Looking For Answers Through An Oracle Card Reading

I will fully admit that I was more than a little nervous to go to my good friend and Certified Oracle Guide Barbara Techel for my recent oracle reading. It didn’t matter that I’ve known Barb for around 35 years since our college days studying Fashion Merchandising and have had a few lengthy lunches discussing almost anything. Her writing cottage is the inspiration behind my Beatrice and I totally admire her for the work she does as an accomplished author.

Nope, none of this could calm my nerves, as I contacted her for guidance as to the confusion I was feeling toward which direction I was to take with my writing and blog.

I had felt lost and did not want to go down the path of not being true to myself. I was beginning to compare myself to everyone else and saw myself as falling short. All my other travel blogging friends were way beyond me and while I love to travel and share my experiences (and will in some capacity continue), I knew I was not being myself, only another version of others.

I wanted to explore the “feelings” side of travel as a guide to other women. I wanted to tell my story, how travel made me feel and the healing that can take place when you let go of fear. I just needed a little guidance as to how to go about that.

I had wanted to do this since Barbara became certified and went through Colette Baron-Reid’s Oracle School. I myself have a couple decks of oracle cards and know that they can help me ponder life’s little questions, but this was a job for the professionals.

An oracle reading is definitely not like fortune telling or looking into a crystal ball, or any of that. The cards simply guide you toward the answers that are already inside us that we need to unearth. Listening to our intuition is not easy. The hustle and bustle, the outside “noise” that follows us in our everyday lives is not conducive to letting those answers come through. Sometimes we just need a little guidance.

After confessing my nervousness, but being unable to explain why, Barbara reassured me that I had nothing to fear. This session would be like a conversation. After a little bit of introduction and answering a few questions, she guided me through a short meditation and then asked me what question I wanted guidance with. She assured me that if I wasn’t clear about my question she would help me to figure it out. I knew just the question I wanted answers to.  I wanted to know what direction I should take in my writing and creative work.

Going with that question Barbara drew three cards from Colette Baron-Reid’s Wisdom Of The Oracle deck and one from her Spirit Animal Oracle Deck. After she drew each card, she explained the meaning and we dove deep examining my thoughts, ideas and true feelings pertaining to that card. I would say we probably spent about 5-10 minutes with each card. The cards separate were like mini aha moments. After each card was examined, Barbara put it together with the previous cards to show how they all work together. It’s almost like each card is a puzzle piece with all of them together being the completed puzzle. Once the reading was done we had another short meditation and Barbara rang a chime symbolizing the end of the reading.

Wow, wow, and triple wow!! without diving into every detail, I can say this was mind blowing! No kidding the answers were right there in my heart all along. I was just to afraid to realize them. Fear of not being good enough, fear of failure, fear of not being accepted, the list of fears was enormous. With all those fears came a list of reasons to follow what my heart was telling me to do.

All I needed in the end was validation. Validation that what was in my heart was the right direction to take.

I learned it’s not a question of what I should do, but what I HAVE to do.

I HAVE to write a book and tell my story

I HAVE to write a series of children’s books based on Beatrice

I HAVE to inspire women to see travel as a self care tool through speaking or video.

I’m not gonna lie. Getting my reading done was an intense experience. It dug up some painful memories of insecurity. It dug up periods of my life that I try and keep buried. I realize now, that without those dark and painful experiences, I would not be who I am today.

I felt lighter than I had in a very long time after my reading with Barbara. I had more clarity and focus. Before I felt like a fish flailing about with uncertainty. It’s a wonderful feeling!

Today as I write this, I just rewrote and am beginning the editing and illustrating process on my first children’s book, plus I have begun writing my own memoir about how travel changed my life.

I cannot recommend an oracle card reading with Barb enough. She has devoted herself to guiding women to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. If you are struggling with something and looking for guidance to find answers, you have to give this a try!!

Barbara is not only a Certified Oracle Guide, but the author of two memoirs Wisdom Found In The Pause: Joie’s Gift and Through Frankie’s Eyes: One women’s journey to her authentic self, and the dog on wheels who led the way.

To learn more about an Oracle session with Barbara or more about her check out her website here.