Part 3 All I Want For Xmas: Name Your Cards, Ask What They Mean

It’s another winter’s night and you’re in for the evening. As sunset dips and night falls, a drizzle wets the windowpane and fogs the view. You light a candle, nestle into your easy chair while an aromatic hot chocolate brews in your cup.

Recipe for Hot Chocolate on a Cold Winter’s Night:

Take your time making this brew. It’s worth every moment. Once you taste this hot chocolate you’ll be spoiled for life.

Ingredients:  Makes two  mugs

250 grams milk

250 g cream

100 g chocolate tablets (cacao)

1 vanilla bean (fresh)

Spices optional: cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla essence

Thermometer, saucepan, whisk, spatula, knife, spoon, ladle, mugs

Instructions:

Slice open the vanilla bean, use a spoon to scrape the beans from the pod.

Pour milk into a saucepan and heat, whisk while adding the vanilla beans

and/or spices to the milk.

Keep whisking and add the cream.

Whisk at a high heat and bring liquid to a boil at 9°c.

Reduce heat to 5°c and add the chocolate tablets, mixing gently while the milk thickens.

Reduce heat to 2°c, continue to stir with a spatula while checking the thickness.

Allow to boil once more then remove from heat, and turn off the burner.

Preheat mugs in the oven, carefully remove with mitts, and ladle the hot

chocolate into mugs and serve.

Father Christmas

Mother Christmas

Your SoulCollage® portfolio on your lap, untie the ribbon, flip open the album and find the Mother Christmas and Father Christmas cards.

As you gaze at Mother Christmas or at his image, become aware of your breath. Let the breath lead you into a relaxed and contemplative state.

Take a few sips of your warm brew to help.

As you ease into this restful state and when you feel ready, ask your card what it has to offer you, what message it wants to share.

Consider how the Mother Force and/or Father Force are part of you. Acknowledge how the image represents your knowing. Make the connection and understand that the answer is coming from your higher self; the self who knows what you need.

Allow yourself time. Rely on patience.

Now say the phrase: I am the One who… and proceed to state the card’s name and what it has to tell you. As you speak write the statements in your journal, tape record or assign someone the task of being the scribe: the person who writes down what’s being said. Here are two examples from my personal Christmas deck, both named and what each has to offer:

Constellation

Constellation: I am the pattern and the enforcer of impermanence; the energy that dies yet reflourishes. Who is mysterious yet apparent. Understand the lies you tell yourself have weakened your foundation. Embrace my way of life, and procede to walk over water.

My Nonconforming Joker

My Non-Conforming Joker: I am the One who defies convention. I am the One who plays to my own tune. I am the One daring enough to be called a Fool because of my sincerity to innocence. I am the One who lives by the motto : I do what I do. It doesn’t bother me, so why should it bother you.

Take your time and do the same with the rest of your deck. Ask each card for its name and what it has to offer you.

To be continued… Part 4, Doing A Reading

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