Here is a free reading from the Journey Oracle with a twist of Samhain energy: the messages in the four cards of the reading are arranged to create a journey into reflection and action regarding this beginning of your spiritual new year. The first oracle card represents reflection--oracle messages about the challenges and accomplishments of the past year, the second oracle card represents integration--messages about your experiences when receiving this learning from the year. The third card contains messages of release: about what is no longer useful, about creating new patterns that renew and transform. The fourth oracle card presents a story containing messages of guidance, and suggestions for ways to act to bring this guidance alive in your spiritual new year.
Thanks to Selena Fox and the Circle Sanctuary for inspiring this renaming of the 4 cards in a Journey Oracle reading.
reflecting on the past year
Describe the challenges and accomplishments
of 2019 as shown in this image using simple phrases.
Do not analyze, doubt or discard what your inner voice is saying.
When you feel inner quiet, consider the Oracle’s identity.
Identity of Oracle: East
Why is this the Oracle of reflection?
Message from the Oracle about your challenges and accomplishments:
more wisdom
Why are you receiving this message?
pronouncements from the Oracle about your year
An Oracle reveals the forces that are moving beneath your year.
These sentences are not statements of logic or reason.
If a statement draws a blank from your unconscious,
move on to the next sentence.
This year began
by reconnecting.
The prevailing energy
of this year was
dramatically
unexpected.
The core energy
pattern of this year was a soft
covering.
The Mother of this
year was inventive.
The Father of this
year was burnt.
Your relationship to
the prevailing energy was
ready for
flight.
Your perception of
the year was obsessive.
The impact of your perception was flamboyant.
The connection
between the core energy pattern
and the year was felt as diffident.
The momentum of this
year was fed by
tightening up a few
phrases.
integrating what you have learned
Describe your first impressions of this image representing
how you have integrated what you have learned.
Do not analyze, doubt or discard what your inner voice is saying.
When you feel inner quiet, consider the Oracle’s identity.
Identity of Oracle: Ice Moon (Full Moon in January)
Why this is the Oracle of your integration?
Question from the Oracle about your integration:
Will the rim hold if the centre falls out?
Why are you receiving this question?
Your integration named:
Mother inside looking out
Your integration experienced:
anxiety, lighten up
the planet, mother inside looking
out, consternation
no judgement
detachment, eye tightness
no judgement, consternation
angst, mother inside looking out
reflecting back feelings, anxiety
detachment
hello, you look like you’re in pain,
desperate for nourishment
lighten up, the planet
Exterior support for integration:
an exterior or
support system for integration is odors.
releasing what is no longer useful
The Journey Oracle’s answers change the way you see things.
Your anxieties, fears and desires emerge to be recognized and resolved,
and hidden transformative energies are released.
Describe your first impressions of this image representing
the releasing of what is no longer useful.
Do not analyze, doubt or discard what your inner voice is saying.
When you feel inner quiet, consider the Oracle’s identity.
Identity of Oracle: Nion (Ash tree)
Why this is the Oracle of release?
Message from the Oracle about release:
Endless dancing
Why are you receiving this message?
creating new patterns of transformation
These statements bring an in-depth recognition of change
that you feel coming.
These indicate new patterns that are asking to happen.
If a statement draws a blank from your unconscious,
move on to the next sentence.
The power needed to
transform will be a sound of contentment.
Transformation will come by starting a war.
Your relationship to
these new patterns is frigid.
The moment of letting
go into transformation will smell of sex.
The concern to be
avoided within this transformation
will taste of famine.
Divine Will
The wisdom of life still going on will empower the
transformation.
Completed
transformation will be felt as a quality of
drifting in and out.
Dream on this question:
Are you
willing to trade places?
How is this an answer?
Music
guidance for the new year
Describe your first impressions of this image
of guidance for the new year.
Do not analyze, doubt or discard what your inner voice is saying.
When you feel inner quiet, reflect on the Oracle’s identity.
Identity of Oracle: Mystery
Why this is the Oracle of your guidance?
A guidance question from the Oracle:
Are you happy here?
Why are you receiving this question?
a Fairy Tale from the Oracle to guide your new year
The dense weave of meaning in a fairy tale provides insight into
the hidden forces within your new year.
In this fairy tale, your unconscious wisdom knows
the names of all the characters,
all the actions needed, and what is the happy ending.
SEEING WHAT IS
LOVED
A pair of robins built a nest outside a
woman’s kitchen window. Back and forth the sleek, strong parents flew, and yet
she did not much attend to the new life’s manifestation that might be curling
inside that twiggy bowl. Then one day she saw a wee curving form and a flash of
translucent orange greet an adult bird’s arrival. The gaping mouths wavering on
rubbery stalks counted three, and from that moment the woman’s attention often
rested on the little family.
The hatchlings grew
until their jostling with each other for the offered morsels threatened to send
one over the edge. The woman began to wonder what she would do if a chick fell
out, or if the nest itself came down. She plotted how to keep the birds safe,
but always stopped short of action because it seemed this is how they are, even
when the chicks were so big that they would teeter on the edge of the nest,
buzzing their wings like whirligigs, reaching out always to say there is not
enough food.
One morning the woman
saw a chick sitting on a branch near the nest, receiving a morsel from its
skinny overworked parent. It was weaving a bit on its untrained feet and
rebalancing frequently with wild flutterings. “How can this be?” The woman
thought in alarm. “Surely it’s not time yet for the survival of the species
story.” But she resisted trying to help and just kept watching. And then, as if
someone said “one of you has to go”—all the birds were gone. No chicks were
left in the nest, the one on the branch could not be seen, and the parents no
longer came.
The woman went
outside, and saw a robin a distance away in the garden. Then another flew past
in the yard. A third dropped to the ground at the edge of the forest. “Is that
you, my friend,” she wondered, “or maybe your child?” Suddenly the woman was
seeing what she loved everywhere.
Who are you in this story?
What guidance is in the story for your new year?
Based on who you are in the story,
now what are you now going to do
to begin your new year?
