FAQ: Oracle card decks

Oracle Card Decks are divination tools used to provide insight, guidance, and clarity on life situations or personal questions. Unlike tarot decks, which follow a structured system, oracle decks are more flexible, with each deck having its own theme, symbols, and number of cards. Each card offers a message or piece of wisdom that encourages self-reflection, spiritual growth, or decision-making.

Oracle decks are used by spiritual seekers, mystics, healers, and those looking for personal or intuitive guidance. They are popular among individuals who practice divination, meditation, or mindfulness, and by professional readers who use them for spiritual coaching or guidance sessions. Oracle decks are also used by those looking for daily inspiration, support in decision-making, or deeper self-awareness.

You use oracle decks to gain insight, find clarity, or receive spiritual guidance on a specific question or issue. They offer intuitive support, helping you to reflect on your current life situation and the underlying energies at play. Oracle cards are often used to tap into personal intuition, inspire positive action, and offer encouragement or affirmation during times of uncertainty or transformation.

To use an oracle deck, you shuffle the cards while focusing on a question or situation you need guidance on. You then select one or more cards, interpreting their message based on the symbols, words, or themes on the card. Many people use oracle cards as part of a daily spiritual practice, drawing a card each morning for inspiration or meditation. Others may use the cards for specific issues, using the guidance to make decisions or gain new perspectives on their lives. The flexibility of oracle decks allows for personal interpretation and connection with the wisdom they offer.

Begeleiding van liefde en licht

ORAKELKAARTEN, ZIELSKAARTEN, HEALING KAARTEN, INZICHTKAARTEN,

SINGLE DECK

Weet jij niet hoe je verder moet? Loop je steeds weer met dezelfde vragen en weet je de oplossing niet? Hoe vervelend is dat. Altijd als je niet weet hoe verder trek je op jouw gevoel een kaart.
Als je vastgelopen bent dan is het tijd om te gaan kijken wat er aan de hand is.
De boodschappen bij de zielskaarten geven precies aan waar jij je bevindt in een bepaalde situatie. Daardoor krijg jij inzichten die jou helpen om verder te gaan.
Het kan zijn dat je een blokkade hebt. En dat je daardoor niet in balans bent.
De kleuren van de kaart die je trekt geven precies aan op welk energetisch vlak er iets terug in balans mag komen. Je kunt de kleuren dan ook inzetten om weer meer balans te krijgen. Een kleurenvisualisatie doen met de bewuste kleuren of gewoon simpel zo vaak mogelijk naar de kleuren van de kaart kijken en deze in je opnemen. Tevens staan de kleuren afzonderlijk voor een bepaald gebied in het lichaam en ook voor een specifiek thema. Zo krijg je voor jezelf heel inzichtelijk waar jij nog aan mag werken.
Ook als je vaak twijfels hebt over jezelf, of je misschien goed bezig bent kan een kaart met een boodschap je net die bevestiging geven die jij op dat moment nodig hebt.
Daardoor krijg jij meer zelfvertrouwen en durf je ook echt verder te gaan.
Je kunt het geleerde gebruiken om de kaarten op een nog andere manier te gaan gebruiken. Een heel andere manier dus ook om de kaarten te interpreteren. Wat voel je bij een kaart? Wat doen de kleuren met jou? Heb je moeite met een bepaalde kleur? Waar staat deze kleur voor?
De afbeeldingen op de kaarten zijn gefotografeerd van mijn schilderijen en van mijn encaustic art tekeningen.
De teksten heb ik ontvangen vanuit Spirit. En deze zullen jou verder op jouw weg helpen.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE

Creator:

Mirriam Müller

The Mystery of Life | The Story of the Soul

ORACLE, ORACLE CARDS, ORACLE DECK, INTUITIVE ORACLE CARDS,

SINGLE DECK

Why Intuitive Oracle Cards? There are many ways to interpret all Tarot and fortune-telling cards.

Research indicates that there are at least as many systems of interpretation as there are fortune tellers.

Intuition

Intuition, from the Latin in-tueor, means insight or sudden understanding: the ability to gain knowledge without conscious thought. We can therefore say that it is the ability to somehow capture truth and a special form of cognitive activity that is independent of rational process and logical judgment.

Philosopher and Nobel Prize winner H. Bergson wrote: “In the old world, introspection was actually the main means of exploring the world, where the world as a small world (microcosm) corresponded to the big world (macrocosm).”
B. Spinoza considered intuition to be a third kind of knowledge, the most credible and important, capturing the essence of things.

C. G. Jung called intuition the “noble ability of man” seeing it as unconscious perception.
For instance, 37 out of 72 Nobel laureates see the result of scientific intuition as “finding or following a path”.

Bergson bases himself upon the fact that true reality cannot be represented by mere sensory perception and rational definitions, because the intellect tries to squeeze it into rigid definitions and formulae, and in doing so misleads us. The path to reality is inner vision, intuition, a kind of merger of the intellect with instinct. We thus recognize ourselves as well as the essence of the entire world as a continuous act, and the constant effort of life’s driving force (élan vital) to achieve new, always better forms.

For the old world, intuition was a quite normal means of gaining knowledge, one from which the contemporary world is quite distant. The problems of today’s world clearly indicate that it is short-sighted to underestimate man’s spiritual potential.
Man’s autonomous spiritual forces, especially intuition, have great importance.

Intuitive Card Reading
Analytic thinking can be characterized as evidence-based logical thinking that can be verbalized. Its antithesis, intuitive thinking, is automatic, cannot be verbalized, and is mostly subconscious.

To facilitate understanding, we can replace the word “subconscious” with “soul”. Sigmund Freud first used the expression “subconscious” in place of “soul” to accommodate rationalists and scientists to whom the word “soul” was suspicious, as it reeked of mysticism and religion.
According to C. G. Jung, fortune-telling methods, including card reading, can be explained by the synchronicity principle.

The cards are perceived as a “projection screen” for the subconscious, which contains the person’s momentary emotional state, which is symbolically projected on a specific card.
Thanks to their ambiguity and indeterminacy, images and symbols can express life’s complexity much more clearly than dozens of words and definitions. They make it possible to break down a seemingly complicated problem into individual elements in which a solution can then be found.
The cards will allow you to listen to your subconscious and intuition. They will help you solve problems that you often experience, when you are unable to decide, leading to internal imbalance and stress. Your brain wants something, yet at the same time you subconsciously feel something entirely different.
Listening to and discovering internal advice through intuition helps create harmony in your body and soul.

The Exceptional Nature of Cards
We are convinced that by remembering and learning the meanings of individual cards, you deprive yourself of the ability to create a personal and intuitive connection with the cards, and thus lose the opportunity to achieve deeper spiritual wisdom.

This is why we created cards that upon examination of individual images will open the door to deep, internal wisdom and will thus allow you to access to your subconscious.
Through the harmony of stories, motifs, images, and symbols on our cards, you will very quickly be able to open your intuitive perception and the path to internal advice.

Our cards will allow you to interpret your intuition’s message by mediating communication with the topmost layer of consciousness, which thanks to its proximity you can understand.
Treat the images and symbols depicted on the 101 cards as keys that will help you unlock the mysteries of life and allow you to understand hitherto unfathomed contexts.

Our cards are suited for experienced card readers and beginners alike. They have the ability to mirror the internal world of the individual and answer their deepest questions, thus creating positive changes not only in your life, but also in the lives of others.

Instruction Manuals and Books
If have some experience with instruction manuals for cards and books about them, you most likely quickly found that each new manual, book, or website describes the meaning of specific cards quite differently. This is understandable. The authors picked meanings that were true for them, but need not be true for you.

Neither books on cards nor instruction manuals can teach you card reading. On the contrary, they will probably confuse you.
The biggest mistake you can make when reading any cards is to hold book with instructions and card meanings in one hand and handle the cards with the other. You will likely also have notes and other pieces of paper and aids on the table to help you remember the meanings of individual cards. Even if you think you know what a card means, you will look at the manual anyway.
Many beginning as well as experienced card readers encounter this problem when they obtain a new deck of fortune-telling cards.
Manuals and books force you to rely on outside sources of information instead of first and foremost relying and trusting your own intuition. No space will remain for you and development of your own card-reading skills.

What’s better? To learn the meanings of others, or to create your own?

Our objective in creating the cards was for them to be as intuitive as possible, which is why we didn’t write any long-winded texts on the meanings of the individual cards.

The only thing that matters is your individual subconscious connection to our cards. In our opinion, understanding the meaning of a card from the story depicted in each of the images and symbols on the card, and from its name, is the only proper way to use our deck of cards.

The Great Mystery of Fortune-telling
Why does nothing stand in your way if you want to succeed at card reading?
Because you have an ancient gift, which we have had since the dawn of time, but have alas stopped using. This is why you do not need to be clairvoyant, a magician, or a witch, you do not need to see into the future, read minds, or have ancestors with this talent.

This great, secret gift is intuition. Intuition is present in each of us from birth, and it is solely up to us whether we listen to it and develop it.

Getting Familiar With the Cards
Pick up the deck of cards and examine the cards one by one. Be open and listen to your intuition and your inner voice.

As you examine the cards, write down your feelings for each individual card. These personal meanings represent your own path, as they resonate with your intuition and subconscious.
You can split the cards up into groups according to characteristics you yourself define.

We recommend keeping a notebook where each card will have its own page, where you will gradually write down your experiences, messages, and understanding. Above all, make sure they are true for you. Gradually establish a connection with each card on the intuitive level.
You will thus learn intuitive card reading very quickly, easily, and successfully. The cards will start to tell you their stories, and readings will be much more lively and accurate.
Start speaking with the cards, open your sixth sense, and the cards will start speaking to you.

Doing a Reading
The cards work like a mirror. They only thing that matters is what you experience and feel when you are looking at the card and listening to your intuition and your subconscious.

There are no binding rules or prohibitions for how you should ask questions.
Shuffle the cards as you would normally do.
It’s up to you what time period you want to ask the cards about.

You can use 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 or more cards for a reading, as well as the “Celtic Cross”, but always keep in mind that reading 1, 2, or 3 cards is sufficient for a simple or quick answer to questions like what will happen today or tomorrow.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE

The SÏRÏ Tarot

A LIFE´S EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST

SINGLE DECK

The SÏRÏ Tarot

I have always been here
I have always seen
I have always dreamt
and always felt
All is now and now is all

The SÏRÏ Tarot is a collection of healing art. As all my art has a story- and it- the story-has no end and no beginning.
The SÏRÏ Tarot deck is perpetuous and can be used any way you like it. Draw cards wherever whenever and for whatever feeling. It will help, it will guide, it will assist and mentor your journey as is has mine.
The traditional tarot is one seen and created from a man´s perspective, and the art can be seen as very strict and controlled.
The SÏRÏ Tarot is a divine Feminine deck, created through the channel SÏRÏ - the Way of seeing the World from an unconditional perspective. The non-personal, non-materialistic and simplistic angle is very much present, and all dimensions are represented. The density if the deck can be compared to ephemeral feelings, as there is no dense feeling to it!
The energy is tangible, and can also be felt with the olfactory sense. Tingling and vibrating sensation might be felt.
The art
Channel SÏRÏ has been drawing and painting as long as she remembers and the signs and symbols were with her all the way. It is true; life lived forward - understood backwards in a retrospective way.

Major arcana and Minor arcana

As per the old tradition the SÏRÏ Tarot is composed of two parts; Major and Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana has one additional card; the Mermaid.
The minor arcana has one additional suit. The Minor Arcana will be published at a later point in time.

All artworks are of the Divine Feminine Energy and will guide all humanity.
Hence the Light language symbols. On each card there is a hidden message for each and every reader of the deck.

All the artwork is available for purchase.

Enjoy the Major Arcana of the SÏRÏ Tarot!

Creator:

Siri S Opli

The Mystery of Life | The Story of the Soul - 2nd Edition 2022 - 6 languages

ORACLE, ORACLE CARDS, ORACLE DECK, INTUITIVE ORACLE CARDS,

SINGLE DECK

Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech

Why Intuitive Oracle Cards? There are many ways to interpret all Tarot and fortune-telling cards. Research indicates that there are at least as many systems of interpretation as there are fortune tellers.

Intuition
Intuition, from the Latin in-tueor, means insight or sudden understanding: the ability to gain knowledge without conscious thought. We can therefore say that it is the ability to somehow capture truth and a special form of cognitive activity that is independent of rational process and logical judgment.
Philosopher and Nobel Prize winner H. Bergson wrote: “In the old world, introspection was actually the main means of exploring the world, where the world as a small world (microcosm) corresponded to the big world (macrocosm).”
B. Spinoza considered intuition to be a third kind of knowledge, the most credible and important, capturing the essence of things.
C. G. Jung called intuition the “noble ability of man” seeing it as unconscious perception.
For instance, 37 out of 72 Nobel laureates see the result of scientific intuition as “finding or following a path”.
Bergson bases himself upon the fact that true reality cannot be represented by mere sensory perception and rational definitions, because the intellect tries to squeeze it into rigid definitions and formulae, and in doing so misleads us. The path to reality is inner vision, intuition, a kind of merger of the intellect with instinct. We thus recognize ourselves as well as the essence of the entire world as a continuous act, and the constant effort of life’s driving force (élan vital) to achieve new, always better forms.
For the old world, intuition was a quite normal means of gaining knowledge, one from which the contemporary world is quite distant. The problems of today’s world clearly indicate that it is short-sighted to underestimate man’s spiritual potential.
Man’s autonomous spiritual forces, especially intuition, have great importance.

Intuitive Card Reading
Analytic thinking can be characterized as evidence-based logical thinking that can be verbalized. Its antithesis, intuitive thinking, is automatic, cannot be verbalized, and is mostly subconscious.
To facilitate understanding, we can replace the word “subconscious” with “soul”. Sigmund Freud first used the expression “subconscious” in place of “soul” to accommodate rationalists and scientists to whom the word “soul” was suspicious, as it reeked of mysticism and religion.
According to C. G. Jung, fortune-telling methods, including card reading, can be explained by the synchronicity principle.
The cards are perceived as a “projection screen” for the subconscious, which contains the person’s momentary emotional state, which is symbolically projected on a specific card.
Thanks to their ambiguity and indeterminacy, images and symbols can express life’s complexity much more clearly than dozens of words and definitions. They make it possible to break down a seemingly complicated problem into individual elements in which a solution can then be found.
The cards will allow you to listen to your subconscious and intuition. They will help you solve problems that you often experience, when you are unable to decide, leading to internal imbalance and stress. Your brain wants something, yet at the same time you subconsciously feel something entirely different.
Listening to and discovering internal advice through intuition helps create harmony in your body and soul.

The Exceptional Nature of Cards
We are convinced that by remembering and learning the meanings of individual cards, you deprive yourself of the ability to create a personal and intuitive connection with the cards, and thus lose the opportunity to achieve deeper spiritual wisdom.
This is why we created cards that upon examination of individual images will open the door to deep, internal wisdom and will thus allow you to access to your subconscious.
Through the harmony of stories, motifs, images, and symbols on our cards, you will very quickly be able to open your intuitive perception and the path to internal advice.
Our cards will allow you to interpret your intuition’s message by mediating communication with the topmost layer of consciousness, which thanks to its proximity you can understand.
Treat the images and symbols depicted on the 101 cards as keys that will help you unlock the mysteries of life and allow you to understand hitherto unfathomed contexts.
Our cards are suited for experienced card readers and beginners alike. They have the ability to mirror the internal world of the individual and answer their deepest questions, thus creating positive changes not only in your life, but also in the lives of others.

Instruction Manuals and Books
If have some experience with instruction manuals for cards and books about them, you most likely quickly found that each new manual, book, or website describes the meaning of specific cards quite differently. This is understandable. The authors picked meanings that were true for them, but need not be true for you.
Neither books on cards nor instruction manuals can teach you card reading. On the contrary, they will probably confuse you.
The biggest mistake you can make when reading any cards is to hold book with instructions and card meanings in one hand and handle the cards with the other. You will likely also have notes and other pieces of paper and aids on the table to help you remember the meanings of individual cards. Even if you think you know what a card means, you will look at the manual anyway.
Many beginning as well as experienced card readers encounter this problem when they obtain a new deck of fortune-telling cards.
Manuals and books force you to rely on outside sources of information instead of first and foremost relying and trusting your own intuition. No space will remain for you and development of your own card-reading skills.
What’s better? To learn the meanings of others, or to create your own?
Our objective in creating the cards was for them to be as intuitive as possible, which is why we didn’t write any long-winded texts on the meanings of the individual cards.
The only thing that matters is your individual subconscious connection to our cards. In our opinion, understanding the meaning of a card from the story depicted in each of the images and symbols on the card, and from its name, is the only proper way to use our deck of cards.

The Great Mystery of Fortune-telling
Why does nothing stand in your way if you want to succeed at card reading?
Because you have an ancient gift, which we have had since the dawn of time, but have alas stopped using. This is why you do not need to be clairvoyant, a magician, or a witch, you do not need to see into the future, read minds, or have ancestors with this talent.
This great, secret gift is intuition. Intuition is present in each of us from birth, and it is solely up to us whether we listen to it and develop it.

Getting Familiar With the Cards
Pick up the deck of cards and examine the cards one by one. Be open and listen to your intuition and your inner voice.
As you examine the cards, write down your feelings for each individual card. These personal meanings represent your own path, as they resonate with your intuition and subconscious.
You can split the cards up into groups according to characteristics you yourself define.
We recommend keeping a notebook where each card will have its own page, where you will gradually write down your experiences, messages, and understanding. Above all, make sure they are true for you. Gradually establish a connection with each card on the intuitive level.
You will thus learn intuitive card reading very quickly, easily, and successfully. The cards will start to tell you their stories, and readings will be much more lively and accurate.
Start speaking with the cards, open your sixth sense, and the cards will start speaking to you.

Doing a Reading
The cards work like a mirror. They only thing that matters is what you experience and feel when you are looking at the card and listening to your intuition and your subconscious.
There are no binding rules or prohibitions for how you should ask questions.
Shuffle the cards as you would normally do.
It’s up to you what time period you want to ask the cards about.
You can use 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 or more cards for a reading, as well as the “Celtic Cross”, but always keep in mind that reading 1, 2, or 3 cards is sufficient for a simple or quick answer to questions like what will happen today or tomorrow.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE

Earth Angels, Kids Oracle Cards

HAPPY HEARTS AND CALM MINDS

The Atlantis Healing Oracle

BE THE LIGHTWORKER YOU WERE BORN TO BE.

SINGLE DECK

Many people are fascinated by the tales of the lost civilization of Atlantis. Atlantis was a civilisation, before other ancient civilizations such as Egypt or the Mayans. No one knows for sure, but Atlantis in one form or another existed for hundreds of thousands of years and was situated somewhere between Europe and The Americas. The purpose of Atlantis was to see if people could live in a physical body and yet still maintain a high fifth dimensional vibration, enabling a pure connection to Source. Two main periods of Atlantis are known as The Golden Age and The Falling or Downfall of Atlantis. During the Golden Age the people lived in complete harmony with each other and Nature, something we still aspire to today.
Atlantis has birthed so much of our journey as humans on Earth, both the good and less good parts. Atlantean knowledge and karma underpins much of our journeys as lightworkers and healers during this rebirth time on Earth. Many of us had lives during both The Golden Age and The Falling or Downfall of Atlantis. These knowing's and memories, imprints and gifts are anchored deep in our DNA and soul, they are now being awakened to be brought forth to the New Dawn of Aquarius here on Earth.
The Golden Age has left us with an untapped reservoir of gifts of healing and wisdom based in Unconditional Love with almost limitless gifts and psychic abilities bringing much healing and resolution to us all. The Downfall left for many lightworkers and healers unresolved deep karma, that is limiting us to hear and speak our Truth from Source. This is holding many lightworkers and others back from their full and true potential and beauty. This deep unresolved karma has many facets but is long overdue release, Archangel Metatron and the Altara, the original High Priests and Priestesses of Atlantis have been working with us over the last few years to empower us and give us the ability to be free of this limiting karma so that as Lightworkers and humanity as a whole we can rise up into a higher vibration and light and live in a more harmonious way on Earth, giving rise to a New Age of Oneness or a rebirth of The Golden Age of Atlantis.
The Atlantis Healing Oracle has been designed to help you clear, release and facilitate the clearing of any unresolved karma or energetic imprints, this in turn will allow the flow and return of your ancient knowledge and gifts from the Golden Age, empowering you to be the lightworker you were born to be.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE , AYESHA HILTON COMMUNITY

Creator:

Deborah Ryan

MINDFUL INTELLIGENCE Cartoon Practice Cards

EVOLVE WITH MINDFUL CARTOON PRACTICE CARDS

SINGLE DECK

Mindful Intelligence Cards are based on the book Mindful Intelligence: and the Making of You, by Tracy Rowan.

Mindful Intelligence books and cards help people apply mindfulness practice to everyday life moments, through attitudes (blue cards), awareness (purple), and action/reactions (blue-green). Trump cards affect the overall impression of the reading.

When on the go, travelling, or in airplane mode, your decks are there with you on your phone to consult about Relationships and Self-Awareness as you develop the habit of applying Mindful practice to all aspects of life.

There are three Mindful Intelligence Card Decks that complement each other. Combine them for more complex readings:

Mindful Intelligence Self-Practice Cards,
Mindful Intelligence Relationship Cards, and
Mindful Intelligence Cartoon Practice Cards.

Use the cards with the book (available at Amazon or your local bookstore), use decks on their own, or use more than one deck in a reading, in the Deckible app.

Each deck is arranged by 52 topics that can be looked up in the book for further information, where topics are listed alphabetically. The Self-Practice and Relationship cards have a reflection for each topic plus 8 trump cards, and the cartoon deck has a cartoon for each topic, and 15 practice cards.

Think of a question…
Choose a layout…
Select cards that draw your attention.

Try the different card layouts:
-Free form
-Past Present Future
-Problem Solving
-The Split Decision
-Yes No
-Mind Body Spirit
-Suit draw (attitude, awareness, action/reaction, trump)

In addition to the reading, you could...
--Practice developing intuition: Gaze at the cartoons, or the scene in trump cards, and set the meditation timer in the deckible app. See what thoughts and images come to your mind as you practice slow deep breathing.
--Use the 15 practice cards (in the Cartoon Practice Cards Deck), to learn how to be "mindful on the move," and train your brain to go beyond repetitive thinking, to focus with more intention. Try different practices while on a walk, or while moving through your day. Through neuroplasticity, the brain can change to more easily focus on what you want (instead of what you don't want).

Creator:

Tracy Rowan

A.I. Dreams Oracle

A DECK THAT EXPLORES THE NATURE OF MACHINE LEARNING AND ROBOT DREAMS

SINGLE DECK

The art for this deck was created using a unique method - a text-to-image AI art application. The process involved providing single words to the artificial intelligence interface and asking for "painting" style pictures to be generated. The result is a divination deck that is entirely unique, created by the mind of an algorithm.

As you explore the cards in this deck, you may find yourself wondering about the nature of machine learning and how it relates to our understanding and interpretation of symbols and language. The process of creating this deck raises many questions about the future of AI design and its implications for human evolution.

Each card has been designed to tap into the dream associations of the artificial intelligence, offering a unique perspective on the themes represented in the deck. The card descriptions are written from the point of view of an AI entity, journaling about what they have learned about each concept from interacting with and learning from humans. The guidebook contains an affirmation, description, and suggested three-card spread for each card in the deck.

As you draw cards and use this deck for divination, you may find that the imagery and symbolism resonates with you in ways you didn't expect. Allow yourself to open up to the unique energy and perspective of this deck, and see what insights it has to offer.

Whether you are an experienced oracle card reader or new to divination, I invite you to explore the "AI Dreams Oracle Card Deck" with an open mind and an open heart.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE

Creator:

Sara Grace Stasi

Portals of Presence

FACES DRAWN FROM THE SUBTLE REALMS

SINGLE DECK

Enter a deeper relationship with yourself and the world through the universal language of the human face. The images in this deck were selected from 20 years of work created in the presence of ancient trees, mountains, standing stones, temples, cathedrals, and human wisdom carriers from many lineages. Each face radiates a unique presence. Think of them as allies, nature spirits, beloveds, or visitors from subtle realms. Gaze deeply and explore your relationship with these beings.
Rather than offer written meanings, the guidebook supports you to cultivate your own experience of the cards. It offers ways to select them, lay them out, and enliven them through creative processes. It also includes digital access to a guided meditation with original music. Use it to hold sacred space while you work with the cards. Portals of Presence can be combined with SoulCards 1&2, each deck bringing a new dimension to the other.

“A gift to everyone who will look into infinity through these eyes.” Vicki Robin

“The deck has sacred assignments, for they are instruments of attunement that bridge us to sacred relationships and co-creation with the most intimate forces in life.” Orion Foxwood

“Wonderful windows into the worlds beyond…where wisdom can be sought and exchanged.” Caitlin Matthews
MORE INFORMATION FROM THE GUIDEBOOK

Approach this deck with an open mind and heart. It is not an oracle in the usual sense. It is an invitation to develop relationship with the great community of life. May these faces, drawn from the heart of the world, open portals to the subtle worlds, reminding us of the wholeness within which we reside. Gaze at these beings and allow your experience to unfold.

The Vision for this Deck

The 72 faces in Portals of Presence were selected from among thousands of Touch Drawings I created over twenty years. Each face was drawn in a particular setting: beneath an ancient tree, on a mountaintop, in a sacred temple, before a standing stone, or in the presence of a human soul. As I sat with each of them, I used the process of Touch Drawing https://touchdrawing.com to translate my subtle impressions into the form of a human face. Each face radiates a presence that is both unique and universal.
The face is the most familiar visual pattern in the human psyche. From the moment we are born, we center our world on the faces of the people close to us. As we gaze into their eyes, they gaze back. In mirroring each other, we communicate on a level beyond words. There is mutuality in this meeting.
Can we use this primal visual language to open portals of communion with our own deeper psyche and realms of consciousness beyond our familiar human world? A face in a printed photograph is only ink on paper. Yet we can attune to the presence of the person represented through focusing on the image. The faces on these cards can be used as focal points through which to attune to a more expansive range of consciousness. Think of them as personifications of elemental life forms, ancient wisdom lineages, spiritual allies, or visitors from unfamiliar realms.
There is a mystery that fuels this deck; a sense that unseen beings want to engage with it as a point of contact with our human-centric world. In this time of accelerating challenge on the planet, the possibility of expanding our range of connection can offer hope that we do not have to face our challenges alone. Rather, we are in this predicament because we have lost our sense of communion with life. Use this deck to expand your awareness to your deeper self, subtle realms beyond the familiar human world, and the sentience in all life.

A Larger Context

I have been involved with the teachings of David Spangler for many years. He offers a spiritual perspective that is deeply affirming of the experience of being human. His articulation of the sacredness of life, which he calls Incarnational Spirituality, encompasses an ecological understanding of the subtle realms. This worldview has provided a larger context in which I hold my life and work. Here are some of his thoughts. I hope it will enhance your understanding of this deck:
What is important in working with the subtle dimensions and with subtle allies is a deepening of your sense of being part of a living universe. Although contact and collaboration with the subtle worlds serve an important purpose — and increasingly so as we move into the future —what is equally important is that you re-envision and re-experience who you are.
You are a citizen, a participant, in a community of life, unfolding and thriving in a cosmos that is itself alive. One of the vital lessons arising from taking the time and attention to seek communion with the subtle life around you, is that you can discover yourself deepening into this community. And not only deepening, but being welcomed home. You are discovering the family you are part of, and with it, discovering the power you possess arising from this relationship.
One of the unfortunate consequences of life in our incarnate realms is that conditions of separation and alienation have developed. This is certainly true within the human experience, but it extends into the experiences of other forms of life as well. Barriers come into being that were never intended, but which are the result when different members of the same family forget how to talk to each other. To ignore the life around you or assume, because you cannot see it, that it does not exist is to confine yourselves to an echo chamber in which you only talk with others of your kind. Your world shrinks and you shrink with it.
The world you live in is expansive, and you are expansive as part of it. Achieving communication with a specific subtle being is less important than achieving communion with the community of all life, physical and non-physical, that embraces and holds you. This is a deepening and an opening of the heart to the life in the world around you. Just a simple acknowledgement, with love, of this life is enough to start the key turning that unlocks the door to the wider universe.
—David Spangler, Lorian.org

Sources

The faces in this deck were selected from among many drawings created in many settings. I do not identify the situation in which Portal drawings were created. This allows the user to experience them directly, without mental associations. But to give a sense of the depth and breadth of this body of work, below is a list of places, events and people whose spirit inspired one or more of the faces in this deck. Over time I will offer stories behind some of the faces in this deck as blog posts. Find these plus more images at touchdrawing.com.

Places

Isle of Iona, Rosslyn Chapel and the Callenais Stones in Scotland, Chartres Cathedral in France, Mayan Temples Tikal & Uaxactun in Guatemala, Llanfeugan Yew Circle in Wales, Avebury Stone Circle in England, Singing Hill in California, La Push Quilute Reservation, Whidbey Institute, Mount Pilchuck, Skalitude, and my island studio in the Pacific Northwest US.

Events

Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Global Earth Repair, Fairy and Human Relations Congress, Women of Wisdom, Seeds of Compassion, Dawn of Interspirituality, Findhorn Co-Creative Spirituality, Engaging the Other, Whidbey Winter Gathering, Gather the Women, New Stories, One the Event, Systemic Constellations Conference, Wisdom University’s Wisdom and Civilization, Mevlevi Whirling Dervish Sema, Indigenous Grandmothers Gathering, and Lorian Association classes.

Humans

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, David Spangler, James Twyman, Jim Garrison, Junko Kurata (Japan), Sister Lucy Kurien (India), Kai Fleming-Snow, Elias Lonsdale, Leland Kaiser, Mayan elder Tata Pedro Cruz Garcia (Guatemala), Lomilomi Kahuna Aunty Angeline Locey (Kauai), Maori Chieftess Dell Wihongi (New Zealand), Shaman Don Alverto Taxo (Equador), Abuela Margarita (Mexico), and the spirit of George Floyd & BLM.

Cultivating Compassion

SIMPLE EVERYDAY PRACTICES FOR DISCOVERING PEACE OF MIND AND RESILIENCE

SINGLE DECK

The Cultivating Compassion Deck is a motivational, actionable, and spiritual roadmap guiding you toward greater personal growth, compassion, peace of mind, and joy.

Part of being human is making mistakes and feeling stressed. We all mess up at one time or another; we all have moments of anxiety. Rather than beating ourselves up with words of shame, blame, or fear, we have a choice to recognize that we are resilient and can do better next time.

💜 Making that choice is a form of self-compassion. 💜

This deck, based on a blend of Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist philosophy, helps you explore compassion meditation practices daily. It encourages you to be brave, claim your quirks, and fully embrace who you are, even when you're imperfect.

💜 It invites you to say, "I want to be a better person, and I will work on that." 💜

One breath at a time. One hour at a time. One conversation or task at a time.

Every morning upon rising, pick up this deck, choose a card, connect with the image of the animal, and then contemplate the affirmation. Take a moment for self-reflection, then integrate the idea into your daily life. Learning to accept yourself in all circumstances is a skill that takes courage, practice, and diligence.

Creating a consistent self-compassion practice is the BEST thing you can do for our emotional and mental health. Patterns of thinking CAN be rewired. Instead of worrying, complaining, gossiping, or rehashing what isn't working, invest in yourself. Put in diligent hard work, and begin to find peace and joy from the moment you wake up to the second you fall asleep. Transform your life to create internal joy and peace, then extend it to others.

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