Working With Oracle Cards: Intention, Insight and the Magic they Bring
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There’s a moment I love before every meditation or gong bath, a moment when everything slows, the energy settles and I reach for my oracle cards. For me, these cards are a way of opening the inner door, creating intention, and inviting a conversation with something wiser, softer, and bringing ancient wisdom.
Oracle cards help me shift into alignment before I guide others and they help my clients settle into their own inner world too. Over the years, they’ve become woven into both my personal practice and my sound work; a bridge between intuition and vibration, grounding and expansion.
Oracle Circle
Creating the Oracle Circle
When I hold a group gong bath, I lay out two of my favourite decks in two half-circles around the altar: Buddha at the centre, surrounded by crystals and candles. Everyone is invited to choose whichever they feel drawn to. The invitation is to follow their own energy. Some feel called to one deck, some to both, some select two cards that end up telling a story together. It never fails to amaze me how a message lands; sometimes it offers reassurance, sometimes a nudge, sometimes the exact words someone didn’t realise they needed.
With my one-to-one clients, we take an even more intentional approach. I offer both decks and let them choose one or both. The act of selecting a card becomes a grounding ritual, a way of settling the nervous system, opening the heart, and giving the session a shared starting point.
Sometimes the card shapes our entire session:
• It highlights a theme.
• It reveals an emotion waiting to be acknowledged.
• It offers a symbol or archetype we carry through breathwork or sound.
These moments often bring clarity and connection before a single gong is played.
Before I go into a gong bath myself, I like to pull a card and place it under my pillow, almost like setting an intention beneath my subconscious. During the session I work with the energy of that card. It becomes a companion, an ally, a guide into the deeper layers of my own inner landscape.
The messages always seem to work their way through the session: Sometimes they show up as a feeling, a colour, or a sensation in the body. Other times they bring a memory, a release, or a moment of ‘oh, that’s what I needed to see.’
Sound bypasses the logical mind, it moves through the body, the emotions, and the deeper intuitive layers. Oracle cards do the same. They’re a language of metaphor and imagery, which activates internal knowing. When you combine the two, something opens.
A card creates focus.
The gong creates expansion.
Together, they create a gateway.
Oracle practice is an invitation. A moment of presence, a moment to listen.