Ta da!! Introducing Supposing: Reflections for Accessing Your Wise Inner Artist, a 63-card oracle deck —available on the Deckible digital app and physical box — by Shelly L. Francis, author of The Courage Way and Eleven Brave Pinecones and founder of Creative Courage Press. Shelly’s been playing with her inner artist, the Emotikin, for soul sustenance since 2003 and is now so excited to share this card deck that turns play into a daily practice of personal growth and imaginal exploration!

Supposing you believed that your best advice comes from within? Not just advice but creative courage for/from your wise Inner Artist. You’ve likely seen rigid art manikins posing on shelves. Have you ever seen this scarf-clad Emotikin living life fully? Take a journey in magical inner landscapes from seashore to mountains and regular places too. These enticing, genuine photographs will transport you into soulful encounters with nature and serendipity. Intriguing questions posed on each card point you toward imagining new possibilities. You also get an -ing word for living into the answers, as Rilke once told a young poet. Diving deep into the heart of your creativity has never been so curiously wonder-full!

Listen to the “understory” … The Story of a Life Before Fully Living.

How to Use This Card Deck

Hold a current concern in your heart as you shuffle the cards top to bottom, back to middle, however you like, until you feel yourself settling, ready.

Then pick one card (or more). On Deckible, you shufffle and select whatever kind of card spread you’d like.

Reflect. Sit with the image, the word, the questions. What do you notice? What makes you say so? What else do you see? What do you sense in your body? On Deckible, you can even set a timer in the app for how long you’d like to meditate on the card(s).

Add journaling with each card’s invitation to hear more for/from your Inner Artist. Remember that supposing also means “What if?” or “Be curious.” It’s great to pose your own questions, too.

Supposing you live into those questions throughout your whole day (week?) until you find yourself living into the answers, as Rilke once told a young poet.

Over time, you’ll hone your instincts for reflecting by asking yourself (and others) open, honest questions whose answers you can’t possibly predict. That’s how you access your own inner wisdom.

Trust yourself and your wise Inner Artist. All you need to be creative is already inside you. Enjoy!!

More Ways to Play With the Supposing deck:

• Daily personal growth reflections and journaling, listening to your soul’s inner promptings
• Experiencing your playful side by putting yourself in the picture
• Learning the art of posing and/or receiving open, honest questions. That’s a reflective practice skill taught in the Circle of Trust® approach from the Center for Courage & Renewal (which I wrote about in The Courage Way book).
• Creative writing prompts to hone impromptu storytelling and imagining
• With a group for team-building
• In a retreat where you use these cards for journaling prompts, sharing in dyads or triads, then large-group sharing.
• At a dinner party, where guests pick a card for table-talk sharing.

If you’re interested in the paper card deck for your work, please email me. Perfect for healers, coaches and therapists who’d like to use these with clients (I’ll send you a ‘tent card’ with the QR code so clients can easily get the affordable digital version).