The wisdom of BlueStar & Counsel of Light at your fingertips
Offering you the BlueStar Deck, the Sacred Stones Oracle Decks (volumes I & II), and the Flower Oracle Deck
Use your oracle deck every day, or whenever you wish to consult the guides about what is on your mind and in your heart. To play with and explore the decks virtually, try out the random card generator at the bottom of this page (it is so cool!).
Pick a card for daily contemplation, to inspire and deepen your own connection to intuition and guidance energy. Read the channeled information for each card in the accompanying booklet, or simply listen to your own inner wisdom. You can use the cards one at a time, or in groups of two or three, in any tarot spread you like, or however you desire. They are both flexible and precise, offering guidance and clarity for all your questions and concerns.
Each Oracle Deck contains full color cards, with a beautiful photograph and a word or brief saying on each card. Cards measure 2.5 x 3.5 inches, fitting easily in the hand, with a smooth finish on 300 gsm paper. They have a lovely feel, and are lightly coated to resist stains and creases.
Each of the 36-card BlueStar and Sacred Stones decks comes in its own hard, clear plastic box, which doubles as a display box for your card of the day. These decks are accompanied by a booklet containing channeled guidance for each card.
The 78-card Flower Oracle Deck comes in a custom cardboard box, with a full 140-page book of channeled guidance and information on how to use the cards.
Each deck stands on its own and has a distinct quality of energy.
The BlueStar Oracle Deck has a sweet, gentle feeling, while staying true to the clarity of the spirit guides BlueStar and Counsel of Light. The cards in this deck have evocative phrases that are easy to remember and relate to. A great beginner deck. The images include a variety of human made and natural objects and plants.
The Sacred Stones Oracle Decks volumes I & II have a concise, deep, direct energy. Each card has a single word, which the spirit guides BlueStar & Counsel of Light have used to generate useful channeled information. Their compassion and humor shine in these decks. The photographs are of sacred stones in various parts of the world.
The Flower Oracle Deck is a three-part deck, organized into Action (green), Emotion (yellow), and Idea (Blue), referencing three ways of engaging with the inner and outer worlds. With 78 cards total, this is a large and versatile deck, packaged in a custom cardboard box with a full 140-page book describing the cards and suggesting many ways to use them. This deck is full of beautiful color photographs of particular flowers, accompanied by a single word relating to the quality represented therein.
All images made and copyrighted by Ker Cleary. Cost $29 per deck for the BlueStar and Sacred Stones decks, or $75 for the set of 3, plus shipping. The Flower Oracle Deck is $60 plus shipping.
See Testimonials at the bottom of this page for a glimpse of others’ experience.
Oracle Card Generator
Explore our oracle decks using the random card generator below. Each generator contains 9 cards (out of 36) from its associated deck.
Instructions: Working with oracle cards is a personal and intuitive process. The more you use them, the deeper your connection with your own inner wisdom grows. The following ideas are just suggestions; play with them any way you wish.
Ask a question in your mind and heart, holding it clearly as you scan to see which deck to use. You can use all three cards displayed in each deck, one from each deck, three from the same deck, one card only, your choice.
One of the simplest questions to ask is, “What do I need to know right now?” Of course, you can ask whatever you want. Open-ended questions will bring more insight than yes/no questions. Three-card readings could be framed as past/present/future, or self/situation/obstacle, or anything else that makes sense to you.
With the card backs showing, click on the double arrow to shuffle, then click on the card(s) you feel drawn to for your guidance. Click the face of the card to read the channeled message for that card, scrolling down to see the full text. Or, simply gaze at the card and sense what the meaning is for you.
Click the card again to see the image; click the back arrow to flip the card(s) back.
Have fun, and trust yourself.
To purchase full physical decks, visit our Shop page.
Play with the Flower Oracle Deck


Tension
Tension is the feeling of standing between heaven and ground, the space which all beings occupy. There will forever be tension here, the pull of the planet’s gravity versus the siren call of the wild blue yonder, the elements of earth and air.
When humans acknowledge the tension of simply existing, they can actively use it to benefit all of life. When they try to deny or disregard it, then tension is embodied and causes strife.
Your neck and shoulders: what are they rejecting?
Tension does not have to end in explosions. We would like to make that perfectly clear. Sometimes it’s fun to blow off steam, but only if the steam does not burn you.
Tension is the pull of the polarities, the moon and sun, the time and tide of life on this dear planet that gives you so much. It is the quality that allows the bug to skate on water. It is the element that keeps the boulders up the hill.
You can rely on the tension of gravity to keep you in your place. When you defy the tension you can grow stronger, through stretching, and lifting, and running and jumping in place.
But know what it is that you play with, so you explore tension with respect. Be aware of the tension of anger, of sorrow, of fear, and the tension of happiness and love, the potential for bursting with the tension of news unshared. Please be aware.
And then comes the moment of death: tension dissolves, no longer holding you upright, no longer keeping the soul attached to the bones of the body at all. Finally, relaxed. ❀


Intensity
However you slice it, Intensity is always relative. Like the story of how to boil a frog, it depend on what you are used to experiencing. If you are used to a lot of drama and hardship, less intensity will feel foreign, boring, perhaps even dangerous or sad. If you are used to a peaceful life, intensity may be measured in how beautiful the sunset was tonight, and not in how many gunshots were heard near your home.
Intensity has a volume control knob of a sort, but it goes in multiple directions. Intensity is a multidimensional experience, and it all depends on where you stand. Not everyone enjoys intensity, but most people have a kind of intensity they enjoy, or a level at which they feel more alive. Intensity in and of itself is neutral, but the experience of it is always subjective.
When you are looking for intensity, it is easy to ramp it up. If you can’t find it in one place, you can keep moving until you find it somewhere else. If you cannot find the intensity of love or joy or pleasure, you can find the intensity of anger or mischief or running for your life. You can strike out at various targets, intentionally or with whatever comes to hand.
Be aware of the level of intensity you seek, and how you inspire it. Ask yourself what it is you are hoping to find.
You may actually be looking for love. You may be seeking inspiration. Perhaps you are hoping for a response to you, any reaction at all, just to tell you that you are alive, you are visible, you are seen. But be cautious – who do you want to see you, acknowledge you, and why?
Consider both the source and the purpose of your intensity, and notice the methods by which you engage, and the outcome of your approach. When you are easily overwhelmed, intensity finds you without being invited, and you may need to consider better protection for your psyche. When you are looking for just a thrill, you might ask yourself what you are running from, which of your gifts you are avoiding, what inner self you are forsaking in your quest.
There is enough intensity in life for life to flourish. If you have not found your way to harmony with all of it, and to your ability to calibrate for your particular needs, keep experimenting. It is a process without end. ❀


Receive
Some people think that receiving is not an action but a state of passivity. This is untrue. Receiving must be an engaged action for it to have any effect.
Many things get in the way of receiving properly: deflecting, denying, rejecting, trying to give back right away, or to give away or pass along what has been received without fully digesting it. All of these responses are understandable. There is so much wrapped up in the idea of receiving. And yet.
Receiving is happening all the time, in many, many ways. You are antennae, attuned to all the vibrations, information, and offerings of the Universe. You can’t help receiving. With this card we encourage you to be selective in your attunement and fully able to take in that which you receive.
It is necessary, of course, to take in food and water, air and light, in order to survive. Many people acknowledge the necessity of love as well, but few practice taking it in.
There is love and beauty everywhere, and it is beamed to you all hours of the night and day. This doesn’t mean there is no pain or suffering, of course there is. But without receiving the healing vibrations of unconditional love, the stuff you are based in, how are you to withstand the challenges of life?
To practice receiving, give yourself a few minutes at a time, find a space where you will be less interrupted, and allow your gaze to soften. Find something beautiful or pleasing to look at. Find something peaceful to listen to. Find a nice smell, a nice taste, a pleasant texture of cloth or skin. Take a few minutes to breathe it in and allow it to diffuse into your cells. Imagine they are plumping up, glowing with the radiance of reception vibrating with health and well-being.
Practice this daily, without rejecting or squirming away from it, without having to share it with anyone else, and eventually you will attain mastery. And then you can work with receiving the things that seem less pleasant to accept, until at some point you will be able to receive the entirety of your life and the world in which it resides. ❀
Play with the BlueStar Oracle Deck


Persistence
When something deserves to be done, it might take longer than you think. You might need to take the long view, to wait it out.
There is something to be said for determination, slow and steady, winning the race.
Except there is no race.
This is about the march of time, and how it never paces according to your will. So, time yourself to something else, the level of satisfaction at each day’s end, the tally of how you lived into your ideals, what you learned, who you loved, where the regret and opportunity lay.
Each morning renew your commitment.
Not “this day I will be a better person” or even “I will do better than I did before” but simply, “Here is who I am and what I stand for, and to the best of my ability I will meet myself with all my heart as best I can with what I have to work with in this moment.”
That should be sufficient to get you where you want to go, so that at the end of your life you will look back not with regret, or even pride, but with gratitude and wonder at what richness you were given and gave back, by the mere fact of your singular existence. ✩


Patience
Patience is that thing where you are feeling impatient but you bide your time.
It is the thing where you really want to jump out of your chair, but remain holding your seat.
Patience is when you bite your tongue, not waiting for an opening to say your piece, but hoping for the respite from your own wild thoughts and precarious ego, replacing them instead with a patience and curiosity, a willingness to wait and see what happens next.
Patience is friends with faith and confidence, although not wholly reliant on them for wellbeing and existence.
Patience waits by the door, alert to the comings and goings without needing to interfere.
Patience is aware of the power of patience, the wisdom of patience, and patience is its own reward. ✩


Inside every being lives the same tender heart
While you may feel revulsion, anger, or smugness when you see a difficult person, remember, they too long for love. They may not express it in the most appealing manner, but they wish to be safe and understood and belong to the tribe.
Everyone has been wounded, and everyone is doing the best they can. Each being has advantages and disadvantages; learning to work with oneself is a lifelong practice. Some people are lazy, some are mean, some are unable to be aware, some are unkind, some are frightened, some are out of touch. Some mean well, but cannot figure it out.
Many variables exist. You can understand this because you have had all these experiences as well.
When you are having a bad day, have compassion for yourself. When you are having a good day, remember you are one of many, either way. And when someone really gets your goat, please keep in mind that their heart is tender, just like yours, and like you they wish only to be loved.
No, you don’t have to agree with them. Sometimes you might even need to fight them. But please do not lose sight of your common ground, or else it will be hopeless. If you cannot recognize yourself in your enemy’s face, you still have a long way to go. ✩
Play with the Sacred Stones Oracle Deck volume I


Communication
There are many ways in which beings communicate. Some use words or sounds, some visual or gestured cues. Some simply walk away or towards you. Some will be silent and still. Everyone – all beings – communicate with energy, and even if you want to deny it, you receive the energy as well.
When you trust your own perceptions and are well grounded and finely attuned, you will read beings and situations accurately, and will be able to respond with good cheer. When you don’t have experience or confidence or discernment, even the most explicit information given in your native tongue will seem foreign or impossible to interpret.
Try to be open and listen with all your faculties. Some information is given on the breeze. Be like a snake, taste the air with your tongue. Allow all you perceive to enter your consciousness, and then rest for a while, to let it settle and make itself known. In this way you are less likely to jump to conclusions, cause offense, or take umbrage.
Even if the process takes only seconds, the beats between communication and reception and response are hallowed ground. Sacred interactions happen there, in each moment. And, in that place, you meet your own sacred selves as well. ☼


Freedom
Freedom. It does not always mean you can do what you like. It can come from unlikely experiences. You can climb a hill and realize you are free to leap. But gravity will have the last word.
Sometimes freedom comes from recognizing and releasing the past. If you always face forward, or attempt to cover up what has come before as if it did not exist, you will find the rumblings of history disrupting your current events. Freedom in this case is the result of excavation and renovation, rather than denial and full steam ahead.
Freedom is mental, in general. There is bodily freedom of a kind, but the freedom of the spirit is not realized while kept in physical form. The mind, however, is free to roam at will. If you recognize this, and take care to cultivate an open and liberated mind, you will have as much happiness as your mind can hold, regardless of your physical reality.
Those with basic needs taken care of may scoff at this notion, but we tell you the truth. A hangnail bothers an unfree mind much more deeply and destructively than the lack of housing or food bothers a mind that is liberated.
Try freeing your mind, and when you get there, see if you agree. ☼


Joy
Joy is found in secret places, not always expressed aloud. Joy is a small thing, a large thing, a sensation beyond description, but you know when it arrives.
You may have noticed that any attempt to generate joy for the sake of joy very often fails. If it is joy you seek, bring joy to others, any way you can. If you do not know how to do this, then ask, observe, watch others, and learn what it is, this thing called joy.
Do not assume about joy. It is a quiet thing. It will let you know when it wants to come play. If you allow it, then you will eventually know it well. If you live your life in such a way that there is room enough for joy to visit, eventually joy will make a home with you.
Make friends with joy, nourish joy, and introduce joy to everyone you know. But you cannot command joy.
Joy does not come at anyone’s beck and call.
Joy is the result of a joyful life, not the cause of it.
Do not confuse the initial impulse with the outcome. ☼
Play with the Sacred Stones Oracle Deck volume II


Emergence
Restrictions are not what they seem. The more solid they appear, the less power they have over you. The time is coming – here it is now! – when you will discover yourself emerging.
Not unlike the butterfly. Once it was a caterpillar who, for reasons unknown even to itself, saw fit to create a cocoon. It spun the structure around itself and then dissolved. What else was there to do?
And yet the day came when the structure thinned and the daylight shone through and before it could give a second thought, the butterfly emerged.
Now, many people believe the butterfly to be beautiful, more desirable, superior to the worm who spun the sac. But how would it even exist, without the original worm?
No butterfly ever emerged who did not have a caterpillar past.
So, love the whole arc of your story, and don’t worry about the pace of things or what you are supposed to do now.
Remember, even a butterfly has no idea, at first, what to do with its wings. ☾


Clarity
Clarity depends on the amount of light you allow to shine through.
It is not a given. It is not simply a choice. Clarity comes from devotion to truth, unwavering commitment to what is real and transparent in thought and word and deed. When one seeks to manipulate, one will rarely have clarity. When one seeks the naked truth of What Is, clarity will arise to bestow its blessings.
If you are clinging to some notion of yourself as unworthy, not good enough, insufficient, you may find the quality of your thoughts to be stringy, cloudy, taut.
Not everyone is cut out for clarity.
It can have sharp edges; it can sting. If clarity is what you are built for, however, the truth will bring relief.
Clarity brings with it a sense of relaxation, a sense of alignment, of seeing clearly and being seen. It is one of the qualities of the Source from which you came, the unconditional love of your birthright. Clarity will always feel like coming home.
In times of befuddlement, confusion, agitation, remember your essential nature is clear and bright. Allow the light of clarity to shine through you, to settle you and keep you awake. ☾


Progress
Progress means movement, usually forward. Sometimes you need to go back to go forward again, because of an error, or unforeseen circumstance. This, too, is progress.
Progress is also inevitable. It can mean the glacier creeping along towards the ocean at a pace of an inch every few years. It can mean the fast retreat of the glacier, in response to its current experience. Progress does not always mean things get better. It does not always mean things go according to plan. And it rarely means things go the way you think they should. Have you noticed?
And yet time marches on. Things do progress, in the sense that things change and do not revert to an original state (whatever that would be) or at least not a state without evidence of what has occurred. Movement and memory, time and space, everything elastic and yet never quite returning to its particular shape. This is the nature of progress.
It happens whether you want it to or not, so you might ask yourself, “How do I get along with this movement, or stuckness, this evolution, or this resting place? How can I Be in this world of time and space, when in fact I am a multidimensional being of light and love?”
Good questions. Keep asking. ☾
Oracle Card Generator
Explore our oracle decks using the random card generator below. Each generator contains 9 cards (out of 36) from its associated deck.
Instructions: Working with oracle cards is a personal and intuitive process. The more you use them, the deeper your connection with your own inner wisdom grows. The following ideas are just suggestions; play with them any way you wish.
Ask a question in your mind and heart, holding it clearly as you scan to see which deck to use. You can use all three cards displayed in each deck, one from each deck, three from the same deck, one card only, your choice.
One of the simplest questions to ask is, “What do I need to know right now?” Of course, you can ask whatever you want. Open-ended questions will bring more insight than yes/no questions. Three-card readings could be framed as past/present/future, or self/situation/obstacle, or anything else that makes sense to you.
With the card backs showing, click on the double arrow to shuffle, then click on the card(s) you feel drawn to for your guidance. Click the face of the card to read the channeled message for that card, scrolling down to see the full text. Or, simply gaze at the card and sense what the meaning is for you.
Click the card again to see the image; click the back arrow to flip the card(s) back.
Have fun, and trust yourself.
To purchase full physical decks, visit our Shop page.
Play with the Flower Oracle Deck


Grief
Grief is sorrow mixed with loss and possibly regret. Grief signals an ending, of life, of hope, of what might have been, of what was going to be. It is a reckoning that most would rather do without.
Grief is not simple. It is very often fraught. It is the finality of the loss of innocence, the impossibility of unringing the bell. It cannot be undone.
When you enter a state of grief there is a shock that occurs, and then the sensation of falling. For some events or experiences it happens quickly; for others feels like a thousand years. There is no time frame for grief, nor a place for it, really. It takes up residence, and continues to dwell within.
It has many layers and a timeline all its own. The agenda of grief is hidden, only seen clearly, if at all, in retrospect. It knows things you will not know for a long, long time, but it keeps those things near, so you feel them.
Grief arises, unbidden, at unfortunate times, and invites you to participate in the shadows of your life. So much is hidden there, so much depth you might have never touched if not for grief. These are your riches; use them well.
Nobody knows how to grieve properly, not in the sense that it ever gets done. That is impossible. Grief is a lingering flavor, savory, bitter, and sweet, adding dimension and contrast to everyday life.
In a sense, grief is the underlying experience of all of humankind. Fundamentally, your separation from the Oneness is the basis of this whole experiment called Life. When you came to Earth, you both lost and gained a home. Confidence that you shall someday return to that state surely wavers, here in the land of conditions and apparent separation. You remind each other that you are all one, that humanity is one, and that nobody is really separate from the whole. But to say it and believe it and deeply, immovably feel it – those are all different things. ❀


Delight
The emotion of delight is often confusing for humans. There are so many elements to feel all the time, about feelings one is having and whether or not one should. For some reason, over time, humans seem to grow shy about the simple, deep directness of delight.
Delight is fundamental. It is simple. It is safe. It is a blossoming sensation, arising from within the heart and mind. It can be as easy as a laugh, breaking forth in spontaneous combustion of the soul, a little blip of joy escaping and then bursting like a bubble in air.
Delight is sometimes anticipated, which can either increase or decrease the actual experience of delight. Your choice. Your view. Your perspective.
Allowing yourself to be surprised by the world – for some people, that is a challenge. But for the moments when you rest in confidence of the space the world holds for you, any beauty, any connection, any glimpse of the holy nature of existence can bring delight.
It is not often thought of in scripture, but simply to be in the world is the delight of the gods, who cannot fully incarnate because of their nature. They find delight everywhere on Earth. They do not, as some worry, delight in the suffering of mortals. But they do wonder, occasionally, at the lack of delight mortals show.
When did you all become jaded, and tired, and spent? Do you not glance up in your dusty cell to note the fragile beauty of the new-spun spider’s web? And do you not, when she catches a fly, delight? Not for the woe of the insect entrapped, but for the demonstration of the arachnid’s art, and of course, the prospect of their supper. And do you not, for that moment of delight, forget the sorrow of being yourself, trapped in the world?
Delight is the path to liberation, spiders, flies, et al. ❀
Play with the BlueStar Oracle Deck


Your purpose here is to become yourself
It is a common question among humans – why am I here? What is my purpose in life? It’s very simple, really. You came here to be this person that you are, and one way or another you will get the job done.
The question is beautiful. Please, never stop seeking meaning for your life.
The basics, you know: kindness, generosity, honesty, humor, love. The details are tricky, the execution sloppy at times, but you keep going, becoming, and growing, into your being, your life, your skin.
We love you very much, and all your foibles, too. Don’t worry so much. Things are coming along just fine. When you can make improvements, we have every confidence that you shall. In the meantime, try to enjoy the view.
Please understand a salient point: you have destiny, and you also have free will. Destiny means you have a plan, and it is engaged, and you have options, to follow or to alter the course. Mostly you will follow the plan, though there may be some detours along the way. So, you can relax. And free will means you might not get everything done. You might decide to go another way sometimes. This is perfectly allowed. ✩


Perfectionism: you’re doing it wrong
Perfection is not an ideal, dear ones, but a deadly, insidious disease. It kills dreams, it kills hope, it kills spontaneity. It damages relationships with self and with other, and encourages the growth of fear, grasping, and controlling behaviors.
In no way is the Perfect your friend.
In fact, although you find the idea a bit comforting – that there is someplace to end up that is unassailable, of course it’s a lovely idea – in fact it will only and always and every time let you down.
It doesn’t hold. It doesn’t remain.
Perfection happens in a fleeting moment, and dissolves again in the rapid blink of an eye.
There is no ground of perfection on which you can take a stand.
It is not right or good or infallible. It is only a breath, passing through.
Like this one.
And this next one.
And once again. ✩
Play with the Sacred Stones
Oracle Deck volume I


Solitude
As they say, no one is an island. But from time to time, it is useful to isolate your Self, away from all that is known, that knows you, that distracts you from your center. Everyone needs privacy, and the security of alone time, to connect with their inner self.
Solitude is where the source of you resides, and must be visited from time to time. When you lose touch with your sacred inner Self, the fire of confidence grows dim. You lose clarity, insight, and truth, when you go for long stretches of time away from Home.
This Home, inside, is forever available to you, and yet you do not recall it when your days are full.
Solitude is respite, and sometimes lonesome, and always vital to your integrity of Self.
When you visit yourself on the island inside you, rest a while on your
own sweet shore. Even if the rocks are rocky, and the sand gets in your crevices.
Home is where your heart is, and your heart, inside, is Home. ☼


Devotion
Some people think devotion is a state of enslavement, but in our view devotion is a state of liberation.
When you are devoted, it is an unshakable knowing of the truth of your path. Devotion is unwavering, uncomplicated, and free. Devotion is saturation in unconditional wellbeing, resting in the total experience of love.
Devotion is not a mental construct. It does not suck you dry; it fills you up, from the inside out, with energy and the will to carry on. It is not that you feel no pain in devotion – everyone’s stuff is still stuff, after all – but you may not perceive it as suffering. Devotion is confident in all the right places, and as such, no suffering needs to be borne.
The relief of devotion is palpable. No more energy wasted on questioning, worrying, weighing possibilities. The future, while not assured, is of little concern.
Devotion has a way of sharpening concentration, and allowing everything else to fall gently to the wayside. When devotion arises, it knows little else, but with devotion, what is known is everything.
How do you know if you are devoted to the right thing, person, precept, notion, practice, or ideals? You don’t. That is what devotion is for. To set aside the questions. To know. ☼
Play with the Sacred Stones
Oracle Deck volume II


Emergence
Restrictions are not what they seem. The more solid they appear, the less power they have over you. The time is coming – here it is now! – when you will discover yourself emerging.
Not unlike the butterfly. Once it was a caterpillar who, for reasons unknown even to itself, saw fit to create a cocoon. It spun the structure around itself and then dissolved. What else was there to do?
And yet the day came when the structure thinned and the daylight shone through and before it could give a second thought, the butterfly emerged.
Now, many people believe the butterfly to be beautiful, more desirable, superior to the worm who spun the sac. But how would it even exist, without the original worm?
No butterfly ever emerged who did not have a caterpillar past.
So, love the whole arc of your story, and don’t worry about the pace of things or what you are supposed to do now.
Remember, even a butterfly has no idea, at first, what to do with its wings. ☾


Clarity
Clarity depends on the amount of light you allow to shine through.
It is not a given. It is not simply a choice. Clarity comes from devotion to truth, unwavering commitment to what is real and transparent in thought and word and deed. When one seeks to manipulate, one will rarely have clarity. When one seeks the naked truth of What Is, clarity will arise to bestow its blessings.
If you are clinging to some notion of yourself as unworthy, not good enough, insufficient, you may find the quality of your thoughts to be stringy, cloudy, taut.
Not everyone is cut out for clarity.
It can have sharp edges; it can sting. If clarity is what you are built for, however, the truth will bring relief.
Clarity brings with it a sense of relaxation, a sense of alignment, of seeing clearly and being seen. It is one of the qualities of the Source from which you came, the unconditional love of your birthright. Clarity will always feel like coming home.
In times of befuddlement, confusion, agitation, remember your essential nature is clear and bright. Allow the light of clarity to shine through you, to settle you and keep you awake. ☾
Oracle Card Generator
Explore our oracle decks using the random card generator below. Each generator contains 9 cards (out of 36) from its associated deck.
Instructions: Working with oracle cards is a personal and intuitive process. The more you use them, the deeper your connection with your own inner wisdom grows. The following ideas are just suggestions; you may play with them any way you wish.
Ask a question in your mind and heart, holding it clearly as you scan to see which deck to use. You can use all three cards displayed in each deck, one from each deck, three from the same deck, one card only, your choice.
One of the simplest questions to ask is, “What do I need to know right now?” Of course, you can ask whatever you want. Open-ended questions will bring more insight than yes/no questions. Three-card readings might be framed as past/present/future, or self/situation/obstacle, or anything else that makes sense to you.
With the card backs showing, click on the [double arrow] to shuffle, then click on the card(s) you feel drawn to for your guidance. You might click all at once, or one at a time. Click the face of the card to read the channeled message that goes with that card, scrolling down to see the full text. Or, simply gaze at the card and sense what the meaning is for you, without the guides’ words.
Click the card again to see the image; click the back arrow to flip the card(s) back.
Click the double arrow to shuffle the cards.
Have fun, and trust yourself.
To purchase full physical decks, visit our Shop page.
Play with the Flower Oracle Deck


Grief
Grief is sorrow mixed with loss and possibly regret. Grief signals an ending, of life, of hope, of what might have been, of what was going to be. It is a reckoning that most would rather do without.
Grief is not simple. It is very often fraught. It is the finality of the loss of innocence, the impossibility of unringing the bell. It cannot be undone.
When you enter a state of grief there is a shock that occurs, and then the sensation of falling. For some events or experiences it happens quickly; for others feels like a thousand years. There is no time frame for grief, nor a place for it, really. It takes up residence, and continues to dwell within.
It has many layers and a timeline all its own. The agenda of grief is hidden, only seen clearly, if at all, in retrospect. It knows things you will not know for a long, long time, but it keeps those things near, so you feel them.
Grief arises, unbidden, at unfortunate times, and invites you to participate in the shadows of your life. So much is hidden there, so much depth you might have never touched if not for grief. These are your riches; use them well.
Nobody knows how to grieve properly, not in the sense that it ever gets done. That is impossible. Grief is a lingering flavor, savory, bitter, and sweet, adding dimension and contrast to everyday life.
In a sense, grief is the underlying experience of all of humankind. Fundamentally, your separation from the Oneness is the basis of this whole experiment called Life. When you came to Earth, you both lost and gained a home. Confidence that you shall someday return to that state surely wavers, here in the land of conditions and apparent separation. You remind each other that you are all one, that humanity is one, and that nobody is really separate from the whole. But to say it and believe it and deeply, immovably feel it – those are all different things. ❀
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Kindness to others without kindness to oneself is incomplete
Kindness to others is only part of the equation. If you cannot find it in your heart to make friends with yourself, then where does that really put you in life? Very lonely and sad, and false, in a way.
You can be the kindest person alive, in the outer sense, but if you have insufficient kindness towards your own follies and foibles and faults, you will never convince anyone of your sincerity. You will never be as trusted as you long to be, for who can be seen as trustworthy when they mistreat their own dear self?
Then those around you live in fear or concern about the day it all falls down and maybe takes them with it.
A house divided against itself cannot stand, and so reserving kindness for those around you and limiting or restricting the kindness you give yourself will make a weak vessel, which ultimately must fail.
Remember, you are as deserving of your own kindness and generosity of spirit as anyone else, even more so. How will you do your good work in the world, if your structure cannot hold, and if you are forsaken by the one who should stand by you each and every moment of your life? ✩
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Community
Community is not always what you think it is, or what you might want it to be. Some want community to be the family they never had. Others fear it will be the family they did have, and so they shy away. In fact it is simply a gathering, in time and space, of beings who have something in common. The task of community is to discover what that might be, which might be different than anyone thought.
Community is powerful, which is why many long for it and others fear it. In community, things are built that are not possible without cooperation. But while individuals may be protected by the group, they may also threaten the group and therefore be kicked out. Some prefer to not join community, in order to preserve a belief in their own independence. If I don’t need you, you can’t hurt me, they think.
Community is for healing all the wounds of the past, and so the wounds must arise. Coming together is a fierce and valiant act. Even if it disappoints and disgruntles, community also proves that the wholeness is greater than the sum of its myriad parts. All beings belong, all are in the Oneness.
There may have to be a few meetings to sort it all out. ☼
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Progress
Progress means movement, usually forward. Sometimes you need to go back to go forward again, because of an error, or unforeseen circumstance. This, too, is progress.
Progress is also inevitable. It can mean the glacier creeping along towards the ocean at a pace of an inch every few years. It can mean the fast retreat of the glacier, in response to its current experience. Progress does not always mean things get better. It does not always mean things go according to plan. And it rarely means things go the way you think they should. Have you noticed?
And yet time marches on. Things do progress, in the sense that things change and do not revert to an original state (whatever that would be) or at least not a state without evidence of what has occurred. Movement and memory, time and space, everything elastic and yet never quite returning to its particular shape. This is the nature of progress.
It happens whether you want it to or not, so you might ask yourself, “How do I get along with this movement, or stuckness, this evolution, or this resting place? How can I Be in this world of time and space, when in fact I am a multidimensional being of light and love?”
Good questions. Keep asking. ☾
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