Findhorn Spirit Oracle Cards
Written and illustrated by Swan Treasure
Findhorn Press, Rochester, VT, © 2022. $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-6411-374-5
44 cards. 3.5” x 5”
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"The world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves," wrote mythologist Joseph Campbell. It's imperative that you NOT be one of those folks. 2019 should be the Year of Listening Deeply to Yourself. That means being on high alert for your inner inklings, your unconscious longings, and the still, small voice at the heart of your destiny. If you do that, you'll discover I'm right when I say that you're smarter than you realize.
--Rob Brezsny
...“Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.”
(Robin of Sherwood)
“New ink,” I say.
It's the annual Beltane cookout, something of a family reunion here in local Pagandom. Catching up with a friend, I notice two staves of ogham on his forearm.
I can read nine different alphabets, including Phoenician, but (alas) my ogham is rusty.
He helps me out.
“'Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.'”
I know the quotation, of course. It's the tag line from Robin of Sherwood, the BBC's overtly pagan iteration of the Robin Hood mythos, the 1980s series that brought Herne back to Sherwood.
“It's for N,” he tells me, naming a beloved and much-missed local priestess, now with the ancestors.
It's a fitting tribute. She loved the series well, and in fact came into the Craft because of it. (Discussing it with a friend at work one day, she happened to remark: “...but what's with the guy with the antlers?” “Ah,” said her co-worker, “I think I can help you out there.”)
Our conversation continues, but through the days that follow, I find myself thinking again and again of those words, the words of (among others) Herne.
Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.
The Gemini Moon is here to ask us to find a way to meld wisdom and understanding. The Sun is in philosophical, wisdom seeking Sagittarius, while the Moon is in curious, communicative Gemini.
What wisdom are you seeking? What understanding do you need to gain from it? And how can you take this new wisdom and understanding out to the world? What are you being called to share?
...I was reading some “locutions” purportedly spoken by the Virgin Mary to a visionary in Medjugorje, Bosnia, when I noticed something interesting.
Not a single one of these “messages” sounded even remotely like something one would expect a 1st century Palestinian Jewish woman to say.
“From today,” she supposedly told seer Yakov Colo, “I will not be appearing to you every day, but only on Christmas, the birthday of my son” (375).
Well, there's a 1 in 365 chance that the historical Jesus was born on December 25. I suppose that if anyone could tell you when he actually was born, it would be his mother.
Assuming, of course, that it really was her you were speaking with in the first place.
I know that most pagans are familiar with Tarot cards. I, too, started my divination practice with a deck of Tarot (classic Rider-Waite). But many people never feel fully comfortable with Tarot, or find it difficult to learn in all its nuances. I put my Tarot cards away forever when I discovered Psycards.
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