What, tarot for the workplace? Yes, but not “prediction fiction.” Tarot, particularly with the progressive 21st century deck called Voyager, can be used as an insightful, brainstorming, strategic and innovative thinking tool that is motivating and empowering.

In fact, just using the cards is an intuitive practice that develops the sixth sense. In today’s world of change, complexity and uncertainty, left brain logic is antiquated and slow while our inner feeling enables us to quantum leap obsolete tradition to get the competitive edge. You are, at the very least, acting in your own truth and center, which gives you the best chance of succeeding.

Because the tarot is mythic by giving you a heroic self-identity (for example, a person is not just intuitive, but the tarot’s Priestess, while the risk-taking entrepreneur is the Fortune Maker), it’s a way for tapping your inner resources that enable you to live large, energetically and wisely. These archetypal qualities of your inner Magician or Empress are the ultimate experts and powers that guide you to the full use of your business potentials.

As a proactive planning process, Voyager Tarot takes you on the classic “Hero’s Journey.” This is a Reading whereby you pick cards for your heroic strengths and allies as well as obstacles and sacrifices to game-plan your way to victory. Before selecting your outcome card, this exercise demands that you determine a “doable” set of actions to take. This revolutionary form of tarot is not “fortune telling,” but “fortune creation” - a way of having your own inner coach.

Even a one-card Reading can give you an enormous creative aha! Outside-the-box use of picture symbols from a “randomly” picked card breaks you free from old, habitual thinking and enables you to see differently - so imperative in the contemporary workplace. It has been well documented that metaphoric thinking like this is the basis for most inventive breakthroughs. Once, in a consultation with me, a company president picked the “Love” card and was moved to forming an “employee-first” enterprise. Wow!

As for communication, which is the sine qua non of effective business partnering and teaming, have you and your partners pick a card for what you each “bring to the table.” This is one of my favorite tarot practices. You will get to know your team-mates and yourself in a way not recognized before and this can open up a dialogue that eventuates into deeper inter-connectivity. I’ll never forget the day a CEO cried in front of his company as a result of picking the “Compassion” Voyager card. The result was a new-found respect and relationship between this somewhat cold leader and his cowering staff.

The next time you are perplexed with the question of “what to do, what to do?” Pick a card. It’s guaranteed that you will receive worthwhile information that either wows you with a confirmation of what your intuitive sense knew but you didn’t trust, or with a totally new and different perception.

For more ways of playing with the cards for questions of money and work, see my One Spirit Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Strategic Intuition for the 21st Century.

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James Wanless is a pioneer of new thinking recognized for weaving ageless wisdom into modern life with intuitive tools and symbolic systems.  James Wanless has been called Mr. Tarot and Captain Pick a card.

A Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, Dr. Wanless was a distinguished university professor in the Middle East when he experienced a life-threatening disease which led to a spiritual transformation. He relinquished his academic career and began to share his new found wisdom and inspiration by teaching groups and creating his best-selling,”modern classic” Voyager Tarot Intuition Cards for the 21st Century. (250,000 sold to date - Fair Winds Press).  Go to his website: www.voyagertarot.com

Dr. Wanless’ latest book is entitled, Intuition@Work (RedWheel/Weiser), a how-to-use intuition handbook. Check out his intuition blog site… www.intuition-blog.com

You can get a phone consultation with him. Call 1-800-676-1256.