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| Posted: Thu Oct 18th, 2007 08:42 am |
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peapodgrrl
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My name is Mindy and I am the author of the Dreaming in Color Luman Deck.
Even though Dreaming in Color is neither tarot or oracle, I thought you might enjoy an uplifting story about how a deck, any deck, can initiate deep and profound healing and send timely messages from the universe when we need them most.
A customer of mine, like many of them, is a psychologist. She uses Dreaming in Color with her patients. Although this deck can be used for divination, color therapy and meditation, it also works particularly well as a therapeutic deck; consequently, and many of our customers are psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and teachers. Although this doctor has made the deck a part of her toolkit for three years--using it with her child patients to assist them in dealing with emotion and communication, she had never used the deck on a personal level.
She recently lost her husband of twenty-five years. I can't even fathom the depth of such a loss, and in her case, her husband was her best friend and soul partner. They finished sentences together, knew each others' deepest thoughts, laughed themselves silly at nonsense. Whatever their souls were made of were the same. He was a slight hypochondriac, and this and that was always hurting him. When he had a cold, she told me, he'd lay in bed and moan as if a sword had pierced his chest.
When he told her he wasn't "feeling right," she figured it was just more drama and that he probably had indigestion. It wasn't. He died without fanfare while shaving. It was very quick, unexpected and devastating. Because for all his "kvetching", he was quite healthy. No sign of heart disease. They are not old people.
Her grieving was protracted. She was inconsolable. Mixed with the grief was unspeakable guilt. She hated herself for ignoring his complaints of feeling ill. She kept replaying the day in her head, imagining she had taken him to the doctor instead of making fun of him.
Her practice suffered. She saw no reason to help other people when she couldn't even help herself. She wanted to lay in bed, she told me, and die. She cried her eyes and throat raw.
She asked him to send her a sign, anything, to let her know he wasn't angry at her. To let her know he still existed, someplace. Even though she felt it was silly, she'd talk to him in the empty house, asking him to let her know somehow that he still loved her.
She emailed me recently to tell me that laying in the middle of the kitchen floor was a single Dreaming in Color card. How it got there she has no idea. She keeps the deck in a drawer, and there is nobody in the house who could have removed it. She picked it up and told me that she fell to her knees, because the card was the Forgiveness card. And then she knew, she said, that he was telling her he wasn't angry at her. Perhaps he was also asking her to forgive herself.
Her lengthy email made me cry. I had heard from many people in the years since I published this deck, many wonderful and magical stories, but this one will stick in my mind a long time. :)
MS
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18th, 2007 02:50 pm |
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Quidlimit
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Hi Mindy, what a lovely story about healing and cards!
I like both the colour and design of the deck plus the keywords. Some people complain about keywords in decks, but I like them, and your story pinpoints a reason why--you often pull the right word at the right time, or it lands on your lap so to speak in other ways.
[It's JJ here BTW--here I am Quidlimit because I randomly opened up a Staples catalogue and picked the ad for "Liquid Gel Pens--Limit 5 per customer" and then made a name from it. Of such is the random chaos of life.]
Funnily enough, I put the DIC screensaver on this week because I was feeling bad with a cold. I often glanced at the screen while bundled up watching TV and felt the images improve my mood while I was snuffling and blowing.
After three years it's still one of my favourite decks. I was just speaking of it in another thread here in relation to the Circle Deck--I thought it would work well with that deck.
Sometimes it's very hard to hear people's stories of the pain in their lives. I used to work with the public so I heard a lot. But it's also nice to see the ripple effect of what you create in life and your energy helping others. As you get older it's important to give back, to feel you make a difference somewhere.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 05:02 am |
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femfatalatron
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Hi peapodgirl,
I have the DIC deck, and when people look at my collection, it is always one of their favorites. It reads well too, btw! Are you thinking of another deck soon?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 05:24 am |
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peapodgrrl
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Hi Fem,
Thank you so much for the kind words about the deck. I am glad you are pleased with it, and are getting positive feedback from others about it.
I don't think I will be doing another deck--at least in the near future. The power of the deck is in the art, which seems to have very powerful healing properties. The response to the imagery is why the deck came to be in the first place. :)
That is why my husband and I have been working on a related endeavor, which is bringing the art into people's personal space. After the deck was published, we heard from a lot of people who wanted to enjoy the art but didn't feel a 3" x 5" sized card was large enough to experience it the way they wanted to. The feedback from the deck users sent us in a new direction, and we now produce the art in a wide array of home decor accents (like large tile wall murals made of glass). The response has been wonderful, and I have to say that the first time I saw one of the deck images on a six foot wide glass mural, I was hooked on printing on tile--especially glass.
But who knows? I do have some ideas for a new deck but I wish I had the time to devote to it. Color Bakery keeps us pretty busy ;)
Thank you again and I hope you continue to use your deck in good health and spirit.
Mindy
*waves to her friend JJ*
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