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Oracle Card Readings
On March 13, 2020, after I was told by my employer to start working remotely from home, I thought about how I could use this extraordinary time to expand my Light work. So, I decided to start sharing my personal Oracle Card Readings with a small group of like-minded people. It was my hope that by sharing the messages from Spirit, that they would provide inspiration, insight and partnership. The Readings were so well received that I decided to share them here and sometimes on my YouTube channel.
For the Readings featured in this gallery, Spirit (the non-physical Beings that I refer to as my "Light Family") selected the decks to be used and the cards drawn. It is through the artwork and unique details on the cards, and the juxtaposition of the cards to each other (if more than one card is drawn), that I draw the meaning of the messages from Spirit. My interpretation of the messages are based upon my own personal journey with Spirit, and are not future predictions. The cards and messages are meant to lift your heart and, bring awareness to the truth that we are surrounded and loved by countless Divine agents now and always.
I encourage you to study the individual cards and listen to what your own intuition is telling you. Be your own interpreter.
Also, if you would like to support me with these Readings, I have a created a wish list of Oracle card decks on Amazon. I thank you in advance for your support!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3NLR7RR8JWL1F?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_J2WK3JmPoC6Ly
Wishing you and yours good physical and emotional health as you navigate through this life-altering time on our planet.
PART 1: READING FOR DECEMBER 21, 2021
Each Christmas season I have certain traditions. I have to watch George C. Scott's version of "A Christmas Carol," I have to watch "The Bishop's Wife" starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and I have to listen to Karen Carpenter and Burl Ives Christmas songs. These things make me happy.
So, I got an idea last Christmas. Since these movies and songs are a part of making me feel the Spirit of Christmas, would the people that were involved in creating them like to provide holiday messages for us? As I have said before, all I can do is ask Spirit and so I did!
For 2020, Karen Carpenter, Cary Grant and George C. Scott came forwarded and provided messages through separate Oracle card readings and I shared those readings in this gallery.
This Christmas, I decided to ask three more Spirits to provide holiday messages and, I went one step further and asked them to share their Light with us. The first one I invited to come forward was American singer, musician, actor, and author, Burl Ives. For me, Burl Ives is synonymous with my childhood Christmases for my brother and I faithfully watched Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer each holiday. As an adult, it is Burl Ives’ version of “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” that makes my heart smile whenever I hear it.
While my influence with Burl Ives is limited, he had a multi-faceted career appearing in 15 plays, 34 movies, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Big Country, performing in several television series, and publishing 10 books and dozens of songbooks. In 1989, Ives officially announced his retirement from show business on his 80th birthday in 1989. Isn’t it interesting that the Oracle card he drew for us has the number 8?
For my reading with Burl Ives, I selected this photograph of him holding a plush Sam the Snowman in order to tune in to his energy. He quickly told me to use my Whispers of Lord Ganesha deck to convey his holiday message. He drew card #8 – Promise of the Future.
With this card, he wanted us to know how important it is to feel gratitude for everything we have experienced on our path that has led us to this point in time. While we have many memorable moments, it is our past challenges that can be our greatest teachers if we seek to understand their lessons, and to see the role we played in them.
In this moment, we are constructing our future with our intentions, our thoughts and our actions. What are we choosing? We can easily lose clarity in times like these, and be bogged down with negative thoughts, but Burl Ives offers to us that as we stand on the cliff and look into the unknown, let us stand on the promise of our faith and take the step our hearts tell us to take. For it is when we walk on a foundation of trust and Love, each step becomes a Divine creation for humanity's future.
THANK YOU MR. IVES!
Born on June 14, 1909 in Hunt City, Illinois, U.S.A. and transitioned back into The Light on April 14, 1995 in Anacortes, Washington, U.S.A.
“I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the Spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart,” he once said. “I’m not at all afraid of death, because I see that my life is just a matter of growth and change. If a piece of wood will never die, this bouncy thing called Burl will never die as well.”
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