Back in the depths of winter, I was invited to a psychic development circle, in the home of a well known psychic medium. I sat on a huge, comfy sofa with five other people as we were guided into a long meditation where we were invited to meet with our spirit animal guide (mine was inexplicably a panther, I have no conscious connection with this majestic beast) and our spirit guide, who was going to be helping out with our intuitive exercises for the rest of the day. Then it was on to the first challenge.
Although I am a tarot reader, it was quite anxiety-provoking reading an oracle card for the person sitting next to me. Just one card. It had no key words and only a vague figure surrounded by swirls of light. The idea being that the message comes through us, not through the card. The card had little to do with the message I gave, but I was able to give a vague outline of a current work issue. After that warm up session, a box was passed around. We were asked to not open it, or jiggle it, but use our sixth sense to ‘see’ what was inside.
We all made notes on a pad. Mine were: a drawing of a Panama hat, a rainforest frog, the word STONE and the stair case at Machu Piccchu in Peru. So far, so South American. Other people had written ‘feathers’ or ‘was a present’, people picked up feelings about the item too. When our teacher opened the box it was an angel ornament carved from amethyst. I was quite pleased, as most amethyst comes from Uruguay and around those S. American parts. (Also, it was technically, a stone).
As the day went on, I surprised myself with the amount of information I was able to ‘know’ about strangers in the room and even their ancestors (from a picture). To spend a whole day just exercising my intuition was an incredible experience, and proved to me that it is a skill we all have, we just have to understand how to access it, and then practice it, like tennis or touch typing.
Want to try the what’s in the box intuition test? Concentrate on the image below. Make a note of what pops into your head. What colour, shape, material is it? What texture? Where does it come from? What is it for? Write words, draw pictures or doodles. But don’t think about it too hard. If you leave a guess in the comments I'll reply with the answer!
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