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The Seven Bodies
Twenty-one cards: the seven bodies of a person from the physical to the atmic, each with two cards beside it — what feeds it and what blocks it.
Take it for a slow, methodical audit of every layer of yourself, not a single pointed question.
- Cards
- 21
- Minutes
- 30
- Reversals
- Off
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How to read it
Read from the bottom up, one body at a time. In each triad the middle card is the state of the body itself, the left one what feeds it, the right one what holds it back. Do not move higher until you have read a triad whole and said one sentence about that body aloud. Then find the lowest body where the blocking card is stronger than the feeding card: work starts there, because the upper bodies are fed through the lower. At the end look at the three top triads together: strong above and weak below means you live by meanings without living your life.
Positions
The physical body
The state of your body: strength, sleep, pain and the way you treat it.
What feeds the physical
What truly restores your body: movement, food, sleep or touch.
What blocks the physical
The habit or load because of which the body never catches up on recovery.
The etheric body
Your level of vital force: whether energy lasts a day without being forced.
What feeds the etheric
The source of living energy: air, rhythm, silence, water or a beloved occupation.
What blocks the etheric
What drains strength daily: haste, screens, noise or somebody else's anxiety.
The astral body
Your emotional life: what you feel most often and how aware of it you are.
What feeds the astral
What gives your feelings air: people, art, conversation or permission to weep.
What blocks the astral
The feeling you forbid yourself, and where it goes instead of out.
The mental body
How your mind works: clarity, speed, intrusive thoughts and the ability to decide.
What feeds the mental
What truly feeds your mind: a book, a task, an argument or a new skill.
What blocks the mental
The belief or stream of other people's opinions that keeps your thought circling.
The causal body
Your deeds and their consequences: what you have sown and are reaping now.
What feeds the causal
The deed that straightens your fate faster than any intention or plan.
What blocks the causal
The unpaid debt or repeated mistake that returns you to the same circle.
The buddhic body
Your capacity for compassion and for meaning larger than personal gain.
What feeds the buddhic
What opens compassion in you: a person, service, beauty or your own pain.
What blocks the buddhic
The grievance or pride that closes the heart to anything larger.
The atmic body
Your link to the will of the spirit: what you are here for, with all roles removed.
What feeds the atmic
What gives you back the sense of meaning when everything else falls apart.
What blocks the atmic
What cuts you off from the essential: bustle, fear of death or someone else's truth.
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