The User Guide for the Frames deck contains 45 summaries, one for each card, along with background and science behind how the deck works for insight.
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The User Guide summary of a card is not the definitive interpretation of a card! It’s simply a way to get you started so you can find your own unique meaning in each beautiful artwork.
The Frames deck contains 36 Idea cards based on modern concepts and terms. If Archetype cards are a year, then an Idea card is a day. An Idea card correlates with the detailed actions, events, and people in your life. Each Idea cards has a user guide page with keywords, summary, and starter help. Build on this for your own meaning. Each Force has 12 Idea cards.
Idea cards help you focus on smaller amounts of inner data, recent events, or new patterns. As you consider or meditate on an Idea card, think about the similarities between the illustration title and your question. Ask: in what way am I (or this situation) like or not like [the card title]? For example, if your question is about a health issue, the Hub card may confirm your intuition that your care is not well-rounded or spark new thoughts about caregivers being more connected.
Some Idea cards are closely aligned with Archetype cards. For example, the Security idea card and The Hacker archetype card have aligned concepts, or the Map card with The Traveler. Aligned cards within a frame should direct your focus there first.
The force—physical, intellectual, or spiritual—is shown in the card background. Forces tie different cards together into larger concepts or themes.
The Physical force cards have backgrounds with earth elements. Physical forces are what you feel inside a storm or from a mountain-top, during birth or death, or in a handshake or hug.
The Intellectual force cards have backgrounds showing things built with human brainpower, social organization, and handcraft. Backgrounds will show technology, structures, or writing. Inclusion of physical and spiritual forces may appear because this force bridges the other two.
The Spiritual force cards feature sky and space as their backgrounds. ‘Spiritual’ does not mean organized religion. It means a permeability to the universal impulses of love, ethical behavior, compassion, and your purpose in life.
