Oracle Card Reading 2/25/22
Card 1 • PARVATI
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
What is soft, gentle, and nurturing like water can be far more powerful than what is inflexible and fierce. The energy of this mountain goddess is about the strength we can give and receive when we devote ourselves to the healthy bonds of love. Parvati is about the divine feminine potency of being a calm, benevolent presence, especially when something seems to threaten a deeply meaningful relationship.
Transformation with this goddess calls for a softening. When a situation is hard, even painful, Parvati is suggesting that you allow your fist to unfold. Open and release what is clenched in fear or stress. Remember that your love is a mountain that cannot be moved.
And that this bond between you is holy; no human hands or words can ever break it.
The answer of what's next or highest for you can be found through the subtler act of simply abiding. Not reacting, not running, not hiding: a deep reservoir of power can surge up from within us when we choose to remain present. Letting devotion inhabit us in moments when our ego has typically fled infuses us with the capacity to transform all of our relationships.
Devotion is not attachment. It's letting go of the illusion that you and this lover, this friend, this child or family member, this soul within you can ever really be separate from you. Devotion brings us home to the point and purpose of every relationship: love. A love that can never leave, and that like a mountain can never move. A love that evolves the soul.
WHO SHE IS:
Parvati embodies the divine strength of devotion; she is the mountain that love becomes when we devote ourselves to another and to our own soul. Parvati is the Hindu goddess of fertility, of love and devotion, and of divine strength and power. She is the gentle, nurturing aspect of Shakti, or feminine energy.
Card 2 • WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
White Buffalo Calf Woman is a sacred reminder that we don’t have to struggle to receive all that we've desired. When we join our heart's longing with action, we find that there's a sacred way to move through the world. This sacred way is a path of steady, quiet alignment between the heart's intention and our every step.
White Buffalo Calf Woman is an omen of hope that all will be provided for us when we approach each situation with love. What she wants us to focus on is the intention behind an action because that changes the outcome.
She's a sacred, prophetic sign that we can receive what we need without fighting for it or trying to secure it through manipulation.
When prayer joins right action, when we move from that intention of creating only more love, then abundance is inevitable. And when we seek not just for ourselves, but also for the benefit of our loved ones and community, our needs are divinely met. The most sacred path is the one abundant with love.
WHO SHE IS:
White Buffalo Calf Woman represents the sacred vision that gives us hope that all will be provided for us. Ptesan-Wi, or White Buffalo Calf Woman, is the primary cultural prophet of the Lakota religion. Buffalos are considered sacred to the Plains people and are seen as messengers from the ancestors.
Card 3 • QUEEN ESTHER
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
The ego has a timetable that the soul couldn't care less about. When we are feeling stressed or threatened in some way, fear can be exceptionally loud and can inform the ego to work overtime in trying to get something accomplished or to manipulate something to happen. The natural flow of energy that's always at work behind the scenes, the universe's capacity to assist us, then gets blocked.
When we are in service of love, we are following the dictates of our soul. And when the ego is in service of the soul, divine timing ensues. Esther mastered this art. Even under extreme duress, she listened wisely to her soul. She became a queen by letting her love for her people inform her feminine intuitive powers. This is her imperative: trust that everything is aligning in divine timing; trust your soul-voice.
WHO SHE IS:
Esther represents the powerful combination of feminine intuition and divine timing. Esther was a Hebrew orphan born with the name Hadassah. Raised by her cousin Mordecai, she lived with the Jewish community in exile in Persia during the 5th century B.C.E.
FROM THE DIVINE FEMININE ORACLE DECK