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The booklet of the Shadowscapes provides instructions for a meditation: to pick one card, admire it, to "Look at it for so long that you can see it with your eyes closed. Then close your eyes, still seeing the card. Step into the image. Imagine how it feels, how it smells, how it sounds. Experience it. If you're feeling adventurous, interact with a figure in the image."
I read of a similar meditation in The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols Their Meanings by David Fontana, supplied with images from the Marseilles tarot. I had some powerful results with that-- but, in my opinion, the Shadowscapes tarot is perfect for this. Quite a few cards have such a skillful use of perspective that with just a glance I feel like I could fall right into it or get sucked in. My questions for those who do these meditations...
How do you choose which card to walk into? Is it a sequence, to go through them all? Intuition? Do you ever do this meditation twice for the same card?
How active is your deliberate imagination during this meditation? Do you let the events and the words of the characters surprise you? Or do you plan it out beforehand, giving you complete control of whatever happens?
Would you like to share any experiences?
I read of a similar meditation in The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols Their Meanings by David Fontana, supplied with images from the Marseilles tarot. I had some powerful results with that-- but, in my opinion, the Shadowscapes tarot is perfect for this. Quite a few cards have such a skillful use of perspective that with just a glance I feel like I could fall right into it or get sucked in. My questions for those who do these meditations...
How do you choose which card to walk into? Is it a sequence, to go through them all? Intuition? Do you ever do this meditation twice for the same card?
How active is your deliberate imagination during this meditation? Do you let the events and the words of the characters surprise you? Or do you plan it out beforehand, giving you complete control of whatever happens?
Would you like to share any experiences?