Deepen Your Intuition by Building a Personal Intuitive Language
If you're reading this, you likely already have a relationship with your intuition, but what happens when you're ready to go past gut feelings? So much of what's available online and in books skim the surface of what it means to be in touch with your intuition.
As global changes continue to stir and we move deeper into unknown times, having a robust relationship with your intuition will help you navigate these times.
Knowing your gut feelings is essential, but it's just the tip of the iceberg when working with your intuition. Is it time to deepen your intuition into a full-fledged intuitive language?
Working with an intuitive language is something many mediums rely on, but don't let this scare you away. You do not have to be a medium to utilize this essential intuitive skill. I've created a system to make crafting your intuitive language accessible, whether you're just getting started or already have a well-honed intuition.
If you're reading this, you likely already have a relationship with your intuition, but what happens when you're ready to go past gut feelings? So much of what's available online and in books skim the surface of what it means to be in touch with your intuition.
As global changes continue to stir and we move deeper into unknown times, having a robust relationship with your intuition will help you navigate these times.
Knowing your gut feelings is essential, but it's just the tip of the iceberg when working with your intuition. Is it time to deepen your intuition into a full-fledged intuitive language?
Working with an intuitive language is something many mediums rely on, but don't let this scare you away. You do not have to be a medium to utilize this essential intuitive skill. I've created a system to make crafting your intuitive language accessible, whether you're just getting started or already have a well-honed intuition.
In this blog, you'll learn:
What an intuitive language is
How building your own can help deepen your ability to navigate life and relationships with your guides and magical allies
How to start creating your unique, intuitive language
An example of what an intuitive language can look like in real life
Do you already know you want to go deeper and learn practices to create your intuitive language? Explore my in-depth workshop, Building an Intuitive Language in the Craft Your Own Magic Circle membership here to access the class, or grab a drop-in class pass to attend live and get the replay here.
What is an Intuitive Language?
A personal, intuitive language lets you dialogue intuitively with your spirit (higher self, oversoul, whatever term you prefer), spirit guides, magical allies, ancestors, deities, etc. But keep your mind wide open. I'm using words like "language" and "dialogue" here as metaphors. Communicating with your intuitive language will differ from chatting with your bestie.
Having an intuitive language is unlike learning French or Spanish; I can't just teach you my language. Building your intuitive language will be unique because we each receive and process intuitive information uniquely and have different associations with feelings and images. Sure, some people might have a similar language to you, but it's like a fingerprint; yours is unique.
An intuitive language enables you to go beyond binary "yes" and "no" dialogue with your intuition. While establishing a “yes” and “no” communication is an integral part of the process I lay out for you here, adding additional vocabulary is also essential.
Having an intuitive language allows you to decipher the subtleties of intuitive communication more clearly and accurately.
While building your intuitive language will help you navigate life, the goal isn't to utilize it as a spiritual vending machine. Having an intuitive language doesn't mean you'll suddenly know how to navigate every moment of life perfectly. Even with a robust, intuitive language, aspects of your life and this world will remain in flux in ways that won't allow you to gain definitive advice. Some details will always belong to the Great Mystery of life.
I'll share an example of my intuitive language later in this post, but for it to make more sense first, let's cover why you'd want to do this and how to get started creating your intuitive language.
Why Create an Intuitive Language?
Creating your unique intuitive language isn't just about gaining insights about how to navigate your life. It's about knowing yourself better and understanding the depth of variety in which intuition can express itself (in yourself and others). But it goes beyond this.
Creating a unique, intuitive language allows you to form genuine and reciprocal relationships with your closest magical and spiritual allies.
Think about some of your closest relationships, friends, family, or animal beloveds. What's your communication like with them? You probably have a deep rapport with them, perhaps even unique ways you communicate that only happen between you and that beloved.
When you focus on your ability to communicate with your spiritual and magical allies, your relationship naturally deepens.
By learning how to communicate better via intuition, you create an environment that leads to deeper relationships, creating a cyclical loop of understanding and deepening.
When you communicate intuitively regularly with your closest spiritual and magical allies, it will come naturally to you, and your ability to understand your intuition will happen more automatically.
5 Steps to Build Your Unique Intuitive Language
When building your unique intuitive language, understanding how intuition manifests in your body (subtle and physical) and how it feels is key. You might already have a great foundation with this. If so, great, skip to step two! If not, start with step one below to learn more about the "clairs".
1. Understanding your dominant "clairs"
This will give you a place to focus when learning what intuition feels like in your body. Think clairsentience (clear feeling), clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), etc. Check out a past blog post where I break these down in greater detail here. While the clairs aren't the only way to understand how intuitive information lands in your body, it's a great starting point.
2. Practice noticing how your intuition shows up and feels in your body
Understanding your clairs points you toward where and what to pay attention to. Practicing listening, feeling, seeing, and knowing how your intuition shows up makes sensing it more automatic. Like learning any language, understanding how these sensations arrive in your body without spending a lot of time questioning is part of the process. Think of this step as an intuitive bootcamp. At this point, what's most important is recognizing how intuition feels in your body instead of focusing on how accurate you are. Building up your accuracy comes later.
Here are some simple ways to start weaving intuitive practices into your day. Lean into your most dominant clair sense for each one.
Tune into your intuition each morning to ask for any insights or guidance for the day.
The next time you need to make a decision that won't have a long-lasting or serious consequence (like deciding which direction to walk or what to have for dinner), check in with your intuition.
Practice pulling tarot or oracle cards for yourself or others, and don't rely on the guidebook.
Tune into your intuition each night before bed to ask if there's anything you missed during your day that would be important to know.
3. Create a “yes” and “no” communication system
Once you understand what your intuition feels like in your body, start practicing a simple "yes"/"no communication system with your intuition to begin strengthening your communication muscles. I share some simple techniques for this in my book, Craft Your Own Magic, and will also share them in the Building an Intuitive Language workshop here. Essentially, you'll need to discern what an intuitive "yes" vs "no" is like in your body; again, this will be different for everyone.
4. Form relationships with your guides, ancestors, or magical allies
To practice any language, having someone or something to communicate with will be helpful. Now, it's time to build a relationship with a spirit guide, magical ally (plant, tree, crystal, etc.), God, Goddess, or ancestor. If this sounds like a big leap from step three, grab my free guided journey to connect with a spirit guide here to get started. Start practicing your "yes" and "no" communication with a being of your choice and notice how it feels in your body.
5. Incorporate an inner circle of correspondences to form your intuitive vocabulary
Moving your intuitive language beyond a "yes" and "no" system will require understanding what I call your "inner circle" of spiritual and magical allies. For some, myself included, these are the four elements and four cardinal directions. Feel free to borrow my inner circle if you're not sure what yours is yet, and don't worry; you can always change it later.
Your inner circle is the birthplace of your intuitive vocabulary. Understanding how each energy in your inner circle appears in your body creates your intuitive vocabulary. For example, suppose you're getting to know a new plant, and you receive an intuitive insight that reminds you of something in your inner circle that aligns with themes of openness and curiosity. In that case, that plant is likely sharing that its energy is one of openness and curiosity.
Apply the same intuitive communication principles in the previous steps to incorporate your inner circle of correspondences into your intuitive language.
Want more guidance? I share practices and a more in-depth look at this step in my workshop Building an Intuitive Language here, which you can also access in my membership here.
Keep reading for an example of how I utilized my intuitive language in a recent experience.
What an Intuitive Language Can Look Like in Action
Here's an example of how working with my intuitive language has been helpful recently. I sensed a need to build some quiet time to journey, a practice of spiritually traveling to different planes of existence and times. This initial nudge is what people often refer to as the gut feeling. My intuition got my attention.
Here's where my unique intuitive language starts to come into play. Leaning on my intuitive language enabled me to discern what the journey was about, so I could decide if it was something I wanted to do.
Based on the feelings in my body that I associate with the element of earth, I could tell the need to journey was rooted in something ancestral. In my practice, I associate the ancestral realms with the cardinal direction north and the earth element.
I also saw pink roses in my mind, indicating that this ancestral journey pertained to my mother line because I associate pink roses with my mother line.
I could also sense an intense fire energy around this invitation to connect with ancestors in my mother line. Coming up on a full moon in Leo, I knew fire would likely be very present, and the messages I needed to receive were likely quite intense.
Journeying on the Leo full moon felt aligned. The ancestor in my mother line made herself known immediately. What came up was intense, but I was prepared. Our work together resulted in ancestral healing on my mother line, and I began noticing shifts and changes within myself and my family members within days.
Start Building Your Intuitive Language
As the example above illustrates, building an intuitive language can make connecting with your intuition easier to understand and more approachable. Other benefits include connecting with plants and crystals, performing rituals or energy work, receiving insights from your guides, and more.
While I have dedicated years to honing my intuitive language, I did much of it alone. I do this work to help you skip over some of the trial and error I went through. How different could this world be if more people could tune into their intuition from a deeply grounded and embodied place? The potential is incredible and positive. This is why I want to see you communicating intuitively with a well-honed and robust intuitive language.
Did you find some new avenues to navigate building your intuitive language? I hope so. If you want to dig deeper, I'd love to see you in the Craft Your Own Magic Circle, where you can access this class or get the class on its own here.
Deep care,
Cassie
6 Tips to Learn the Tarot Card Meanings Quickly
So you got your first tarot deck, did a couple of solo readings, and then never picked it up again? Or, you work with tarot regularly but find yourself frustrated with being so reliant on the guidebook? One of the biggest hurdles people face when getting started with tarot is learning the card meanings. This kept me from diving deep into the tarot for years, too; I get it!There are much easier techniques to learning the meanings of all of the cards besides memorizing a guidebook word for word for 78 different cards.
So you got your first tarot deck, did a couple of solo readings, and then never picked it up again? Or, you work with tarot regularly but find yourself frustrated with being so reliant on the guidebook? One of the biggest hurdles people face when getting started with tarot is learning the card meanings. This kept me from diving deep into the tarot for years, too; I get it!
There are much easier techniques to learning the meanings of all of the cards besides memorizing a guidebook word for word for 78 different cards. Not only is memorizing a guidebook of 78-card meanings not very feasible, but it’s also an intuitive disservice in working with the tarot.
What if I told you that you could have a robust knowledge of all 78 cards by learning only 36 correspondences? I know 36 is nothing to sneeze at, but here’s the thing, the 36 correspondences I’ll layout in this post will not only help you understand the energy of each tarot card but will also help you in nearly all other facets of spellwork and magick.
What are correspondences?
Correspondences are simply energies that play well together or match. Each card of the tarot has at least a couple of correspondences, and when you better understand each card's correspondences, you’ll also understand the energy of each card. The correspondences associated with tarot are not unique to tarot and relate to numerology, astrology, witchcraft, and more. Plus, there’s a good chance that you’re already familiar with some of the correspondences that I’m going to outline in this post. If you are, that’s great! You’re already a step ahead.
Before you dive in, correspondences and their meanings can be rich and deep. They can also vary somewhat from person to person. What I share here is enough to get you started to build a strong foundation, but I recommend digging deeper into the ones you’re less familiar with.
Dive deeper into tarot correspondences in my book, Understanding Tarot. You might also find that reading an introductory book on numerology or astrology will really deepen your understanding of those specific correspondences. You can also read up on numerology and the four elements right here on the blog! Click here for more on the elements and here for more on numerology.
Let’s dive in. Here are 6 tips to help you learn the tarot card meanings quickly.
1. Understand your learning style!
Before we jump into understanding the correspondences of tarot, you need to get super clear about how you learn and use that method as we dive into the correspondences. If you’re a visual learner, get a journal and start drawing and writing down what the correspondences below mean. If you’re an auditory learner, consider listening to an audiobook about the correspondences listed below. If you learn by doing, continue working with your tarot deck to weave this knowledge into your readings. Not sure how you learn best? Try a few different ways listed above and see what sticks.
2. Understand Basic Numerological Meanings
The largest part of a tarot deck, and for many, the trickiest cards to learn, are the numbered suit cards of the Minor Arcana (think 2 of cups and 4 of wands, etc.) Understanding the basic numerological meanings will make you feel MUCH more confident with these cards. There are ways to use numerology in the Major Arcana too, which you’ll be able to learn more about in my new book. For the minor arcana, use these numerological meanings to give you clues about what each card means.
New beginnings
Balance
Creativity
Foundations
Change
Partnership
Intellect
Mastery
Endings
This one is kind of unique to tarot because, in traditional numerology, you always reduce down to a single-digit between 1-9. Fortunately, the meaning often in regards to the tarot is pretty obvious. It points to an end of a cycle and transitioning to a new phase. It has a slightly different feel than 9 in that it signals a willingness to move on.
3. Understand the 4 Elements
Earth, air, water, and fire are, in my opinion, foundational in any magickal or divination practice. The elements are the energies that we’re made of and can be utilized in nearly all facets of a spiritual and magickal practice! Each of the four elements corresponds with a suit of the minor arcana, shown here.
Cups- Water
Pentacles- Earth
Swords- Air
Wands- Fire
Now that you know more about the meanings associated with the numbered cards of the minor arcana, you can also apply the corresponding element. Now you have two things to go off of to understand the energy of each card better. Here’s a list of how the energy of the elements express themselves.
There are ways to apply your understanding of the elements to both the minor arcana's court cards and the major arcana. I discuss these more in my book, but this is a great place to start!
4. Understand Zodiac and Planetary Meanings
We’ll begin to transition more to the major arcana for this one. Each of the major arcana cards corresponds with either a planet or a zodiac sign, giving it a unique energy.
The Fool - Uranus
The Magician - Mercury
The High Priestess - The Moon
The Empress - Venus
The Emperor - Aries
The Hierophant - Taurus
The Lovers - Gemini
The Chariot - Cancer
Strength - Leo
The Hermit - Virgo
Wheel of Fortune - Jupiter
Justice - Libra
The Hanged One - Neptune
Death - Scorpio
Temperance - Sagittarius
The Devil - Capricorn
The Tower - Mars
The Star - Aquarius
The Moon - Pisces
The Sun - The Sun
Judgment - Pluto
The World - Saturn
Here are examples of how these energies express themselves. Zodiac Signs
Planetary Meanings
Sun - Ego
Moon - Subconscious
Mercury - Communication
Venus - Love
Mars - Warrior
Jupiter - Expansion
Saturn - Restriction
Uranus - Revolutionary
Neptune - Dreams
Pluto - Transformation
5. Learn how Astrological Energies Correspond with the Elements
I imagine correspondences as a web of intersecting energies that play off of each other. When you understand how these different energies match up or repel each other, it will take your understanding of the tarot cards' meanings to a deeper level.
Each of the zodiac signs and planets corresponds to an element. Now, with your understanding of the elements and basic astrology, you can weave these meanings together. Here’s a list of how the planets, zodiacs, and elements correspond with one another.
Aries - Mars - Fire
Taurus - Venus - Earth + Water
Gemini - Mercury - Air
Cancer - Moon - Water
Leo - Sun - Fire
Virgo - Mercury - Earth + Air
Libra - Venus - Air + Water
Scorpio - Pluto - Water
Sagittarius - Jupiter - Fire
Capricorn - Saturn - Earth
Aquarius - Uranus - Air
Pisces - Neptune - Water
With this information combined, we can see that the Empress corresponds to Venus, the earth element, and Taurus. Therefore the Empress card relates to love, beauty, and creation from an earthly and material perspective.
6. Pair this Knowledge with your Intuition
Think of all of this correspondence knowledge as a way to bolster your intuition. They’re not the end all be all of learning the tarot, but they go a LONG way! The more comfortable and confident you become in understanding these correspondences, the easier it will be for you to intuit the card meanings for yourself and others without a guidebook. The correspondences are better than a guidebook because they give you nudges and insights about what the cards have to tell you, rather than a definitive answer.
Learn more about building up your intuitive muscles here in this previous post.
Now it’s time for you to put these tools into practice. Find a way to learn them that works for you, and watch your ability to understand the tarot card meanings flourish!
