S1: Ep 16: Exploring Tarot and Oracle Cards

Hey! I'm Rachel! I am a qualified Holistic Life Coach and Mind Body Practitioner, Embodiment Coach, Yoga 500hrs (plus lots more extra yoga quals). I'm also an award winning content creator and have 20 years' experience in digital. I'm a mum of 3 kids and I live in the Peak District - oh and I have ADHD and I am sober. My passion is helping midlife women turn meltdown into magic!

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Conscious but Grounded is a podcast about spirituality, high vibe living in the real world. I ask questions like, how do we connect to the magic? The spirit, the source, the universe, but with our feet firmly planted on the ground. How do we show up in a conscious way and harness that to make big, paradigm busting change in the day to day of our lives? I'm Rachel Brady, mum of three, yoga teacher and embodiment coach. This is the place where I'll be reflecting and exploring big, deep questions, all with a pinch of self deprecation, a few proper lols, and a lot of real life. Join me.

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Hello there. Welcome back to another episode of Conscious But Grounded. So, as ever, when it's just me on my own, I'm actually driving to my yoga class. Um, this appears to be a theme that, or, or dog walking. I think there's something there. Isn't there something in those spaces where my brain has time to process and space to process? Um, and today I was thinking, do I want to record? What would I record? Uh, just to say as well what I, I'm really feeling into this space still, and it's very much a baby space still, even though there's quite a lot of episode here. Um, what I want going forward for conscious but grounded is to focus on guests. So I will be popping in to do these little chatty episodes so that we can get to know each other better, because I think if it was purely all guests, you wouldn't get to know me very well. Um, and I, I'm very self-critical and I am thinking, oh, this is just me blathering and talking. But if you speak your truth and you're. Yourself, you'll, you'll, you know, attract your soul tribe. And so that's, that's my belief. And so that's why I do these more chatty, um, you know, chatty, how would I describe them? I don't wanna be denigrating to myself. Chatty, exploratory, channeling, non-planned out, non note taken, uh, conversations with you. Well, it's not conversation, is it? It's a one way monologue baby. But, um, so what came to mind today was, um, a new part. Of my business that I'm exploring and I've yet to put up, um, on my website, but I will be incorporating it in my business going forward. I already have incorporated it actually is tarot. Um, so if you don't know what tarot is, I'm, I'm sure most people do. It's, um, a card deck. So, and it's a divination tool. Um, so the most well known card deck is the rider weight. Card deck. And that's quite famous. It's, it's often depicted, you know, as the card deck that people use in tarot, in movies and books and things like that. And it's the classic one. Um, and I have been learning that card deck with my coach who is coming on this podcast next week. Actually, she'll probably be the next episode that you hear after this. Karen, uh, Karen Jackson and I, I have taken her shamanic tarot call. Training course. So before that, so I wanna make the subject slightly wider than tarot. Um, in, maybe it's gonna be cool and maybe it's about something like Oracle cards and tarot, because my journey with tarot and with, you know, card decks as divination tools, and when I say divination tools, I said it the other day and someone said, what does that mean? Um, any tool that can help you contact and, and channel the divine, I guess. Um, so I. I don't necessarily use cards to like tell the future, like that is often depicted in movies. That's not. That's what I'll go on to talk about today. That's not how I use tarot or Oracle. Um, but first of all, I'll just tell you about my journey with Oracle. So I came across a guy called Kyle Gray. In fact, I think I might have come across his deck first. I don't know why I bought his deck. I can't remember why, but I bought his deck and his deck. It was called Angel, Oracle. Um, I'm not sure what led me to that. I'll have to have a think actually. I can't think what it was. But anyway, I bought it probably about five years ago, something like that, maybe less, maybe three or four years ago. And if you see this deck, you will see how much it's used. Um, it's the front of, it's completely rubbed off, off the box and it's called, yeah, angel Oracle Deck. And it's an incredible deck. So I ordered. It for whatever reason, I probably just thought, oh, that looks nice. I want, I want to get a deck. Um, unless I heard him on a podcast or something, but I think I, I think I discovered him after his deck, if that makes sense. Uh, so he's a young man, he's psychic, he's, um, a kundalini yogi and really he just comes across as such a nice, genuine guy whenever I've heard him since on, on podcasts and so on. Um, and I just loved this deck, and so I had a. Next to my bed and for a good few years in my journey and my healing journey and my spiritual journey since my kind of depression and, um, struggles, if you like. When I turned about 40, I just had this deck next to my bed and, and I had this some kind of routine that looked like this. It was like, write in my journal and, and I, I've gone through stages of writing in my journal in a guided journal in a free note. Book, you know, empty page journal using the oils. So I would traditionally just use lavender or the Serenity blend was just really nice. Um, and then, uh, pulling a card and do you know what it's making me remember because I don't do that anymore. What a great nighttime routine that was. I think I'm gonna get back into this routine and I think because I've been searching so much, I think that's probably indicative of why I don't do it anymore, because I feel less like I'm desperately. Searching. But at the time, over a good couple of years, uh, my sobriety journey was so on off, so on off. Don't get me wrong, it's not completely linear now, but the, it was very like weekly on off, weekly on off. You know, that, that bit more inconsistent. And then also relationship changes, um, mental health struggles, definitely. And, and like I've said before, I think perimenopause has played a role in this too. And, uh. HD Uh, so at the time only newly diagnosed and possibly other things as well. So I was really like, what is going on? I was just finding my spirituality and I would pull a card from the Angel, Oracle deck. I will link to this below. I've recommended this deck to so many people and, um, it's very easy to understand. I got to know it so well. Um, I trust this deck so much. Like if I have a day. Treat or anything, I take this deck often. Um, and like the other day I did a tarot reading for someone and I pulled this as an extra card for her and it just rounded up it. Ra it's a great tool for rounding up a tarot reading like as a bonus card at the end. And it's beautiful and it's just got so many different messages in there. Um, so it hasn't got angels as such. There's another deck he's done that is all about individual angels. That's lovely as well. But this deck has got, has got, um, an array of cards. So it will say something like Expect Miracles or it would say there's actually a yes card and a no card. So it's really clear and direct. And then there's a card called Manifestation. Then there's a card called Spiritual Healing. There's a card called Inner Child Work. That card, the Inner Child work, led me to meet Bel Be Tron, who I took her reparenting course and then I ended up becoming friends with her and she's my co-host on my retreat. So. It's let, this card deck has led me down on wonderful avenues. It's, it said yes, and it said no at times when I didn't want to hear it, but it was probably right. Um, it's a wonderful deck. So that's how my journey with cards began. And then I thought, you know what? I was working with Karen. If Karen's offering something and it aligns with me, I will generally take it. She's one of those people for me. She's one of my teachers. And so Karen is a long time tarot card. Reader and user, and she was offering this course, and I've always wanted to do tarot, so I ordered the tarot. I actually bought the tarot before I saw her course, I think, and it just sat there. And when, when I saw that she was doing the course, I was like, yes, I actually got a tarot set. So the way she trains us to use this tarot is very much leaning heavily on. Your intuition. So yes, you're gonna learn about the major arcana and the minor arcana. You're going to learn about the kind of traditional meaning of each card, but really what she wants to do is for you to take a shamanic journey with each card to explore its meaning for you. Um, and so I'm still in the process of certification, which is, I'm, I'm almost, I'm almost certified. I'm almost, I'm almost at the end and. I've done a lot of readings now and I've started to read for people. I gave the readings as a bonus on my, for people who buy my seasonal day retreat. So I'm gonna post that below and if you would like a reading, if you book on my seasonal day retreat, you can have a reading. I do the readings on my own and then I've, you, you tell me a question you send me. I like three card readings. They're really nice and simple. They're short and sweet, but they, they also can tell you so much and you can kind of. Theme the questions and expand out. So what I love about the three card spread, um, is I'll say to you, look, think about what's something that's in your life right now or a wider theme even, and send me three questions on it or send me two. And then the third one say anything else. And so I digest that question. I clarify if I need it. We do this all via voice note or WhatsApp. And then I do the reading. I get into a very centered space. I sage, I have cacao. I channel I look, I can look at an image of you if that helps me. I say your name many times. I welcome in my guides. I welcome in your guides. I cleanse my deck. I heavily cleanse my deck so it's not what my energy's all over it. Uh, and then I shuffle it very heavily whilst I'm thinking and meditating about you and your question. And then I do the reading, and then I take notes on the reading and what I do, and this is where I'm at in my journey with tarot. I trust. My intuition. So at the first, at first, and I've been told off by my, by my coach for this, at first I was really struggling to remember all the official meanings of the card, and I was like, oh, I'm not really sure. I, because I was being so cautious about what I, I. Her about this card to mean and then maybe getting it wrong and it having an outcome on that person's life that I would back it up with like some research about the actual meaning of the card and things like that. And I'm stepping away from that as much as I can and really trusting my intuition. And so for me, cards are about intuition, and I guess that's the main message of this. Short podcast today is when I pull a card and when you pull a card. What I would say to you, and especially if you are in your early days of your spiritual exploration cards are such a lovely way to add into your. Sader your spiritual practice, but also such a lovely way to connect with your intuition. Um, and so what I do is lean into the meaning of the card. Second, firstly, I lean with my intuition and I go, this card is telling me yes, this card is telling me. Take a minute before you proceed. You know, this card is telling me la la la. And also it's very important here to say that I've started using, I was struggling a little bit with the'cause. The ride of weight deck is an a really old deck, and as such, it's not inclusive and as. Such it's not easy for the modern eye to decipher. It is nice to learn on that deck, but I've actually switched out for the time being to a deck by Chris Ann called The Light Oracle, and it's a tarot deck, so it has the minor arcana and the major arana and it has everything in it. It's the same thing. It is tarot. Um. And so I use that deck at the minute and it's really helping me get less bogged down in the traditional meaning of this tarot card, like robotic reading, which you could do yourself on Google. Um, you know, anyone could just go like this, I filled this card. What does it mean that, that's almost like outsourcing your intuition. And my coach actually told me off when I was trying to. Um, go through the certification process. She was like, I feel like you are leaning on that too. Um, still too much. So really go with your intuition. And honestly, my intuition has never failed me in terms of, I'm talking about psychic intuition here, but intuition to me is psychic. I believe we are. All psychic, we just haven't all tapped into it. Um, so I will get hits, uh, whether it's a vision, whether it's picking up on card, on, on parts of the image, in the card. I will be like, I don't know if this is relevant, but this is coming through a lot for me. Maybe this idea. And I'm very, very. Careful. Very, very careful. And this is a big skill in itself. Very careful. When I give my reading, I don't tell anybody what to do. And I always end with, remember, you're gifted free will. That's the whole point of the human existence is to have free will make choices, make mistakes, learn, keep exploring, keep growing. Um, you can do whatever you want. And I don't, I very much avoid yes, no, like this, I'm kind of, I'll come back with a question. Uh, and so I really, what I'm doing is reflecting back what's coming through for me so that they, just, like in a coaching session, they're gonna come up with the answer. Um, I've mentioned a couple of times, the major and minor, so I'll just briefly say what they are. So. Uh, a tarot deck, um, has the major arcana, and that's the different cards, like you will probably know, like the lover, the fool, the empress, uh, and they are major life themes. Um, and then there's the minor arcana, and there's much, much, much more of those. So each, there's four suites, so each of the suites represents different things. So pentacles cups, wands, and swords. And for example, Pentacles represents cup. Of abundance, wealth, finances, things like that. Uh, and cops, cops is like, um, relationships and love and things like that. And so we know that there's, there's a whole suite. It's almost like a normal set of cars. There's like the, the numbers and then the royal, you know, the ace, the queen, king and so on. And so each of those cards in the minor arcana is more to do with. The, what's up for you right now? And a major arcana card is like a wider life theme. Okay? So you might be pulled, I might pull the Hierophant for you. And that's like, you're a spiritual leader. You're a spiritual teacher. That's like, um, a wider life theme. But then you might be pulled, I don't know, the seven of swords. And that can mean that, uh, you have your blinkers on and you've got a decision to make, but someone might be kind of somebody or something in your life, maybe something to watch out for. But again, it, it depends. Another person might read that card and read it differently. And then of course, you have the elements of, is the card. Upside down. Um, so if the card is upside down or reversed as it's sometimes referred to, then that has a different meaning that what I read then is that it's the meaning of the card. So I'll talk about the meaning of the card and what I'm getting and it's reversed. So it's the shadow of that card. Okay. So it. It can be quite complicated and it's definitely been a learning curve and I'm still leaning into it. And, and as such, it won't be a full part of my business yet until I'm really, really, really fine tuning my, uh, skills. But I'm loving offering it, um, because I feel like I am deeply intuitive and really good at reading. Um, so I'm offering it as an offer, uh, as a bonus when you buy a day retreat with me and also, and that's what I want. Say on this podcast, I'm really new to the podcasting game and so I really need to gain some traction with this podcast. And the only way to do that to get picked up by the algorithm and shared and so on is if I have reviews. So I know it is such a pain in the ass leaving your review. So if you've listened to this. Episode and you would like a one card reading. Um, send me leave a review. Please make it a five star review. That would help me immensely. Uh, leave a few words and then screenshot that and send it to me at Rachel Brady Yoga on. Or hello at Rachel Brady Yoga, and I will come back to you with a, well come send me and send me a question. Um, and I would love to add a bonus card on there for you as well. And I, I always do that. So, um, so I will spend time traveling. I won't just pick a card quickly. I'll really do a deep reading for you, which is why I'm offering a one card, not a three card, because it's, this is a free offer, but I want to go deep with that. So, um. I wanna spend some time thinking about the question that you send me, so please do that for me. And I would love to really hone my skills. And I would say to you, if you are interested in this, um, in this skillset, I would say go buy a Oracle card set first. Getting to the Oracle cards and everyone is drawn to different Oracle cards. So I've had, I've got quite a lot of packs of Oracle cards, one or two. Of them. I'm like, no, this isn't for me. I, I didn't open it in the shop and I shouldn't have bought it and I'm gonna give it to someone Didn't resonate with me. And other ones are like, just battered old favorites and they are just used continually. So I would say go to a shop or online, have a look what's drawn to you. Get into the Oracle cards first, and then I'll leave the link below as well for, for Karen's next intake for the course. Shamanic Tarot. I've mentioned it to a few people and they've said, I would love to do that. Like what's the, what's the link? So I'm gonna leave. That below and I would love it so much if you did that for me, it would mean so much. It would help me so much because I'm recording these podcasts and I'm being a bit shy about sharing it. And so I feel like if it would gain that little bit of traction and, and kind of be picked up a little bit more by the algorithm and that would help me enormously. So thank you so much. I love you and have a beautiful day. Bye.