How to read the highlights of your Intuitive Vision Board. Using my 2022 vision board as an example, I share 8 key things to consider when you are reviewing your board. Remember this is a vision board created using the intuition so you need to be in an intuitive, relaxed state of mind when you are reviewing it and not with your logical, goal setting head on.
You may be surprised what you discover when you observe your inner creativity close up and penetrate its shy wisdom concealed there.
Your intuition isn’t trying to be unnecessarily cryptic. The language it prefers differs to that of logic. Colour, imagery, symbols, shapes and associative words are its divine speak.
The role of the intuition
As I start to review my 2022 vision board, the longest day in 2023 is already behind us already. I’m well overdue in gathering up the threads of my previous vision board, even while I’m living out of my 2023 board.
As act of completion, I’ve taken the time to look back over the year from February – March ’22, which is the lifespan of this particular intuitive vision board, and consider what has transpired and how this is reflected, both literally and symbolically, on my vision board.
To the untuned eye, my vision board looks like any other. But the ‘intuitive’ quality of the Intuitive Vision Board (IVB) is more intelligent, insightful and wise than you could ever imagine. There is nuance and subtlety in the imagery, quite staggering when I the unpack the meaning and significance deeply pertinent to me.
It never ceases to surprise me how intuitive the spiritual part of me is. How it knows things already and is able to project insights onto my IVB many months in advance of my cognitive mind having an awareness of it.
This soulful part of me already knows the deeper stirrings of my heart. The places where I am unknowingly ‘stuck’. The stumbling blocks I’m not consciously aware of. The deeper longings that remain buried because my rational mind has been talking me out of them (because from its perspective, it doesn’t believe they’re relevant or a priority).
Yet my intuition continues to goad me on, knowing they fulfil a deeper need while leaving my ‘head’ preoccupied with activities it ‘thinks’ are more important.
Retrospective exploration of your vision board
1. The point of departure
Start by defining your point of embarkation otherwise you will have no context in which to reflect or observe what has occurred in the interim months. What was in the air and how you were with this as you came to make your intuitive vision board?
For me, Covid was still very much around but lockdowns, thankfully, were a thing of the past. With some sadness, I was primed to leave my waterside cabin in Padstow, Cornwall where I’d moored for a year and move to a tastefully-converted cow shed in land-locked Oxfordshire. Quite a different environment.
This move was designed to cement the relationship I’d begun with Sailor Sam – a love story foretold in my previous vision board and shared in full glory in Love in a Cornish Climate. Nevertheless, it was quite a sea-change after years of being single. I led a relatively reclusive working life during lockdowns. My practice had ticked over online since in-person workshops had been out of the question – or so we were led to believe.
2. Any repeating motifs
This year’s vision board did not yield such dramatic results as last year’s did – Love in a Cornish Climate. I believe such powerful portents and the life changes that ensue are unlikely to occur every year because we just couldn’t cope with the degree of change. And you shouldn’t expect an annual breakthrough either. Otherwise, you might overlook what the vision board is telling you to pay attention to in your disappointment.
What jumps out at me is there are no less than 9 windows – including several large picture windows. I wasn’t to know in advance but one became the kitchen window of the Cottage I gaze through every day.
Windows represent Openings, Freedom, Liberation, Hope, Change, an alternative path. All of these words express the feeling tone of my first year back in Oxfordshire and my partnership with Sam.
The windows are mostly closed but knowing I’m in charge, I can open them at will. It feels to me that this affords me time and I’m looking out from a safe and protected space, which hasn’t been the case in so many years. While the square frame of the window is a universal symbol of the foundation and stability in which I’m sitting.
Windows bring clarity because they throw light into a room or onto a situation to illuminate the way forward. They can also invite us to step up our connection with Source, Universal Consciousness or Presence – however you prefer to refer to the spiritual space.
There are 4 arches on my board too. The arch has spiritual overtones and suggests a gateway to be passed through to embrace what’s on the other side. A leaving behind of the old and an initiation into a new phase of life. That feels very appropriate to me.
3. Movement in the board
Does your vision board move? If so, in what direction?
When I look at my board what I see are two lines of images forming a cross that intersects the big colourful striders in the centre. You may look at my board and think: ‘What on earth is she talking about?’ But in the end it matters not what you or others see or think, it’s what the board awakens in me, its creator, that has primacy and counts.
The Intuitive Vision Board contains a download of guidance and inspiration from the unified field, in terms the creator best understands. What others observe, feel and imagine are theirs and more likely to yield information they need to know than the creator.
4. Does it have a shape to it?
I see two axis of the Cross run North to South and East to West – and I have ‘travelled’ in both directions through these images throughout the course of the year. I’ll unpack a few of these revelations later. The shape of a Cross is a reminder that life unfolds through the activities we chose to engage with along what Eckhart Tolle (Power of Now) describes as the ‘horizontal dimension’ – the dimension of doing. But if we focus exclusively on the horizontal plane, we miss the point.
Our ultimate source of satisfaction in life is to recognise our spiritual nature and our Source. If we fail to realise this then, no matter what we achieve in life, it is not going to make us happy for long. Therefore Eckart advises us to pay equal, if not more attention, to the ‘vertical dimension’ of being. The Cross holds in balance the dance between the two – not as separate events, but acting together, being and doing as one, which the Tai Chi symbol represents.
That I have a Cross at all on my board is highly significant because 2022 became the year in which I entered into a committed relationship after 10 years of living on my own. The cross is a universal symbol of relationship. People working with the Cross are engaged with Coupling, Synthesizing, Integrating and Collaborating. It conveys their need for connection –to another person, to a creative project, to a group or to themselves.
The Cross people are more likely to value the quality not quantity of time shared. To desire to relate with love and trust, sharing and caring. These are qualities I’ve been able to rest into in my relationship with Sam and missed out on while living alone. It has meant too that I don’t have to do everything myself, which has freed up my time to develop my own work further.
5. Images you don’t like or disturb you
The woman with the chimpanzees puzzled me for a long time. I’m not fond of apes so I wouldn’t have chosen it on that basis. But the image felt very tender and loving and this drew me in. I also learnt, from the accompanying article, that the chimps were orphans and this woman became their surrogate mother.
It suddenly dawned on me that Sam and I were both orphans but for different reasons. In coming together we have provided each other with a sense of belonging and a depth of understanding that we both missed and have not been able to replace. Sam was literally an orphan for the first three years of his life before being adopted.
My mother became seriously ill in pregnancy with Tuberculosis suspected, I was separated from her when I was born. For 6 weeks I remained in hospital care with no visitors (logistically impossible for my family at that time in Devon). When we were reunited, she was still too ill to take full care of me and was continually in and out of hospital. My father couldn’t cope with the ‘loss’ and spent long hours working away from home and wife. Therefore I was unable to attach to either parent.
So what first appeared to be about two people finding love later in life turned out to be more profound and healing than that as the image depicted. Little did we know when we both swiped right on our first day back on Our Time. Especially when I thought Sam lived on my doorstep and then discovered he was 4 hours drive away. A small miracle to be sure.
6. Layers of meaning
My Intuitive Vision Board this time around has three layers to it. Like sedimentary rock, each layer builds on what has gone before, informing and inspiring what is to come. The bottom layer of mine (above) speaks to me of blue, deep, moody and smouldering. 8 of the images contain the Water element – specifically the sea; creative, intuitive, emotional depth. During 2022 as I began my partnership journey with Sailor Sam, I also touched, reclaimed and healed some significant wounds of my childhood. Interestingly too, I grew up by the sea.
The middle section speaks of the Fire element – quick, active, progressive, busy, purposeful. All sparks flying in 2022 as I reclaimed territory in the Thames Valley area, drawing on the additional strength the relationship brings.
The upper layer feels fresh to me and speaks of reaching for the light – light in colour, light in spirit. The trinity of 3 lights (above) showed up in two homes I spent quality time. Both the sculpture of the woman and the beautiful starfish speak to me of reaching for the stars.
7. Significance of the images in the centre
The image – or collection of images – in the centre of any board are worthy of extra attention. The stylised image of women striding out mine makes me smile. Two of them in particular remind me how my daughter and I are when we two Aries are out and about together. Celine is fair so she doesn’t look like the young woman adjacent in the leather jacket. But her can-do attitude reminds me of her (indeed her initials spell CAN) and sit next to the heart with ‘Mom’ laced over it. And, of course, there is the cocktail we often share together.
8. Meaning of the image metaphors
The image of the Greek God next to the lemon tree and lemon fusion is a tender reminder I have my very own Tea God now to bring me hot water and lemon in the morning. The lemon poster (we have an orange poster too) was purchased soon after we moved in. They both evoke warmth, joy, abundance and the Mediterranean to me. I enjoy their position next to the woman writing, which is also how I like to begin my day. The London-based song “Oranges and Lemons” is a symbol of hope and strength following the plague – and importantly a reminder of the value of family.
The results so far
It’s early days as I write this but here are some of the things that have manifested for me. I am delighted with all of them.
Quick, active, progressive, busy, purposeful
Within a month of completing this board, I went to Bologna for the weekend for my birthday. A month later, her boyfriend unable to go at the last minute, meant I was invited to join Celine for a 2-Centre holiday in Lisbon and Oporto. My goodness did we do plenty of striding out in all three places that I had never planned for – but my vision board had.
Making real strides
While contemplating how Celine’s career in London had been developing over the past 4 years and how proud I was of her, it hit me. At the very same age, I too was striding across London making my mark, promoting the marketing agency I’d co-founded. My favourite outfit at the time was a trouser suit from the Italian designer, Escada. It had a red boxy, double-breasted jacket with brass buttons and patterned cream and red wide trousers to match – very similar to the image on my board. I still wear coral red to give me energy and lift my mood. Also a reminder that this is my time, with active parenting behind me, to call on creativity to make big strides again.
The energy to stride comes from the hips. Having been active all my life, it was a shock to notice a pain in my hip and be told it was wearing out. My desire to attend to my hip in a more natural, less invasive way has led me back to my training in somatic dance-movement. It is also pushes me to be innovative and find other ways to stride out beyond the physical.
Enquiry from Greece
On a sweet parting note, while making the board I observed a strong yearning to visit Greece again. The images above spoke to me of Greek peninsulas where Cyprus trees kiss the sea. I thought of Halkidiki in the north and the three peninsulas near Thessaloniki, which I’d visited in my early teens before it was developed.
Nine months into the board – within 2 days of one another – I had a Feng Shui enquiry to help sell an apartment in Thessaloniki. I also heard from a Greek client Eleni who was originally from Athens. Nothing became of either in 2022. However I’ve since heard from Eleni to report that the Feng Shui has worked and she has found love. And I have carried out the Feng Shui consultation near Delphi online.
No further images of Greece appeared on my 2023 Intuitive Vision board. Why is that? Because there is no need. I’d already received the nudge from the universe and it’s now up to me whether I manifest that potential or not.
The role of your intuition
Would you like me to accompany you on your own retrospective exploration of your vision board?
If you’d like my trained eye to explore the psychic crackers on your board let’s set up an online review session.
If you’re ready to make a new vision board, let me know how you’d like to go about it. The options as always are:
- join an in-person workshop. Dates published here.
- arrange a private VIP workshop for yourself. In-person or online.
- arrange a private VIP workshop for a group of friends or colleagues. In-person or online.
About me
I’m a life change alchemist, championing the power of the intuition with the Intuitive Vision Board. To promote manifestation I use Intuitive Feng Shui to align the outer environment with the vision. The aim is to create a life you love from a space you love.
BA Anthropology. MA Somatic Arts Psychotherapy
Feng Shui professional & Reiki Master (since 1995)
Author of ‘Awaken Your Intuitive Vision’ available on Amazon or your local bookstore
