What is Pathwork? 
 
Pathwork is a journey, in that it takes you from one point to another, but 
it is also an active exercise, not a passive practice. This journey can be 
physical in nature, meaning you literally travel through the steps one at a 
time, as you will find in some of the exercises in the wandering section of 
this book. But not everything about pathwork is physically active. 
Sometimes it is merely a matter of raising your level of awareness about 
who or what is around you as you move from one thought, feeling, or 
action to another. For example, you may find yourself standing next to 
the Magician or someone who acts like the Magician in your life, only to 
then find yourself in the company of someone who has similar qualities 
to the High Priestess. You might even find yourself needing to physically 
walk your way through the energy of one of the cards or, for something 
like the Five of Swords, walk it off! No matter how you end up 
pathworking with the cards of the tarot, you will find yourself engaging 
with their lessons and messages more actively, which means you have to 
be willing to deal with what comes up while you take this journey. This is 
where the m

But it is not the only way, and you will see some of the intentional 
exercises can be just as intuitive as the intuitive exercises. This is the 
nature of pathwork: things merge and blend; sometimes the boundaries 
aren’t as clear as you would like them to be. 
 
2. Intuitive 
In the intuitive exercises, you may find yourself prompted to release 
what you think you need to know and just let the card tell you. This is 
more like channeling the card, listening to it speak to you, and allowing it 
to guide you on your journey without any nudging from your ego mind. 
This process opens up possibilities for a card that you would never 
receive another way. Oftentimes we can get fixated on what a card 
means or how it has to be interpreted, but this way you take all of your 
preconceived ideas and throw them out the window. 
How you go about selecting your card intuitively will depend on you, 
although I do have instructions in most of the intuitive sections. You can 
shuffle your deck, hold it to your heart with your question or intention in 
your mind, then just split your deck, taking whatever card happens to be 
on top. Or you can shuffle, cut with your cards facedown, and draw the