Spring 2000 - News in Psychic Counseling

 

IS THIS AN EASTER CARD?
 Or An Ancient Metaphysical Tool?

 

Or both, quite possibly.

I have recently been using it as a very helpful tool for many of my coaching clients and wanted to share it and its potential powers for change with all my clients.  It is actually the Cube of Space from the ancient Tarot deck.  It is an amazingly simple and powerful device/exercise to bring clarity to your situations and move you forward when you're feeling stuck.  So stick with me for a bit while I try to explain.  Be aware that I studied the concept for nearly 9 months in my Tarot studies and finished the class in a virtual fog of confusion.  Now I'm trying to condense that fog into a few paragraphs!  Frankly, as with penicillin, you don't need to understand it to use it.

The symbol you see is actually a cube that has been cut open.  It is one of the most ancient of symbols, predating Christianity by thousands of years.  It was later taken up by the Rosicrucians as their symbol:  Rosy Cross = Rosicrucians.  The cube is thought of having suspended in its dark midst an unfolding red rose, which is attached at the cross beams when the cube is opened up.

Begin with the idea of a cube.  It has 6 equal sides.  Imagine that each side is pressing inward against the other opposing side.  At the point inside where that 'energy' meets is a very intense and potent spot with high energy forcing outward against the 6 sides.  “The Christ Spirit” to Rosicrucians and others.  “Potential” for our purposes.  Expanding possibilities.  Solution.  The answer!

For summarizing months of study into a minute of reading, you can thank me.  And you will!  If you just use the tool.

This works best when you are feeling stuck in a situation and can't see or agree on the resolution.  You may feel as though there is no answer, or you may feel the opposite…  there are too many choices.  How to decide which is best?

If you will 'do a cube' on the situation, as my clients do, you will probably come up with the magical answer.  To do the cube, you simply come up with 6 different, even opposite, views of the situation.  But it must be 6 views, not 5 or 7.  Don't ask why.  There is a magical quality to the number and just believe that it will work.

The exercise is to stretch your thinking…  to help you 'see outside the box' quite literally.  Therefore, it's advisable to see the most opposite of solutions.  The point is that typically you will not do ANY of the potential solutions, but the final answer will be the 'rose' in the center…  something that is a part of all 6 perhaps, but a separate 7th answer.

Perhaps an example will help.  I remember teaching the Emperor card in my Tarot class, where this concept originates.  A woman in the class was in a bad marriage and when asked, she felt there were no solutions to this situation.  Of course we outside the problem could see many options, but she was blind to them.  So I suggested we 'do a cube' in the class.  To begin, I suggested one solution would be to shoot her husband.  We all laughed at the outrageousness of it, but none the less it would be a solution.  It's an extreme position, a powerful potential, a viewpoint on the outer fringe.  Just what we're looking for!  It's not that we would suggest she do it…  but where does her mind go when she really thinks about the consequences?  Hopefully it will lead to the 'rose', which is a new solution.

Next we looked at her situation from an opposing view to 'shoot your husband.'  That viewpoint could be something like 'stay and live with it as it is.'  Again, she didn't want that, but she could discuss the pros and cons of that position.  The class helped lead her through 4 more views or potentials in her situation and we all got to watch the magic of the cube at work.  By the end of the exercise, she was very clear what she wanted.  It actually was a result more of the first solution, but different enough to be the 'rose' we were after.  She never wanted to see this man in her life again.  She didn't want to shoot him, but she wanted the consequence of that…  him out of her life.  In stretching her mind to see in extreme positions, her mind suddenly got clear on a new solution that was 'hovering there in the middle of the mind' all along.

You're welcome to call this solution whatever you wish:  The Christ Spirit; Psychology 101; Metaphysics; Self-Help Solutions.  But I encourage you to try the exercise.  I suggest to clients that they at least write out the 6 solutions and spend some thoughtful time with each.  And if the situation is of special importance, I suggest they 'make a cube' on it literally by cutting out a cube from paper or, my favorite, a file folder.  Then write one solution on each side of the cube and leave it where you will constantly see it.  The cube sits on your desk radiating six different solutions and soon will come the real answer you were looking for and you will feel an 'unfolding' in your mind and then a warm 'rosy' feeling fills up your chest region.  It gets kinda mushy from here, so I'll let you experience it yourself…!

At this spring and Easter season, whenever you see the cross you might want to add to your past associations the concept of the red rose of potential bursting forth with energized solutions!

Happy Cube Making.

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