A Guiding Hand
A Guiding Hand is a collection of cards with words, phrases, and images inspired by the Northern Lights. It emerged from a decade-long Arctic Circle pilgrimage, where the creator observed and photographed the Aurora Borealis. The cards aim to provide insight and guidance for personal and professional challenges in today's world. The accompanying blog further explores the cards' meanings, offering practical advice for positive psychology practitioners. The author draws one card weekly and writes a blog post inspired by it, holding the readers and themselves in mind, with the intent to offer a guiding hand amid modern crises and challenges.
A Guiding Hand
In our darkness may we discover a Richer palette of colour
This card explores the metaphor of seeking light, particularly the Aurora Borealis, as a journey through darkness. It suggests embracing the night and the metaphorical darkness in life as a path to revelation and self-awareness. Drawing this card symbolises an invitation to confront and befriend one’s fears, vulnerabilities, and past traumas, recognising that darkness and light are interrelated. The experience of the Aurora in Finland serves as an example of finding beauty and colour in darkness. The text encourages embracing vulnerability as a natural aspect of growth, leading to self-transcendence. It emphasises the importance of accepting and owning one’s dark aspects to facilitate personal change and development, viewing challenges as opportunities to deepen self-awareness and cultivate wholeness.