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Consider "The Question."

Pose an open-ended question in the box below.
Example No. 1: "Give me insight into my relationship with Jill?"
Example No. 2: "What is impeding me from healing this flu?"
Example No. 3: "How can I best..?" "What is the most productive focus...?")

 



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Divination is the art of using tools to gain insight into the patterns and movements of meaning in life.
It is a form of dialogue between you and your Wiser Self

With traditional divination tools, such as the tarot, each card or object has a pre-assigned meaning, based on a system of interpretation or belief. In this creative Divination tool, you assign or determine the meaning of each image or object, using your intuition and your deductive reasoning.

By posing questions, selecting images, and interpreting them, you can activate your "inner mind" (or subconscious mind) to dialogue with your "conscious mind".

These tools offer you a chance to give yourself insights, awaken inner knowledge or wisdom, and develop a greater ease in using images to express your Wiser Self perceptions.

Instructions for Use

  1. Pose a question about something you would like some insight into. Write your question in the box provided, then select the "submit question" button.

We recommend that you read the section on Divination, particularly the subsection titled "Asking Good Questions", in Ellen’s free ebook, Seeking Guidance Within.  It will give you a framework for getting the most out of creative, Do-it-yourself Divination Tool.

2. Next, images will appear in each image box, corresponding to the position in the layout. Study these images. What is your first impression? What does it say literally (for example a picture of a bear might make you think: "I can't bear this")? What does it say symbolically? What are your personal associations with what you see (or think you see)? What is the energy or "feel" of the picture and how does that relate to the situation you are asking about?  

Click on "interpretation tips" to get a fuller list of questions that will help you in your interpretations.

  1. Images will appear in each image box, corresponding to the position in the layout. Study these images. What is your first impression? What does it say literally (for example a picture of a bear might make you think: "I can't bear this")? What does it say symbolically? What are your personal associations with what you see (or think you see)? What is the energy or "feel" of the picture and how does that relate to the situation you are asking about? Click on "interpretation tips" to get a fuller list of questions that will help you in your interpretations.
  2. Write your impressions next to each image in the fill-in box provided. Let yourself note your associations and thoughts, without judgement, in a stream of consciousness. Be playful. Write quickly if you can. Let your mind stay loose. Let yourself explore responses to the pictures- as they relate to your question- without trying to comprehend the meaning. After you have noted all you can think of for the first image, proceed to the next, until all are finished.
  3. Write your impressions next to each image in the fill-in box provided. Let yourself note your associations and thoughts, without judgement, in a stream of consciousness. Be playful. Write quickly if you can. Let your mind stay loose. Let yourself explore responses to the pictures- as they relate to your question- without trying to comprehend the meaning. After you have noted all you can think of for the first image, proceed to the next, until all are finished.
  4. Review the question, and the images, then re-read what you have come up with. At the Summary session, write down what advice, insight or guidance you feel you have given yourself in response to your question. How do the 3 or 4 images relate to each other? Is there a "progression" in the themes or energy of the images? What strikes you intuitively and logically as being valuable or valid in the insights and reactions you have generated?
  5. Click on "review divination." Your ideas, summary, and images will all be pulled together on a summary sheet which you can print or save as a pdf, using your browser's “print” button.
  6. Bookmark this site to return for another session. Sometimes you plant a seed in the first effort that takes root in your imagination over time. So a reading you do for yourself today can yield richer insight as you sit with it a while, or as you do progressive readings over time.