ARCHETYPE CARDS

Exploring The Wild Unknown Inside

Discovering your inner truth

A new year and a wonderful new deck of cards to help explore my inner world and intuition.

I discovered The Wild Unknown Pocket Animal Spirit Deck & Guidebook by Kim Krans while shopping for a Christmas gift for my daughter. I also bought them for myself. I love these cards, but feel they were but a stepping stone to this deck.

If I hadn’t discovered the animal cards. I would not have found these archetype cards.

I first learned about archetypes in the 1990s. That is another story I will write about soon. Working with archetypes have provided many personal insights.

What I love about these cards is that there isn’t just one way to use them. It’s all about following your inner guidance and learning how they best serve you.

No one else can give you all the answers you seek. What these cards are providing you with is the opportunity to find answers yourself. Answers that lie within you.

These cards are tools to help you listen to your own inner voice, intuition, inner guidance. To explore the language of symbols and archetypes in finding answers to your questions.

It’s like therapy. Or dream work …. while awake.

It’s delving into the unconscious. Following clues. Discovering synchronicity.

In the booklet Kim describes how she created this deck and guidebook. In a dream she saw a mountain and heard the phrase: I am the mountain and I am calling you.

She lost her fourth pregnancy. Left her marriage of twelve years. Shut down her company and moved.

If this doesn’t quite make sense it’s because we’ve already entered the realm of archetypal story where things are both up and down, where the mountain is both inside and out. Where a falling is the beginning of a rising; where the poetics reign over logistics. If you don’t mind, just keep descending with me. I promise it will lead us to higher ground, where we have a better view. The archetypes are already doing their work, in their meandering, dreamlike way.

There is much more to her journey of creating these cards. I have only scratched the surface. Given you a taste.

In the booklet she also describes the history of archetypes. Jung, the first to develop and integrate the concept of archetypes in the world of psychology and healing.

First he called them PRIMORDIAL IMAGES, a term that suggests they come from the beginning beyond the beginning.

The name itself implies that these energies have been swirling since the beginning of time and are inherent in our very existence.

Archetypes are universal. They appear in every culture. They are timeless. They contain both dark and light. The many sides of self, both conscious and unconscious.

In the guidebook, the author describes several ways to use the cards.

I started with looking at the images and picking five cards I was most drawn to. Then I wrote down my thoughts. Researched the archetypes online. Read the author’s description and explored what came up.

These cards are great to use as a writing prompt. They connect me to a memory, something still brewing inside that needs to come out.

I will share more about my exploration with these cards in future posts.

If you’re looking for a deck of cards to help you explore your inner thoughts and feelings, I recommend you check out more about archetypes.

These cards are a great way to start.