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Inspiration and Goal

Nine cards as a rising flame: what kindles you, what puts you out, the goal you name, the goal behind it, and what your work becomes in a year.

Take it to check whether the fire for your work is still alive, not to plan growth.

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How to read it

Read upward, the way a fire catches. The lower four cards are fuel: what kindles you, where you stand, what gives strength and what puts it out. Compare the third and fourth: if the extinguishing card is stronger, no goal will hold until you remove that hindrance. The middle three are the goal itself: the named one, the real one, and what must be given up for it. The real goal is almost always humbler and more honest than the announced one. The top two are the first step and the shape of the work in a year. Take the step literally, this week, while the flame is still alight.

Positions

  1. What kindles you

    The work or subject that still raises strength in you.

  2. Where you stand

    Your actual position in the work: a beginning, a standstill, growth or a quiet crisis.

  3. What gives strength

    The source of energy that works for you even in the heavy weeks.

  4. What puts you out

    What smothers your interest: a person, routine, doubt or constant self-comparison.

  5. The named goal

    The goal you state to yourself and others, and how alive it really is.

  6. The real goal

    What you want beneath that goal: peace, recognition, freedom or a place of your own.

  7. What to give up

    The habit, project or role to be left behind so the goal becomes possible.

  8. The first step

    The action for this week with which the work begins to move.

  9. The work in a year

    What your occupation becomes in a year if you follow the real goal.

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