II. How to
connect with an Oracle deck?
The oracle deck
is like an amazing friend – that you can invite in your life, connect, have
relationship, share things. Oracle will be in your service for many things, and
specially for increasing your psychic gift of clairvoyance. The key is – the
more you practice, the better you become. As with everything else. Few people
came to the world with very special gift of clairvoyance that doesn’t need
practice. And this is a gift. But all we are given the same, if we just choose
to receive it, to improve it. Also psychic gifts need nourishment, care, love
and dedication of energy. That’s why try and devote your time – the results may
surprise you.
For anyone who
is already familiar with the oracle decks, he/ she knows how to deal with them.
There are so many ways of cleansing and recharging the decks – more complicated
and more simple, depending on your personal preferences. But any deck needs to
be cleansed first when you take it (from post package or from the shop). The
deck should know it enters your home, and that he works specially with you, not
someone else. The first thing to do when you receive your deck is – to enjoy
it! :) view each card slowly, review the guidebook, touch each card and
carefully gaze in it. That is your first contact with the Oracle. Then shuffle
the deck. You may try to pull a card right away or you may wait for later time.
Your deck will
be cleansed – if you say just a simple prayer and invite your angels to work
with you trough this deck, or (as in Doreen Virtues decks) you may just knock
with your non dominant hand the back of the deck to cleanse its energy. I
personally choose to light up a red candle (symbolizing the light and fire
element), and then make a circle with it
above the deck in the air. Before that I say short prayer to the angels, while
gently covering the deck with my left hand – like:
“ with the help
and guidance of my angels, spirit guides, fairies, elementals (according to the
deck energy) – and archangels Chamuel, Haniel, Gabriel, and my Higher self, I
give blessings to this oracle cards. May it reveal true messages with love and
wisdom and help me in my path of ascension and spiritual growth – for the
highest good of myself and anyone involved in the readings. Thank you, and so
it is.”
This is the
whole ritual for introducing the deck to my energy and space. You can choose to
cleanse your deck with frankincense, or a crystal (any clear crystal or
selenite will be very effective). Do what you feel its right for you.
A very good
approach is to sleep with the new deck – but for me “under the pillow” doesn’t
work for many reasons. So I felt to put my deck near to my bed, on the night
stand – but you can place it in any place in bedroom, or in front of mirror,
and I place many crystals around it and one clear quartz above it. In this way
the deck`s energy connects with my sub-consciousness and dreams in the night.
And it really does, so don’t have doubt about that. So in the morning your deck
is cleansed, recharged and connected and you can start working with it, and
saying a short prayer before you start shuffling.
The Oracle (and
Tarot) deck is like your very close friend, as he knows all your hidden secrets
on very deep level. So the more you work with it, the more you look to it, love
it and ask help from it, the more he will give you love and support in return.
That’s how it works.
Its not a rule,
but usually more “lonely” souls or people who like to spend time alone,
contemplating, meditating and connecting with inner peace, tend to be more
attracted to oracle/ tarot cards. Some even start to be “obsessed” by having
many cards and create huge collections. That’s of course very good and
wonderful thing – but have in mind –in any collection intention is to
“increase” so the spiritual work, cleansing, recharging and connecting with all
decks will be much harder –or impossible. Any collector chooses to have just a
few decks that are in handy to him, and just “keeps” another as a part of his
memory or collection. So there is no need to hurry to possess many decks, even
if you feel attracted to. Slow down. Work with all cards that you have, love
them and dedicate time to readings. Then they will give you the same – true
messages.
Connection with
a deck will need some time, as any other relationship – for me I spend around
9-10 days with one deck after recharging it, in form of daily drawing cards for
meditation. One daily card practice is very useful if you want to create deep
connection with the deck and understand its essence. Each day you draw just one
card – then look to the image, see how it feels, what speaks to you, what are
the colors, what are the symbols and general impression. Then write it down in
a card journal. In such way you will have 10 cards observation. Reading the
guidebook for me is also obligatory in the beginning, even if I don’t use it
after that. The most important is the energy from the deck to become closer and
familiar to your energy, to your home atmosphere and your psychic qualities.
Then you can be sure your readings are accurate.
Oracle decks
have more open codes” and variety of different programs compared to Tarot
decks, which have already archetypal interpretations and meaning. So both are
very useful for your clairvoyance. But in order you to become really good, you
cant stay only in “one card reading”. Then you may start to practice simple
three card reading, in order to feel relations between cards in the deck. See
what will happen, try to read for many different people – regardless who – your
friends or family, just to practice. In such way you can have self-lessons on
how the cards are related and what are the messages you can read. What are the
weak points in that readings and what you feel? Just after this second period
you can proceed with bigger spreads of 5, 6, 9 or 10 cards.
And you are
invited to use your imagination! Be creative –don’t depend only on the spreads
in the book – make your own spreads –they will work specially for you, even if
they can look strange for someone.
(In next
articles I`ll share some of my favorite spreads with Oracle cards).
Card from the Oracle "Soulful woman" by Gemma Summers
Nina Lea-nour *
Angel`s medium
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