An oracle sits in the space of veils and mist, of glimpses that disorient as much as reveal. An oracle does not tell us our fortune or our future so much as it speaks from our hidden present—revealing unconscious hopes and fears, unseen views within our present perspective, traces of choices and motives that cross and parallel the ones we are presently following.
An oracle leaves the responsibility
for our choices and actions with us. An
oracle does this by unveiling mystery more than by offering advice, by
prompting revelation more than by providing answers. We must still choose and act within this
expanded knowing, this expanded truth.
We must make our own connections between the oracle and daily life.
WHAT MAKES A JOURNEY?
A journey moves us
through the space between what we already know and what we have not yet
experienced. Loss of comfort, heightened awareness and unexpected discoveries
characterize a journey.
We may begin
with an intention to change a view, a routine, a situation—and find a journey’s
end that it is ourselves who have changed.
WHAT IS THE JOURNEY ORACLE?
The Journey Oracle
guides us by showing images of a situation for which we want advice, and then
by showing images of our relationship to this situation.
Like the I Ching,
the Oracle makes pronouncements about the origins and prevailing energy of the
situation and about the impact of our perceptions, and how the momentum of the
situation is being fed by our actions.
The Oracle reveals how to recognize the moment
of change, and what to avoid while within the change.
The Oracle tells us a
story within which is hidden the resolution we want for our situation.
