Celtic Healing Oracle

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Celtic Healing Oracle by Rosemarie Anderson, Boxed set of 64 cards plus guidebook. Boxed set of 64 cards and guidebook. Published by Destiny Books. RRP US $19.99 : Can $24.99 : UK £16.99

Sample: No 11 Lap Dog - Hound of the Goddess. Intimacy with Self. Invoking Loving Attention. The hound of the goddess conveys gentle companionship to the inmost hopes and promptings of the human spirit. Unlike the hound of Hell, in Mediterranean mythology, the Celtic hound is kind and helpful, sitting at the goddess’s feet, resting in her lap, gazing adoringly at her, and nursing from her breasts. The lap dog brings comfort, and loving attention to our emotional and spiritual natures. Now is the greatest and auspicious time to replenish yourself. Old deep wounds are soothed and resolved without trauma, or even conscious attention. Harmful patterns and habits dissolve effortlessly. If you choose this card, you are attracting the benevolent spiritual forces of the spirit world to transform your life from within. Troublesome relationships transform themselves in healthy and beneficial ways. Drawing this card suggests that the spirit world is working to support you. Positive changes are moving within you. You only have to let the changes occur naturally. You are asked to trust. The natural cycle of death and regeneration are working quietly on your behalf. Avoid excessive activity. Try not to do too much overthinking, or wallowing in your troubles or planning the rest of your life! 

 The cards have 3000 years of Celtic emblems and symbols of spirals, cauldrons, trees, animals and fairies and reflect Celtic culture of myths, folk tales, legends, and history - all here. Inspiration taken from sites throughout Europe, but mainly Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The author, Dr Anderson, is a professor emeritus of psychology at Sofia University, an Episcopal priest, a poet, researcher and the author of The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching. With the deck, we can ask questions of the ancient deities, matrifocal ancestors, animals and trees, but this is not so much about reading fortunes as an introduction to the Celtic peoples, to the natural world, to the intuitives, the bards, the holy women and men, the healers, soothsayers, etc. All information is provided about how to cast the cards, and use layouts, such as the Year Ahead Spread, the 10 card Celtic Cross, or the Spiritual Development Spread, to read them. 

Great block prints style picture cards by Susan Dore with numbers, titles and subtitles and lots more information provided in the book about each card’s meaning and divination message.

Excellent value for money. Interesting! Recommended.

Review by Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk