Use the Tarot and Fellowship of Fools for meditation, journaling rituals and prompts, setting goals, self reflection and personal growth.
Get To Know FoF Mode
This Gameplay Mode is played with the Signifier Mod.
Get to know the prompts of FoF and yourself through this mode.
- Separate the Topic and Situation Cards.
- Read through the Topic Cards and put aside in a pile the cards with prompts that you would like to journal about.
- Read through the pile of set aside Topic Cards you chose, and choose one prompt from one card to journal about.
- Journal about your chosen prompt for 5+ minutes.
- Place the card with your chosen prompt with the pile of Topic Cards you did not set aside previously.
- Repeat Steps 3-5 as long as desired.
Journaling Prompt Mode
This Gameplay Mode can be played with the Signifier, Intentional or Magick Mod.
Use Fellowship of Fools as a journal prompt generator.
The Tarot is a tool for self-reflection and personal growth, to get to know you better. You may find it helps you play better with others in Multiplayer Mode.
- Decide which Mod you will be playing with.
- Separate the Situation Cards and the Topic Cards.
- Draw 1 Situation Card according to the Mod you have chosen.
- Draw Topic Cards according to the Mod chosen and the number next to the Situation Prompt in play and decide on the Topic Prompts you will used based on the Mod you have chosen and how well they fit for the Situation Prompt.
- Write about the prompts you drew for 5-15 minutes, or longer if you desire.
- (Optional) For more inspiration on reading the cards to inspire your writing, we recommend this numerology resource and this Tarot resource.
Single Daily Draw Mode
This Gameplay Mode is played with the Intentional Mod.
Use FoF for a daily ritual practice of meditation and journaling for self-reflection and personal growth.
- Sit alone with your chosen FoF deck (or other Tarot deck).
- Shuffle the cards, focusing on your breath in a similar manner to meditation.
- When you feel focused and ready, split the deck with your non-dominant hand.
- Draw the top card and turn it over from left to right.
- Look at the card and observe the symbols of the art.
- Read both of the card’s prompts, you can choose to meditate/write on one of them or both of them.
- (Optional) Meditate on the card’s symbolism, the prompts, and other possible interpretations you may have of the card’s symbolism. Focus on your breathing and the card for as long as you feel necessary. You can set a timer beforehand for 5-20 minutes for this meditation period.
- Take out a journal that is dedicated to this Mode and record the card you drew and what thoughts came from the draw, the symbolism, or the prompts.
Hidden Expectations Mode
This Mode uses the Intentional or the Magick Mod and can use the Signifer Mod.
Use this Mode to develop a better understanding of yourself or other people in your life.
This spread comes from the book Creating a Life Together and is derived from art therapy. Originally it was meant to be a series of writing prompts intended to access your unconscious mind by answering the questions as fast as you can, writing with your non-dominant hand. Instead, we’ve repurposed it to use the cards to reveal expectations about yourself that you may not be aware of.
- Choose which deck of FoF you would like to use and which Mod.
- (Optional) Choose a Signifier Card for yourself and place that on a table.
- Shuffle and draw a card for each of the questions below, and then line the drawn cards up in 4 rows of 4 cards.
- Use the prompts on the cards as well as your preferred Tarot card meaning resources to read the cards to find the answers to these questions about yourself. For more inspiration on reading the cards to inspire your writing, we recommend this numerology source and this Tarot resource.
- Write out the questions and cards and your reading of them on a computer or in a notebook for use later. You can do this spread for other people in your life as well.
- What do they want more than anything for themselves?
- What do they want more than anything for the world?
- What do they want more than anything for their children/the future?
- What do other people do that hurts them?
- What do they fear?
- What makes them mad?
- What makes them cry?
- If they could go back in their childhood and change their mother (or primary female caretaker), what would they change?
- If they could go back in your childhood and change their father (or primary male caretaker), what would they change?
- What didn’t they get as a child?
- If they could make something in their childhood better, what would it be?
- If they could make something in their childhood go away, what would it be?
- What do they need to feel safe?
- What do they need to feel loved?
- What do they need to feel happy?
- What kind of community do they want?
Lunar Journaling Mode
This Gameplay Mode can be played with either the Magick Mod or the Intentional Mod, and features Signifier Cards according to the spreads.
Use Fellowship of Fools to set goals and gain insight by the lunar phases of the Full Moon and New Moon and then to reflect back on these periods.
- Look up the Full Moon and New Moon cycles.
- On the eve of a Full Moon or New Moon, find the corresponding spread for that lunar cycle at Labyrinthos Academy.
- Select the Signifier Card specified in the corresponding lunar spread for the current time. Place this in the appropriate position in the spread.
- Read through the particular lunar cycle spread information. Thinking about the meaning of the particular spread positions, shuffle the cards, focusing on your breathing and the topics of the lunar spread you are doing.
- Draw the appropriate number of cards for the spread and place them in their corresponding positions.
- Flip over the cards from left to right, and then read the prompts according to the Mod you have chosen.
- In a journal dedicated to this Mode, write down the cards you drew and their meaning within the spread. Journal on the cards and spread for 10-30 minutes, paying attention to the card symbolism, the card prompts, personal interpretations for the cards and practical ways they speak to the coming ~2 weeks of your life. For more inspiration on reading the cards to inspire your writing, we recommend this numerology source and this Tarot resource.
- The evening before the next lunar cycle change, review what you wrote in Step 8 for the past lunar cycle and write a follow up on your reflections as to how those cards reflected that period and were helpful, or not, to you.
- The next evening, as the lunar cycle changes, start again at step 1.