Oracle Cards

I’m so in love with my newly acquired (last Saturday) Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guide Cards! I draw one every night before I go to sleep to gain advice on how to best meet the following day. This week is evidently about learning and about enabling myself to receive what I wish for.

On Sunday I drew a card-of-the-week, which turned out to be the Unicorn – advising me to indulge in artistic expressions. Now, I know full well that I’m totally uninspired to write anything at the moment, since my one and only hang-up is now the Camino de Santiago, and since I’m not walking it for another year, I spend all my time preparing for it (going for long, uphill walks or reading about other people walking it). Or knitting – which is almost a form of meditation for me and – I guess – could be seen as an artistic expression. I decided I’d look at the cue words and see of any of them jumped out at me, but before the week started, I couldn’t commit to any of them.

On Monday I drew the Cat, which advised me to be more independent and to stop asking other people to tell me what to do. Basically to trust my instincts. This goes really well with Friday’s card – the Dog. The Dog advised me to stop seeing people of authority as my masters, but rather as my teachers. These pieces of advice really spoke to me and helped me, as I’ve always had a hard time trusting myself and my instincts, and have asked people I’ve seen as my “superiors” for help doing simple things I should be able to figure out on my own. But I haven’t given it too much thought until now. So from now on I’ll ask the question “What do I do now?” to myself first, and then to others if I really don’t have the resources to figure it out. It worked really well at work this week, although it really took some hard work and determination on my part to change this habit of mine which I’ve always, always had. But as a result of my change in how I approach the woman in charge of the kids I work with right now, I’ve gotten to know her a lot better and actually during the course of only five days struck up a nice friendship with her (after knowing her for a full year without hardly knowing more than her name and that she is insanely patient)!

Tuesday’s card was the Kiwi, which made me laugh out loud. I drew the card on Monday night, as I was going to bed, and immediately came to think about the kiwi fruit I’d snatched out of the fruit basket at work earlier that same day. It was the first kiwi fruit I’d eaten since… I don’t even remember when! And when I stole it (I say “stole” because there’s never more than two kiwi fruits in the basket, and it’s first come first serve, as it seems to be the most popular fruit in there), I said to one of the people that were on a break at the same time that I’d almost forgotten how it tasted, it had been so long. Anyways, the Kiwi (the bird, not the fruit) basically advised me to be inspired yet stay grounded at the same time, which I’ve always found hard to do. Not sure how it helped me on Tuesday, but I tried doing a walking meditation as it suggested which made all these questions about the meaning of life pop into my head, as well as “How does gravity really work?”, so I gave it up pretty quickly out of fear of going insane or throwing up…

Wednesday’s card was the Ladybug, which told me it is futile to send wishes out into the universe unless I’m actually ready to receive what I wish for. I wrote down the key words for this animal in a note book, and was quick to encircle the word regeneration for no real reason. By Thursday night I realized I also should’ve encircled the word hope. Finally home from a long day at work, my sister asked if I wanted to go working out with her and our neighbor, and – being my new, inspired, Camino-oriented self, I agreed. We ended up staying at the gym for well over an hour, and I got a pretty good work-out (my muscles are still sore). I love the “new” me! The me I’ve wanted to be for years and years. The me that knits, works out, goes for long walks and makes new friends at work! The me that I’ve wished for but never become until an Oracle card tells me it’s about time!

By Wednesday night, when it was time I drew Thursday’s card, I’d had such a good day that while shuffling I thought “I’m so focused on the Ladybug card right now, I hope it doesn't affect the cards…”. And lo and behold – I drew the same card again! At first I thought I hadn’t shuffled the cards enough or something, even though I drew the card from the middle of the pile. Then I remembered that there’s no way of drawing a “wrong” card, and wasn’t sure whether to be really excited or a little disappointed. By then I’d started seeing the cards as exercises, helping me to become the person I want to be, and I kind of wanted a new exercise now. I spent the next day – again – focusing on the good things in my life and opening up to the universe (which I’m really bad at), wondering what the day would bring. Nothing. Until I got home and my Mom said she’d been asked by Thess’ sister, whom she works with, to tell me that if I decided to move to the city at some later point, she was more than willing to come with me if I wanted! I nearly fell down, I was so taken aback! It was what I most wanted in the whole world right now, to have someone willing to move with me to Oslo, and suddenly – on this of all days – someone was! And not just anyone, but Thess’ sister, who is literally one of the sweetest and most generous people I’ve ever met! We get along so well, and Thess has on several occasions told me how much alike the two of us are. After a truly beautiful walk in the forest with my own sister’s wonderful dog, I was so high on life that I wrote on Facebook “Everything kind of falls into place in autumn”, and logging back on the next day I had received such wonderful comments, and felt so loved and appreciated that I could’ve cried!

After an almost full week of soul searching and self-improvement, I think the key word about the Unicorn that's the most fitting would be "healing". I loooove my oracle cards!