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Persistence – Commitment If This Card Chooses You – Do you dream of rings? Tokens? Trophies? Collecting and collectibles? Antiques, graduations, pawn shops, art museums? You are longing for a “commitment ceremony” or symbol to consolidate a desire. But desire is nothing without will. Can you ignite? You are a creature of Now, a chip…

Passion – Courage If This Card Chooses You – Do you dream of fantastic feats? Circuses? Meritocratic competitions? Sports? Standing up in front of the class? Your psyche is mustering passion, the fuel for courage. Passion propels us forward when it would be safer to hang back. Why? Passion Makes You a Warrior – From…

Nurturing – Growth If This Card Chooses You – Dreaming about pets? Little wild animals? Gardening? These are Nurturing dreams. Just like a child with a doll you long to care to another being and help it achieve its fullest potential. You long to protect and succor and at the same time, protect, succor and…

Meditation – Mindfulness If This Card Chooses You – We may physically live in the Now, but it is our greatest good fortune as a species that we can enrich our present with powerful visions of past and future. In our dreams we expand this to universal pasts and futures. Now is the lens where…

Chrysalis – Potential If This Card Chooses You – Dreams tell us what COULD be. In the multiverse, physicists assure, everything is happening somewhere. Potential alerts us to the possibilities. The stick-colored, dead-seeming chrysalis contains nature’s most beautiful sprite, the butterfly. The invisibility of potential discourages predators by daylight, but at night, the chrysalis opens…

Waterfall – Change if This Card Chooses You – You Resist Stagnancy. Your conscious mind seeks stasis, which it interprets as “security”, but your subconscious rebels. It demands change! In the meanwhile, your unconscious IS changing, evolving fiercely along with the drama playing out in the entropical human race. Tune in! Consult Your Dreams –…

. The Bridge – Discipline If This Card Chooses You – You’ve fatally confused discipline with punishment and now feel too debilitated to escape. Uh oh! From our subconscious we summon a rescuer. That rescuer is OUR ESSENTIAL SELF. In dreams sometimes it’s a hero, a fictional or historic figure or a spirit animal. Read…

Youth – Resilience If This Card Chooses You – Dreaming a lot about your childhood? Your conscious mind is “mining” your subconscious for guides to the way you feel now. Did you pick the wrong path, and if so, why? Can you summon the effort to go back and fix it? “You’re as young as…

Symbiosis – Interdependence If This Card Chooses You – You’re running scared. Know you can’t make it on your own. We are social beings, we need other people, all those characters who people your dreams. We are DEPENDENT on them. This is such a tough thing to face that there are whole categories of people…

Flight – Ingenuity If This Card Chooses You – Do you contemplate Escape? Everyone has flying dreams! In those moments, we experience absolute power and potential, which is exactly what these dreams are about. We often wake from them with a feeling of disappointed sadness: “You mean I’m earth-bound? I want to go back!’ Warriors…