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.

guilt & shame

A SELF-HEALING DECK TO SUPPORT WITH ADDRESSING FEELINGS AND BELIEFS CONNECTED TO GUILT AND SHAME

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i am so grateful to share this tool with you in this part of your self-healing journey. this deck was created to support examining the imprints that guilt and shame leave on the body and mind through introspection.

if we realize we are not separate individuals we can choose to mend. we consciously and unconsciously project and protect ourselves from guilt and shame each day. shame and guilt remind us that we are alone, that no one can understand us - when the opposite is true.

guilt may be feelings of what you should do because of what you did. shame may be a deep rooted feeling of inadequacy because you are not being who you believe you are or should be. this deck is here to help you get curious and look into what each definition means to you...

when you take time to tend to your guilt and shame, you are taking small, steady steps to spend time with the person that you are inside of your soul - inside of the space that only you can travel in and out of with complete transparency.
from meditating and journaling in response to the paintings, prompts, and poems in this collection, i have realized and become intimate with my own guilt and shame so that i might have more compassion for my-selves and my relatives. this deck supported me in releasing thoughts and habits that were not nourishing for myself or anyone involved. may this deck support you in becoming more intimate with yourself.

want to connect or seek further support?

find me at: @genu_ous or genuinelycurious.blog

Creator:

tianna arredondo

Portals of Presence

FACES DRAWN FROM THE SUBTLE REALMS

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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
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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.

Angelic Alchemy

SACRED GEOMETRY ORACLE CARDS

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As an ancient divination tool, Oracle Cards are a magical way to communicate with Spirit. Angelic Alchemy will magnetically attract the cards that provide accurate insight, healing, and growth.

This deck of cards also uses Pythagorean frequencies, tetractys, numerology, and other sacred symbols embedded within the images to further enhance the magical qualities of each card.

Often referred to as “The Gateway to the Heavens” geometric shapes, patterns, and symbols form our reality. Geometric symbols carry symbolic, sacred, and spiritual messages within.

These messages are built into our genetic makeup allowing us to instinctively recognize and experience them on a soul level. They are sources of incredible power and energy that facilitate creativity and balance to create an energetic blueprint that attracts everything your heart desires.

Sacred Geometry is a universal language which allows us to access ancient knowledge contained in our cellular memory.

Angelic Alchemy is a truly profound transformational tool and gift that elevates your spirit and embraces your heart.

These cards will form a bridge for you and Spirit to communicate. The Angels have infused love, beauty, and sacred teachings into this deck of cards to assist you to feel more love, experience greater healing, and discover the deepest parts of your soul with ease and grace.

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Creator:

Shauna Domalain

Begeleiding van liefde en licht

ORAKELKAARTEN, ZIELSKAARTEN, HEALING KAARTEN, INZICHTKAARTEN,

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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

Futurist's Guide Oracle Deck

EXPLORE THE DIGITAL FRONTIER OF DIVINATION

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The "Futurist's Guide Oracle Deck" is a pioneering tool designed to bridge the realms of artificial intelligence and spiritual introspection. Crafted with a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of both technology and human consciousness, this deck serves as a gateway to exploring future possibilities, ethical considerations, and the profound impact of AI on our lives.

Deck Description:
This innovative oracle deck features 48 cards divided into four thought-provoking suits, each delving into different aspects of AI and its interface with human experience:

Data & Learning: This suit explores the core of AI functionality, focusing on how data is processed and turned into knowledge. The cards in this suit help users understand and harness the power of information for personal growth and decision-making.

Automation & Efficiency: Reflecting on the ways AI streamlines our lives, this suit delves into the complexities and conveniences brought by automation and technological advancements, prompting reflections on efficiency versus human touch.

Ethics & Humanity: Perhaps the most critical, this suit challenges users to consider the moral implications of rapid technological growth. It addresses issues of privacy, equity, and the balance between innovation and ethical responsibility.

Future Visions: The cards in this suit offer a visionary look at the potential futures shaped by AI, from quantum computing and synthetic biology to digital immortality and beyond. It invites speculation and inspired thinking about what lies ahead.

Purpose and Use:
The "Futurist's Guide Oracle Deck" is designed for anyone interested in the intersections of technology, ethics, and personal growth. It is an ideal tool for reflection, offering insightful prompts that encourage users to consider not just the technological dimensions of AI, but its broader implications on personal and societal levels. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a spiritual seeker, or someone curious about the future, this deck offers valuable insights into how AI can influence and transform our worldviews.

Each card acts as a mirror reflecting the dualities of modern life—balancing technology with humanity, efficiency with mindfulness, and data-driven logic with intuitive wisdom. This deck is your companion in navigating the exciting yet challenging waters of the future, armed with knowledge and thoughtful reflection.

Engagement and Guidance:
The "Futurist's Guide Oracle Deck" not only informs but also engages its users in deep and meaningful ways. Each card is crafted to provoke thought, inspire action, and encourage deeper understanding of both self and society. Through guided meditations, reflective questions, and suggested actions, the deck offers a hands-on approach to exploring how AI influences our daily lives and long-term futures.

Artistic Elements:
The visual design of the deck is carefully curated to match its high-tech theme. Illustrations feature a blend of digital art and symbolic imagery, representing complex AI concepts in a visually accessible and engaging manner. Each suit boasts a distinct color palette and style, enhancing the user experience by making the connections between cards visually intuitive and stimulating.

Practical Applications:
The deck is not just a theoretical tool but is also immensely practical. It can be used in various settings—from personal reflection sessions and group discussions to educational workshops and tech conferences. Each card is designed to facilitate discussions about technology, ethics, and the future, making it a versatile tool suited for both personal use and professional environments.

Inclusivity and Accessibility:
Emphasizing inclusivity, the "Futurist's Guide Oracle Deck" is designed to be accessible to a wide audience. The language is clear and jargon-free, ensuring that users at all levels of familiarity with AI can engage with the content meaningfully. The deck also includes a comprehensive guidebook that explains each card’s significance in detail and provides practical tips on how to integrate the insights into everyday life.

Community and Continuity:
Owning this deck also means becoming part of a community interested in the ethical, philosophical, and practical implications of AI. Users are encouraged to share their insights and experiences through online forums and social media, fostering a dynamic and supportive community. Additionally, the creators of the deck are committed to updating the content as new technological and ethical issues arise, ensuring the deck remains relevant and useful in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI.

Conclusion:
The "Futurist's Guide Oracle Deck" is more than just an oracle deck; it is a comprehensive tool designed to guide, educate, and inspire. It challenges users to critically engage with the technological advances shaping our world and to reflect on how these changes affect human experience and consciousness. Whether you are navigating personal decisions or contemplating larger societal issues, this deck provides valuable insights that will help steer you towards a thoughtful and informed future.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE , AFFIRMATIONS

Spread Your Wings

EMBRACE YOUR JOURNEY, UNFOLD YOUR POTENTIAL

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The "Spread Your Wings" oracle deck is a collection of artfully crafted cards, each featuring an ethereal depiction of a butterfly, symbolizing various aspects of life and personal growth. With vibrant colors and a dreamlike quality, the illustrations capture the delicate beauty of these creatures, while imbuing them with a sense of depth and wisdom. Each card carries a single word that represents an attribute, emotion, or value, inviting reflection and introspection.

This deck is more than just a tool for divination; it's an inspirational companion designed to help users connect with their innermost selves. The butterflies, each unique in pattern and hue, represent transformation, resilience, and the natural progression of the soul's journey. The accompanying tagline, "Embrace Your Journey, Unfold Your Potential," encapsulates the deck's purpose: to encourage individuals to open up to change, embrace life's myriad paths, and realize the full extent of their capabilities.

"Spread Your Wings" is likely to resonate with those on a path of self-discovery, seeking guidance and affirmation as they navigate the complexities of life. The deck offers a gentle nudge to soar into personal evolution with grace, much like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, ready to embrace the world's vastness with newfound wings.

Creator:

Robin Deans

ORA+CLE

DIVINATION FOR HUMANS LIKE YOU

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Relationships are at the core of our experience: personal, inter-personal and professional. In fact, they are the building blocks that create our lives. How to purify and make these unions more perfect is rich with opportunity.

ORA+CLE is a vehicle for finding meaning & magic in the quotidian. 50 cards of wisdom gained through my decades-long design practice—illuminating ways to reframe, recharge and reflect.

What’s an ORA+CLE Deck?

An oracle deck is similar to Tarot; an object of meditation that encourages its participant to explore and uncover truths about themselves. It holds the promise of a dynamic, positive, spiritual transformation via understanding our essential selves.

Where ORA+CLE differs from an oracle deck or Tarot is that it’s a looser, more utilitarian exploration. Its scope encompasses the emotional experiences we have as designers. ORA+CLE was developed pragmatically, intuitively, and yes, sacredly.

ORA+CLE is meant to be used on its own — as a way of deepening inquiry — or as a compliment to a Tarot practice. Oh! And it encourages you to use your critical thinking skills, too.

While ORA+CLE is a divination tool created with the needs of designers in mind, it works for anyone who interfaces professionally or personally with humans. So, pretty much everyone.

Why an Oracle Deck?

The designer/client relationship is at the core of my professional and artist practice. How to purify and make these unions more perfect is rich with opportunity. The inquiry lights me up.

Cultivating the intimacy necessary for a rewarding designer/client rapport is often avoided under the guise of being ‘professional.’ This fiction results in distrust, disinterest, dissatisfaction. On both sides. My stance is more emotional investment, not less, is the only way to conduct business. ORA+CLE is a tool to harness a paradigm shift.

Why the name ORA+CLE?

The name ORA+CLE began as a typo, and I liked it. The typesetting is an aesthetic composition that also clearly identifies the nature of the object.

Done.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE , MINDFULNESS , DAILY PRACTICE

Creator:

Jennifer Elsner

The Wealth Alignment Oracle

BALANCE YOUR ENERGIES. UNLOCK YOUR PROSPERITY.

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The Wealth Alignment Oracle is a powerful manifestation tool designed to help you align your inner and outer worlds with the flow of prosperity.

Combining ancient archetypes with sacred wisdom, this deck brings balance to the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine energies within you, while unlocking the timeless gifts of Lakshmi, goddess of abundance.

Card Categories

This oracle is divided into three sacred pillars of wealth creation.

1. Archetype cards

Representing eight key Feminine and Masculine archetypes for manifestation (and their shadows) as well as six Manifestation archetypes. These cards help you understand which energies you are embodying (or need to be embodying), where you may be over- or under-expressing and how to harmonise them for magnetic creation.

2. Lakshmi's Wealth Gifts

Eight radiant cards inspired by the goddess Lakshmi, each revealing a unique form of prosperity that can be used as helpful building blocks to creating multi-dimensional wealth, beyond just financial wealth.

3. Alignment cards

Guiding cards that offer practical and spiritual ways to restore balance, shift limiting beliefs, and activate flow. These cards act as bridges between vision and reality, intention and manifestation.

Benefits and uses

  • Manifestation Guidance - Use the cards to clarify where your energy is aligned with wealth and where adjustments are needed.
  • Balancing energies - Learn to harmonise your Feminine (receptive, intuitive, magnetic) and Masculine (focused, structured, action-driven) aspects for holistic creation.
  • Wealth mindset shifts - Identify blocks, limiting patterns and old beliefs that keep prosperity at bay, then replace them with empowering alignment practices.
  • Daily inspiration - Pull a card each morning to set your intention and focus, and invite in wealth in all forms.
  • Deeper soul work - Use spreads to explore money, wealth, feminine or masculine energy flow, wealth alignment, energy activations and the deep energetic aspects and limiting beliefs holding you back. Use Lakshmi's pyramid of wealth to widen your wealth focus and daily actions.

Creator:

Melanie Britz

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This Subtle Activism Manual and Card Deck is the fourth card deck designed by David Spangler. All have these things in common.
1. They are all educational, designed to illustrate a process rather than only to provide a means for gaining oracular information.
2. They all use a similar structure. Each is really two decks, one to create a field of consciousness and energy and the second to play off that field to achieve the objective of the deck.
3. And all were gifts from the subtle realms. They all emerged from a design shown to David while in contact with a non-physical allies where the basic structure of the deck and how to use it was presented as a “download” of information and vision.
This manual and the card deck it supports emerged out of a desire on the part of David Spangler and his non-physical colleagues to provide a tool to help facilitate contributing one’s subtle energies and qualities in blessing and service to the world at a time of need. Although this deck has oracular capabilities, it does more than simply to provide information about ourselves or our future. What is particularly true for this Subtle Activism card deck is that, like the others, it derives from the vision that each of us is a generative source of spiritual power, capable of entering into partnership and collaboration with the spirit of the world to bring greater wholeness into our lives and into the life of the planet. This Subtle Activism manual and card deck was illustrated by Jeremy Berg and consists of a PDF manual, and forty cards.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE , LEARNING & COACHING

Creator:

David Spangler