The card asks us to look seriously at the challenges we are facing, particularly financially. We all face economic uncertainty, with many people unemployed or receiving limited hours or profit from their work. Balancing the need for restriction for health and safety with the need for people to go back to work to make a living and restart the economy is a juggling act of high stakes right now.
Read MoreWhat a perfect message for these times of sea changes: Flow, be in rhythm with the Universe, ride the waves of change, be both the wave and the ocean. Note the free-flowing forms flowing in the circular ripples. Imagine yourself as one of those forms and see where the sea takes you.
Read MoreMay you chose your targets well, be patient and thoughtful as you judge the time of release, and let your arrows fly with precision to those targets that will bring you joy and love and abundance.
Read MoreThe notion that our healing and our happiness are in relationship to Nature and the beauty of the natural world is universal but also very Celtic.
Read MoreUsually I am instantly amazed by the relevance of the card I draw. This time I was surprised then I looked further: The picture is of one of the most sacred of Celtic sites: Glendalough. I was supposed to be staying at the hotel just outside the scene in this picture on April 30. It would have begun the pilgrimage portion of my trip to Ireland. But, of course, there is no trip this year because of Covid-19.
Read MoreUsually, I draw one tarot or oracle card as a new month begins to stimulate reflection and insight. Given COVID -19 and the huge test it is to all that has meaning in our lives, I decided to do a three card spread for the month of April.
Read MoreIt is time for our monthly oracle/tarot card. March’s draw is The Prophet from Caitlin Matthews’s Using the Celtic Wisdom Oracle: Oracle Cards for Ancient Wisdom and Guidance. What could be more appropriate than the Prophet who sees, interprets and offers wisdom and guidance?
Read MoreOur oracle card draw for February is THE BEE, a symbol of community, activity and organization across cultures but with the additional aspect of celebration being added because of the Druid tradition regarding mead, the honey drink.
Read more about this card and the impact of bees in our environment and the connection with Celtic Spirit.
Read MoreFor a year now, I have pulled a Celtic Tarot or Oracle card and suggested its message be a focal poet for meditation or reflection as we entered the new month. The deck I chose this month is not specifically Celtic but is similar to a deck that was part of my visit to Ireland on a tour of thin places back in the 1980s. As many of you know, that trip inspired my first novel Celtic Spirit these many years later.
Read MoreThe Oracle draw for today involves two cards since the guide we are using has a different format.
The booklet is named “Using the Celtic Wisdom Oracle” and its “Ancestral Wisdom and Guidance Cards” are illustrated by Wil Kinghan and authored by Caitlin Matthews.
The Divine Ancestors Cards, the Wisdom of our Elders, as represented by the Lords and Ladies of Life, Love and Light
The Clan Cards, the Ancestors of our Blood Line, as represented by an array of folks from the Spinner and Weaver to the King and Queen to Seer and Druid
The descriptions and the narrative are most informative and a great overview of Celtic culture.
Read MoreOnce a month, I draw a card from a Celtic tarot or oracle deck that can bring in new images and words of potential meaning and new energy. Today’s card is from The Sacred Circle Tarot: A Celtic Pagan Journey by Anna Franklin, illustrated by Paul Mason.
Read MoreThe picture of the illustrated ram of the Druid Animal Oracle, that plants named for the ram and a carving of a snake with a ram’s head lay at the ram’s feet. They exemplify the importance of this animal down through the ages.
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