takes practice to receive messages. Feel free to check out some of my previous articles about practicing connecting to your intuition.
2. Mixed messages? Not being able to decipher the messages you get. Not a  big deal. Just ask a different question. And then again.
3. Irregular frequency? With regular practice your intuition will become louder. The messages will be clearer. Your trust will be greater and the whole thing will seem more natural.

What messages are there for you today?

Recognizing our spirit

Access to joy and being present exists in connection to source. Being able to recognize what is us versus something or someone else helps us to connect.  

I recommend starting with exploring the unique expression that is “us”. Once we can recognize our own spirit, we have the delight in recognizing what feeds our spirit, and then we can move on to recognizing the spirit of those around us.

For some, you might have to extend your memory back to a time when you lived more instinctually (childhood) and granted yourself full freedom of expression.

Recognizing your own Spirit:

1. Where in your life do you feel most like yourself?
2. What hobbies or activities do you do where you are able to fully immerse yourself?
3. What inspires you?

Recognizing what feeds your Spirit:

1.  What experiences and activities leave you truly alive and nurtured?   
2. What around you delights you; surprises you; supports you in embracing life? 
3. What are you doing, seeing, saying, or experiencing when you feel most comfortable in your own skin?

Doing this exercise myself, here is what I learned. 

My spirit is solid, warm, sensual, curious, and motherly (sometimes a little bossy). 

What feeds my spirit: 
music (playing it, listening to it, seeing it live), words (poetry, prose, great lyrics, books, movies), traveling to new places, laughter, learning new things, physical touch, dancing, drawing with pencil and pastel, digging in the dirt, growing things, spicy food that can be eaten with chopsticks, swimming in the ocean, singing, scenery that is a multi-sensory experience like the cliffs of Morher, County Clare, Ireland:

Your turn...

"Is this mine?"

Tip: What you are feeling or experiencing in your body may not be yours.

Try: Using your intuition to check in with your body. 

Remember that our intuition is connected to our curiosity and can be activated by asking ourselves questions. If you feel sick, sad, or tired (or emotionally drained), ask "Is this mine? Or does this belong to someone else?" When it is yours, check and ask your body what it needs.

If your feel, know, hear, or get that it is someone else, say

"I uncreate and rescind this connection now. I release it completely. So mote it be (or Amen)!"

Then jump around a little. I like to flick my hands like I have just washed them and don’t have a towel. Imagine that the energy that doesn’t belong to you is like water flying off and evaporating.