What is an Oracle Reading?
- Gloria Miller
- Feb 8
- 4 min read
I am so glad you asked!
Let me start out by saying that before 2021, you would have never heard me going on about Oracle Readings. But now, I can't shut up about it. See what I did there?
To orate is to share honestly. Oration is telling it like it is right. No filter. Unedited. No proving. Uncompromising. Just as it is. Calling a spade a spade. Periodt. (Thank you Tyler Perry for this incredible word.)
Crucially, the oracle doesn't override agency; doesn't require belief and doesn't promise outcomes. In a nutshell the oracle represents:
· Source – where the knowing comes from (divine, intuitive, ancestral, systemic).
· Utterance – the act of speaking it into the world.
· Reception – interpretation is on the listener. The oracle owes you nothing.
I see it like this: Source, uttering and receiving.
Since 2021, I have stumbled onto oracle cards, by way of tarot cards, which i was not feeling. But the oracle card ... that's my jam.
I have several decks now which you will come to know if you keep coming back for circular, spiralling insights. But for now, I want to talk about the Faces of Oshun Oracle Deck by Abiola Abrams.
This oracle deck is of the vine, Oshun, a Yoruba god/dess. Ripe with ancient wisdom, futuristic knowledge and the spectrum between.
I was introduced to this deck at a medicine woman event I attended in London the evening of the first full moon of the year. The woman holding space while making space had laid out several oracle decks, and the one I was drawn to was not Faces of Oshun. However, the beauty sitting on the mat next to me, also called Gloria, had pulled a spread from the Oshun deck and I was literally eavesdropping on her convo with the oracle.
The oracle deck I pulled from only scratched the surface, but the ones I peeped from next mat, turned non-sense into sense. Things I was pondering, but didn't yet understand, suddenly became crystal clear.
The cards:
· Oshun's Voice Chakra- 32/5ive
· Oshun the Warrior - 16/7even
· Oshun the Creatrix* - 8ight
*Creatrix: the feminine form of creator. To bring forth, to give birth, to make, to generate from within.
This is a powerful spread, and even today, a week to the day later, I am still unpacking what I know the Oracle is saying.
So, I'll digress here and talk about the oracle I pulled yesterday from my new favourite oracle deck.
The card: Oshun of the Ancestors, Sacred Lineage, Belonging, Family, 6ix.
The Oracle lead me to my Grandmother Cora, and along with this message:
Born of Cora. Grand Mother. Sight unseen, but presence deeply felt. There is only the myth of you. The story of you passed down from mother to daughter. I see you clearly in my mind’s eye. Me in essence, but you in transcendence. As ancestor, you insure my belonging to the sacred lineage of all life. As familial, you open me to the greater family of blood and bone. Because you were, I am and because I am, you are!
So, why am I sharing this? Because as the author of your own oracle deck, you're own myth, I want to encourage you to shuffle your deck, pull a card (thought, question, idea) and figure out who you truly are, and live your story, as is, yet fluid.
I can show you how to do this.
Full disclosure, the oracle deck came with a guidebook that helps you take that scary look inside and find the guts to see and accept what is.
The gist from the guidebook, "Thriving is my Birthright.” My take: my birthright from Grandma Cora and Mother Christine is securely mine. With that, I can go for what I want.* Not what I need, because my needs are met. Not what I desire, because I ain't trying to fuck up what's already flowing. But, thriving for what I want!
*Coming soon, a Fabulosity Talk on understanding need and want vs. desire. Join mailing list.
My purpose in life is to encourage you to live with full agency. To live as a sovereign being who takes full responsibility for self. This requires looking inside and clearly sensing everything about yourself ... the good, the bad and the ugly ... with full acceptance.
With clarity comes options, and with options, the chance to tend your own garden. Do what you need to do on your patch to live your best life, but, with all due respect for others and yourself.
An oracle card reading with me will tap into the lies and what's true to ultimately find truth. Together we will take an honest and authentic look under the hood of who you are. We'll look at what you're freely expressing, and the shadowy shit you're hiding, to see the real you in full bloom.
Now, as i reflect on my eavesdropped oracle pull from last week and yesterday's pull, I understand this:
It is my birthright to go after what I want. I will use my voice as a warrior and creatrix to get what I want, with integrity, agency, and all due respect. Grammie Cora showed up last week (plot twist: if you want details, ask in the comments) and she showed up yesterday to let me know she has my back ... always. Oshun of the Ancestors helped me remember the power of my ancestry and to show gratitude by living in full fabulosity.
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