Some cool photo card images:
Design Axioms Cards
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Cards moving under a strobe light. Long exposure with a strobe flash going off.
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The card I pulled today.
Medicine Card 23- Opossum (inverted/reversed)
23 - Opossum: Diversion
Opossum's greatest form of protection is to play dead. In doing this Opossum
confuses many a predator into believing that the game is over. Oftentimes the confused
rival walks away or looks the other direction for a moment, and Opossum runs to safety. Opossum medicine uses a great deal a strategy. If all else fails, Opossum plays
dead. It has the ability to fight with its claws and teeth, but it rarely uses
this form of protection. Instead, the supreme strategy of diversion is constantly employed
when things get a little too hard to handle. Opossum has developed an act that would
receive an Academy Award in the animal kingdom. The must of the death scent is
excreted at will, adding to the master play that sends enemies on many trail of confusion.
If Opossum has turned up in your cards, you are being asked to use strategy in
some present situation. Rely upon your instincts for the best way out of a tight corner. If
you have to pretend to be apathetic or unafraid, do it. Oftentimes if you refuse to struggle
or show that hurtful words bother you, your taunter will see no further fun in the game.
warriors have used Opossum medicine for centuries, playing dead when the enemy nears
and outnumbers them. Then, in a flash, when the enemy is least expecting it, the war cry
is heard. The fright of this serves to further confuse the unsuspecting opposition. Victory
is sweet when the strategy is one of mental as well as physical prowess.
Opossum may be relaying to you that you are to expect the unexpected and be
clever in achieving your victory. This could be a victory over a bothersome salesman, a
nosy neighbor, or a persistent ego. In essence, Opossum is beckoning you to use your
brain.
Contrary/reversed (upside down)
In the reversed position, Opossum may be warning you against getting caught in
the high drama of your life's present scenario. "Close your eyes and dramatize," may
keep you from seeing the truth of a situation. You may buy into melodrama in yourself or
others. You might as well play dead if you are justifying what you are doing with a tragic
victim routine. If this concept does not apply to your situation, take a look at the
possibility that you may have recently been giving excuses for why you don't want to do
something instead of telling the truth. In fearing to hurt someone's feelings you may have trapped yourself in a justification pattern: "I'm too sick. I'm too poor. I'm watching my
weight. I'm too short, tall, sad, busy, tired, etc."
In having to defend yourself with excuses, you may have lost the point. You don't
have to defend your right to be. The exercise is in learning to politely say that something
would not be appropriate for you at this time. That's all! You owe no one an excuse.
Learn to imitate Opossum and play dead, in the sense that the best strategy is no defense.
In assuming the viewpoint of no defense, you have chosen the right to be who and what
you are with no games involved. The proper use of diversion is to know when you do not
need to use diversion at all. You own no one an excuse for how you feel or what you
choose to experience.
-The Medicine cards are always right.
