EXPERIENCING A MARI® ASSESSMENT

“Pick six cards you like and one you don’t like,” the psychologist said to me.

I looked at the thirty-nine cards that were spread out on the white table before me. Each card, about the size of a playing card, was clear plastic with a different black symbol printed on it.

I seemed drawn to some symbols rather than others –and after a couple minutes, felt comfortable with my selections. I put the six symbol cards I liked and the one I didn’t to the side.

 

She then asked to me think of an issue. “You don’t have to tell me what it is. Just think about it and look at the cards again, and allow yourself to be drawn to two cards that seem to represent guidance for your issue.”

 

Almost immediately my issue came to mind. I had been thinking for months about going back to school. At the same time, I felt guilty. Our three children, who were two, four and five years old, were still young. I had been so grateful that I could stay home with them –until recently, when I had started wanting more. I wasn’t ready to work full time, but I had been thinking about going back to get my master’s degree.  It would take at least three years, going part-time. And, worse, it would cost several thousand dollars each year. For months I had been going back and forth in my mind. I knew that if I went back to school, I would be able to get a job that paid better when I finally did go back to work. At the same time, I not only worried about the money, I also wondered how I would ever be able to find the time to study. I wished I had a crystal ball that would tell me what to do.  

 

Then she took all the symbol cards away and spread out a rainbow of color cards in front of me handed me about the same number of color cards. The range of colors seemed to be present, from primaries and pastels to darker shades and even sparkle cards.

“Now, find the color that “goes with” with each of the symbols you have chosen, including the one you don’t like and the two you chose as guidance,” she said. She showed me how a color card could be put behind a symbol card so that the color showed through the symbol in various ways.

 

This was harder than I thought it would be. Colors that I thought I liked, just didn’t seem to go with certain symbols. I really pondered with my choices until finally I felt satisfied. 

 

She then placed the six symbol cards and colors pairs I liked and the pair I didn’t like on a large board called the Great Round. It had twelve stages arranged in a circle, as well as one stage in the middle, which represented the developmental stages of life. What was revealed was almost like a picture of my psyche.

 

Then, she began to tell me about myself.

It was amazing!

She immediately picked up that I was beginning something new. She also picked up on the struggle –and many other things that made so much sense.

 

I confirmed that she was absolutely right –especially about the issue I was struggling with.

“I just don’t know what to do.” The words just poured out of me. “I keep going back and forth. I wish I knew what to do.”

“Well, actually you do……..” she said, as she placed the guidance cards, that I had chosen earlier, on the Great Round.

 

“Your guidance cards indicate that you feel intuitively that you should start something new that involves learning. A part of you already sees yourself in the world as a thinker, using your mind. There is energy and will and assertiveness to do this new thing you are thinking about. Does that make sense to you?” she asked, as she showed me where my guidance cards fit on the Great Round. “The guidance cards seem to indicate a new beginning around learning. Does this seem to speak to your issue?” I hadn’t told her anything about my issue.  

 

I was amazed –and relieved. In one hour she had not only identified exactly what I was struggling with, she had provided a solution!

She laughed when I told her this. “This isn’t my solution –it’s yours! This solution came right from your own intuitive guidance. That’s why you can trust it.”

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