Oracle Cards: A Beginner's Guide - Practical Magic

Sometimes, your card’s meaning may come to you later in the day or retrospectively, after a day, a week, or a month.

Know that sometimes, the meaning won’t come to you at all.

And that’s okay too. Learning to read oracle cards is an exercise in connecting with your intuition, and being able to let go in case that connection just doesn’t come through. It happens to all of us (myself included). The important part is to attempt to understand and to learn to let it go when nothing comes up. This doesn’t mean your cards are faulty, that you don’t have intuition (WE ALL HAVE IT), or that something’s wrong with you. When this happens, I believe what we’re meant to learn is that we can chuck the practice and throw it in the bin if it’s not working.

Oracle cards and their messages are not the be all and end all. So if they’re stressing you out, relax, and know that you have the option and right to disregard them when they’re not working for you.

That said, there is a difference between ignoring an oracle card’s message because you don’t get it and disregarding it because you don’t like what it says.

Oracle cards won’t always tell you what you want to hear.

But most of the time, you’ll find that they do tell you what you need to hear. The thing about our ego is that it wants us to follow the path of least resistance all the time. This is fine in some cases, but not all. Pulling oracle cards enables us to cut through what our rational mind wants us to do (usually, this is the easy way out) and remind us of what we owe to ourselves to investigate, confront, or embark on.

For example, you’re going through a difficult fallout with a friend, so you decide to pull an oracle card and ask “What do I need to know today?” Your Tanim deck, then delivers the message “Pumukaw / Stir” and this, naturally, upsets you because the last thing you want to do is stir the pot and create more conflict. You could very well let go of this message and forget all about it; or you could try and figure out why you’re so uncomfortable about disrupting the status quo. Perhaps the energy of “stirring” makes you uneasy because you know it will raise tough issues that you’d rather not discuss with your friend / frenemy. But just maybe actually confronting the issue and stirring the pot can help you cut through the drama and come to a resolution instead. You’re not always going to be happy about whatever resolution may come, but it’s still a resolution (as compared to an endless fallout limbo).

On the other hand, there are times when oracle cards will absolutely, completely, fully validate you.

When your oracle card pulls affirm what you’re feeling or thinking, celebrate it.

It’s a lovely experience to be feeling one thing and then pulling a card that reflects exactly that. Let’s get our little doses of magic wherever we can!