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If flowers were like people

If flowers were like people, they’d say:

‘But I am just a flower. There are millions like me. I’m not special. What could I possibly bring to the world that another rose isn’t already bringing?’

You could not possibly fathom what being yourself brings to the people you touch. The more you are yourself, the more you inspire others to open up and do the same.

Don’t worry about the details of your purpose. Just follow what lights you up and bravely be your complete self with everyone you touch, now.

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The Anointed

 

Answer the call. Leadership. Empowerment. Soul gifts.

Rose oil has been used to anoint initiates through the ages. Royalty, too. This card is here to herald you into an even more powerful expression of what you came here to be and do. It’s calling you to step forth into your inner queendom and kingdom. To answer the greatest call of your soul and face your true north. To seed even more of what you came here to share. To acknowledge your arrival as the initiate of your life. To shed the external noise that may have been stopping you from being all that you already are. To realize that you’ve been training for this for a long time, perhaps even lifetimes.

The path your soul chose to walk is one that few have the courage to walk. And you came here for this. You’re being led through this. Your soul is ancient, and with every step you’ve taken in every body you’ve been planted in, you’ve gathered a kaleidoscope of gifts that are ready to be shown and shared.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

In the card you can see the golden seed cradled in the dark, fertile womb of the soil. It’s easy to mistake this phase of growth as one where nothing much is happening. But beneath

You’re being called to deeply trust the call that you’ve been hearing. To lead, to lead, to lead. The path you’re here to pave has not been walked the way you’ll walk it. And, as with all ancient initiates, healers, visionaries, creatives, and leaders, you’re just one magnificent thread in the tapestry of Life. So, go your own way, trust the road that beckons you forth, and always be led from within. 

Soul Inquiry:

How are you being called to step forward and lead?  

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The Bloom

 

Creations realized. Right time. Harvest. Celebrate.  

This card is all about reaping the reward for what you’ve created. Dreams manifested into matter. It’s a confirmation that you’re currently in the bloom phase of your cycle of growth, or that you’re about to be.

The bloom is when we’re at our fullest. The Sun is shining, things are bountiful, and we’re at our most expansive. The deep roots of our dreams have been realized. We’re blooming. We’ve made it to where we longed to be. We’re likely visible and out in the world. Life is often adventurous, energetic, positive, and good.

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

This card comes with a message to embrace and enjoy this moment. Celebrate what you’ve created. Enjoy what has come to you. Revel in it. Bask in the beauty. Drink in the nectar. Be nourished by the sweet scent of what’s now in the physical. Enjoy the harvest. Stop and smell the roses of your life. Life is cyclical and the bloom won’t be at its fullest forever. Your work through the seasons of your life has brought you to this point.

Don’t take the bloom for granted. Enjoy it while it’s here. But don’t hold onto it for too long, either. Let it be what it is in its fullest. And when the time comes to return the petals to the earth – and you’ll know when that is – do that too.

Rose Transmission:

I let the blooming happen.

I resist the urge to hold back.

I celebrate all that I’ve created and enjoy my moment of blooming completely and fully.

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We are Nature

 

Becoming grounded. Embodiment. Living in connection.

We’ve built a world on top of the world. If you look up the word ‘nature’ in a dictionary you’ll see a reference to plants, animals, and landscapes as opposed to humans. We speak of ‘getting into nature’ or ‘getting grounded’ as something we need to do. We’ve forgotten that we don’t exist in nature – we are nature. 

Indigenous Earth-based traditions have always seen the planet and all beings as interconnected and sacred, humans as one with the Earth itself. The Earth and Mother Rose are calling us back to the Earth, to weave the sacred back in, to weave nature back into the center of our everyday lives, to see ourselves as nature, and to spend more time interacting with the living natural world – returning to nature. How’s your connection with nature? What’s your relationship with your own body? How can you live in a more grounded way?

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

This card is an invitation to develop a deeper connection with the Earth. To actively spend time with the physical natural world around you, to tend it, and to take your place as a custodian of it. To see the sacred in all of Life. To notice the changing seasons around you and within you and to remember that you too are part of the Earth’s ever-changing landscape. To remember that you are nature and that you’ll always find your true nature in nature. To embrace your body as your home. And the planet as your Mother

Soul Inquiry:

How can you connect more deeply with nature and your own true nature? How can you return more to the Earth?

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The Fertile Void

 

Inner winter. Rest. Patience. Potency. Secret beginnings.

This is a very auspicious card. It holds the potent golden seeds of a new beginning and the aftermath of an end. We’re called to have patience and enter a state of deep rest, repair, regeneration, and acceptance. To let a part of our lives, or even who we once were, metaphorically die in order to seed, sprout, bud, and bloom again.

There’s often a letting go, a grief or mourning involved. A death of self or what once was. The ending of things that were once important. Relationships, jobs, identities, ways of being. The fertile void asks that we honor endings to begin again. It’s a crucial part of growth and new isn’t possible without it.

In the card you can see the golden seed cradled in the dark, fertile womb of the soil. It’s easy to mistake this phase of growth as one where nothing much is happening. But beneath the surface of the winter soil, things have never been more active.

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

Winter is a phase of initiation, renewal, and rebirth. When we’re going through a period of inner winter, we experience this too. We metaphorically ‘go underground’ by coming to a standstill and allowing ourselves to recover and rest. We don’t realize it, but this is the most important part of our growth. And it takes faith and surrender to do it.

Trust the sureness of the soil. The new is being woven without you having to micromanage every move.

Trust the sureness of the soil. Be cradled by the great mystery. This is a very tender, powerful time.

Soul Inquiry:

How can you surrender into the great mystery?  

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Cracked open

The world needs you cracked open. Not carefully stuck together. We are ever changing beings living in an ever changing world. And the world is changing a lot right now.

For many of us, there comes a point where as much as we try to hold everything together, the pieces eventually just have to fall on the floor. Try as we might with the super glue and blue tack, we eventually find a way to surrender to our ever changing nature and let the world be consciously created come falling down.

The rose teaches us this. Nature teaches us this. And to me, 2022 feels like it is really teaching this. The rose knows that come the end of summer it must gather the courage to release the very thing that captivated others to it for the chance to bud and bloom again. And I wonder if at a cellular level we know this too.

In the midst of transformation the cracking open can feel like we are being broken. And while we are not who we once were we have never been closer to who we are becoming.

And maybe, just maybe, on one morning not too far from here we will come to bless the things that cracked us open.

Because now the world needs us open more than ever before.

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The Rose Oracle Birth Story

 

A few years ago right in the middle of event season, I confessed to my friend Hollie that during each of my events, as much as I tried to stay on script, all I felt like speaking about was how flowers are a gateway to the soul. Eventually, I stopped fighting it and decided to embrace it!

Flower Work and in particular Rose Work had been part of my personal practice, that I have bee developing since 2010.

At the beginning of 2020 I shared with my editor that I wanted to dive deep into the mystical and botanical qualities of the rose. I suggested I start with an oracle and five minutes later she emailed back YES!

Today is my the birth day of The Rose Oracle, my first co-creation with Mother Rose, which I know will be the first of many. It was illustrated by the talented Katie Louise.

Thank you to everyone who has supported The Rose Oracle already.

You can read more about The Rose Oracle here.

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How I started reading Oracle Cards

Oracle cards have been a companion throughout my journey. As well as using them professionally, I have used them as a tool for clarity, self reflection and as part of my daily practice.

The word oracle comes from the latin Orare which means ‘to pray’ or ‘to speak’ and refers to communication from the divine. Oracle cards are a more modern interpretation of tarot cards. They vary greatly from deck to deck, but they don’t tend to have as detailed a structure as the Tarot, which always has 78 cards, divided into four suits: swords, cups, pentacles and wands. Some oracle decks simply share a message on each card. 

USING CARDS AS A DIVINATION TOOL

My first experience of using cards as a divination tool was with the Tarot. I was introduced to tarot cards when I was a teenager by my friend Sheila, who was the mother of the children I was babysitting, and I could not get enough of them. I remember the night I went home with them, I stayed up most of the night totally engrossed with them.

In this first year of using tarot cards I was both fascinated and a little timid about doing readings for other people, for fear of saying the wrong thing. But the more I worked with them the more I understood them and the more confident I got.

MY FIRST ORACLE DECK

I was then gifted my first oracle deck (an angel oracle) by the mother of one of my friends who passed away. She gave them to me as she had found comfort in working with the cards as a way of connecting with her son (my friend). And so I began to do the same. It was then that I fell in love with oracle cards. I loved the flexibility and the different themes that I could explore in each of the decks that were available. I had a dream then to one day create my own!

DEVELOPING MY INTUITIVE SENSES

Through my mid-twenties I then began training in the intuitive arts and refining my ability to do intuitive readings. I found that oracle cards provided a wonderful, grounded structure to begin doing readings professionally. I found I felt more confident to have something physical to organise the intuitive information I received and I found it also gave my clients something to focus on during the readings, which helped them open up.

Having the cards as a physical reading device also gave me confidence to understand and trust the information I received. I also began understanding the different intuitive senses as delivery devices for my soul to speak through me. I then began being able to differentiate between what information was mine and what was someone else’s.

After previously using the card guidebooks as my primary source of information, the more I worked with the cards, I soon began letting each of the cards act as portals for my inner wisdom to flow.

STEPPING OUT OF THE SPIRITUAL CLOSET

By the time I reached my early thirties, I had gathered up the confidence to step out of the spiritual closet and quit my day job in my previous career to focus on my intuitive work and writing full time.

I launched my website and created my first online oracle – The Instant Guidance Oracle – which was made up of the daily intuitive guidance I had received for myself each day on my morning walks. The messages from my Instant Guidance Oracle on my website actually turned into the first writings of my first book Light Is The New Black, which can be used as an oracle due to the short chapter style. You can ask it a question and open it to a random page for an instant hit of guidance.

As someone who is extremely visual and creative, after having had my first two books published, I knew that I was ready to create oracle decks for myself. I then went on to create my first oracle: The Work Your Light Oracle. Two years later I created The Starseed Oracle. And then my latest oracle The Rose Oracle.  Currently The Rose Oracle is my absolute favourite as it’s so rooted in the feminine mysteries and the cycles of nature!

FINDING YOUR OWN UNIQUE WAY OF WORKING WITH THE CARDS

I use cards everyday as part of my spiritual practice. Each morning I do a two-card spread called the Soul Whispers spread to receive clarity on 1) what my soul is calling me to do that day, and 2) a grounded action in the direction of this call. 

Trust that you will find your own unique way of working with cards. No matter where you are on your card reading journey, know that the more you work on your craft, the more of a master you will become and the more your own way of card reading will emerge and bloom.

Feel free to take the things that resonate with you as inspiration from myself and others. But above all, always trust how you are being led to work on your craft as a card reader and remember that you truly are the oracle.

Would you like a personalised oracle reading sent to you in the post? I do a limited amount of them each week and send them with a lot of love from Glastonbury. You can order yours here.

If you would like to develop your card reading skills, The Certified Card Reader Course is a wonderful course and it’s currently 60% off!

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Plant Yourself Here

 

Integration. Embodiment. Grounded action.

Invite your soul to come all the way in. From your knees to your nose, your cheeks to your toes. Fully embody your life. Drop the defensive walls. Let your soul land and occupy each and every cell. Anchor all parts of you into the here and now. Life is here even when death is here. Birth isn’t possible without it. And you came here to birth this world anew. Don’t you remember? Fully commit to living this life.

Put your two feet and your ancient soul wholly and completely in.

This is the card of the one who’s committed to being the bridge between heaven and Earth. The embodied mystic. They know that they don’t need to denounce either heaven or Earth – rather, they are a weaver of worlds. Here to embody their soul more and more with each new day. Here to weave the sacred back into everyday life.

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

This card is an invitation to commit more fully to your life as a soul having a human experience. To invite your soul to grow roots that reach deep so that you can grow tall. To commit to your humanity and your expansion at once.

The rose invites us to embrace all stages of life on Earth. From the buds to the bloom, from the cutting back to the fruit. Her beauty and sweet scent are an embodiment of heaven. A nectarous reward for being here. The rose reminds us to take a moment to properly enjoy the sweetness and that heaven really can be a place on Earth.

Soul Inquiry:

How can you commit to your Life? 

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Whispers of Mother Earth

 Creativity. Ideas. Inspiration. Artist. Writer. Channel.

There are creations seeded within you – planted before your birth. There are unborn possibilities yearning to be woven and creative solutions waiting to be realized, songs of the ancient Earth humming through you, beckoning to be sung, new consciousness that longs to be written into matter.

Surrender to the creations whispering you forth. Perhaps they’re calling you to reweave the web of Life in some small way. To stitch the soul in a little more. We came bearing keys for each other, and as you share your song it unlocks something in someone else.

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

Creativity and intuition come from the same sacred place; they can’t be reproduced. They occur when we find ourselves flowing with the rest of Life. Earth is a planet of creativity and yet so many of us have forgotten how to truly create. So much of humanity has been raised to consume – we’re so focused on more, more, more that we’ve forgotten how to grow sustainably. Our consumption is killing us.

Trust the seeds that have been planted within you. Somewhere along the way we stopped seeing ourselves as artists, creatives, poets, singers…. Yet to be human is to be creative. It doesn’t matter what the result may be, just carve out time to express your soul through your creativity. The seeds planted within you will show you the way. They have intelligence within them and all you need to do is tend them through daily grounded, creative action.

 

Soul Inquiry:

What does your soul most yearn to create? 

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