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6: SAMPLE ORACLE CARD READING
Oracle cards requested by client: Druid Animal Oracle Deck
Cards drawn are shown below:
2 Salmon 4 Bull
1 Cow
3 Adder 5 Raven
The cards are numbered in the order they are read. The reading is a sort of story. The middle card is the subject of the story. It identifies the issue the reading is about. Cards 2 and 3 describe how to deal with the issue, card 4 is the outcome and card 5 is the future.
(NB: Some background information about the client is needed to provide a context for the reading. In this case it is necessary to know that the client had an interest in herbalism passed on to her by her grandmother.)
In general, the cards seem to be dealing with some deficiencies in your life which are preventing you from reaching your goals. (I should say that I took the initiative and did a 2nd spread using The Celtic Tree Oracle cards which backed up what I am saying. The cards were: 1 Grove, 2 Furze, 3 Alder, 4 Heather, 5 Apple.)
The chief card representing your goals is the Raven representing the kind of spiritual knowledge that is possessed by those who are able to make predictions and give healing advice etc., through use of cards, plants, dream interpretations and so on. The cards represent your present situation as being advanced and well grounded in a few respects but deficient in others. I wonder if family influences, perhaps your grandmother’s wisdom, may have absorbed all of your attention as a child or young woman at the expense of other potential interests? (There seems to be a suggestion of a threesome here of which your grandmother’s herbal knowledge is the one you have but there remain two that you need to discover and recover.) At any rate, the solution that the cards are advising is that you explore your childhood and youth, perhaps compose an outline autobiography, giving particular attention to anything you may have taken an interest in but then dropped. Somewhere in there you should find two interests which you need to pick up and follow again. As for what those might be, I cannot read that in the cards except to say that they are showing a strong Scottish influence and a strong link to trees.
Of course, connecting with the Raven there is a strong tradition of the Second Sight in Scotland. This derives from an aspect of the Scottish character which goes back to ancient times and is still prevalent today. In medieval times, when people talked of Scots, they always referred to them as Wandering Scots. In the days of the British Empire , the Scots were found in all sorts of out of the way places living and working in foreign cultures, mixing with ‘the natives’ on an equal footing. So the Scots have a love of finding out about other people, their cultures, their ideas, how they live and are not afraid to mix with strangers or to welcome them into their own homes. This unusual friendliness towards strangers is based on another famous aspect of the Scottish character which is very much part and parcel of being a member of a clan: that is, pride. This Scottish pride does not have to be justified and does not depend on what other people think of you - it is a family or clan thing. You know the worth of your own people, you take pride in your own family, and as part of that family you take pride in yourself. So, to go back to the Second Sight, it is gained from having a wide experience of other people and other ideas and cultures coupled with a faith in yourself.
These are what the cards seem to be implying you need to acquire. But, as I said, how you go about it seems to be a matter of picking up interests you dropped in your younger days.
As to the outcome, if you do locate those interests and pursue them, the cards are clearly predicting wealth in both ideas and opportunities.
Finally, the cards end with a caution – or rather, two cautions. Firstly, they caution against using cards and dreams for predictions until AFTER you have developed these new interests. They caution that there may be serious consequences if you attempt to dabble in predictions before then. Secondly, they caution that by the time you have achieved those predictions of wealth of ideas etc. you will have a number of choices opening up to you which will require you to make a choice about which course to pursue. The caution concerns how you make these choices. You must look at your options as you would at flowers and decide which is the most beautiful/attractive, and pursue that option. You must on no account allow money or other people to influence your decision.
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