Cartomantic prompts: Coping (past cycles)
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 Coping below. This was an extended special edition of 23 prompts.
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.
Coping
Let’s talk about coping. How do you do it? When do you do it? Is coping enough?
Many aren't coping with the world situation right now . . .
Do you have alternatives to coping? Do you ever think of coping as draining you of energy?
Get inspired to ask fresh and new questions.
Here’s my theory
You can cope all you want, but in truth, coping is all about energy loss. Coping is about resigning to what you don't want to do. You sigh sadly, you fill yourself with emotions that send you straight to your cabin in the woods where you'd like to write poetry by candlelight. If you're lucky to afford it, that is. . .
You don't want your government’s administration, but you're already trying to cope with it. I see energy loss.
You want the holidays, but you're already anticipating all the shopping you must do that you resist. You would rather be creative and make everything by hand. You're ready to cope with the fact that you don't have time for all that. You will cope with your regrets. I see energy loss in these regret.s
Winter is here and your roof is leaking. You will cope with the bad times until spring comes, or you have more money. I see energy loss in hoping.
You have money and want to burn it on Barbados. Your partner prefers dog sledding in the Arctic. You will cope with not being on the same page. I see energy loss in compromising.
Can you think of alternatives to all the coping you do that drains you of your energy?
How about this formula?
Cutting Coping = Accepting Abundance
Since this topic is complex and varied, I thought of doing something different. Instead of running my standard 11 days of Tarot prompts, I will do a double cycle: 22 days in a row plus 1, a trickster surprise.
One prompt per day teaching you about coping.
You learn about coping through questions you had no idea you could ask.
Not your own questions, consciously formulated, but the ones the cards articulate on your behalf. At random, through digging into your unconscious.