FROM THE DIVINE FEMININE ORACLE DECK

Card 1 • LALLA

When Your Soul Selects Her Card

Words have the power to shift our reality or to continue to reinforce it. Louise Hay, founder of Hay House said: "Every word you say is an affirmation." This is perhaps one of the most crucial spiritual lessons to remember. If we are not separate from the soul, and if the soul is not separate from the divine, then we have the power to co-create our life.
Lalla is the invitation to pay close attention to each word we say to ourselves within, and to the words we say about ourselves to the people we love. She is the acknowledgment from the soul
that our every sentence is a prayer. If we want more love, more light, more of that joy and freedom that expands our capacity to be present in the world, then Lalla reminds us that we can become the author of our own reality right now. We can speak our desires into being,
Lalla is the reminder that we are so powerful that changing the words we use to describe ourselves can change the trajectory of our lives. We can choose to focus our attention on each "I am" statement we say. And we can infuse our lives with the nectar that comes when we act on the truth that we are not separate from the divine.

WHO SHE IS:

Lalla embodies the potency and power of our words to create our own reality. Lalla, Lal Ded, or Lalleshwari was a Kashmiri mystic and poet who lived in the 14th century. She was married at the age of 12 but was extremely unhappy as a wife. She left her home at age 24 to take sanyasi, renunciation. She became a Shaivite, a devotee of Shiva. Lalla walked the streets naked, dancing, and reciting her love poems to the divine. She wore only the markings of her devotion to Shiva on her forehead.
Lalla is the creator of a mystical form of poetry called wakhs, which means "speech" Or "voice.

Card 2 • KALI

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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 rather than for us.
Kali doesn't want us to waste another precious second being someone we are 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 us to get terrifyingly real. She wants us to reckon with the fact 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 truth of who we are.

WHO SHE IS:

Kali is first mentioned in the 6th century Devi Mahatmyam, when the goddess Durga is threatened by two demons. Kali emerges from the rage furrowed in Durga's forehead and slays all the demons with ease. This is why she is often pictured holding the severed head of a demon, which represents the ego or false beliefs and illusions.

Card 3 • SHEKINAH

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In the Zohar, the main sacred text in Kabbalah, the Shekinah is described as being a world within the world, as a bright radiance at the center of everything. All life on earth, all consciousness is a part of her light and is therefore sacred. The metaphysical theory of immanence is that the divine presence is manifested in the material world. So there isn't actually any matter, whether organic or inorganic, that isn't also a part of the divine.
The Shekinah is light that inhabits your body, your cells, and is in the cells of all the people and objects you see around you. She is also about pure experience. She is the message, the truth that there is a light at the center of everything that happens to us-both the "good" and the "bad."
And the Shekinah is the reminder that we are not just this body, or this pain we might be going through or this confusing moment in our brief life. We are light. We are molecules of heaven in human form. And right now We can just know this. We can experience the light we are. And that can be enough. That can be the miracle and the answer we actually need. Not words, or meaning, but simply (and more profoundly) pure radiant being.

WHO SHE IS:

The Shekinah represents the omnipresence and the immanence of the divine feminine. The word Shekinah in Hebrew means "to settle, to inhabit, or to dwell." It represents an experience of the divine presence right here in the body, and in the world.
In Kabbalism, mystical Judaism, the Shekinah is the feminine aspect of God. And she's depicted as a piercing, radiant light. She is the experience of the presence of God within us, as the soul of God. To the Kabbalist, honoring the feminine is of the utmost importance. This is why the red thread of protection is worn on the left wrist, which is the receiving, feminine side of the body.