Reading Tarot and Oracle is truly an art. It is intuition in action, interpretation of beautifully crafted cards; it is the energy that is exchanged between me and someone else… It is imperfect but it is always illuminating and always beautiful. I love the cards- they are a terrific tool and like all tools, each deck serves a different purpose. When I picked up the Cosma Visions Oracle, I posted about it the other week, and I asked people to choose numbers for a short reading so that I could get to know the cards. It’s a different kind of deck with a different kind of energy, and when I began to pull cards for people, I realized that something was off. The cards people chose, and my interpretations, just didn’t jibe with what I intuitively knew about the questioners. I pulled a few cards for myself and the same thing happened. Finally, I pulled one for my husband and that too had a strange flavor. There was SOME resonance but certainly not for THIS life experience. So I put the deck off to the side for a while, focused on my event, read up on the deck itself and the companion Prisma Tarot, and worked a little with Prisma instead. This gave me a little distance and some time to figure out what went wrong.
I ALWAYS know when a deck is suited to me. The moment I saw the Cosma Visions Oracle I knew it would have meaning for me and would be an amazing new tool for me to use to help other people. I just couldn’t figure out how. Now, I have mentioned this before- I have never really dived deep into the idea of past lives. I became interested in the Akashic Records and will be finished a modality pertaining to them this summer, but I have mostly embraced the idea with a sort of open minded skepticism. I’m not saying I have lost my skepticism but the more I look into it, the more some things resonate in a way that is logical and hard to explain away. So anyway, after a couple of weeks of more or less ignoring the deck, I tried a new approach. This morning, I shuffled the deck, concentrated on a question, and pulled a card. The question I asked was, “What was the biggest influence on my life in the past life immediately preceding my current life?” I really focused hard and sure enough, I could feel the magic move up through my hands as the deck fell into place. The card I chose was “The Vessel.” I looked up the card in the book because I know I need guidance with these cards, and what I find is that this card is all about materialism, gluttony, and obsessions over things that are of the world. It’s about being so wrapped up in success that I lost touch with my soul- my purpose. It talked about wearing a mask, where I had to have it all, but ultimately, deep down- I was empty. I was obsessed with material wealth an success…. and that clearly didn’t serve my soul’s purpose. Needless to say- I got MAD chills. Why? Well, my soul definitely learned a lesson from that past life because in THIS life? I am almost afraid of material success. I get anxiety when I have to talk about money and though I love what I DO, the business part terrifies me almost to the point of paralysis. It’s almost like I FEAR success and I DEFINITELY distress over even talking about money. My soul wants NOTHING to to do with the mistakes of my past life and my former self’s obsession with material success. I had too much and lost what mattered most. In this life, I don’t have a lot, but I keep what’s important close. Holy shit. THIS makes a TON of sense.
SOOO, I decided, let me pull another. I like to reshuffle as I contemplate my question, so as I reshuffled I once again concentrated on a specific question. The question? Did I have love in the past life immediately preceding my current life? For this, I pulled “Life on Earth.” Now one look at the artwork and I knew that yes, I did. I had love. But the love, the man I’m holding, is made of the air which to me takes on meaning. Air is hard to hold onto, you know? But then the key words of the card told me there was fulfillment, harmony and completion (Eads, 2020). However, given that I was obsessed with money and material success, the love I had must have gone away somehow. I should have believed that this was enough- that this relationship, so fulfilling, could have completed me, should have been enough, what I had should have been enough… but it didn’t, and it wasn’t because I didn’t believe it was enough. I wanted more. My guess is that nothing was every enough……
Which leads me to the next card’s question….”What went wrong?” The answer? “The Shore.” Well, you could just about knock me over with a father…. This card is about making the wrong choice. The text actually states that this card represents “the rock bottom of the Spirit Plane” (Eads, 2020). This is upheaval that wound up defining me, and I clearly did not navigate the transitions that came about as a result of my bad choices. It’s about things falling apart.
FINALLY, I asked, full of goosebumps and excitement.. hahah, “Why did I come back?” Well, I chose “The Orbs.” Keywords- bravery, strength and success…. but the kind of success that revolves around the will to overcome obstacles, to overcome fear, and to learn from the mistakes that I made long ago. According to the text, “The Orbs can never interfere or change the path of fate, they only shed light on things you already once knew” (Eads, 2020).
Needless to say, I am blown away. NEVER could I have guessed how a past life reading could feel SO ACCURATE. I am so excited to now understand the purpose of this deck and how I can use it for myself and for other people. Something interesting to note, and perhaps it’s because the deck is mine that this happened- ALL the cards I chose randomly are Major Arcana. This is unusual and because of that I am convinced that my instincts were SPOT ON about the deck and it’s meaning in my life and in my business practice.
I decided just now to ask ONE more question… because I’m human and I couldn’t help myself and honestly, when talking about past lives it is totally normal to wonder about the circumstances of my past life’s death. So I picked up my deck, concentrated on the question- “What were the circumstances of my death?” After all, I had lost the love my life, got caught up in the deceit that lies in the reckless and relentless pursuit of material wealth, pushing everything else that’s important away… I had to ask, right? So, here it is. I pulled, “Infinite Pathways.” Yet ANOTHER Major Arcana card so ANY doubt I may have harbored about the connection I have to THIS deck is completely dispelled. Evidently, the physical circumstances of my death are not as important as how my soul responded. I was “caught up in the swirls of color” and emotion flooded my being. It FELT like happiness as I noticed the beauty all around. I saw the Infinite Pathways of my future life. I felt “the magic of the stars, the warmth of the sun and the illumination of the moon,” as I realized that my “tumultuous journey was only part of becoming a new being (Eads, 2020). This card means I was ready to go and leave my past life behind and that the transition was joyous and hopeful. My soul was willing to change what my Creator asked me to change. The experience of my past life was rife with the negative consequences of my poor choices yet in this death was a new life full of hope, an “abundance of goodness,” “unlocking pathways only thought to exist in dreams. (Eads, 2020). H.O.L.Y. S.H.I.T.
I figured out how to use this deck for practical purposes that don’t include the massive 22 card Past Life Regression spread. I can do this question by question. Because the 22 card Past Life Regression spread is so big and so complicated, I decided it will be done as a report THEN in person to explain the results. Because of this the reading will be $200. However, I am offering 5 card readings like the one I did for myself for $40 in person, $50 for report style. If you have any interest, please let me know. I am extremely excited about being able to offer this to you. I am still pretty shocked at how incredibly resonant this reading was for me and I DO this all time!
The Five Card reading will include a standard first and fourth question with you choosing the others (with help from me if needed.) Feel free to ask about love, death, what went right, what went wrong… whatever… But these two MUST be part of the reading.
“What was the biggest influence on the past life immediately preceding your current life?”- Standard ? 1
“Why did I come back?”- Standard ? 4
I WILL be offering this reading as a permanent part of my menu and will also offer it at any event I attend in the future. I look forward to exploring with you how to grow from the lessons of a past life so that this life can be place you more firmly on the path of your soul’s purpose!!