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Interpretation & Meaning

The Theremin - a card of the Inclusive Oracle deck

When the theremin starts playing and the hands moving, you can’t tell which one came first.

Is it a dance to an orphan song or a melody sprung from choreographed motion?

We listen to the same touchless symphony playing in our brains – sometimes a danceable tune, sometimes a broken record – and witness the same foreign hands as they command our inner notes.

When this card shows up in a reading, it’s time to look behind every curtain for the invisible forces that influence your life.

Your feelings are attached to your actions, your relationships and your daily life by invisible strings. Growing aware of those connections requires relentless introspection but is rewarded with the power to re-attach those strings,  tune them or potentially cut them off.

If you were taught to discard your emotions and treat them as fuzzy background noise, The Theremin suggests that you sit back, focus and enjoy the show.

This is not a card of action. Whatever feeling you’re experiencing in your life, at work, in your relationship, you should not act on it before you come to understand it intimately. It’s time to put your emotions under a microscope and figure out how they connect to your world and what information they are trying to communicate.

This card ensures you can shape the outside world to your needs if you first understand how it connects to your inner world.

Keywords: introspection • connecting the out with the in • therapy • invisible forces • introversion • pensiveness • self-reflection  • self-awareness • internalizing • introjection • introverted intuition • emotional honesty

Practical References

Places Cave, Grotto, all places that are deep and inside
Work Therapist
Situations & Life Events Going to Therapy, Dreaming
Activities Journaling
Archetypes The Self-Aware, The Introvert

Interpretation within the Game of Cracks

The Soil
In the Soil position, this card suggests a situation or environment ruled by unexpressed feelings or bottled up emotions. In a relationship reading, it might stand for a bond based on mundane things instead of mutual, understood emotions. In a work reading, it might stand for a workplace that isn't mindful of the feelings of its employees
The Knot
As the Knot, this card symbolizes the tension between living your emotions and coming to understand them. In order to advance in your journey, you have to look inside and investigate the connection between your feelings, your actions and the outside world
The Eye
When this card shows up as the Eye, it can represent an introspective soul, someone who values self-awareness and tends to know themselves pretty well
The Fall
As the Fall, this card warns you against blaming someone or something for your negative emotions. It can signify unjustified feelings that are triggered by false beliefs. When in this position, the card also stands for negative thoughts and behaviors internalized from the environment you live in
The Hook
When this card appears as the Hook, it's an invitation to look for the invisible forces that influence your life. You need to connect to your emotions and identify everything that's triggering them or swaying them in a particular direction
The Fruit
In the Fruit position, this card suggests an outcome that manifests itself through a deeper connection to your feelings and a broader understanding of what is causing them

Homework & Practice

In order to embody this card, you can:

  • Start cognitive journaling, a practice to help you unmask the beliefs (and false beliefs) hiding behind your thoughts
  • Take some time off and dive inside yourself.  Let feelings and thoughts emerge without judging them, simply acknowledge that they’re there
  • Pay particular attention to obsessive thought patterns and recurring negative emotions: the only way to break those cycles is to identify the situations and beliefs that they’re attached to
  • Take personality quizzes and ponder each answer carefully: you’ll get meaningful insight about how your brain operates and about your feelings over a variety of topics

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