The shamanic mindset recognizes three worlds: the Lower, the Middle, and the Upper. This spread gives you some insight as to what messages you most need to receive from each one at this time.
1. Lower World – This World contains the forces of Nature: Animal Spirits, Plant Spirits, the Spirits of things like Winds, Rocks, Lakes and Rivers and Oceans, Mountains, and even the Earth itself. Ancestral Spirits also dwell in this world.
2. Middle World – This is the World we inhabit, but with a metaphysical overlay we don’t usually perceive in any conscious fashion. Shamanic practitioners travel this World to find lost items, to locate teachers, to better understand earthly systems, and to engage in remote viewing of distant places.
3. Upper World – This is the realm of the Celestial: the Higher Self, Deities, Guardian Angels, Ascended Masters, and even Alien Beings. The Upper World is all about Higher Consciousness.
So, what in the Worlds do you need to know right now…?
Reblogged this on Loki's Little Hippie Witch and commented:
I’d really like to try this!!
Thanks for reblogging — please do give it a go! Someone as into Norse Mythology as you are may get a lot out of it (I feel that the Norse view and the general shamanic views align pretty well in many ways)…
They seem to, yes. When I try this, I’ll definitely blog about it. 🙂
Sounds great — I’ll look forward to reading about your experience with the spread!
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This is brilliant. What a great “translation” of a shamanic journey! 🙂
Thank you very much for the kind and positive feedback! I hope you give the spread a shot and get some excellent results from it.
I will. 🙂
Have you tried this yet? It looks interesting.
I’ve tried it a couple of times now. Last night (when I took the accompanying picture), I first set out the crystals in a loose grid, lit the candles, and then tranced out for a while by playing my drum (I have a cool djembe here). When I felt right, I set the drum aside and drew my cards…and got amazing results! The World card jumped out while I was shuffling, and I got all Majors for the Three Worlds positions, too! It felt very positive, organic, and deep…
That sounds wonderful. I will deffinately give it a try! Thank you for sharing the spread <3
You’re welcome — and thank you for commenting here! I hope the spread gives you some terrific new food for thought…
Reblogged this on Cheryl Turtlemoon Tarot Blog and commented:
A really interesting spread!!!
Where do you get these?
Where do I get the spreads that I post? They kind of suggest themselves to me at odd times when I’m not necessarily even trying to think up new spreads, and then I just flesh them out, take a quick picture of the layout, and put ’em online. I thought up a new one today while I was out running that I’ll probably post in the near future, actually…
No, not the spreads, I mean where do you get the shamanic tarot deck?
Oh, sorry, my mistake… You can do the spread with any deck, but the one I have showing in the picture is called the Shaman Tarot. It’s distributed by the Italian publisher, Lo Scarabeo. You can order the deck directly from them via their website, or from Amazon, and a lot of metaphysical shops that sell Tarot decks should still carry it (it came out about five years ago). It shouldn’t be too hard to find, and it shouldn’t cost you more than any other deck that’s still in print.
Thanks, sounds like it will be easy to find. Theres another deck a friend had that I wish I could find. The pictures were so haunting and starkly real, like they had been photographed from someone’s astral dreamscapes. There was one of an evil magician in a black tophat and cloak trying to stop a womans spirit from escaping her body, and another one of Bast that was the best picture Ive ever seen of Her.
I can’t place the deck you mean from your description. The evil magician image rings a bell, but I can’t come up with the right deck. You might try cruising Aeclectic Tarot’s list of what they call “Dark & Gothic Tarot Decks” to see if anything there looks like the one you’re searching for: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/dark-gothic.shtml