From the author: I started using associative metaphorical maps in my work not so long ago. But from the very first experience of using them, I still never cease to be amazed at the result that is achieved with their help. I want to share those cases for which clients have given permission for publicity and in which metaphorical cards showed themselves especially clearly in the section opened by this article." What do fortune telling lead to? "I began to use associative metaphorical cards in my work not so long ago. But from the very first experience of using them, I still never cease to be amazed at the result that is achieved with their help. I want to share those cases for which clients have given permission for publicity and in which metaphorical cards showed themselves especially clearly in the section opened by this article." What fortune-telling leads to." The first story. A 36-year-old woman under the pseudonym Victoria asked for psychological help with the following request: "I can’t afford to enjoy entertainment and relationships with men. I enjoy my work, I work as a manicurist and my clients. Mostly women. When working with men, I get very tense and am afraid of hurting their fingers with my tools. Relationships with men don’t really worry me today, I’m already used to what I have. To be honest, I don’t delve into this topic yet. I’m ready. I just want to find the reason why I can’t afford active rest. I always find a reason to deny myself even a carefree walk in the park. I look at adults with or without children who are sledding, skiing or skating down hills and I envy them. I would also remember my childhood in this way and with someone on a sled with a breeze I would slide down the mountain. It would seem there are no obstacles, but it’s as if something isn’t letting me in. The body asks for active rest, and not lying on the couch in front of the TV. I’ve been slim all my life, but now I’m starting to lose shape. Sad.” I suggest that the client draw a card from the “Chimera” obstacle deck. Here is the card she pulled out: The reaction to the image was immediate. The client begins to sob excitedly, her state is similar to catharsis, which was accompanied by cries: How could he do this to me? ??Having calmed down, the client describes the situation, or rather, two situations that she remembered when looking at the image on the map. In the picture, I see myself with a hole in my chest. I also see myself angry, swinging a stick. his father, who tramples with his foot what fell from my chest. He tramples my love for him. And this is not a metaphor. Further in the conversation it becomes clear that as a child at the age of five, Vika planned to go to the skating rink, but to quit on her own. She didn’t know how to tie her own laces on her skates yet. She remembered how she was sitting on a small chair while her father was tying her laces. At that moment she really wanted to go to the toilet, but she endured it, afraid to disrupt the process of her father’s help. Dad was strict and always harsh if he was distracted from any task. In the end, she couldn’t resist and peed right on the chair. The father's reaction to this was beyond the limits of the child's psyche. He hit her sharply, knocking his little daughter off her highchair and onto the floor. Then he stood up and put his foot in a slipper on her face with the words “mors.” There could be no talk of any skating rink or skating that day. The image of a woman with a stick in her hands reminded her of another situation in which she swung at her father as an adult, but suppressed a strong desire to hit her father with a ladle for doing something unacceptable to him. her behavior that he exhibited while drunk. The father was then frightened by his daughter’s gesture, and she realized that she could stand up for herself and not be afraid of him anymore. So just one card with a seemingly simple request raised such a huge layer of pain from my client’s subconscious. Our work with Victoria continued in line with the development.