Synchronicity with Cards

You might ask, "How is synchronicity involved in selecting cards for a reading?"

Many people believe that there's no such thing as a coincidence. If that's the case, then just by your intention, "To choose a card which teaches you something about your current experience," then the whole universe becomes involved in fulfilling it.

Henry Ford I is widely known to have said, "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right!" In my way of thinking "believing" something makes it so (if only in my reality). Therefore, believing that I'm choosing a card that will have importance "creates" that outcome: the card will hold meaning and importance for me.

If you try this, a few times, you will quickly find that it works. Now, arguably, it could be your intuition "grasping at straws" to provide a meaningful message based on the card which was arbitrarily chosen. But even if that's the case it's not difficult for me to believe that exactly the right card was chosen which would give your intuition exactly the right clue you need to unravel an aspect of your experience.

This happens all the time when I do readings with my Shaman Stones. I frequently impress people with my "accuracy." But it works just like I explained above: that "thing that is more than coincidence," gives me clues that my intuition can decode and "voila" I tell a stranger something profoundly meaningful to them!

You might have a set of Tarot or other "oracle" cards, but have been unable to understand the book that came with them.

Any system for divination is basically a way to access symbols, and decode them. You can use a book or not, but if you want to "make the cards work," you have to somehow find a way to decode the symbolic meanings. Many people do this by pure intuition. They just "turn over a few cards and say the first few things that come to mind. (If you try this at home, say the first thing no matter how crazy, and avoid second-guessing yourself). Or read the book and figure-out the system they used for encoding the symbolism.