Collecting Your Charms

One of the things that I love most about Journey Casting is that pretty much any charm, trinket or small object can be used in your Journey Casting set.

You’ll want it be be small enough and robust enough to be thrown around with the other objects in your set without damage.

And you’ll want it to be something that you can give a meaning to.

You’ll start to notice small objects and regard them differently.

Collect the things that draw your attention, or that you find curious.

Just because you collect it doesn’t mean that it has to be included in your set immediately.

You may find that something catches your attention and you’ll save it.

Then only weeks or months later, does it make sense how it wants to be used, and only then is it added to your Journey Casting set.

This is a journey of (re)learning to trust yourself.

If you find something curious, and you feel called to save it, then do so.

In time it will make sense, or it will lose its curiosity and you’ll know that it’s time to release it.

What to Use for Charm Set

No doubt you already have suitable objects that could be used as you start to build your Journey Casting kit, or add to it.

You could include, but not limited to:

• Metal jewellery charms
• Old earrings/pieces of jewellery that you no longer need
• A ring
• A key
• Buttons
• Beads (be careful with perfectly round ones or they may just roll away!)
• Thimble (Metal)
• Stones
• Tumblestone crystals or crystal chips
• Shells
• Pieces of wood
• Acorns
• Nuts/shells
• Small pine cones
• Seed pods
• Dominos
• Die
• Coins
• Small bones

Charms to Get You Started

To start with you want around 8-12 charms in your set.

This is likely to grow quickly, but to start with as you get familiar with Journey Casting and reading the charms, it’s easier to start with less.

As you get more confident you can add more (and more, and more and more….) charms to your set.

As you start, you may want to include small items that represent the following:

This collection of charms would give you a great place to start for interpreting your readings.

Then as your experience and confidence grows, you can add more charms to get greater insight and then explore the nuances of the message coming through.

What is Journey Casting?

Journey casting is a form of divination that uses charms, trinkets or small objects.

The charms are cast/thrown onto a casting surface, and where and how they land is then interpreted to receive intuitive messages.

It’s often called charm casting, because of it’s use of charms as the tool of divination.

It likely orginated from Osteomancy, and using the casting of bones to answer questions.

Journey Casting focuses on you connecting with your inner wisdom to offer you insight and guidance to where you are on Your SHEro’s Journey.

It’s a powerful form of divination.

I believe that it’s power lies in its simplicity and the fact that there are no rules.

Ahhhh no rules!

Scary for some… but totally liberating for your connection to your inner wisdom.

It’s easy for us to be conditioned to follow the rules, we do it without even noticing.

Whilst some rules are useful.

It’s also useful to learn who you are, how you think and what you believe, away from the conditions of rules.

Having said there are no  rules… there are a few guidelines, but really you are free to do this how you please.

And as always with guidance, take what works for you, adapt or ‘throw out’ the rest.

It’s a Journey of deeply connecting to your intuition.

It allows you uncover your ability to join-the-dots, to explore your stories.

Stories after all are what make us human.

When you interpret a Journey Casting reading, you’re not looking to a guidebook to give you the answers.

You’re uncovering your unique interpretation.

What you need in that very moment.

What You Need

In its simplicity, all you need are some charms/trinkets/small objects to cast.

An object to stir/shuffle them in.

A surface to ‘cast’ your charms on to.

This could be as simple as a few objects you have lying around the house, your hands to ‘shuffle’ them – like you would a dice, and a table to cast them onto.

Simple.

Then it’s time to connect with your inner-wisdom and interpret the message they have for you.

Keep it simple

But of course you can make this much more elaborate, and you will do as you go along.

But always start simple.

It’s easy to add to your collection, once you have the basics, but it’s hard to move out of overwhelm, if you try to start out by making it too ‘fancy’ and complicated.

Simple is best.

Simple will mean that you are likely to continue with this fun and powerful form of divination.

Overwhelm may mean your charms are destined to become covered in dust!