The Oracle | Part One

Upheaval, Transformation, Creative Disruption, Seasonal Energy, Alchemy

Visual Elements:

The card bursts with vibrant motion: black storm clouds speckled with white marks swirl above a cascade of jewel-toned circles, teardrops, and fragmented shapes.

A dragonfly hovers mid-transition, a symbol of change, clarity, and light emerging from the storm. The composition is alive with energy, rhythm, and layered meaning, mirroring the nature of chaos itself.

Card Meaning

The card signals a period of radical transformation. This card embodies the energy of disruption as a necessary force. It shakes the foundations, reveals what’s outdated, and scatters illusions so that renewal can begin. Just like the seasonal storms of Spring and Summer, it clears what has stagnated to make space for growth. This may feel uncomfortable, even disorienting, but it is not without purpose.

The dragonfly, emerging after the storm, promises that beauty and insight await on the other side of the turbulence. You are in the thick of something that may not make sense now, but trust that a clarity is forming.

Message to Querent

Don’t resist the shake-up. Let it strip away what no longer belongs. The more you surrender to the winds of change, the quicker you’ll find yourself standing in a new light. Trust that chaos has intelligence, and your soul knows how to navigate it.

Reversed Meaning:

When reversed, Chaos Storm warns of resisting change or clinging to the familiar out of fear. It may indicate emotional overwhelm, avoidance of conflict, or letting change become destruction rather than transformation. You may need to pause, breathe, and refocus your energy before acting. Allow the storm to pass before making decisions.

Messenger, Animal Communication, Preservation, Shapeshifting, Earth, Ally

Visual Elements:

The figure is abstract, alien yet humanoid, with a crystaline or icy head-suggesting clarity, otherness and elevated perception.

The vibrant rainbow-striped backpack implies cosmic travel and a mission grounded in peace, diversity, and harmony.

The bird (a Woodpecker) perched on the figure’s hand symbolizes rhythmic communication, persistence, and attunement to the natural world.

An unfamiliar presence emerges, but it brings no fear-only deep stillness and a connection to something older than time.  This is the energy of the visitor who is not truly a stranger.  Whether newly arrived or longforgotton, this being carries wisdom born of listening, of watching, of deep attunement to the natural world.  You are stepping into unknown territory, but you may find that what feels alien is simply a part of you returning home.  Trust your instincts, let the wonder guide you.

Card Meaning

This card signal the arrival of something or someone new-and transformative. It may represent an aspect of yourself emerging that feels unfamiliar but is deeply wise and attuned to nature. You may be stepping into the role of a communicator, protector, or translator between different realms. Be it whether literal (animals, nature) or metaphorical (between people, roles or states of being).

You are not alone in your mission. Something or someone has entered your life to support you in a protective, guilding way. Remain open to communication across unusual channels. Your presence and empathy have power in restoring balance and protecting what is sacred.

Reversed Meaning

When reversed the card suggests disconnection, miscommunication, or resistance to the unfamiliar. You may be ignoring a message from nature or spirit, or feeling like an outsider in your own life. This card warns against retreating into isolation or dismissing what feels “alien” simply because it’s new or uncomfortable.

You might be blocking vital insight because it doesn’t arrive in a familiar form. Take time to ground yourself and reconnect with the rhythms of nature. Trust that what seems strange may actually hold the key to your growth. You are being called to realign with your role as an open-hearted listener and protector.

Kinetic Energy, Relieve, Disperse, Unravel, Catharsis, Ritualistic, Sacred.

Visual Elements

Striped Fabric With a Crescent Moon, symbolically often represents intuition, the subconscious, and cycles. Combined with the tight stripes and folds of fabric, this can symbolise the pressure or containment of emotions and thoughts beneath the surface.

A Cosmic Blue Triangle shows us direction and transformation. The steeper end pointing downwards as below, water. The starry texture connects to the cosmos or higher awareness.

Beaded Teardrop Gemstone Arches in their symbolism suggest rain, tears, however notice they are going upwards. Energetic droplets bridge the lower and upper realms of the card.

Soft White Mesh of Lace Peaks suggest delicate mountains or veils. Fragile thesholds, crossing from one state of being to another. A veil over the truth that becomes visible with the passing of the tornado.

Pink & Red Water is a raw emotional colour palette that is rooted in the heart (red for passion, pink for compassion and inner healing). The emotional ground is soft yet powerful. This is the land that gets transformed through the storm.

Circular Pink and White Sun/Moons, emotional cycles, illumination, or inner energy centres (Chakras ).

Striped Triangle pointing to the left, to the past. The stripes echo the fabric above, linking the start of the storm to its resolution. What no longer serves you?

Meaning

The card speaks of a paradox: a disruptive force that ultimately restores calm. It suggests a moment where internal tension, mental, emotional or even physical has huge energy stored up and now must be expelled. This isn’t destruction for its own sake, but a necessary, sacred unravelling. It acts as a pressure valve, inviting you to actively shake out what has been suppressed so balance can return.

The storm in this card is not external, it is one of the soul, mind and body. You may have been holding back tears, words, movements, or truths. It offers permission to release in any form that feels true, breath, dance, cry, shout, write, create. Once the charge is spent, a stillness will return that feels deeply earned, not imposed.

Shadow Sign

While the card encourages release, it also warns of misdirection: venting toward the wrong person, collapsing inward instead of expressing outward. There’s a need to consciously channel the energy, this is not an exuse for emotional outburst without real intention.

Meaning (Reversed)

When reversed, the tornado suggests a resistance to release or suppressed upheaval. Instead of allowing energy to move and clear, you may be bottling it up leading to tension, anxiety, irritability, or even physical symptoms like fatigues or illness.

Subconscious, Dreams& Desires, Divine Feminine, Intuition, Fantasy, Hidden Truths, Emotional Tides, Depth, Creation, Insight

Shadow Meaning

Abstract Entities, Intuition, Vision, Telepathy, Self-actualization, Spiritual Plane, Trickster Wisdom, Magick, Creative Energy

Visual Elements

Sharp & Angular Forms; the central figure is jagged and pointed, like lightning or a cracked mirror, this can suggest sudden insights or disruption of the usual self. It feels alive with potential and unpredictability.

Crescent Horn

The curved shape above could be seen as a horn or moon, embodying wild intuition, lunar wisdom, and untamed creative energy. It also brings a sense of duality: seen/unseen, known/unknown.

Metallic Magenta Texture

Evocative of mystical planes, telepathic energy, and higher vibration. This colour speaks of connection to the spiritual realm through sensation, not logic.

Card Meaning

The horned One appears when you’re on the edge of a breakthrough or deep creative emergence. It encourages you to follow intuition even if it doesn’t make rational sense. This card carries the energy of ancient, formless beings, the ones who don’t follow rules but whisper truths in symbols and senses.

This is a shapeshifter card, suggesting you are becoming more of who you really are, not who you think you should be.

Message to Querent

Shadow Meaning

In the shadow, The Horned One warns of distorted intuition, illusion, or ego disguised as insight. It can appear when you are ignoring your true inner voice in favour of drama, fantasy, or rebellious chaos. Be wary of misreading signs due to projection, over identifying with “spiritual” identity

Using magick/intuition to escape responsibility.

Are you listening to your true or loudest voice.

Reversed Meaning

You might be doubting your path or silencing your instinct, This is a time to gently return to stillness and rekindle trust. Pay attention to subtle signs.

River of Youth, Joy, Innocence, Vital Energy, Innocence, Emotional Nourishment, Play, Vitality, Flow, Inner Child, Sensory Magick

Visual Elements

A Golden Duckling, a symbol of of precious new beginnings, emotional openness, and innocent trust. Drinking from river, it suggests a deep nourishment of the soul, especially through connection with beauty and simplicity.

Rainbow Water in layers of shimmering sequins, the “river” is visually rich and eer shifting. This represents high-frequency joy, a state of being fully present and alive to life’s wonder.

Sharp Crystal-Like Structure, piercing into the sky or rising like a fin, this could symbolize the clarity or ascension that comes with alignment to love and joy.

Card Meaning

Rainbow River brings the message of joy through emotional renewal and energetic flow. When this card appears, it’s an invitation to reconnect with childlike wonder-not childishness, but deeper wisdom of awe, play, and reverence.

Message to Querent

“Drink deeply of the joy around you, it is safe to trust it.”

Shadow Meaning

In its shadow, Rainbow River warns of disconnecting from the the present. Of feeling Joylessness due to burnout, over seriousness, or control. Feeling fear of vulnerability, especially around emotional openness. You may be denying yourself experiences that bring lightness out of guilt, fear, or duty.

Where did your joy go, and who convinced you it wasn’t essential?

Card Meaning (Reversed)

When reversed, this card reflects a feeling of being emotional thirsty, a sense of loss of inspiration, there is a need to rediscover what truly lights you up.

Night, Cunning, Mystery, Shadow Wisdom, Creative Intuition, Stealth, Camouflage, Cycles, Secrets

Visual Elements

Fox Face & Form: The fox is partially camouflaged, suggesting secrecy, intuition, and clever navigation of the unseen world. Foxes are also shapeshifters in mythology, guides through liminal spaces.

Moon Shapes are are prominent waxing and waning moons represents cycles, feminine power, and illumination within darkness.

Textured Black and White Fabrics zigzag and houndstooth patterns suggest duality and camouflage. Aligning with themes of illusion, adaptability, and moving between seen and unseen realms.

Purple Crescent and Gold Star: The purple moon emphasises mysticism, psychic energy, and subtle creative power. The star signals hope, navigation, or a spiritual waypoint.

Starry Sky & Night Fabric: The night is shown as a layered, living space, it is textured like fur or knitted fabric, it offers comfort, concealment, and mystery.

Card Meaning

The Moon Fox Card call you into your night-self. There are parts of your nature that only awaken in darkness: intuition, creative, daring, sensuality, and instinctual clarity. The fox in this card is a cunning companion through the shadow, it offers cleverness, protection, and guidance when logic falters.

Explore the beauty of the night. You are being called to trust in the dark, to use your senses in new, subtle ways.

Message to Querent

“You don’t need to be visible to be powerful. Let the night guide your next move.”

Shadow Meaning

The Sacred Hive, Family, Sanctuary, Precious Routine, Hive Mind, Belonging, Order, Comfort, Heart.

Visual Elements

Bee in a Circle: The bee represents community, industriosness, and sacred order. It is at the heart of the card , suggesting that home is a centre of action, sweetness, and deep meaning.

Red Cresent Moon: Here it symbolizes feminine energy, cycles of emotion, and devotion. Its placement above the house suggests protection or ritual.

A Flying Ladybird: A talisman of luck, domestic harmony, and small blessings. Its delicate flight around the edge of the card signals sensitivity and quiet presence in the home.

Black & Silver Textured Structure: The central form resembles a house or temple, encrusted in stardust, indicating that home is not just a place, but a sacred vessel.

Bright Magenta Roof: This vibrant, protective element suggests a passionate energy or love bound container over the family.

Card Meaning

Honey Moon Home calls you to re-centre yourself within your sanctuary. This card of domestic care, routine reverence, and nurturing the hive.

Home life needs attending be it by emotional, spiritually, or physically. You are being reminded that peace begins with the spaces you dwell in. It is time to cherish the “Golden Noise” of the home, be it family chatter, shared meals, or routines that hold you.

Declutter and realign your living space! Create acts of love and service toward family. Return to the simple joy of a well loved home.

Message to Querent

“Your home is not just a place, it is a mirror of your spirit. Tend it like a garden, and it will bloom peace.”

Shadow Meaning

Can signify household tension or overwhelm, a feeling of confinement by domestic obligations. Hearing emotional noise drowning out personal peace.

Card Meaning (Reversed)

A warning against neglecting your space or becoming so absorbed in home matters that you lose you own rhythm.

THere could be a disconnection from family or ancestral roots. A longing for a home you’ve not yet built or found. Feeling a resistance to grounding or organising your life.

Here is a call to slow down, reconnect and build your nest with intention.

Humour, Grace, Playfulness, Performance, Wit, Emotional Mask, Light in Darkness, Satire, Hidden Pain, Release.

Visual Elements

Golden abstract forms: The fluid gold shapes evoke playfulness and movement, like exaggerated theatrical gestures.

The Crown: Represents performance, charisma, and the archetype of the entertainer.

White Ruffled Fabric: A nod to the theatrical costumes, balancing elegance with flamboyance.

Gem and bead details: Highlight glamour and the sparkle of showmanship.

Liquid Gold Falling: Suggests the risk of comedic downfall or vulnerability behind the mask.

Cosmic circular backgrounds: Tie humour to deeper, perhaps cosmic truths or the void that comedy sometimes covers.

Card Meaning

This card is a bold remineder to embrace joy, lightness, and the healing power of laughter. This card celebrates humour, humility, and grace; even in moments where life feels dull or heavy. It encourages you to reconnect with the playful, childlike side of yourself and to find release through shared joy and entertainment.

Bring humour and play into your day-to-day life. Seek out activities, people and art forms that your lift spirit, theatre, cinema, music or light hearted social gatherings. Be willing to laugh at yourself and release unnecessary seriousness. Use it as a bridge for connection, not a weopon for criticism. Honour the beauty of humility and ability to step of the stage of ego.

Message to Querent

It’s time to let laughter open the door. Allow yourself to be delightfully human. Awkward, brilliant, and silly all at once. Your lightheartedness is medicine, not just for you, but for those around you. Seek out the places, people, and experiences that remind you of the joy of simply being alive.

Shadow Side

Sadness: The clown who cries when no one is watching.

Mask: It is worn so often that the wearer forgets who is underneath.

Dance Monkey: The danger of becoming entertainment for others at the cost of personal truth.

Card Meaning (Reversed)

Taking humour too far, sarcasm or jokes that harm rather than heal. Hiding your vulnerability behind constant humor, avoiding deeper emotions. Feeling jaded, uninspired, or disconnected from joy. A reminder to take something seriously when it truly matters. The archetyoe of the Royal Comedian can slip into mockery, attention-seeking, or performing for approval instead of authentic joy.

Air, Knowledge, Wisdom, Catalyst, Paradigm Shift, Influence, Energy Flow, Transformation, Disruption, Awakening.

Visual Elements

Magickal Orbs: Circles of power, represententing ideas and influence rippling outward.

Dark Patterns: Solid presence despite being “of air”.

Contrasting Patterns: The mix of dense dark areas and lighter textures suggests duality and intellect vs emotion, stillness vs. motion.

Red Arc Spheres: Rising energy or thought seeds traveling toward manifestation.

Fragmented Textures: Multiple layers of perception, visions, and truths.

Flowing Form: The vertical, almost serpentine composition evokes rising air currents, linking to breath, spirit, and higher thinking.

Card Meaning

The Fortress of Air is a solidified being, She breathes oxygen to move her grand figure. She is a sorceress, creating small magickal orbs that power energy around the earth. She represents a force of both stability and transformation, a paradox of the unshakeable and ever shifting authority, channeling unseen energies into tangible influence. This card signals movement where though becomes action, and wisdom reshapes reality. Her presence indicates that you are standing at a threshold of change; an inner or outer paradigm shift. You are being called to embrace your role as an active architect of that shift.

She is not gentle in her work. Earthquakes and upheavels, whether in you own beliefs or the structures around you, are her signiture. But each disruption she causes is a necessary clearing, making way for a more aligned reality. The orbs she creates are fragments of pure potential, ideas, visions, or connections waiting to be grounded in form.

Message to Querent

You are being summond to rise into your full mental and spiritual power. THe air is alive with ideas, insight, and change. THis is your moment to breathe them in deeply and let them move you. You may feel tremors of a coming shift, but know that you are not powerless in its wake; you are one of its catalysts.

Now is the time to speak the truth, share vision, and trust your wisdom. Release the fear of instability, what falls away was never meant to hold your future. Stand tall as the winds gather, for you are both fortress and flight.

Shadow Side

The Storm of the mind: In her shadow, the Fortress of Air becomes a fortress of isolation, sealing herself away in intellect and detachment, generatin storms of doubt and confusion rather than clarity.

Disconnect: This shadow may manifest as superiority, aloofness, or cold rationalisation that disconnects from empathy.

Chaos: She can symbolize being swept into the chaos of constant change without grounding, leaving the querent feeling mentally and spiritually disoriented.

Reversed Meaning

The winds of thought and spirit are swirling chaotically. Instead of clarity there maybe confusion, overthinking, or misuse of knowledge. You could be clinging to outdated beliefs or resisting inevitable change. This may manifest as intellectual arrogance, spiritual disconnection, or instability in your environment.

Will Power, Warrior, Change, Courage, Action, Drive, Initiative, Momentum, Fire, Confidence, Determination.

Visual Elements

Red Crimson Glittering Orbs: Planetary bodies orbiting in a constellation of force, each holding potential energy. A fiery colour palette dominates, evoking passion, power, desire , and action. The repetition of circular forms suggests cycles, intensity, and perpetual energy in motion.

Sharp Angular Motifs: A strong directional force pointing inward and upward, calling attention to focus, intention, and the aim of your willpower. It could also represent the mind cutting through distraction with clarity.

A Black & White Spiral Triangle: Acts like a portal of focus, an energy vortex drawing in willpower and amplifying it.

Metallic Glittering Textures: Elements of glamour, high vibration, and spiritual armour. This is energy that is not just raw but defined-channeled purposefully.

Triangular Banner and Cresent Base: Elements of glamour, high vibration, and spiritual armour. This is energy that not just raw but refined, channeled purposefully.

Card Meaning (Upright)

It is a card that channels the fiery, couragous, and assertive energy of planet Mars. It is a call to awaken your inner warrior-to act bodily, to lead with intention, and pursue transformation with vigour. This card is about embodied willpower and the drive to initiate real change.

Message to Querent:

You are being urged to take bol, decisive action. Mars Magick signals that the universe supports your efforts to assert yourself, lead, or intiate transformation. It’s a moment to harness your will, even if the path ahead demands courage or confrontation. Whether you’re standing at the edge of a new project, a confrontation, or deep transformation, telling you: Step into the fire, You are ready.

Shadow Side:

Aggression or Recklessness: Acting without foresight, steamrolling others, or burning bridges unnessarily.

Supressed Rage: Anger turned inward, creating tension, inflammation, or passive sabatage.

Over-Control: The shadow or Mars wants to control at all costs, mistaking dominance for power.

Are you wielding your strength constructively or destructively?

Card Meaning (Reversed)

Blocked Drive or Depleted Energy: You may feel unmotivated, uncertain, or disempowered.

Fear of Stepping into your full power. The cosmos is calling, but you may be ignoring the inner fire out of conflict or failure.

Misalignment Between Desire and Direction: You may be acting, but without clarity, wasting your energy or chasing something hollow.

Reversal Guidance:

This is not a time to quit, but to realign. Rest if needed, but then asl: What am I truly fighting for? Mars energy becomes divine when aligned with truth

The Dancer of Disruption, Motion, Inspiration, Change

Visual Elements

Silky Gold and Blue Fabrics: The fluid folds of textile represent air’s ability to cloak itself in elegance yet remain intangible. The gold evokes illumination and spiritual fire, while the deep blue recalls the sea, implying a meeting between intellect and emotion.

Vertical Composition & Torn Black Lines: Suggests movement upward, slicing through stillness. A kinetic, ambitious, and laced with mystery. The cut lines imply a force that splits through illusion.

Twisting Forms: The swirling fabric becomes a body in motion, a dancing element, neither fully feminine nor masculine, shifting with every gust.

Card Meaning

The Sky Weaver enters a reading as a force of disruption. Not to destroy, but to shake awake. WIth mental clarity, a change of direction, with a windful movement. You are being asked to stir from routine, or sleep like states. It whispers inspiration or new ideas that will sweep you off your feet. You are invited to act with purpose, especially where stagnation lingers. A symbol of intellect, spirit and movement. do not ignore the call to rise.

Message to Querent

“Not all storms bring ruin, some arrive to lift the sails. Let the wind of change dance through you.”

Shadow Meaning

Sky Weaver can warn you of restless distraction, of overthinking without action and sudden destabilizing events. It cautions you against scattering your energy or becoming trapped in thought loops. This Shadow side disrupts just to unsettle a mind without ground.

Card Meaning (Reversed)

When reversed the Weaver asks, Where are you resisting movement? Are you afraid of your own thoughts? Have you cloaked your truth to avoid being seen? It invites stillness long enough to breathe, regroup, and listen for the real current beneath the noise.

Silence, Reflective, Poise, Cosmic Timing, Fortune, Patience, Discipline, Stillness, Receptivity

Visual Elements

Feather: In his wing, not for flying, but for writing-symbolizing creative stillness. he

Deep Red Crescent: Intuitive rhythm

The Bird: A surreal blend of Raven and Vulture, two scaengers known for their patience and insight.

A Rose: Emotional depth, subtle beauty in waiting.

Polka Dots: Hidden order, rhythm in chaos.

Moon Phases: Cycles, inner knowing, divine timing.

Black & White: Balance of shadow and clarity.

Red Cresent: Energy held in reserve sacred restraint.

Card Meaning

Message to Querent

Your are being asked to wait. Not in silence, but in watchfulness. What you seek is on its way, but the timing must be right. Wisdom does not rush, and beauty unfolds in its own rhythm. Trust your stillness is powerful. SIt with your thoughts, sharpen your vision, and listen for the messages of the moon. Fortune belongs to those who endure with grace.

Shadow Meaning

In its shadow, this card reveals the fear of stagnation. You may be mistaking quiet for failure, or inaction for weakness. Impatience could lead to forcing what is not ready, pushing away what you desire most.

Card Meaning (Reversed)