An Oracle Reading For 2023
I decided to do an Oracle reading for myself on how to move into the new year and I wanted to share it with you here.
Where you are presently: Inner Temple
The main parts: Your guides want you to know how proud of you they are, and that the time you spend in devotion is priceless. If you are questioning your career or life path, your guides want you to turn your focus toward devotion and this prayer: “Please use me in a way that delights my mind, body, and soul. May my life be one big moving prayer.”
2. Represents your calling next year: Soul Family
The main parts: It is time to call in your soul family and support team. People who get you at a soul level. People who are the same kind of weird as you. People who are your chosen family. They are coming and they are looking for you. …If you have already found them, then you are being called to let them support you and perhaps also assemble a wider support team.
3. Represents what is rising in you: Play
The main parts: Spend more time doing things just because you love to do them. How do you play? What do you do to have fun? What lights you up?
4. Represents what is falling away: Anna, Grandmother of Jesus
The main bits: Anna represents the quiet dedication that is sometimes required to live a life of service. She represents the dutiful soldier, the unconditional mother, and them mystic who can see the thread that is woven through all of life. (ie. now its more important to focus on myself instead of serving everyone else)
5. Represents your soul gifts: Answer the call
The main bits: Answering your soul’s calling is not a one-time thing, rather a lifelong dance. Deep down, you already know what you long for. What your soul yearns for. Whatever you are called to do, that is your calling. Don’t overthink it. Don’t wait for permission. Just say YES.
6. Represents what is being manifested: Trust the niggle
The main bits: That niggling feeling. That annoying, niggling feeling. That inconvenient, annoying, niggling feeling. Try as you might, it’s there. And until you face the niggle, life just throws you more bait to awaken it. The niggle is an arrow, pointing to what is standing in your way - the relationship, the conversation, the decision, the shift that needs to be made, the stone in your shoe. Answer the niggle now.
7: Represents the next step: Pillar of Light
Main bits: Take time to meditate. Without your body, voice, and creations neither can be expressed. You are the oracle. Do not look for guidance outside, for you hold all the wisdom of the entire Universe in the portal of your heart.
8. Represents past influences: Boundaries
Main bits: You are being called to create clearer boundaries in your life. Saying NO and having clear boundaries is actually a spiritual act. The most giving, loving, compassionate people are those with the clearest boundaries. For when they say YES, they are able to give unconditionally.
9. Represents what you need to know as you moving into the coming year: The ever-unfolding rose
Main bits: Being human is a courageous act. wherever you find yourself at the moment, life is coaxing you to keep your heart open no matter how much it hurts. To continually unfold. To let life crack you open. Everything is going to be OK.
10. Represents Hopes & Fears: Keepers of the earth
Main bits: You are so supported. The Keepers of the Earth acknowledge the work that you have done already and are ready to work through you. It is time to increase your capacity to receive support in the physical realm. You do not need to go at it alone. What kind of support do you need?
11. Represents the potential outcome: The Crumbling
Main bits: Relationships, jobs, social structures, anything built on shaky ground is destined to tumble down. Have faith because the difficult times will be your defining moments. You will be reborn in the fire. You have what it takes to allow what is falling away to tumble and fall. What are you clinging to for fear of nothing coming to take its place?
Sometimes when I am in the most fluttery places, I turn to spirituality and connecting with my soul through various method like tarot, oracle, and meditating. I always know when I feel overwhelmed that the best thing to do is to get quiet and listen for what I am trying to hear. And while yes, oracle cards are meant to be able to be adapted to whatever situation you are going through, it is how YOU interpret them that gives them their magic. THAT is your subconscious/soul talking to you. For me, this reading was really helpful in recognizing the importance of putting myself first and not only asking, but receiving help and advice from those around me as I move forward towards this next phase of my life/career. Part of me letting go of my studio/saying no to photography speaking engagements was because I was clinging to the fear of the unknown but know that if I stay attached to who I was, I cannot grow into who I can become. I am thinking about adding a weekly oracle pull to line up as I have a ton of different decks to use and it might give some guidance as you move forward in your own growth and self development!
