Category Archives: oracular wisdom

Wild Ways

What are the Wild Ways that pull you out of complacency?

Hear their call
for they will bring you home

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Howl at the moon, read a dangerous book, ask the forbidden questions, walk in the forest and listen to the moss under your feet, simmer a witches brew of  holy ways and heretic actions.

In other words, take a grand chance on something close to your heart.

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The Dark Places

The dark does not just hold your shadows
or those scary fears that keep hidden away

The dark also holds the depth of your
secret treasures

Those wishes and dreams
that seem to tender to release into the world

It is only by visiting The Dark Places
can you know which is which

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I may seem an odd card to get on May Day, a day of bursting with sun and life and new growth, yet this is what came forward.

So, dare to look into the dark even while basking in the light. What is hidden under the surface, behind the smile, in the wakeful moments in the middle of the night when the rest of the world sleeps?

What desire have you hidden away? Visit and ask if it is time to come out into the light. If it is not yet ready, visit often until it is. Tend the tiny whispers of what will someday be knowing this dark cocoon is also a place of growth.

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gluttony

from Oracle of Oddities by
Black and the Moon

Beware the hunger that cannot be filled by mortal things
for this is the force that temps your craving heart
away from her deep knowing

The empty feeling of soul longing
is the journey to your center
 and the portal to all that is

Gluttony’s lie is that the discomfort of spirit
can be fed through the flesh
as separate from our divinity

The gift of gluttony is the awareness
that hunger comes in many guises
all of which
want to lead us home to the embrace
of our body as the meeting place
of matter and eternal essence

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Gluttony invites us to see where our craving for more is a symptom of a truer desire for connection to our self, our heart, and the greater source of all.

Gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins is mired in shame and yet it holds a divine doorway into finding what holds our deepest joy.

Gluttony asks us to feel in and under the fixation with more and hear the subtle cry of our essential nature calling us to the truth of our being.

We are enough.

Sad Embrace
from The Enchanted Map
by Colette Baron-Reid

Allow yourself the solace of your own sweet acceptance
for things of this world are harsh and cruel

Do not run from your sadness
it tells a sacred story
of love and loss and something precious

Instead embrace the tenderness
of being a soul witness to grief shared
by all who have courage to bear witness
to the heart of living in times of such as these

Compassion and strength grow here

&

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If you are feeling tender and vulnerable, take time to be gentle and comforting to yourself. Your pain, disappointment, grief, anxiety, or sadness is your emotional wisdom guiding you through the depth of the complexity of our mortal, imperfect world.

Sad Embrace welcomes this complexity and ask you to meet yourself with loving compassion, allow what is here to move through you, and know that while you do you are being held by the stars and moon and solid ground of Earth.

I notice the full moon in the image above and can’t help but make the connection to the full moon tomorrow. Emotions may feel even more intense. Reach out for support if it feels too much. This also is a form of embrace for your soft and tender self.

Power of Attraction
from Sacred Rebels by Alana Fairchild

The world is woven together with golden threads
each felt only by those whose path align

This attraction is soul meeting destiny
yet only unfolding when trusted and followed

Give honor to that which pulls you towards it
for it will guide your way
illuminate your heart
show you
your place of belonging in this world

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Where are you drawn?
What attracts you?
Any flights of fancy, shiny objects, unexpected curiosities grabbing your attention?

Let yourself follow the lead of what attracts you. Even if it doesn’t make sense, or doesn’t lead to something concrete that you can see right now. These treads of noticing, of attraction, are messages from the unseens, sign posts to our unfolding self. Allow them to take you into new terrains of knowing yourself.

If you have concerns that this all sounds too much like useless procrastination and avoidance, I say this. There is a difference between following the sacred threads of self through the mystery even, perhaps especially, when they don’t have a logical reason or conclusion and numbing out through distractions so as to NOT step vulnerably into the unknown and wild ride of your becoming self.

You are following a golden thread, sacred attraction, soul unfolding, if you feel a deepening recognition of yourself whether through familiar or new ways.

Letting Go of Shame

from Venus Rising by Outi Art

The gift of shame is mistaken to be
redemption that comes from
carrying burdens 
so that we might be purified

That penitence must be served
for any fault against perfection

I am ashamed
the hurt one within cries
hoping against hope to be saved by bearing the weight
of secrets and the scars
of life

Yet the gift of shame
is the return to self and world granted
when bonds never meant to be are released
replaced by devotion to the
sacred
imperfect
wholeness of being
that never left

Letting go of shame
that residue of false emotional responsibility
in favor of rightness of heart and action
is the spark that lights
a path of truth and healing

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Where are you holding on to shame? What can now be released about this situation or story or history?

We all hold pieces of our self in shrouded corners, afraid of what others might think. Whether out of regret for actions we have taken or for circumstance and harm beyond our control, shame festers when held onto and is lifted when taken out of secrecy in a respectful and safe way.

The flower on the throat chakra points to truth telling while the infinity sign on the third eye and dove imagery evokes the infinite divine love and peace available when we open our awareness.

How might you open yourself to the grace of truth over shame?

This week look for ways let go of shame and notice where love and peace come to you.