While I used the tips from last week’s blog entries, I was reminded of a similar exercise that is in Mary K. Greer’s 21 Ways to Read A Tarot Card. In section 15, she encourages dialog, saying, “When reading for yourself, record your dialogs in your journal. This way something that at first seemed silly, nonsensical, or irrelevant can be reviewed later, so its wisdom can become clear.” I always like to write out the dialogues and am always glad, later, that I did.
The way Mary explains the exercise is: “Take your chosen card and dialog with the figures or objects on the card. Ask the figures what they’re doing, what they want, and what they have to teach you. You could also