Oracle Card Reading 2/14/22
Card 1 • Quan Yin
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
Quan Yin is about the deep medicine that comes simply from being willing to bear witness to someone else's pain. To really listen we have to move from the ego to the soul so that the story we are listening to doesn't become about us, or trigger us. This also applies to the moments when we are listening to the story we tell ourselves about who we are. We are often far harsher and less forgiving to ourselves than we would ever be to someone else. Quan Yin suggests that we listen simply with curiosity.
Curiosity allows us to detach from needing to take the suffering of someone we love personally. Curiosity is a door that leads to compassion. It frees us from feeling as though we have to react to what we hear or defend and explain our part in their suffering.
We can just perceive the pain that they are in. Or we can finally hear our own cries of despair and not seek to judge or justify them. We can just be present to what needs to be heard.
Quan Yin is the powerful energy of giving
witness to our own or to someone else's suffering. Often, just a calm, abiding presence of
compassion is all that is needed to transform
that suffering into clear light.
WHO SHE IS:
Quan Yin represents the presence that listens deeply to our prayers spoken from the heart. Quan Yin or Kuan Yin is an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. She is known as the goddess of mercy and is considered to be the most beloved Buddhist deity. Her name translates in Chinese as "the one who perceives the cries of the world."
Card 2 • Brigid
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
There's that moment when you're making your way through the dark and suddenly (after what feels like days, or months, or even years) a ray of light comes through to you. A lightening happens. Each step isn't quite as hard to make as the one before. And you feel a great shift begin as if now you're headed toward something new. Something even brighter.
Brigid is the essence of that first flame, that first ray of light. Brigid reminds us that the darkness never lasts.
Brigid's eternal flame represents the truth that the light never leaves us and can never be extinguished. It simply gets obscured or blocked from us. She reminds us that every day is actually filled with light; there are many days (and times in our lives) when we endure thick cloud cover. When that flame that exists within us is blocked by pain or confusion.
Brigid is the sweet sound that reaches us in the dark and reminds us that we have never been on this journey alone. Brigid is our sign that the dawn is here because we have made it through the dark winter. We can lift our head. The healing has happened. And now each next day is bound to be brighter.
WHO SHE IS:
Brigid represents the essence of an inner dawn, and the healing that comes from knowing that the best is yet to come. Brigid is the goddess of pre-Christian Ireland. She is associated with the Indo-European dawn goddess and the coming of spring.
Card 3 • Amaterasu
When Your Soul Selects Her Card
The cave is so crucial: drawing inward hiding our light to restore ourselves and to heal from something or someone that felt too intense or aggressive. When we hide our light though, we aren't the only ones left in the dark. We take our light from the ones who love us as well.
The beauty of Amaterasu is that she emerges from the cave out of curiosity, attracted to someone else's joy. That's when she meets with the dawn of her own reflection. She doesn't truly see herself and the beauty of her light until she's drawn out of herself.
Amaterasu sees her own light once she becomes curious about seeing the light that's around her in the levity and laughter of the other deities. This is the answer. If we've been too long in retreat, if we've been hiding our light not out of self-love and a soulful need for restoration but out of a reaction to someone else's pain, then we draw ourselves out by focusing on the joy of others. Seeing their light allows us to see our own.
And sometimes even the solar goddess needs to be inspired or reminded of why she shines so brightly. Not just for the sake of her own reflection but also for all those beloved beings that need her rays of light to remember their own. Sometimes we need the sight of the faces we brighten in order to remember why we are so devoted to finding our way back into the light.
WHO SHE IS:
Amaterasu embodies the levity that brings us out of the darkness and shows us the beauty of our own light. Amaterasu is the most powerful deity in the Shinto religion. She's the solar goddess of Japanese mythology. Her name means "shining in heaven."
FROM THE DIVINE FEMININE ORACLE DECK