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The bot asks the questions itself and does not let you change their order. If you work with the printed deck or want to work without the bot, answer the questions below. They are universal and suit any MAC (metaphorical associative cards). Open the space before you start and close it afterwards: how that is done.
Seven questions to ask a card
Choose a card — at random, or the one you keep looking away from — and answer honestly in your notebook. In writing: the difference between “thought it” and “wrote it down” matters here.
- What strikes you first in this portrait? What is the main emotion you read in it? What does the state word on the card mean for you as you are today?
- How is this character like you? Which features, what in the gaze or which details around answer something in your present state?
- What in this image do you flatly dislike — what repels or frightens you? This is usually where what you suppress in yourself is hiding.
- How did the character end up here? Is it outside circumstance — or are they going down there for something important?
- What unspoken pain, what fear or secret wish are they hiding from the outside world? What are they silent about?
- If the character could speak, what main advice or what warning would they give you? Where is their hidden strength?
- What is the smallest action in real life that would help the character through this transformation and out of the funnel?
The seventh question is the most important and the most uncomfortable. The answer must be small enough to do today.
Integrating the resource
So that what you found does not stay a pretty thought, you live it through the body. Do this straight after finishing the ending of the story.
- A bodily anchor. Find the place where there was tightness at the start of the practice: a lump in the throat, weight in the chest, cold in the stomach. Put your right palm there. Breathe in deeply, sending attention and the warmth of your hand into that exact point. Stay until something under your hand changes.
- The integrating gesture. Gently cross your arms over your chest, hands on your shoulders, and tap yourself a few times, alternating left and right. That alternating movement helps the new experience settle.
- The words. Staying in that embrace, say: “I see you. You are me. You are no longer alone in your pain — now I will always be beside you. Your strength belongs to me, in the present and the future. I take charge, I take the energy back from the past and release you from it. From now on you may be visible in my life. We are together.”
In place of the word “energy”, put what you found in this card: sensitivity, fire, steadiness, scale.
How often
One card per practice, no more than once a day. Between practices it helps to reread what you wrote: some of the recognitions arrive not during the work but a day or two later, in an ordinary place and for an ordinary reason.
If the practice leaves you with more questions than answers, that is a normal result — and a good reason to talk to the author of the deck. What to do if too much came up is in the safety rules.