Metaphorical associative card decks are a type of tool that can be used for brainstorming, creative thinking, and problem-solving. These decks typically contain a set of cards, each with a metaphorical image or phrase on it that can be used as a starting point for generating ideas or making connections.
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Metaphorical associative card decks are a type of tool that can be used for brainstorming, creative thinking, and problem-solving. These decks typically contain a set of cards, each with a metaphorical image or phrase on it that can be used as a starting point for generating ideas or making connections.

Awake In The Darkness

DOCUMENTARY AS A DECK

Illuminated by the documentary Awake In The Darkness, 103 beautifully, uniquely illustrated quotations cards, surfacing the deepest insights from Aubrey Marcus's fractal flowering pineal gland, kindling infinite light into the rich luxurious darkness.

The phrase "awake in darkness" can have different interpretations depending on the context.

Literally, "awake in darkness" could refer to being conscious and alert during the nighttime hours when it is typically dark outside.

Metaphorically, "awake in darkness" could refer to being mentally or emotionally aware during a difficult or challenging time. It could mean having a clear understanding of a situation that is shrouded in uncertainty or confusion.

From a spiritual or philosophical perspective, "awake in darkness" could refer to being conscious or mindful of one's inner experience even when surrounded by darkness or negativity. It could mean having a deep sense of inner peace or enlightenment despite external circumstances.

This deck will get you thinking

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Calm, Clear, Connected

55 TOOLS TO HEAL THE FEMININE SOUL

If you're ready to say NO to stress, burnout, and overwhelm, and say YES to your birthright -- calm clarity, connection to self & to your Divine inner knowing, then you'll enjoy this 55-card tool deck, which features my custom & inclusive artwork reflecting the diversity of feminine beauty.

Cards for Clear Thinking

CARDS TO MAKE YOU THINK. DEEPEN YOUR THINKING AND YOUR CONVERSATIONS

Think for yourself and as yourself with a versatile deck of 53 cards that will prompt reflection, make you think and provide a framework that will enrich conversations with others, at work and in life.

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Discovering Humanity Through Mirrors Windows and Doors

INCLUSIVE CONVERSATIONS TO BUILD CULTURAL AWARENESS

Inclusion Cards are designed to guide individuals and teams to rethink their everyday interactions with colleagues and clients. Imagine what inclusion looks and feels like in your organization: cohesion, innovation, engagement, productivity.

Each of the 54 cards includes a vibrant illustration on one side and on the flip side, workplace scenarios and personas, and thought-provoking questions. The third side of the cards offers intercultural microlessons that provide cultural context and insights into the interaction. Cards are intended to prompt reflection, new perspectives, conversations, and writing about a range of ways to interpret interactions, communicate effectively, and act appropriately to achieve a shared mission.

Creator:

Laura E. Lomax

Epic Leadership Journeys: Transformational Travel Wisdom

EXPERIENCE NEW WAYS OF SEEING, THINKING, FEELING, SENSING, KNOWING AND ACTING.

Looking through the lens of diverse, unfamiliar and unknown places, cultures and people sparks your sense of wonder, curiosity and imagination. What you see, feel, realize and understand shifts the way you perceive your leadership challenges and solutions. This shift helps you navigate the unruly noise, confusion and chaos of unprecedented - Epic - change.
Each travel image opens your eyes to different points of view and multi-faceted ways of experiencing clarity, resilience, and inspired action.

What you see, feel, think and sense ignites sudden unexpected insights, innovative ideas, and viable next steps.

This assists you in generating creative solutions, remedying critical situations, and resolving the unresolved.

The Transformational Travel Wisdom you glean from each photo illuminates an Essence of Epic Leadership — a compelling, effective and regenerative way to move with grace and ease into the liberating expansion of who you are as an Epic Leader.

Welcome to the Epic Leadership Journeys: Transformational Travel Wisdom experience.

Because…
“We can’t navigate epic change, its challenges, and the unknown territory ahead unless ‘our come from’ is Epic.” ~Sylvia Warren, MBA | Epic Leadership Coach

And…
As Albert Einstein said: “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world.”

Feminine Magic Oracle Deck

ACTIVATING THE MAGIC OF THE NEW EARTH IN YOUR LIFE!

I created this deck to remind myself to live in the New Earth reality every day. I hope it will inspire you to reach for the magic and wonder of the New Earth reality in your daily life.

Creator:

Bernadette Wulf

Connect with the wisdom of the I Ching by taking a journey through images of multidimensional portals and poetic messages from empowered feminine archetypes. Infinite Flow Oracle cards offer a fun and easy way to expand your awareness using the colorful world of your imagination in a practical, healing, and uplifting way. Feel the words informing your mind, play with the shapes and colors to receive your inner guidance, and notice uplifting vibrational changes in your life.

Inner Wonder Cards

WATERCOLORS AND MINI CONTEMPLATIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS TO CENTER YOURSELF IN SACREDPLAY

Original Watercolors and contemplations by Lisa Louise Adams

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Invitations from Nature

50 WAYS TO BE PRESENT IN NATURE, INSPIRED BY THE PRACTICE OF FOREST THERAPY

Nature is always offering us invitations to participate with her attentively in the present moment. By being present with nature, including our own nature, we are repairing and nourishing the relationships we have with ourselves and others, the more-than-human world, and our sense of time.

This card deck is a collection of 50 prompts to remind you of the simple but significant ways you can return to nature through your senses. Inspired by forest therapy, which are gentle walks in nature, these cards can help you slow down and engage with the world in an embodied and sensory way. Originating from the Japanese practice of 'forest bathing' (Shinrin Yoku), forest therapy recognizes that experiences in nature are essential to the well-being of the human mind, body, and soul.

Landscape Archetypes Intuition Cards

TAP INTO THE WISDOM OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS THROUGH THE ARCHETYPAL LANGUAGE OF LANDSCAPES

The most primal interconnection within human consciousness is the reciprocal relationship between the inner landscapes of our psyche and the outer landscapes of our planet. Our Life Journey, the sojourn through these landscapes, is our temporary stay on Earth as human beings, but also our timeless engagement with the truth of our divinity. Each piece of landscape we encounter teaches us a lesson about this duality. Landscape archetypes exist at the threshold of this interconnection.

Use this deck of cards to help navigate your personal journey and strengthen your intuitive knowing of our collective sacred journey here together.

Note: This digital deck comes with four additional "landscape professional" cards and has a different back art than the physical deck.

Palette Painting Mini Cards with Daily Affirmations

PULL A CARD EACH DAY FOR INSPIRATION!

This deck of 52 Mini Cards are made from the artwork of Heather Brewster. They were used palettes, recycled into little paintings - a signature style for Heather. Each painting has a deeper meaning as per the title, perfect for daily inspiration.

Creator:

Heather Brewster

Portals of Presence

FACES DRAWN FROM THE SUBTLE REALMS

Enter a deeper relationship with yourself and the world through the universal language of the human face. The images in this deck were selected from 20 years of work created in the presence of ancient trees, mountains, standing stones, temples, cathedrals, and human wisdom carriers from many lineages. Each face radiates a unique presence. Think of them as allies, nature spirits, beloveds, or visitors from subtle realms. Gaze deeply and explore your relationship with these beings.
Rather than offer written meanings, the guidebook supports you to cultivate your own experience of the cards. It offers ways to select them, lay them out, and enliven them through creative processes. It also includes digital access to a guided meditation with original music. Use it to hold sacred space while you work with the cards. Portals of Presence can be combined with SoulCards 1&2, each deck bringing a new dimension to the other.

“A gift to everyone who will look into infinity through these eyes.” Vicki Robin

“The deck has sacred assignments, for they are instruments of attunement that bridge us to sacred relationships and co-creation with the most intimate forces in life.” Orion Foxwood

“Wonderful windows into the worlds beyond…where wisdom can be sought and exchanged.” Caitlin Matthews
MORE INFORMATION FROM THE GUIDEBOOK

Approach this deck with an open mind and heart. It is not an oracle in the usual sense. It is an invitation to develop relationship with the great community of life. May these faces, drawn from the heart of the world, open portals to the subtle worlds, reminding us of the wholeness within which we reside. Gaze at these beings and allow your experience to unfold.

The Vision for this Deck

The 72 faces in Portals of Presence were selected from among thousands of Touch Drawings I created over twenty years. Each face was drawn in a particular setting: beneath an ancient tree, on a mountaintop, in a sacred temple, before a standing stone, or in the presence of a human soul. As I sat with each of them, I used the process of Touch Drawing https://touchdrawing.com to translate my subtle impressions into the form of a human face. Each face radiates a presence that is both unique and universal.
The face is the most familiar visual pattern in the human psyche. From the moment we are born, we center our world on the faces of the people close to us. As we gaze into their eyes, they gaze back. In mirroring each other, we communicate on a level beyond words. There is mutuality in this meeting.
Can we use this primal visual language to open portals of communion with our own deeper psyche and realms of consciousness beyond our familiar human world? A face in a printed photograph is only ink on paper. Yet we can attune to the presence of the person represented through focusing on the image. The faces on these cards can be used as focal points through which to attune to a more expansive range of consciousness. Think of them as personifications of elemental life forms, ancient wisdom lineages, spiritual allies, or visitors from unfamiliar realms.
There is a mystery that fuels this deck; a sense that unseen beings want to engage with it as a point of contact with our human-centric world. In this time of accelerating challenge on the planet, the possibility of expanding our range of connection can offer hope that we do not have to face our challenges alone. Rather, we are in this predicament because we have lost our sense of communion with life. Use this deck to expand your awareness to your deeper self, subtle realms beyond the familiar human world, and the sentience in all life.

A Larger Context

I have been involved with the teachings of David Spangler for many years. He offers a spiritual perspective that is deeply affirming of the experience of being human. His articulation of the sacredness of life, which he calls Incarnational Spirituality, encompasses an ecological understanding of the subtle realms. This worldview has provided a larger context in which I hold my life and work. Here are some of his thoughts. I hope it will enhance your understanding of this deck:
What is important in working with the subtle dimensions and with subtle allies is a deepening of your sense of being part of a living universe. Although contact and collaboration with the subtle worlds serve an important purpose — and increasingly so as we move into the future —what is equally important is that you re-envision and re-experience who you are.
You are a citizen, a participant, in a community of life, unfolding and thriving in a cosmos that is itself alive. One of the vital lessons arising from taking the time and attention to seek communion with the subtle life around you, is that you can discover yourself deepening into this community. And not only deepening, but being welcomed home. You are discovering the family you are part of, and with it, discovering the power you possess arising from this relationship.
One of the unfortunate consequences of life in our incarnate realms is that conditions of separation and alienation have developed. This is certainly true within the human experience, but it extends into the experiences of other forms of life as well. Barriers come into being that were never intended, but which are the result when different members of the same family forget how to talk to each other. To ignore the life around you or assume, because you cannot see it, that it does not exist is to confine yourselves to an echo chamber in which you only talk with others of your kind. Your world shrinks and you shrink with it.
The world you live in is expansive, and you are expansive as part of it. Achieving communication with a specific subtle being is less important than achieving communion with the community of all life, physical and non-physical, that embraces and holds you. This is a deepening and an opening of the heart to the life in the world around you. Just a simple acknowledgement, with love, of this life is enough to start the key turning that unlocks the door to the wider universe.
—David Spangler, Lorian.org

Sources

The faces in this deck were selected from among many drawings created in many settings. I do not identify the situation in which Portal drawings were created. This allows the user to experience them directly, without mental associations. But to give a sense of the depth and breadth of this body of work, below is a list of places, events and people whose spirit inspired one or more of the faces in this deck. Over time I will offer stories behind some of the faces in this deck as blog posts. Find these plus more images at touchdrawing.com.

Places

Isle of Iona, Rosslyn Chapel and the Callenais Stones in Scotland, Chartres Cathedral in France, Mayan Temples Tikal & Uaxactun in Guatemala, Llanfeugan Yew Circle in Wales, Avebury Stone Circle in England, Singing Hill in California, La Push Quilute Reservation, Whidbey Institute, Mount Pilchuck, Skalitude, and my island studio in the Pacific Northwest US.

Events

Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Global Earth Repair, Fairy and Human Relations Congress, Women of Wisdom, Seeds of Compassion, Dawn of Interspirituality, Findhorn Co-Creative Spirituality, Engaging the Other, Whidbey Winter Gathering, Gather the Women, New Stories, One the Event, Systemic Constellations Conference, Wisdom University’s Wisdom and Civilization, Mevlevi Whirling Dervish Sema, Indigenous Grandmothers Gathering, and Lorian Association classes.

Humans

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, David Spangler, James Twyman, Jim Garrison, Junko Kurata (Japan), Sister Lucy Kurien (India), Kai Fleming-Snow, Elias Lonsdale, Leland Kaiser, Mayan elder Tata Pedro Cruz Garcia (Guatemala), Lomilomi Kahuna Aunty Angeline Locey (Kauai), Maori Chieftess Dell Wihongi (New Zealand), Shaman Don Alverto Taxo (Equador), Abuela Margarita (Mexico), and the spirit of George Floyd & BLM.

SoulCards 1

POWERFUL IMAGES FOR CREATIVITY AND INSIGHT

SoulCards help you to access wisdom, intuition and creativity. When a card is chosen in association with a question, the image often evokes immediate insight.

The guidebook supports you to use your creative resources to delve into the images through journal writing, storytelling, visualization, movement, dream incubation and other expressive modalities.

When used in relationships and groups, SoulCards catalyze refreshing responses and authentic communication.

Children are fascinated with the images, and often verbalize with unexpected wisdom and maturity.

The uses of SoulCards are endless!

"Mysterious and revealing…these images help us to understand our own souls."
Isabel Allende Author, The House of the Spirits

Through her years of Touch Drawing, Deborah has tapped into a universal level of the human soul. Out of thousands of drawings, she selected 60 to share with the world in the best selling SoulCards 1&2. Each deck is complete unto itself. Used together, they offer a richer range of imagery.

SoulCards 2

POWERFUL IMAGES FOR CREATIVITY AND INSIGHT

SoulCards help you to access wisdom, intuition and creativity. When a card is chosen in association with a question, the image often evokes immediate insight. The guidebook supports you to use your creative resources to delve into the images through journal writing, storytelling, visualization, movement, dream incubation and other expressive modalities. When used in relationships and groups, SoulCards catalyze refreshing responses and authentic communication. Children are fascinated with the images, and often verbalize with unexpected wisdom and maturity. The uses of SoulCards are endless!

"Mysterious and revealing…these images help us to understand our own souls."
Isabel Allende Author, The House of the Spirits

Through her years of Touch Drawing, Deborah has tapped into a universal level of the human soul. Out of thousands of drawings, she selected 60 to share with the world in the best selling SoulCards 1&2. Each deck is complete unto itself. Used together, they offer a richer range of imagery.

Strange Grace Journey Deck

FOR HEALING, CLARITY AND ATTUNEMENT

The Strange Grace Deck is a portal to deepening embodiment and relaxing into Being. The cards are intended to be kind and insightful companions on your journey, connecting you more fully with your own creativity, intuition and archetypal wisdom.

In this time of great change, may this deck inspire in you more compassion for and acceptance of yourself and other beings, as well as give you a deeper sense of communion with the world around you.

This deck includes the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot, honoring this rich tradition, and 46 healing journey cards. Created by Jennifer Mayol, the artwork and writings emerged from her own alchemical process of embodiment, healing and transformation.

Creator:

Jennifer Mayol

Stretch Your Mind

OPEN YOUR MIND : OPEN THE DOOR

This deck comprises 30 images and 30 memes to open your mind to a new way of being and doing. It is accompanied and augmented by a guided meditation that contains all 30 memes.

Creator:

Siri S Opli

Supposing

REFLECTIONS FOR ACCESSING YOUR WISE INNER ARTIST

Supposing you believed that your best advice comes from within? Not just advice but creative courage for/from your wise Inner Artist. You’ve likely seen rigid art manikins posing on shelves. Have you ever seen this scarf-clad Emotikin living life fully? It's the Inner Artist personified. Go with us and within to explore magical inner landscapes from seashore to mountains and regular places too. These genuine photographs will transport you into soulful encounters with nature and serendipity. A few questions posed on each card point you toward imagining new possibilities. You also get an -ing word for living into the answers, as Rilke once told a young poet. Diving deep into the heart of your creativity has never been so curiously delightful!

** When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image. **
~MEISTER ECKHART

Thanks for playing! Be sure to check out the Guidebook, swiping to see all 7 pages, including the origin Story of a Life Before Fully Living and Care of Your Own Emotikin.

ABOUT THE MAKER

Shelly L. Francis is an author and creativity coach, speaker, and metaphortographer, who created her first Emotikin in 2003. She’d forgotten how to play and feel carefree, but the Emotikin brought her back to life. She began enjoying photoshoots and blogging for soul sustenance and fun, and is now happy to share the Supposing cards in print and digitally on the Deckible app. Author of The Courage Way and Eleven Brave Pinecones, She is publisher at Creative Courage Press in Colorado, where she is collaborating with other authors to create more courage for the complexity of being human. Visit CreativeCouragePress.com and Emotikin.com.

This card deck is by David Spangler with illustrations by Deva Berg. It has 27 cards, 16 of which symbolically represent the process by which the Soul takes incarnation and the generic stages by which many things take form. These core Stage Cards may be used as visual aids to assist in your incarnational work, inner attunements and spiritual practice. The 11 other cards represent Principles and Conditions. When these are added to the Stage cards, an oracular deck is created which can give a snapshot of your incarnation. Tapping into a source of intuition and inner perception in this way may help you in the manifestation of projects. The cards are accompanied by a 136 page downloadable PDF manual of instructions and exercises.

Creator:

David Spangler