"What are Zener cards and How do we use them?"
Background: In my 15 years or so of practice and study I've never heard of Zener cards until I received some in a magazine subscription. I asked around and no one seem to have a clue either so I did the research.. I read the magazines, looked online and well I thought I'd post my findings for other people. So first off.. If anyone in the UK and has been collecting the Enhancing Your Mind Body Spirit magazines by DeAgostini they may have come across Zener cards OR if you've been watching my unboxings of the monthly magazine subscription I post on my YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/c/imogenakamissimoinsane you'll have seen I now have the full deck.
So.. What are they?
- A basic deck consists of 25 cards
with identical backs (much like playing cards, tarot, oracle etc). The 25
card deck includes 5x 5 different shapes (usually square, triangle, cross, wave
and circle) and these cards are also 5x 5 colours (one shape per colour).
What are they for?
- Zener cards are used to test and
improve your psychic intuition, abilities and enhance your ESP (Extrasensory
Perception also known as Extrasensory Perception and Telepathy).
How are they used?
- Do whatever it is you do to connect
with cards or other divination tools such as tarot and oracle cards. This
may range and include (but not exclusive to) smudging, sleeping with the cards
under your pillow for 7 nights, studying the cards, asking for guidance from
Deities, Spirits, Angels or other beings and/or energies etc.. Or whatever
it is you do to connect.
- Before the session you may wish to
shuffle the cards face down much like you would do with any other unmarked
cards.
- Move on to meditating, cleansing,
special dress robe, ritual, lighting candles, asking for guide help and/or
casting circles, or any other techniques used or tools to get you in that
psychic zone ready for divination. (Always
use protection when evoking spirits and other beings).
- Once ready turn the deck over.
Really focus on each card one at a time. Some people like to trace the
outline of the shape with their index finger of their dominant hand while
repeating (silently or out loud) the shape, or the colour and shape of that
card over and over to really familiarise yourself with each unmarked card.
- Once you have done this with each
card turn them back away from you and again shuffle the deck while thinking
about the cards as you shuffle. Alongside this you may wish to repeat the
colours and shapes, any chants, prayer or anything you deem helpful to aid your
connection.
- Once you feel ready you may stop
shuffling the cards. And draw one card (still with the back of the card
facing you). Beginners can focus on just the card shape to start with
"guessing" that shape that's on the card - ok ok psychologically
linking with the card to predict the shape. Repeat this process of drawing and
predicting card after card. (Optional write down your predictions and why
you think that and then underneath the outcome and any thoughts you may have!)
Building up that psychic intuition over time you can then move on to colour,
mixing it up with colour or shape or indeed more advanced predicting both
colour and shape.
Why would you use them?
- Now I could be wrong but seemingly
the only real function, and don't get me wrong because it is a huge and awesome
function, is to enhance your ESP abilities as mentioned earlier.
Food for thought:
Note. This
can also be done with spirit working and connecting with them for them to aid
you in your predictions. - Always use protection!
Note. Making
a Zener deck yourself would be very easy to do. 25 identical pieces of
card, 5 different coloured pens and draw the 5 shapes; one with each pen.
Note. Like
any divination this takes time and practice to build up the skill. Not
all divinations are for everyone. While some people may excel in Zener
they may lack at dowsing or tarot or runs or scrying etc.. Also equally it
could be vice versa for any divination..
What is the meaning of Divination?
- The practice of seeking knowledge of
the future or the unknown by supernatural means (Google Dictionary).
🖤 Imogen
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