Cartomantic prompts: Do your best (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 Do your best 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.
Do the best you can
I like doing my best. I don’t like it when others tell me to relax, because the world is such as it is and I’m perfect already. I don’t like opinions that justify my entitlements to not do my best. I don’t buy any shallow thinking whatsoever. Let’s see how I think of it through a series of questions:
Aptitude and destination
This series of 11 consecutive prompts will explore this area of ability as it relates to destination.
You can also think of it as letting the cards inspire you to ask yourself this question: Where am I going when I can clearly see that the world is going in a direction that's different than what I have in mind?
This question presupposes a rather tall order, as it assumes that you already have clarity in your identification of trends.
But what if you don't?
How will you be able to do the best you can, if you move in the opposite direction from the world, or you find that you're on a parallel track, off the grid, as they say, or some other similar off-beat situation?
Do the best you can by questioning what direction you take vis-à-vis the world's movement. You can aim for a different destination, but it is useful?
Just think about it
In a previous cycle of prompts I invited you to relax, and accept every day as a good day.
For this series of prompts I want you to sweat, to panic, so that you can be alert to the consequences of not having clarity as to what exactly is happening around you, so that you can do your best in an optimal and beneficial way.