It was in fact Saturday – the day had come. And panic swept over me as I began asking myself, “What was I thinking?” I had sent out the invitations and now I had to show up. I continued to create internal dialogue around my lack of expertise in working with the cards. Until I thought, “Okay, what’s really going on here? What do I need to know to move through this?” And I pulled out my OH Cards.
One-Card Spread: Word (Expert) Image (#8 Hand Dealing Cards)
And I knew from this spread exactly what I needed to know in order to move through. In fact, I didn’t need to be an expert. We are each our own expert in receiving the insights available to us. OH is a powerful tool when we understand that the knowingness lives within us and these words and images help draw forth that knowingness by placing it before us using concrete images.
I continued with my plan for the gathering with my family. In attendance were probably sixteen or seventeen people, male and female, and of varying age groups. And we each held one question: “What do I need to let go of in order to move forward?” And the results were astonishing! In the normal comings and goings of life the people in this room hadn’t seen each other in a couple of years, but with the power of OH at hand each of us had been moved to very raw and vulnerable places. Even my grandmother, whose age is still in question, was available to what OH had to reveal to her. The evening went on with each of us exploring what was before us, what we needed to know, and discovering what forward moving action looked like for each of us individually.
Today, I’m most grateful for that then-dreaded day. I saw the power of OH.
Talisa Wisniewski
Chicago
Excerpted from original material for the book Strawberries Beyond My Window: Games of Association for Opening the Door to Creativity and Communitcation, 2nd German Edition, by Waltraud Kirschke.
