Cartomantic prompts: Focus (past cycle)
For a number of years now I’ve run cycles of 7-11-22 cartomantic prompts posted consecutively each day in a cycle on a wordpress platform. People would sign up in droves, and for a number of days be ready to be inspired by fascinating questions.
Read about the premise for Focus below.
The general premise for the prompt cycles is the following: Much of what you do with cards is reflect on the questions that you bring to the table. But think of it this way: There are questions, and then there are the better questions: questions that you are conscious of, and questions that you are not conscious of.
Often the questions you are not so conscious of creep into what you see in the cards: You formulate a question to the cards, and then there’s the question that stares you in the face; the question that the cards formulate on your behalf; the question that you dodge. The cards have a nasty, but I would also say, tender and loving way of making things plain for you.
The cartomantic prompts are mini-lessons in the art of asking questions as you see them arise from the cards themselves. How do you deal with the questions that the cards formulate for you?
Here you can order a past cycle at a reduced price. You can choose between the following topics: ‘Beauty,’ 'Focus,' 'Do your Best,' 'Everyday is a good day’, ‘Cards and Coffee,’ ‘The House,' 'Coping', and 'Voice'. Each cycle uses an array of interesting cards and magic rituals, from historical tarots to art tarots, from tasseomancy to protection spells.
For some examples of what questions the cartomantic prompts invite me to consider, see a prompt from the Every Day is a Good Day series, read my Taroflexions essay, This will Make you Think, or watch my video, Releasing Freedom.
Focus
Related to how I do what I do, the stuff that requires focus and discipline, doing my best and beyond because the alternative called 'shallow thinking' is not something I dig, I can say that focus follows action.
If people have trouble focussing, it's because they choose focus first as an idea, and only then think about the action. If focus comes first, without the action, it's the result of distraction, the same kind that prevents you from finishing what you start. Focus without a concretely chosen action is a suspended focus that lacks the dynamics of the full stop. You want your focus to not negotiate with the 'period'. Period.
This series of prompts will take point of departure in the idea that sustained focus enables you to simplify things, and from there to get you to declare: 'I've done it.' In my 'classroom' we avoid giving ourselves 'permission' to be slacking. Here we are vigilant and strong, none of that 'vulnerable story' shit.
Since we're with the topic of focus, I will also offer a focus point for a particular element in the cards that you don't normally think of, 'read like the Devil' style.
Let's have some conscious fun, starting with a stabbing at what we think we know, including yesterday's 'inspiration' that's not even inspiring or going anywhere.