Channelling - Challenge and Blessing - Tarot & Oracle Reading

On Saturday, I was asked to begin channelling Archangel Jeremiel. I have been told this will happen again. In the meantime, subtle changes are happening on many levels and last night I had an intensive dream where I married my Animus. I felt the two might be related... channelling and hieros gamos (sacred wedding between God and Goddess) but I couldn't quite grasp how.

Deck Interview with the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire Tarot

Some decks are reserved and others warm and friendly - This deck, the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire Tarot, definitely falls into the latter category. It's one of those decks that becomes a buddy from the first reading, something you will find reflected in the interview with this deck below.

If you find it difficult to grasp the concept that each deck has its own spirit, you only need to think for a minute about the very (in)famous Thoth Tarot deck. Few decks have a stronger and more magnetic (compelling/repelling) life force, creating visceral reactions in people who behold it, whether they know any back story or not.

A Beginner's Guide to Reading with Mixed Oracles

Decks used: Magical Mermaids and Dolphins & The Voyager Tarot

If you are just starting out learning to read the Tarot cards, you may feel that throwing other oracles into the mix might complicate things unnecessarily. I propose a different perspective for starting out reading with mixed oracles and that is to see it as an exercise in reading the Tarot cards intuitively - just as you would with many other oracles.

With this in mind, here are some some simple exercises to help you get creative with mixed oracles:

Abandonment Issue Rescue (aka AIR) Tarot

Pictorial Key Tarot and Mary Queen of Angels Oracle

 ABANDONMENT ISSUE PRAYER

Oh me of little faith, I am aghast!
Help me to discern ghosts past
And to feel what I truly feel
Though it be terrifyingly vast
So I can know and trust what is real
My heart is willing and ready to heal
Amen

If you are aware of suffering from abandonment issues, you are familiar with the hell that breaks lose every time your woundedness is triggered. The issues can rear their head at any stage of an intimate relationship, right from first contact through to the (seemingly inevitable) break-up.

The smallest things, such as your partner not replying straight away to a text message, can trigger deep-rooted fear of abandonment and

Combination Deck Interview with the 3D and Pictorial Key Tarot

There is no way of capturing the 3D effect on camera but these cards are da bomb!

The Pictorial Key Tarot deck by Lo Scarabeo caught my eye quite a while back. Being a fan of most brightly coloured Rider Waite clones (yes, I'm easily pleased!), I've been wanting a copy for quite a while but found myself putting off getting this deck in favour of others that seemed more alluring at the time.

But then I found out that there was a 3D Tarot out by Lo Scarabeo, based on the Pictorial Key Majors... Oh my, I could wait no longer! This I had to see - not only see but play with! I'm still a kid at heart and in spite of all the high tech gadgets (or perhaps because of) I sometimes sink into a state of nostalgia for the days when one 3D picture would amaze me no end. I wanted to know if the fascination could be rekindled and there could be no better object for testing this than a 3D Tarot for this Tarotista!

Rather than interviewing these two decks separately, I decided to do the original reading and with the Pictorial Key Tarot and simply replace any of the Majors with one of the larger 3D Majors. This way you get a sense of the size difference.

Let's see what these two had to say for themselves:

Top 30 Psychic Development Tips

Perhaps you have been reading the cards for a while and are wondering how to develop psychically. You don't need to be psychic to read the Tarot but the more receptive you are to psychic guidance, the more useful and detailed information you will be able to provide for others when you do readings. And it goes without saying that you will benefit from psychic guidance in your own life too. The benefits of developing psychically are too numerous to list.

Of course, if you are seeking to develop your psychic powers, there is a 'meta life hack' that supersedes all psychic development hacks and that is to...

Embody Your Soul Tarot Spread

Deck used: Connolly Tarot

Be at peace with your own soul,
Then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Enter eagerly into the treasure house that is within you,
And you will see the things that are in heaven;  

For there is but one single entry to them both.
The ladder that leads to the Kingdom in hidden within your soul…

Dive into yourself and in your soul you will discover
The stairs by which to ascend.

~ Saint Isaac of Nineveh

We're not born with a Map of Life but this Tarot spread gets pretty close. You're here to embody your soul as fully as possible and these four cards can help you with the how.

1. Vocation - This card gives you a clue about your life purpose in terms of your career or vocation and shows you how to maximise on the gifts of the Spirit bestowed upon you before you were even conceived.