Welcome 2021!

 

Been a while between posts. I now have a job that takes up a ton of my time. For a while I was doing daily card readings on my Facebook page but it became harder once I started working and when everything shut down, the daily readings were always saying the same thing, just with different cards. Be patient. Wait. It's going to get better.

As we move into 2021, I believe that as much as ever. On the first of every year I pull a card from every one of my decks to see what the message is for the year. I now have so many decks (and I left out two older ones) that I need a blog post for it! There are a lot of cards to cover, so let's get to it!

Was very excited when I pulled this from the Whispers of Lord Ganesha deck by Angela Hartfield, illustrated by Ekaterina Golovanova. (Most of the decks I own are because I was drawn to their look, so I'm going to shout out the artists who impressed me.) 

This message is very straightforward. Joy is the state of the heart and soul. Joy is something we need to make a conscious choice to find in our everyday. This is advanced spiritual work vital not only for our wellbeing but in creating a kinder and just world. It's about releasing our old stories and adapting to new patterns of behaviour. Allow your feelings. Tend to your emotional wounds. Remove all that is preventing your inner light from shining bright. Joy awaits on the other side. Not only is this for each one of us to work on, but as a society as well.

This card, taken from the Soul Clarity Cards deck by Jodi Chapman, is straightforward. Ask for help. The message underneath "We all want to support you. But first, you have to be brave enough to ask."

 

This one is from The Mayan Oracle by Ariel Spilsbury & Michael Bryner. This is one of the first modern oracle decks, created in the early 90s and illustrated by an artist who now calls herself Oceanna. This is a vintage copy, although you can still get it today. 

This is part of the numbers set of the deck, the number 3. The world is full of sacred trinities. This card talks about becoming the third point of light, which is created when polarity is integrated. Good news in a world so polarized! It's all about movement and flow and calls on us to open ourselves to the currents of change. Focus your energy into creativity and allow it to express.

Another vintage deck I was thrilled to acquire as it's out of print. This is the Baseball Tarot from 1999, created by Mark Lerner and Laura Phillips. I've struggled with using tarot as there are so many cards with so many possible interpretations depending on positioning in readings. However, as a lifelong baseball fan, these cards thrill me. Themed decks rarely work as well as this one and it's made it very easy for me to work with. 

Bases correspond to pentacles in a traditional deck. Here they represent earned worth, just as you work to earn a position on one or to advance to another. 8 in tarot talks about boundaries and limitations. Here, the act of keeping your eye on the ball requires discipline and focus. Get back to basics. Be tenacious. Practice and be patient as you build up your mastery. This is the year of incremental improvements and consistent work.

This is the Sacred Traveler deck by Denise Linn, artwork by Jesse Reisch. This is the deck I use to read other people. This card talks about it being an uphill journey, with stumbles along the way, and cautions us not to be limited by beliefs of limitations. Live passionately and courageously with hard work and diligence and we will reach the summit. 

There are a lot of crystal decks out there but I fell in love with this one: Eternal Crystals by Jade Sky. I especially love the artwork by Jane Marin that takes a closeup of each stone and hides some beautiful iconography in the design. 

This card is all about family, something that has become more important collectively in the past year whether it's family by blood or the ones we have chosen for ourselves. Let your family see who you truly are and reconnect with them if you can. If you have issues you need to work through in regards to them, know that you have spirit guides around you to support you in that. Make sure those issues are actually yours and not someone else's that you've taken on through guilt or shame.

Sadly I'm unable to take a decent shot of the card from Matt Kahn's Healing Mantra Deck, probably because it's in lovely pastels with delicate images. It's unusual in that the front and back of each card is different. The front is the topic, the back is the mantra. The artist for this one is Jo Klima.

The message is Welcoming Surrender: There is no problem, only destiny being revealed. This card is also about going with the flow. In this case, it's about handing over personal conflict to source and focusing on evolving with sincerity, love, and compassion for all. Use it to eliminate resistance, deal with anger, and ease an overthinking mind.

Continuing with the theme of surrender, this is Judith Orloff's The Power of Surrender cards, based off of her book of the same name. No guidebook for this deck as the card says it all. It's time to drop the stories we tell ourselves as a society about scarcity of resources when the truth is that we have so much to appreciate and to share. If you can't read the image:

Surrender Your Belief in Scarcity: The universe is asking you to open to the infinite nature of abundance. In this way, you can remove blocks in your life and succeed beyond your wildest dreams.

My first true oracle deck and still my favourite: Keepers of the Light by Kyle Gray. Artwork by the amazing Lily Moses. The deck features revered figures from all the major spiritual traditions current and ancient. The Divine Director comes from channelled New Thought teaching and was brand new to me when I got this deck. He is considered a facet of the heart of the Creator. 

The card says: The Divine Director: Intervention and Purpose. Divine intervention is occuring. Know that you are being guided. Happiness is your purpose.

I personally love this card because it reminds us to remember love and do what makes us happy. We're on a big learning curve right now so relax and connect with joy. (There's joy again!) We're feeling a strong sense of purpose and we're reminded us that our careers can compliment our purpose but not define it. We're on the right path and it's time to move forward.

So there are definite themes here from all the cards - joy, purpose, focus, moving from old patterns and thoughts that do not serve us to ones that do. I'm going to end us off with a card from Collette Baron-Reid's deck Postcards from Spirit, which always feel to me like an energetic hug: