Body noticing

Move attention through the body with a bit of kindness. Noticing where you grip. Breathing toward that without a plot. Coming back to the room. If colour or sound already helps you, you can add it. You do not have to. Awareness is the lesson.

If you do not notice state, you will read your leftover afternoon as the spread. A flutter can be the card, or coffee, or a chair. Write it. Test it. If something in your body needs a doctor, you go to a doctor. Meditation does not replace that.

You skip the body and live in the head. Or you turn every twinge into a sign. Both are imbalance. The middle is: note one thing, then look at the card.

Before a card: scan, feet to head, ten seconds. Note one thing. During: if something shifts when you turn a card, note the shift. Do not halt the reading to hold a seance with your left shoulder. After: ask whether the body note belonged with the card or with your Tuesday.

A vocabulary of sensation. Kindness toward grip. A reader who can come back to the feet.

Diagnosing yourself from a tingle. Ignoring the body until it shouts. Using a scan as delay. Making the body the whole oracle.

You pull a card. Before you interpret, you notice a tight jaw. You write it. The card is Page of Swords. Maybe the jaw belongs. Maybe you have been clenching since breakfast. Both go in the journal if they matter. You still look at the picture.