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Ancestor Oracle Cards

  • by Alexandra

    • I’m a relative newcomer to deathwork, having spoken pretty much only to my Beloved Dead before being trained in spae (aka “oracular seidr”) in 2019, but as I progressed in that I found myself drawn to doing this work on other contexts. When I’m in a spae ritual, that framework does most of the heavy lifting of connecting seer and ancestor, but I was finding that my own skills were sharpening as well, my ability to connect and to hear, and I thought I’d try a different bridge, one with which I was already deeply connected: cartomancy.

    So last year around Samhain, as a sort of experiment, I offered five free rituals for “A Message from your Ancestors”. All the participants were aware they were guinea pigs, but they were game to try. After these part few years, it seemed like the Dead were on everyone’s mind, but I kept to my Seidr Guild‘s rule of a-year-and-a-day to let the newly dead cross over and get settled. As I did the first few rituals, however, quickly found that not all the Beloved Dead I was seeking to connect with were willing to use tarot cards to clarify their messages. I have a few oracle decks as well, but none of them were well suited to provide good answers.

    My solution? Create my own Ancestor Oracle Cards, first as a list in a notebook, then on blank cards, and finally written into the margins of a deck of regular playing cards with a vintage aesthetic. I paired that with an old silver dollar I bought online and then suddenly the messages were all clearer and brighter and the Dead were more willing to talk!

    So here below, for your free personal use, is the list I developed. I set them to specific individual cards (and I’ll be sharing that additional information on my Patreon for my supporters) but I’ll copied them in here alphabetically for your easier perusal. Feel free to expand or adapt to suit the needs of your personal practice, but if you share it elsewhere I’d appreciate credit or a shout-out!

     

    • Abundance

    • Attention

    • Balance

    • Calling

    • Change

    • Choices

    • Compassion

    • Conflict

    • Constraint

    • Discernment

    • Divinity

    • Dreams

    • Expression

    • Family

    • Forgiveness

    • Fractured

    • Gratitude

    • Grounding & Centering

    • Guides & Guardians

    • Harmony

    • Healing

    • Home

    • Hope

    • Inspiration

    • Integration

    • Intention

    • Intuition

    • Journey

    • Joy

    • Learning

    • Love

    • New beginnings

    • Patience

    • Persistence

    • Perspective

    • Power

    • Prayers & Charms

    • Progress

    • Protection

    • Purification

    • The Querent

    • Realization

    • Reflection

    • Release

    • Remembrance

    • Sanctuary

    • Shadows

    • The Spirit

    • Strength

    • Surrender

    • Transition

    • Trust

    • Truth

    • Wisdom

    If you’re interested in my ritual, it’s currently on sale in my shop! Check it out: “A Message from your Ancestors”.