Wishcraft Oracle: Bake Magic Cookies

 

This card is from the Wishcraft Oracle by Stacey Demarco

Illustrated by Elizabeth Tiethoff

From the booklet:

"You can put your happy wishes into the food you prepare; making cookies is a fun way to do it.  As you stir the ingredients of your favorite recipe together, think about things  you have enjoyed and people or pets you love.  Think of these good experiences and stir them in, saying:  "These are magic cookies, I only put good magic inside.  All who eat them will be blessed with good things."  When the cookies are baked, decorate them and share them."

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Ok, so this card brings a few things to my mind:

Preparing food for yourself and others can feel like a chore however a lot of lightworkers are meant to be involved in the prep and cooking because we can clear the negative energy around the food, we can bless the food and pray over it.  If you are a lightworker you probably already silently bless things all the time.  Bring your attention to the lightworking skills of affirmation, chanting, and decreeing that can be incorporated into the food you and your kids eat.  

The fact that this is about eating cookies also highlights that we need to deepen self-love and not use food as a weapon or punishment.  Lightworkers tend to feel uncomfortable in their bodies and making peace with food by making peaceful food is a way to heal the mind/body connection.

Your body is beautiful and 

I hope that you are having a beautiful day.

Love,

Jackie G, Divine Friend

Turn Criticism Into Kindness

 

This card is from Shine From The Inside Oracle Cards by Brittney Carmichael

Artwork by Jena Kane

From the booklet:

"The need to judge others is a dead giveaway of our own shaky self-esteem.  If you're in the habit of criticizing yourself, you'll most likely criticize others too.

When you judge your weight, you focus on the size and shape of everyone else around you and get trapped in constant comparison and criticism.

When you can accept your own flaws, you can accept the fact that others come with their own kind of crazy too.  Learning to love ourselves extends our compassion to others.

Affirmation:  I turn my judgment into celebration and criticism into kindness."

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Sometimes people confuse being honest with being petty or judgy.  There is a difference between "calling a spade a spade", calling out weird or toxic behavior, and being defensive and projecting issues onto someone.

For me this card came up on a day when an unexpected opportunity to share my side of the story concerning the breakup with a mutual friend.

I had been friends with two other people for about ten years and we were a trio.  Long story short, I had a heart-to-heart conversation with one of them that resulted in us parting ways.  The other friend, who woke up to the news that the trio was now broken, listened to the one who I had the heart-to-heart with and told me that she couldn't be friends with me anymore because whatever I had said upset the other one so much that I must be in the wrong.  Then over a year later she started talking to me again but said she never wanted to know what happened between me and the other person.  

The day I pulled this card she asked me some questions about this past event.  I found myself speaking more from my higher self about the situation and I was able to turn criticism into something that was able to honor everyone in the situation. 

What I have found about this deck is that, if you use it as a way to get a head's up about the energies of the day or the energies around a situation, it will guide you as to how to handle what is about to happen. Or in my case, it validated how I handled the unexpected situation.

I would highly recommend this deck for "foreshadowing messages."  Even though it is under the category of Self Care I have found this deck gives solid higher-self level guidance about experiences that are about to unfold.

If this card came up in a reading for someone else I would say that they should be prepared for some unexpected question about something from the past or something that is personal.  I would say that your higher-self can navigate you through this conversation so that your words are from a thoughtful and self-empowering place.  For example, maybe you meet someone new who asks you about your divorce or they ask you something that they don't know is a little emotional trigger for you.  

I hope that everyone is having a beautiful day,

Love,

Jackie G, Divine Friend

Stay Away From Drama Today

 

This card is from:

Shine From The Inside Oracle Cards by Brittney Carmichael

Artwork by Jena Kane

From the booklet:

"Do yourself a favor and stay away from drama today.

It's easy to get sucked into the chaos of others through the ever-changing landscape of social media.  If you've been finding yourself in comparison syndrome or surrounded by negativity, it's time to detox from the drama.

To protect your energy you must spend some alone time to regenerate your energy.  You can spend time in nature to restore your connection to vital life force energy, soak in a hot salt bath, or get quiet in a relaxing meditation.

It's important you take a little #youtime today.  If you've pulled this card, it's time to withdraw from the drama of others and reconnect with yourself.

They say the 5 closest people that you surround yourself with contribute to your quality of life.  Take a moment and reflect on who you spend your time with and how they make you feel. 

Do they bring out the best in you or do they drain you and bring you down?

You have the personal power to choose who you connect with.

Affirmation:  I am in charge of how I spend my time, and today I choose to be drama free.

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Hello Divine Friends,

 So for me, this card is resonating with how drained I've been feeling lately but it's because I was Vitamin D deficient and that was making me feel chronic fatigue symptoms and headaches.  Yesterday I bought some Vitamin D and have been feeling more like myself however I do feel like I would love to have a break from my life and be completely alone for a weekend.  I can't see how that would happen anytime soon since I have animals that need daily consistent care and I am the caretaker to my autistic young adult daughter who basically needs 24/7 supervision.

As far as drama goes, I have been noticing that drama is kicking up in the lives of the people around me so I try and remember to be there for myself too as well as others.

If drama is draining you then I ask for Archangel Michael to clear the negative energies from around you and reset you back to your Divine Blueprint.  This card could also be a sign to the Lightworkers out there that they need some solitude you are going through a vibrational shift or parallel reality shift and you need the time alone to process this energy change.

I hope that you are having a beautiful day,

Love,

Jackie G

Happy Sleep Pillow: I sleep well and have good dreams.

 

Right off the bat, I feel like the guidance is short and sweet:

Spend time re-organizing, de-cluttering, and decorating your sleeping space to get into deeper healing sleep.  Healing any insomnia patterns is a good starting point for whatever the other issues are in your life.

After the booklet portion, I shared how I had to start listening to subliminal audios that used rain as a cover sound to begin my healed sleep journey.  That led to using subliminal audios every day to heal the fragmented and fearfully incoherent background thoughts in my mind.  It was like I had to train my mind to listen to the waterfalls or rain to take a break from thinking.

From the Wishcraft Oracle booklet by Stacey Demarco:

"Sleep really is magic.  It keeps us rested and calm and our minds balanced, but sometimes sleep needs our help.  Make a simple A5-sized sleep pillow by sewing a piece of cotton fabric together into a pocket shape, leaving one side unstitched.  Fill loosely with dried lavender and a little wool or pillow stuffing.  As you sew up the final side say over and over:

"I will sleep well and have good dreams always."  

Slip this pillow inside the pillow slip of your usual bed pillow.  Close your eyes and wish happy dreams."

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 I'm looking at this card and I see a little girl sleeping outside in a field of lavender on a sunny day. I think the guidance of this card is to get back to the basics of having good sleep, taking power naps, and using the sleep time as a time to do subconscious healing.

A few years ago I started listening to subliminal audios that used rain as the sound covering the subconscious reprogramming affirmations. I had such a hard time falling asleep and then staying asleep.  

Having insomnia is like having irritable bowel syndrome or chronic fatigue symptoms.  Sleeping should be an  easy thing to do however throughout my life, it became hard and annoying (like everything else that was supposed to be easy.)  My higher self guided me to start falling asleep to the subliminal audios.  I liked knowing that I was "working on my issues" even when I was sleeping.  I started getting deeper and longer sleep time and feeling more recharged when I woke up.  My higher self told me that I could clear out the chronic fatigue symptoms by listening to the subliminal audios during lunchtime and letting my body recharge for an hour during the day.  This led to an increase in life force and an ability to heal from chronic sleep deprivation.  My health had really taken a hit throughout my life due to a pattern of traumatic things happening over and over.  

This card also says we have healing sleep when the environment feels fresh, safe, clean, and beautiful.  I slept on a couch for about 10 years due to my living situation over that decade.  I had to get used to not having a room and being grateful we had a roof over our heads.  Then one day I suddenly had a room again and even though it's the smallest room in the house I have a bed to sleep in again too.  Even the small closet makes me happy because it is my space.  This card says people will feel safer sleeping in their own little safe space.  

On a side note, decorating a space encourages us to know ourselves as individuals.  Letting people choose what they want in their space should be encouraged.  My mom and aunt automatically assumed that the houses they lived in were all theirs.  They filled every cupboard with their stuff and everyone else had little designated places for their things.  It felt like you were in their house, breathing their air, walking on their floors, and being a guest in their space.  It never felt like a home being shared by the family members who created that family.  This card could point to a deeper inner child issue of not feeling genuinely a part of a group or family unit because your sense of self was never encouraged.  Healing this issue would help shift/heal/empower connecting with people without hiding who you are.

I hope that you are having a beautiful day,

Love,

Jackie G

Green Dragon: Helps you tune into the secrets of nature.

 

From the Dragon Oracle Cards booklet by Diana Cooper:  

"Receive answers and guidance from nature.  Align with your divine essence.

All answers lie within nature and every single thing we need while on Earth is provided for us in the natural world.  5th-dimensional green dragons touch our psychic centers and help us to tune into the sacred geometry everywhere in the nature kingdom.  The nature kingdom is a magical place in which all our answers are held for us.  Luminous green dragons help us to read these answers.  So, if you can sit quietly in nature, call a green nature dragon and ask for guidance.

The response may come to you consciously or unconsciously, so accept that something important has been activated.  Keep your eyes and ears open, for the answer may come through a tree, bird, insect, animal, or something else entirely.  

You would benefit from spending more time in the green world."

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Here's my story about how the universe got me to go outside more:  the universe sent me a dog who only likes to do things with me and only likes to go outside unless she needs to nap.  She is like a toddler in that she will pressure me to stop what I am doing so that I can be with her doing what she wants.  Following her guidance to be outside more made me less self-centered which is a good thing. 

 In the process of finding places to walk her safely, I discovered a park that I call "The Magic Park" because I can feel the magic of nature in this hidden gem in my neighborhood.  Every morning I take her to the Magic Park and get into my Higher Self mindset there to start the day.  Then I noticed that the bushes and plants that grew in the Magic Park started growing in my backyard (which up until then was pretty bleak.)  Then I noticed that the birds that hung out in the Magic Park started hanging out in my backyard so I started feeding them birdseed every day and that caused 2 crows to start coming daily.  I named them Clarke and Kent and they have become like 2 wild bird pets to our family.  

I made it a rule to take five 15-minute backyard breaks throughout the day so my dog could run around more.  She only goes outside if someone is with her.   Increasing my backyard time got me more interested in pulling the weeds and feeding them to my indoor guinea pigs.  The Magic Park changed the way that I interact with being outside.  I got more connected to the nature kingdom from the decision to find a nice place to walk my dog. 

The Green Dragon card has inspired me to create a corner of the backyard where I can put dragon statues.  Maybe this will activate some wild nature energy in some kind of magical way.

I hope that you are having a beautiful day!

Love,

Divine Friend Jackie G