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Interpretation & Meaning

Rush Hour - a card of the Inclusive Oracle deck

Rush hour is an uncomfortable meeting of moods pouring out of our bodies in the form of honking and glaring.

At least until the day you find yourself on the 51st floor of some building, in Buenos Aires or something.

You walk to the window to look at the stars, only to discover an immense, displaced starry night laying at your feet. 

Lined up on invisible streets, tiny cars slow-dance their way through a brand new Van Gogh.  They light up the night and turn that cacophonic nightmare into a magical mess.

When this card shows up in a reading, it’s time to dip your toes into creative madness and listen to your inner chaos.

This is a card of vision and creativity, an invitation to treat the chaos in your head like a fertile source of energy rather than a hindering roadblock.

If The Palindrome is about thinking outside the box, Rush Hour is about blowing up the box. Whether you’re dealing with a stuck project or a stagnant relationship, you have to draw strength from the tumultuous forces that live in and outside of yourself. Put things where they don’t belong, think things where they don’t belong, crouch into every rabbit hole you can find. 

Before creating something, you need to believe in your vision and allow yourself to dream immense dreams. It’s time to close your eyes, jump into the whirlpool of your mind to see where it leads you.

This card ensures you can be successful by channeling the chaos that lives in- and outside of yourself.

Keywords: creativity • vision • creative urgency • dream • poetry •  artistry • vibrant • rabbit hole • openness • chaos • inspiration • divergent thinking • stress • incoherence • inconsistency • restlessness • contradiction • abstract thinking • impractical

Practical References

Places Art School, Mental Institution
Work Artist, Creative, Songwriter, Novelist, Inventor, Innovator, Pioneer
Situations & Life Events Mental Illness, Prophetic Dream, Moment of Inspiration
Activities Creative Writing, Artistic Outlet
Archetypes The Artist, The Creator, The Visionary

Interpretation within the Game of Cracks

The Soil
In the Soil position, this card suggests a situation that is disordered or even unstable. It might hint at a stressful moment in the life of the consultant or simply an environment that is chaotic and all over the place
The Knot
As the Knot, this card symbolizes the tension between realistic creation and boundless creativity. In order to advance in your journey, you need to explore that frightening place of non-linear thinking, messy experimentation and meaningless abandonment. Only by getting lost in your vision you will get a glimpse, finally, of where you're supposed to be headed next.
The Eye
When this card shows up as the Eye, it can represent a genius, a visionary, someone who lives in an organized chaos and gets invigorated by turning systems upside down.
The Fall
As the Fall, this card warns you against giving in to the chaotic nature of an external situation or to a tumultuous inner life. It might hint at mental illness or simply a kind of incoherent or unstable attitude that the consultant should try to mitigate. As an alternative interpretation, this card warns you against believing your healing fantasies (the deluded narratives about toxic people or dangerous situations just magically fixing themselves)
The Hook
When this card appears as the Hook, it's an invitation to turn things upside down, put them where they don't belong, force chaos and weirdness on situations that are otherwise stable and uninspiring.
The Fruit
In the Fruit position, this card suggests an outcome that manifests itself through a disordered state in the consultant's life. Rules and end games might be momentarily out of the window and that can be perfectly fine.

Homework & Practice

In order to embody the teachings of this card, you can:

  • Move the furniture around, orient things differently in your house
  • Read about abstract expressionism and look at the most important art works
  • Try writing with a stream of consciousness style
  • Dance like nobody’s watching

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