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Episode 46: Oracle Cards
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Welcome back Witches! We're bringing the small amount of information we were able to dig up on Oracle Cards this week! Unlike Tarot, there is not a lot of readily available information on Oracle Cards, and neither one of us are experts on them. We hope this episode gives those interested a better understanding of them and how they work!! So get in losers, and let's better understand Oracle Cards together.
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- Chinggay. Oracle Cards: A Beginner’s Guide. (2020) Practical Magic. https://www.practicalmagic.co/pm-blog/2020/9/14/oracle-cards-a-beginners-guide
- Boley, Megan (2021). Oracle Decks: What are they and how to use them. Medium.com. https://medium.com/moments-matter/oracle-decks-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them-c037251a7a84
- Brown, Maressa (2021). Oracle Cards are the spiritual tool you’ve probably been missing out on. Instyle.com. https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/astrology/oracle-cards
- Wigington, Patti. (2019). Oracle Cards: History and Use. Learn Religions.. https://www.learnreligions.com/oracle-cards-4779899
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Introduction to the Podcast on Witchcraft and the Occult
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft in the occult but feel lost somewhere to start? Then welcome to Get In Loser We're Doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we have learned about the craft.
Oracle Cards in Witchcraft: An Introduction
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So get in witches as we talk about oracle cards.
Casual Anecdotes: TV Troubles and Pet Health
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so
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What was that? Like a rumble? Yeah, I think it's downstairs. Let me tell Mike to turn the bass down. He... Oh. Did I tell you? So our TV was broken in the move. Our huge, big, beautiful TV. I didn't know that. Oh yeah, it was like cracked. But here's the thing. I'm pretty sure this is why and so I won't let Mike get rid of it. We have kept the box that the TV came in for the last...
00:01:13
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like from Illinois to England and then from our English house to our other English house, like the on base house. And then when we got to the on base house, Mike threw the box away. He was just like, well, they can just make the box for you. And I'm like, I would rather keep it, but he threw it away.
00:01:28
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Anyway, that's why I think that our TV was broken is because it wasn't in the box it came in and so it wasn't wrapped off really. Because when it got here, it was cracked. And so he was like doing all this research, we were going to get like a projector.
00:01:46
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But then he was like, I don't really, after doing research, he's just like for the price and stuff, like he's just like the quality of the video is not even that good for like how much it costs. So he's just like, we're going to, and we'd have to mount it on the ceiling and we don't even know like what's up there. So anyway.
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Came home from work one day and he came home or he had gone out and bought this expensive ass It's a little bit smaller than our previous TV because it was so expensive but like a OLED like super fancy LED TV. Yeah, and a whole ass soundbar and Fucking subwoofers and I'm like Okay You do know our living room backs up to our neighbors living room. So I hope you're not like rumbling them away So anyway
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I didn't tell you. Nyx has been having some issues. She had some eye gunk and then her butt was bothering her. Anthony took her to the vet while we were in Oklahoma. They were like, maybe it's just conjunctivitis. We'll give her some eye drops or whatever. Then her butt started bothering her. I had to take her to the vet yesterday.
00:02:52
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And they were like, so with these issues being so close back to back, and after we treat one, she gets another, I'm going to tell you, it's probably food allergies. And I was like, love this journey for me. So they gave her a shot. The shot cost $100. And it only lasts for one to two months.
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And so I was like, just talking to her, I was like, well, you know, we used to make dog food for Kessie and Lucian, because she was like, you know, you can buy her different food, but cross-contamination is really high in dog food because companies just don't give a shit. She was like, so you can either buy expensive allergy dog food, or, you know, you can start making dog food again. And I was like, I guess we'll just start doing that. It's gonna fucking make her a batch of dog food last night.
00:03:44
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spoiled ass princess dog and then she eats it and she's like looking at me like more and she's like trying to like lick her bowl like hello it's empty.
Oracle Cards vs Tarot Cards: Understanding the Differences
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I'm like you're not getting extra. Yes, yeah. I need to make gizmo's dog today like because I've been like I was making it and then but it's like hard when you work like when do I have time for this? I need to make it in bigger batches I think and we also don't have an instant pot or anything so I'm making it like in the slow cooker
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I've been buying him this special dog food that has no chicken and the things that I think he's allergic to.
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And he's like, when I took him back to the vet, they were like, oh yeah, he doesn't even need to be put on the medication for his paws. Like the allergies on his paws, like the fungus infection or whatever. It looks like whatever you're feeding him is like getting rid of it. So we know it was a food allergy. And I'm like, perfect. But the food that I'm buying him is so fucking expensive. And so I don't need to start making it again. The vet said that with food allergies, that's really common in a lot of small breeds.
00:04:50
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like pits and pit mixes, which she's not in her pit bull. So yeah. Yeah. So now I had to make dog food again. Yeah. A little shit, but they're so cute. So you have to. Yeah, she's worth it. I guess. Yeah. All righty. Let's get to it. What are we talking about today?
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Oracle cards. To start this episode, can we just talk about the pronunciation of tarot from people that only read Oracle cards? Did you run into this at all? Yes. They're like, tarot, two row cards. And I'm like, have you never heard the word tarot? Like, I feel like if you're making a video,
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You should kind of, I mean, it's one thing if like, obviously, because we mispronounce a bunch of shit, but it's like not necessarily obscure, but something that's like not in English or something like that we're not familiar with. Everything we've heard about tarot. We definitely try to look up a pronunciation. Yes, we'll try to look up pronunciation. You can't tell me you can't just Google real fast. How do you spell or like the people that call it tarot? And I'm like, what? Tarot? Yeah, that is not it.
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Where do you live that you've never heard the word tarot before? That's what I wanted to know. There were so many oracle card videos on YouTube that I watched because starting off this episode, I knew nothing about oracle cards before doing this research. I've never used them. I've seen the decks in stores, but I've never
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flipped through them, you know? So like I didn't know pretty much anything about them coming into this, but I know how to say tarot and oracle. Right. Just the amount of people. Yeah, those
Interpreting Oracle Decks: Structure and Intuition
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oracle cards. The amount of people though that were like, tarot, tarot.
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Why are you doing this to me? Why are you the way that you are? So with all of that, what is an oracle card? Oracle cards, like tarot cards, are a form of divination. In mythology, the oracles foretold the future in a vague and allegorical way, and oracle cards are simply just a deck of cards that do the same thing.
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They're a set of cards used for personal exploration and ritual and they can be used for spiritual insight and usually oracle cards, they'll consist of a picture and either a phrase or a word that's associated with that picture.
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Oracle decks are a fluid system, meaning that the way they're created may change from deck to deck. So each deck is its very own thing, and its system is dependent on the person that creates it and their intention for that deck.
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The belief is that working with an oracle deck will give you spoken wisdom or wise guidance for the questions that you're seeking. They work on synchronicity through meaningful coincidence. Oracle cards work through asking the question and then choosing the card, trusting that the right card will then be drawn to you and will provide you with an answer or the guidance that you seek.
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So if you're looking at oracle versus tarot, tarot decks are a fixed system and they have 78 cards. They'll always be the same at their core where the cards will always have the same meaning. The art might differ from like deck to deck and on occasion the author might slightly change the meaning but it's going to be the same at its core.
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Oracle decks do not have a predetermined number of cards and there's no set arrangement or system. So where tarot cards always have a set number of 78 cards that are split between 22 major arcana cards and 56 minor arcana cards with a specified number suit and or imagery assigned to each individual card, Oracle decks usually range between 35 to 60 cards in the deck. And again, they they depend on the intention of the deck's creator.
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and they're meant to be very visual and evocative. Finding two decks of Oracle cards that have the same card in them is very unlikely, though if you do find similar cards between decks, their meanings are likely to be very different from each other.
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absolutely yeah and so pulls with a an oracle card deck will help you see what your soul is struggling with and how to take steps to repair it they're more interpretive than tarot cards so they can mean basically whatever you want them to mean usually they will include guidebooks and
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that will have like some meanings associated with it. But the actual meaning of the card that you choose, it's very subjective to how you're feeling, what you're seeking guidance on. It's very very different between people, between oracle decks, between everything. And you rely on your own feelings and intuition to decipher the unique meaning to
Using Oracle Cards for Positive Affirmations
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you. And that's why it can be so varied based on the deck you're using, based on
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Who is reading the oracle cards? It all just depends on your intuition and your own feelings.
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Oracle cards often follow a general theme, meaning that every card will be named after the theme for that entire deck. So an example might be a deck themed around goddesses or maybe even botanicals, and then each card would be named after something within that category. So if the deck was goddesses, you might have a triple goddess card or a card for Brigid or any goddess within it, and then it'll have a meaning to it. But again,
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it's all based on who's creating the deck and their intention. The description of the card will also often be listed on the card through a phrase, a mantra, or an affirmation. So with Tarot, you know, you have the book that comes with the deck and it explains the meaning for each card. So when you pull it, your card is only going to have like death or
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you know the suit and the number that it's for so you would have to go and like look those up if you didn't like know them by heart and then you know with the oracle card it's all just there for you so it says whatever that card is meant to be and then based on like
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your intuition for the pool or the question that you're looking for, you would base it off of that. Being that there's no system, you're not going to be able to bounce from deck to deck. You would have to learn each deck in order to be able to use them. That might be what makes you go more towards tarot versus using oracle cards, and I think that's probably why I also like lean more towards tarot because tarot has a system. I like order and
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like being able to go to the book and be like, okay, this is what this one means or look it up versus like an oracle card, you're not going to be able to like look up the meaning of it or you know, it doesn't come with a book that's going to tell you it's just going to be like happiness or something. Some of the cards that I seen, it was just a single word like serendipity. So yeah, like figure it out. Well, in the side book,
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Yeah, the guidebooks might, like some might include a guidebook, but it's like, again, like super subjective. So it might not even like, it could be so vague.
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One of the one of I watched a lot of YouTube videos of people like talking about Oracle cards, because it was also not easy to find information on Oracle cards online. Like if you look it up, it's mostly just like here's a bunch of different Oracle cards, or Oracle card decks or whatever, not a lot of just information. Like if you research tarot, you can find so much information about tarot decks and how to use tarot and like why to use tarot.
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Whereas that just wasn't there for Oracle cards. I had to rely on YouTube a lot for this. And I know a lot of them said that most of their decks didn't come with that. So they might have a couple of decks that had a little booklet that kind of went along with it, but for the most part it was meant to be subjective and for the most part too was positive.
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Whereas like tarot gives both kind of that negative and positive. So I don't know. It's interesting. So as I was saying, oftentimes oracle decks are meant to be positive affirmation cards and they can be pulled like a single card a day. So basically like in the morning, if you pull it and then use that as your positive affirmation for the day is what I was getting from a lot of that.
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You can do a single card tarot pulls, but then you have to interpret the meaning of them for that particular card at the beginning and end of your day. Whereas some of the oracle decks might just be like, you know, you pull it and it says like happy. And so for the day, your mantra and your affirmation is just to like be happy and spread.
00:13:51
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happiness. So unlike tarot, oracle cards do not give positive and negative cards. The focus is on the positive and the affirming. And then given that oracle cards are mostly positive with rarely a negative card in a deck, they can sometimes give unclear readings or sway a reading towards the positive due to the lack of negative or neutral cards.
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Yeah and I saw this on multiple websites and I was like what the hell like this is obviously people who don't know anything about tarot or like don't use tarot very often but they kept saying like oh oracle cards are different because it's not like going to predict your own death like tarot cards can
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Tarot cards cannot predict your own death. I saw this multiple times and I was just like, at what? I just have to include this. If you haven't listened to our, we have a three-part series on Tarot. Go check that out. One of them is a Supercast exclusive one.
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The first, like episode one and two are on just our regular feed. Tarot cards will not predict your death. Is there a death card in tarot? Yes. Will it predict your death? No, that's not what that means. And I think this also goes back to, and this is way back, you know, early, early podcasting for us.
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the whole stigma and the media and the way they portray these things. You never see tarot portrayed as a good thing in a movie or TV show. In books, unless you're reading a witchy themed book, it's rarely seen as a good thing. And they always act like the death card means you're going to die. Yeah, that's not the case.
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Yeah, and so I feel like if you're writing a article about oracle cards you really and you're trying to compare it to something you should understand what that something is you're comparing it to before you just start talking out of your ass, but that's a whole other thing so I know I don't know if you came across this so much in your research but again like there's very little out there on oracle cards on the internet when you're
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talking about like research itself so a lot of it was like blogs which is fine if you are an expert in that and you write a blog piece on it but I ran into the issue that so many people that I came across you know their article on oracle cards and it would be like oh if tarot is too scary for you or if you're more into the woo woo version of magic that was an actual term used the version of magic and I was like what does that even mean and
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And maybe you should be using oracle cards instead of tarot cards. And I'm like, you are. Here's the thing. You are not less of a witch if you don't work with tarot and you only work with oracle cards. Right. So like, if anyone, tell them to fuck right off because that's ridiculous.
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Also, there's a jet flying past. Sorry guys, but you know what, it is what it is. So we've talked a bit about what Oracle cards are, what they're not. Let's talk about why and how to work with
Choosing and Bonding with Oracle Card Decks
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them.
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So oracle cards are an easy gateway into divination itself. There are no rules. You can arrange the cards in any specific spread, but you don't have to do that at all. Like Tiffany said, you could just pull a card and they can be used in mediumship and ancestral magic. So this is focusing heavily on intuition,
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opening up your third eye, picking up surrounding energy from the earth and say ancestors or other spirits around you like your spirit guides whatever that the case may be. I've that's how I've used oracle cards just in relation to like mediumship and like reading people's aura and stuff like that but it's really an easy way to get into divination so if you are just coming into witchcraft and the occult and and just the metaphysical in general
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and you're wanting to practice divination, you don't know where to start. Tarot cards seem like a lot and you don't really want to invest the time in it. Oracle cards is a great way to go.
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It is. Oracle just allows you to just kind of jump in and start without having to learn a system or, you know, having to learn the meaning of all the cards. Oracle cards have their meanings on the card for you and then they tend to just make it simple in that way. The decks are meant to be easily understood, though I feel like, I don't know, I feel like coming from only having used tarot and not that I
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you know, use it professionally or like all the time. But I feel like swapping would be more confusing for me. Because you're already like, this is a system whereas like you get an oracle deck and it's like, this is fluid, however you interpret it or however the person that made this deck interpreted it. Yeah, so I don't know. I've never used them. So I can't like
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I can't give the personal account on it, but I feel like not having used them first, it might be harder to swap back to something that's fluid versus systematic. Yeah, because you're going to be looking for that system in order when there's not. Yeah, when there's not. I will say, I thought it was going to be a little bit harder, but it's not. It's pretty just intuitive to switch that mindset. I think you would have a good time with it.
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if you're ever interested in the future with doing it. One day. Yeah, one day. When it comes to choosing an oracle card deck, basically all you have to do is listen to your intuition and choose a deck that speaks to you. You can choose a deck based solely on the aesthetics of that deck. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that you feel drawn to work with that deck. It's not like
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There's no like, which there's not with Tarot either, but you know there's that pervasive thought out there that you have to be gifted your first Tarot deck which makes witchcraft and just working with Tarot anyway like very exclusive and I hate that.
00:19:57
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You don't have to be gifted a deck when it comes to tarot or oracle cards. If you are on Amazon and you're like, oh, I really like this botanical oracle card deck, buy it. If it speaks to you and you love it or you just love the artwork, buy it. That's all you need. You just need to feel drawn to it. I feel like that gifted portion comes from a time when, you know, like now
00:20:25
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we don't spend as much time with others around us. Maybe our family and our friends we do, but if you don't have family or friends that are into witchcraft or divination or reading tarot, you're never going to be gifted a deck unless you ask
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for it, like say for Christmas, they're like, what do you want? You're like this hero deck, you know, you're not going to be gifted it. Whereas like, you know, back in the old times, people had to rely on their neighbors. So it was more likely that you would find people with common interests you so if you were practicing divination, you would probably
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have friends or neighbors that you knew also practice. So it was more likely that you would be gifted something versus today. I feel like we have a disconnect today where if they're not an immediate family or friend, we don't talk to them. Yes. I know I don't. I talked to one person in my neighborhood and she isn't even my next door neighbor. There's a house in between us. Yeah.
00:21:30
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So we don't have that connection anymore with people where you would be gifted something. Yeah. So say you have an Oracle deck and you want to get started and you don't know how.
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it's actually pretty simple. So the way that you use oracle cards is very similar to using tarot just without that like strict system. Basically to start you want to center, ground yourself, connect with whatever you consider as your higher power, you know make sure you clear your mind so that when you're asking questions it's very clear the question that you're looking for an answer to.
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You could also meditate beforehand and focus on the part of your life you want guidance on, or the part of your life you want to focus on that day, week, month, whatever you're reading for. And you can ask a question or open yourself up to whatever energy is out there that can guide you. So it doesn't even have to be like, I'm feeling down. Is money going to come my way? Or is happiness or love or whatever going to come my way? It could just be like a,
00:22:35
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what does today bring for me? Or like, let me just focus on the energy and see what happens. Yeah, when I feel like that kind of goes back to what I was saying at the very beginning, like, they're meant to give you guidance, like knowledgeable guidance, versus like, you ask a question, and it's like, here's your direct answer. So
00:22:58
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If you are asking a question though, you would bring your question to the surface or ask it out loud. And this can be something as simple as, what do I need to know today? And this particular question is one that is suggested to new practitioners because it lets you bond with your deck and get a feel for your cards.
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They consider this THE beginner-friendly question in oracle and tarot even. Once you get a feel for your deck and you've bonded with them, you can then use them to gather guidance and answers to deeper questions for yourself or whoever you're doing a reading for.
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you would shuffle your cards and draw a single card and that card is considered the universe's answer to your question. So when choosing a card, just do what feels right. There's no wrong or right way to pull a card. You can do something like shuffle until a card pops out of the deck or until it flips itself over and then that card could be the one that you pull.
00:23:58
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You can shuffle and cut your deck however many times you want to and then draw the top or the bottom or the middle card. You can shuffle and then choose a card that you feel drawn to intuitively. Honestly, there's no wrong way to do this. You can do this however feels right to you. And don't let people tell you that there's a wrong and right way because there's not.
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Yeah. And you could even, whenever you're shuffling, this could be in like you're ready to pull a card. This could be one card that you pull. This could be five cards that you pull. It doesn't matter. It really depends on if you're following a particular spread or it could be solely dependent on how you feel in the moment. So if you're like shuffling your Oracle card deck and
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You're drawing a card and your body is saying, three, I'm going to draw three cards today. Draw three cards. Or if you go into it thinking, I'm only going to draw one, but then once you draw that card, you're like, okay, I need more clarification. Draw a couple more. There's nothing saying that you only have to draw one or you only have to do a particular spread. Do whatever feels right to you.
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Yes. And I feel like that's one of the biggest differences. Like tarot, you don't have to follow a spread and you can do whatever you want and whatever feels right. But a lot of tarot cards also have particular spreads for particular things that you're seeking. So with this, again, it's just fluid and based on your intuition and however you're feeling it could, like Sam said, it could be a single card. It could be 20 cards, like
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Literally, whatever you want to do, there's no wrong way. Like I said earlier, you can also just pull a single card at the start of your day to have a message for that day. As stated before, oracle cards tend to focus on positive affirmations. So drawing a card at the start of your day can just give you a mantra for that day. Once you have your card drawn, look at the card, try to notice the first thing that pops in your head when you see it. Like, what is your intuition saying about this card based on
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what you're feeling or whatever question you have or you know if you're just opening it up to like whatever energies want to pop out at you like what when you look at the card what is the first thing that you feel intuitively about that particular card. If you're into journaling you can keep an oracle card journal
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and then write down a sentence or two based on your intuitive thoughts for that card or you can even draw something or like doodle something that you relate to that card for the day and then come back to it at the end of your day and reflect on how that card was relevant to you for the day or for the question that you were asking.
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Allow the meaning of the card time to sink in too. Sometimes that answer isn't going to be apparent to you right away. Sometimes you're not going to understand its meaning until later in the day, maybe later in the week. But when you do recognize what the card was trying to tell you, make sure that you acknowledge its meaning and how it pertained to you and to what you were asking.
Oracle and Tarot Cards: Structural Comparisons
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this can also go back to like the journaling portion, if you're pulling a card every day, and you know, maybe at the end of today, you don't really understand what that card was trying to tell you, but then something later happens in the week, and you're like, Oh, my gosh, like it all clicks, go back, like, see what you thought about it that day, and then, you know, add to that journal entry on like, what the meaning was now, you know, I don't know, three days later,
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Yeah. And after this too, you can even consult your guidebook if you want. But obviously before that, write down what comes to your mind intuitively when you look at the card and think about how it relates to the question that you asked or the part of your life you wanted to focus on. But having that guidebook there, if your oracle cards come with a guidebook, then you can always go back to that and just make a few notes about what the guidebook says relates to this card.
00:27:49
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And I feel like maybe this too is why I was more drawn to tarot versus oracle like I myself am chaotic in my day to day like from one minute to the next things are crazy all the time because
00:28:04
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we always have like a thousand things going on at one time in our house between both of our work schedules, you know my husband's flying schedule because he's getting his pilot's license, I have the herbal stuff that I do like the academy and then like having to create all of these things for like my homework and then of course like the podcast research and I want to do things on my own like reading. So like for me having such a chaotic
00:28:31
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like structure in my life. I feel like tarot was more appealing because it had structure like
00:28:37
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I could pull a card and know that that card means the same thing if I'm using a different deck than I used yesterday. And I like having that book so that I can go and be like, I think I know what this is, and then go look at the book and be like, oh, okay, this is what I was thinking versus like what it says. Whereas like Oracle, you might have a book, you might not, who knows, maybe, you know, so I feel like the
00:29:03
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just it's like too loosey goosey where I'm like I need structure. At the end of the day, remember to not like stress out over an oracle reading. These cards are simply meant to be a tool that aids you in your divination journey. If the fluidity and lack of structure is hard for you to grasp, like me,
00:29:25
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Maybe that just means that you aren't meant to use Oracle cards and that you're meant to try a different tool of divination. There are so many different ones. I feel like we've talked about a few of them on here. I know a good deal about a few. I don't know if you have ever searched just divination tools in general. Have you seen the Wikipedia list that comes out? No. It's like if the Wikipedia for divination tools is like
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alphabetical ordered, bajillions of types. And I was like, I didn't even know all these existed because I worked on it. When I was like, what are some like obscure ones that I can put? And I was like, nevermind, this is too much. So if, you know, again, if you need something different, you can try, you know, tarot cards, which Sam's
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already mentioned but we did a three-part episode and those were the two that are available to everyone are episodes 30 and 31. The final episode was a Supercast exclusive so if you aren't a subscriber and you want to listen to that episode you have to subscribe to get that one.
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Make sure to check out those if you're into tarot, if you're tarot curious. A few other examples would include scrying, and there's also different variations of that. Reading tea leaves, using a pendulum, osteomancy, which is like reading bones.
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and even just automatic writing, which is something simple that pretty much anyone can do. And I think we talked about that and was there a meditation episode? Yeah, I think we've talked about it a couple of times. Yeah, yeah. So if you're interested in that, I believe our meditation episode is where we kind of we gave quite a bit of information on it. But like Sam said, we have talked about it a few times on here.
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I think the biggest thing to remember is that there's no rules that you have to follow. Even with tarot, yes, tarot is structured, and yes, there's specific spreads for different types of things, but everything
Oracle Cards as Divination Tools
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is really just a suggestion for where to get started and just do what your intuition is telling you to do.
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let it guide you and just do what feels right to you. Don't over complicate it. Because when you over complicate it, like me, that's where you run into these issues where like for me, like if I look at an Oracle deck, and I'm like, Oh my god, there's no structure. There's no booklet for me to look at, like overcomplicating it makes it so that like using it isn't a useful tool for you. Absolutely. Keep it simple.
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Keep it simple, stupid. It's a Michael Scott thing.
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our other like book loving listeners. Sam and I have been reading, what is it called? The Queen of Myth and Monsters. Yes. I finished it. I like flew through it because I did it on Audible and I was like listening to it 24 seven while I was doing other stuff. But like every time like a spicy scene would happen and Anthony was home, I'd be like, Oh my God, it's happening. And he's like, calm down, Michael Scott. So yeah.
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Gosh, yeah, that that book series is so good. I'm still I haven't picked it back up So I'm still on like the same like I think chapter five, but I've been discovery of witches man I had to start that I know That's gonna be our next book club book We have already decided we're just keeping on this series cuz it's so yeah, it's so good And I don't want to take a break from it. So yeah finish it. So the next FYI book club members
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starting the next book. Starting in March is book number two from Discovery
Book Club Selections and Closing Remarks
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of Witches. So just FYI.
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starting in February. Well, I thought we were doing the book, or it comes out in February, right? February 1st? For January. It's January right now. Yeah. So part two, we finished the book, part two comes out February 1st, and then for February, we read book two. Yeah. Oh yeah. I know. I mean, like it comes out though, like it will come out. Oh, the release day. I thought you meant for reading it. I was like, no, we're reading it in February. No. Yeah. No. I've already started because I'm like,
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Samantha has already started, but for everyone else, that book will be read in February. February. Releasing in March. Releasing in March. So we haven't read it yet. We know this episode was super short, but that's because there's like no information on this topic. Yeah, it was so hard to find research on for you guys.
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Yeah, it really was. But if you like oracle cards and you have a really beautiful oracle card deck, and that's one of the things I like about it because the artwork on oracle cards is just beautiful. Beautiful. It's gorgeous. So if you have an oracle deck that you love that's super beautiful, send us pictures. We'd love to see it. If you have that botanical deck that I referenced earlier, that deck is gorgeous. I almost want to just buy this to look at it.
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Yeah, I have a friend who like she has bought like a couple she doesn't like she breeds some Tara I think. Um, but she like has like a tarot deck that's like beautiful that she wants framed and I'm like, that is a really good idea. I kind of want to do it all. Yeah, do a giant like one big one or you could do a bunch of like smaller. Yeah.
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I'm just like, that is such a good idea. Or even just like taking one and then drawing it yourself and making it a big painting or something would be gorgeous. Yeah. All right, guys. That's all we got. That's all we got. See you all next week for this wonderful episode. I'm excited for it. Me too. I am excited to do some of the stuff that we've talked about. You guys have no idea what's coming this year. It's going to be great.
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