9 reasons to adore nakedness, i mean tarot

1. Nakedness. Seriously. Naked women, naked truth, transparency. You pick the order.
2. Singing. Your inner wisdom doesn't just speak to you with cards, it SINGS to you! A raw, sweet, in your face song. Every song is different, but an endless possibility of songs, a complex range of notes. Velvety and grinding. Yum.
   
3. Makes the unseen seen. Whether it's your emotions, your thoughts, how energy is flowing, possibilities, emptiness, consciousness...you can see and experience vibrations happening in a more concrete way.
4. Helps the overly heady. Holistic patterns, rhythms. Helps bring right brain thinking, not just linear thinking. Also, drops you into your body by activating your hands touching the cards. For someone who can be overly analytical, I find it helps balance me and get me into heart-mind.
5. Symbol heaven. Objects, Colors, Directions, Planets, Signs, Animals, Numbers. Lightness, Darkness....so many gateways to get your attention and connect with meaningful insight. A thorough collection and range of consciousness to draw upon.
   
6. Storytelling. Rather than just a word or vibe, a story lays out before you. A pattern. A pathway that draws you deeper into you, deeper into truth, deeper into creation...if you listen to the whispers of the story, and the characters, and the theme...beautiful.
   
7. Answers, nice. Learning to question, priceless. Layouts teach you to ask, analyze, organize. And then when there are no cards, your ability to examine complex relationships is right there, in a layout/spread in your mind. Insights even come to a particular location in a 'frame' in my mind...on the right are possibilities, on the left are motivations. Below, what is hidden, above are actions. I don't need cards to have insights or visions show up in certain places within my mind. Organizing clarity.
   
8. Appearing friends. The cards just show up in my mind sometimes. They are friends. Honest friends, tricky friends, mischievous friends, sweet as honey friends....And just like different friends meet different needs, the cards just dance right up into my consciousness and say hello, here is what you seek....look closely at this part of me.
9. Nakedness. Seriously. Strip down and see the truth, baby...it's staring right at you.

Tools are just tools. I see naked, someone else sees whatever they see. The tool bearer is where the insight lays. Cardsl can really help people who are visual or clairvoyant. Can also help someone who is claircognizant (I just know!  This is my primary sense.) to learn to identify intuitions. I've never taught a class specifically on using cards, but this tool was instrumental in helping me trust and be accurate. Maybe someday.

Do you use or like Tarot? Or what helps you gain insight?

as a kid i 'just knew it'

Doing a bunch of house cleaning/clearing and lightening the load. Came across a folder with old notes and cards.

Several times I saw comments I wrote to others, such as:

• "I just KNEW it"
• "I just KNEW it"
• "I don't know where I got these notecards. They were just in my desk. They just appeared. But aren't they cute!"
• "I just KNEW it"

Worth a giggle.

Still pitched the folder and a dozen other bags of old stuff I just don't need anymore. As sweet as the giggle was, it isn't worth the weight or space of that folder.

Motto as of late: Travel lightly

how's your strep throat? (and the clairs)

"Um. What?" she asked questioning. "How did you know that?" responded my girlfriend to my greeting her phone call with a "Hey, girl, how's your strep throat doing?"

"Why, you told me a few days ago when we talked, I guess," I responded without really thinking about it, frankly.

"Um. No, Meredith. I didn't. Because I woke up with it this morning. In fact, I'm driving to the doctor right now. I didn't tell you. How did you know? You crack me up."

Funny. She's known me since I was 15 years old. She knows I 'know things' but it's still amusing to us both. I didn't even realize I was intuiting.

It's just so normal and I'm so used to 'just knowing' (claircognizance or 'clear knowing' is my primary way, then clairvoyant, then clairsentient, then clairaudient. not sure what you call clair-smellient, but I've experienced that too...and wonder if it is possible to be clair-tastient, lol...hoping all my wine tasting will develop into that, too...hmm...pleasant tastes only please?!).

Anyhow...
It goes back to my teacher Jim telling me not to get caught up in having to know if it's a thought or intuition or whatever, just follow it. I have clear thoughts. I have clear intuitions. Just go with it. Right on.

As it turns out, I think that strep throat intuition was meant to launch off a bit on the subject of intuition, which I believe my friend is exploring quite a bit as of late. So there really was a purpose in saying what I got and I'm glad it just flowed out of my mouth.

Motto as of late: Don't hold back.


I think it helps a lot of people to identify their intuitive style. By focusing on one's strength, one can better allow their intuition. That's one of my specializations in working with people, I 'just know' people's style and can suggest techniques best matched to one's style.

• Clairvoyance: Clear seeing. Seeing in the minds eye is a lot like seeing a memory or imagining a vision or picture, though sometimes it is stronger like a presence right there. (Do you tend to learn visually?)
• Clairaudience: Clear hearing. Hearing in the mind's ear is a lot like remembering a sound, though sometimes it is a lot stronger like I turn around. (Do you tend to learn by listening?)
• Clairsentience: Clear sensing. This is really feeling vibes in your body. (Do you tend to learn by doing or get strong sensations in your body?)
• Claircognizance: Clear knowing. 'I just know' is so close to a crystal clear thought, but it comes more from the belly than the mind, though can be hard to tell. It does have a ring, ping and clearness to it. A purity. Not so thick or dense as many thoughts. I work with a lot of claircognizant people to develop because it is a profound way of knowing but probably one of the hardest to trust. (Do you tend to get strong gut feelings without knowing why?)

With all that said...I've had psychic smells, too...don't feel you need to put yourself in one of these labels...describe it in your own words. And just like learning, most people have multiple styles that work, but stronger ones. What ways do you get intuitions?

UPDATE: just came across this:
Clairaliance: clear smelling (a favorite of spirits for connecting, mediumship)
Clairambience: clear tasting
makes sense that someone had a name for it.... :)

i just know

I woke up extra early in the morning to let the dog out. Unusual. He doesn’t usually wake early. On the way back up, I saw my boyfriend's phone sitting charging. For some reason, I knew he would need the phone so brought it back upstairs with me and put it by him. Sure enough, it rang out of character at 6:00 am for an unusual problem at work.

He asked me why I brought him the phone. I just said, “I don’t know. Just because. Why not. I just knew it.”

He was a bit perplexed, even a bit annoyed because I didn’t really explain it. I didn't mean to not explain it. It’s hard to understand ‘how do you just know.’ You just do. It’s just there. The thought captures my attention and I just notice it and follow the thought. I used to ignore it. Now I follow it. Much more fun now. I pick up the phone before it rings all the time. I wonder what else I can start noticing.