New Moon
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Oracle Card Reading 5/30/22
Card 1 • 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 in is the 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.
Mordecai became aware of a plot against the Jewish people created by the king's chief minister; Haman.
Using her brilliance and her intuition, Esther came up with a plan to save her cousin and her people. Her beauty had caught the attention of the king. So, when his current wife, Vashti, refused to come to him when called,
Esther seized the moment and the king chose her to be his wife. Then Esther didn't wait for the king to call her; she prepared a large banquet and then called for him. Once he was fully in love with her, she revealed that she was a Jew and that Haman had plotted to kill her people.
Card 2 • KALI
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
Kali is as subtle as a sledgehammer. She shows up to strip us of what no longer serves us. And that sounds good in theory. But in practice, it can feel as if the ground beneath us has turned to sand. all those illusions about ourselves, especially what we think we’re capable of, suddenly dissolve beneath us. When Kali sweeps in, we can easily slip into feeling like a victim; it can feel as though events are happening to us instead of for us.
Kali doesn’t want us to waste another precious second being someone we’re not. She doesn’t want us to be with a partner who doesn’t treat us with the respect and love we need to do the light work we’ve come here to do. Kali wants to sever the ties our ego has made out of fear, or out of a false belief that we don’t deserve better or more. She wants to get terrifyingly real. She wants us to reckon that we are not here to please others or to make them proud. We are here to listen to the singular call of our own soul.
Kali is the harbinger of having entered kairos, soul time. And stripping the ego to reveal the soul can feel raw, and often heartbreaking. But ultimately, Kali has come out of fierce love for the truth of who we really are. She is giving us the opportunity to choose again, to start over, and this time from a place of tremendous wisdom and strength: our vulnerability. She lets us begin again from the bare bones of who we are.
WHO SHE IS:
Kali embodies the ultimate wake-up call to get us aligned as soon as possible we what we have come here to do.
This Hindu goddess is the most fierce form of the dark, divine feminine. She is that which brings all things to life or to an end. Her name comes from the Sanskrit word meaning the fullness of time.
She is the divine protectress and the mother of the universe because she can cut through illusion and grant us the reality our soul came to manifest.
Card 3 • MIAO SHAN
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
The author Sue Monk Kidd articulates the process of empathy so clearly when she writes, "Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves to the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.
" Empathy is mercy's twin sister.
When we can feel into the reality of someone else's suffering, we open up to the possibility of mercy.
Mercy comes from the Old Etruscan merc, which means "exchange." Mercy is the embodiment of compassion. It can feel easy or even natural to have compassion for people who have never harmed us personally. But mercy is having compassion for someone who has. Mercy requires that we give something of ourselves, which is symbolized by Miao Shan giving her eyes and arms to the king. It can feel like a great sacrifice to be so giving toward someone who has given us nothing but suffering.
Here's where the magic comes in; the law of the universe is merciful. The more we give the more we receive. When the king realized the profound act of mercy his daughter bestowed on him, Miao Shan transformed into her true manifestation as the thousand-armed Quan Yin. Miao Shan is a reminder that giving is the true receiving. When we refuse to release our anger toward someone, we're blocking the flow of the universe within us. We are not harming the person who harmed us by remaining angry. We are keeping ourselves from receiving the love and light that is already ours.
WHO SHE IS:
Miao Shan represents the incarnation and fulfillment of mercy. She was a Chinese princess who is believed to have lived during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and to have been the incarnation of the goddess Quan Yin. She was the daughter of a king who wanted her to marry a wealthy man in order to secure more wealth and power for himself. When she refused, the king sent her to live in a monastery on a secluded island off the coast of China.
When the king found out that Miao Shan had transformed the barren island into a paradise, he got so angry that he ordered the monastery to be burned to the ground. But when Miao Shan saw the monastery in flames, she pricked the tip of her tongue with a hairpin and magically summoned a storm that put out the fire. The king then ordered Miao Shan's execution, but no blade or sword could kill her. Instead, each weapon shattered into pieces before touching her body. After several attempts, a gorgeous, glowing white tiger appeared and spirited Miao Shan away. The tiger took her to meet Yama, the ruler of hell. Miao Shan immediately heard the suffering of the souls all around her, and one by one, she liberated them with the fierce power of her empathy.
FROM THE DIVINE FEMININE ORACLE DECK BY MEGGAN WATTERSON