Oracle Instructions

Welcome to a new world of animal communication! By using these cards, you will be able to receive psychic input into questions that you might have in regards to your animal’s health and happiness.

There are two sections on this page:

  1. Opening your set of oracle cards

  2. Instructions for Using Your Animal’s Oracle cards

Opening Your Set of Oracle Cards

cardsWhen you bring home your set of Your Animal’s Oracle cards (or any oracle cards), there are a few things that we advise that you do. Your oracle cards are a tool of communication; therefore, you want the lines of communication to be as open and as clear as possible.

  1. Clear excess energies that may have been picked up in travel and storage. You can do this a number of ways including giving the deck a good knock with your knuckles to ’shake’ loose energies. You can also hold them in your hands and use your breath and intention to clear the energies. You might like to use a smudging stick to smudge them. Or you might like to place them on a bed of crystals.
  2. Initiate the cards to your energy. Spend time with your cards, looking, touching and reading each one. Shuffle them around until you feel that the cards are attuned to your energy.
  3. State your intention. Hold the deck of cards in your hands and close your eyes. State your intention for the use of the cards. For example, ‘I now ask to receive only the highest truth and clarity from these cards for my highest good’.
  4. Store your cards in a loving manner. Your cards are in service to you. Store them in a designated place that is just for them, possibly alongside your other decks of cards, or crystals, or runes. Some people like to keep their cards wrapped up in a special scarf or inside a small bag. Whatever you do with your cards, your intention is to honour and respect them, and feel gratitude for the great work that they do.

Now you are ready to use your oracle cards!

Instructions for Using Your Animal’s Oracle cards

There are several ways that you can use your oracle cards. The method that you choose will probably be based on the amount of time you have to spend with your cards; your experience and confidence; and your willingness to have a go and try new things. All methods are valid and you might change which method you use day to day.

There are probably as many ways to use your oracle cards as you can think of. The most important thing is make sure that you:

  • have stated your intent
  • ground and centre yourself
  • be open to receiving guidance for the highest good.

Shuffle and Pick: 

Here is one way to use your cards.

  1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
  2. Imagine yourself sitting on the ground and golden-white light running down through the top of your head and down your spine to connect with the ground. You might even like to imagine yourself growing roots down into the earth.
  3. When you feel ready state your intention. For example: ‘I ask to receive clear and accurate guidance for the highest good about my dog Daisy.’
  4. Ask your question. For example: ‘What is it appropriate that I should know in regards to Daisy’s health right now?’
  5. Shuffle the cards (in whatever way works for you) for as long as you feel necessary.
  6. When you feel the time is right you may like to pick one to four cards from the pack. (If any of the cards ‘fly out’ while you are shuffling then take particular notice of these.)
  7. Read the messages and look at the pictures. Take your time to reflect on the various ways that the card may have guidance for you on your question.

You may like to write your messages down in a journal for future reference. Date your journal entries. If you notice the same cards or themes coming out over time then this might provide extra relevance for your situation.

Lay Out:

Another way that you can use your oracle cards is what I call the ‘lay out’.

  1. Simply, shuffle the cards and spread them out in a line or fan shape.
  2. Close your eyes, think of a question or ask in general for guidance about a particular animal.
  3. Still with your eyes closed, hold your palm above the cards and move it back and forth, taking note of any signs, such as warmth in your hand, to stop and pick a card.
  4. Read your card and repeat if necessary.

Animal choice: 

To add some fun and creativity into your animal readings, why not invite your animal to pick a card?

  1. Shuffle the cards as usual, remembering to ground and centre yourself, and ask your question aloud to your animal.
  2. Lay out the cards on the floor or the bed and invite your animal to come and choose a card.
  3. Take notice of which card/s your animal sniffs, nudges or walks across.
  4. Read the chosen card/s for guidance that has come straight from the animal’s paw!

There is no right or wrong way to use the cards if you are open to receiving guidance. The most important things to remember are to ground and centre yourself and align your intention to receive guidance with the highest good. If you approach your cards with a sense of respect, gratitude and stillness, then you will receive the most clear and relevant information.

Remember to breathe… and remember to have fun! :)

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