Laboratory
12. Laboratory
The Laboratory card depicts a workshop filled with scientists, measuring devices, books, and mechanisms. It conveys the exercise of calculation, formulas, and the scientific method. It is strategic, analytical, and research-based. If the Laboratory card has made an appearance today, it may be highlighting your relationship to logic and the mind. Is there a tendency to look at life through the scientific method? Has the need to be systematic and calculating sapped possibility, creativity, or spontaneity? Look at your method used to arrive at decisions. The need to overthink or overanalyze might leave you missing the point.
If this card was pulled with the intent to provide advice:
Use logic and strategy in your current situation. It will serve your highest good if, at this moment, you experiment with new ways while calculating and measuring the effects of your efforts. Put on the lab-coat and view the situation through the scientific method.
Key Descriptors:
Scientific method, logic, technique, calculating, planning, strategy, science, bureaucracy, precision, measuring, analytical experimentation, left-brain thinking, engineer.
Introspection:
Am I being overly logical, left-brained, or analytical towards a situation or project?
Am I looking at things from only one perspective or one way?
Am I missing the forest for the trees?
Conversely, am I being asked to be scientific, or process-oriented, in my pursuits?
Advanced play:
Native Dimension: Desire
Incompatible: 12 <> 14: Laboratory (calculated) / Embrace (surrender)