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What Decks I’m Taking on My Retreat

Kim Abundant Life Tarot

~Readings will resume after my women’s retreat on September 10, 2017~

What decks go on the road with you when it’s time to go on vacation? I am off to a women’s retreat in the gorgeous coastal Northern Californian redwoods and I need some divine tarot interludes while I’m away.

My decks that are going on the retreat
My decks that are coming with me on the retreat.

Dreams of Gaia, and the Triple Goddess appeal to my nature side and the beauty of the lands I will be traveling to. The Stretch Tarot and The Steampunk Tarot, both are representative of vintage and yesteryear, a throwback to what once was – like the rustic cabin I will be staying in while I am retreating with my soul sisters.

My go-to oracle decks for this trip is Earth Magic Oracle Cards, Sacred Creators Oracle, and White Rabbit Oracle. They each will give me different sources of inspiration and play nicely with my chosen tarot decks. In the video I indicated I was bringing my brand new, micro Mildred Payne’s Secret Pocket Oracle, but after much thought, decided to pass, as I would be heartbroken if I’d lost one of its tiny cards so far away from home.

My retreat reading
My impromptu reading for my Women’s Retreat. Triple Goddess Tarot and Earth Magic Oracle.

As a fun send off, I decided to throw a couple of cards down from the decks that are coming with me. The Crone or devil card from the Triple Goddess tarot indicates I need to release myself from the restraints of daily life, indulge in some healthy activities, and free myself from my addictions to worry and stressing over everything. The four of swords from the same deck reminds me to know when to rest my body and mind. This is a time of grounding, centering, peace, respite, and to contemplate my life. Finally, the Earth Magic Oracle’s Dragonfly Emergence card indicates that once I attend this retreat, I am on the verge of emerging quickly into the next cycle of my life. The rest and respite of the four of swords makes way for the emergence of my new self to be revealed.

Say yes to #selfloveSeptember and look up ways you can retreat in your own life. Go on an actual retreat or create your own weekend getaway, with the sole purpose in mind to deepen your connection with yourself and your dreams. We all need a moment to pull back, hang with spiritually connected beings, center ourselves, so that we are ready to emerge into the next cycle of our lives.

See you all soon! Blessings, 

Kim 

Abundant Life Tarot 

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Why Hate on Doreen Virtue?

Kim Abundant Life Tarot

I own five Doreen Virtue oracle decks and I have no plans to rid myself of them. Why? Because I still like her decks and because her beliefs do not belong to me. I understand people’s pain and frustration over her turning away from tarot and oracle, and even pissed if they had purchased her certification program, but in the end Doreen Virtue does NOT make the oracle reader. What she does on her own path is her business.

Many of us have turned away from Christianity, while others are turning to it. Just because she has changed her mind on how she wishes to believe, doesn’t mean her tools will no longer work for the person divining for insight. She created the cards, but she is not the cards themselves. She is like the author of a book who has now changed his or her path and the book that was once a labor of love, is now no longer a representation of where the creator is in life. Does the new readers of that book no longer glean insight and knowledge? No!

The certification program also does not make the reader – unless the reader makes their existence and experience all about said certificate. The certificate is only a “worthless piece of paper” if the oracle reader believes it to be so. Instead of looking at it like money wasted, look at how that experience has enriched your life and how you actually benefited from the knowledge Doreen shared in her coursework. Again, her personal belief changing should not have anything to do with you or me. It has everything to do with her personal spiritual path.

I do not plan on getting rid of my Doreen Virtue decks and recently bought my fifth (and likely final) deck from her. I resonate most with her Goddess Guidance Oracle and the Butterfly Oracle. I enjoy the newest Abundance oracle and the Romance Angels oracle is helpful in summing up love readings.

Doreen Virtue Aerial
Doreen Virtue Decks Goddess Guidance Oracle Angels of Abundance Oracle, Romance Angels Oracle, Messages From Your Angels: What Your Angels Want you to Know, and The Butterfly Oracle. 

I am not sad she is moving on in her path, in fact, I wish her all the best on her journey. Now, can we all get back to light and love in the Tarot/Oracle community already?

What are your thoughts Tarot Peeps? Do you feel like you have to now rid yourself of all Doreen Virtue decks and products? Do you embrace her change? Why or why not? I would love to hear from you in the comments section below.

Many blessings and much love,

Kim

Abundant Life Tarot

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The White Rabbit Oracle & A Reading for America

Kim Abundant Life Tarot

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During my YouTube review video, I did an impromptu oracle reading with my lovely, new White Rabbit Oracle deck and my mind was blown away by the on point message that came through.

The two cards that instantly jumped out together was “The Shadow” and “Change.” These cards represent what America is facing right now. We are dealing with our Shadow side, or the dark ooze of racism from the bowels of our country. That illness of America is festering and growing, tainting our young minds with hate and intolerance.

We’ve had enough with words of condemnation. We need change. Real change. Change that is lasting. Change that involves preserving our humanity. Change that will once and for all root out the evil cancer that is pervading our government, our institutions and our every day lives. This change will come, with or without our president. This change, will happen.

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We are starting to see what happens when we allow cancers to grow, unchecked, untreated. It takes over. But, we have this opportunity to not have more bloodshed in vain. To change for the better. To pull up our weak and diseased minded people and show them there is a better way to be in this world. Let love and inclusion rule, not division and hate. We will change. We will be better. And so it is.

Link to my YouTube Review of The White Rabbit Oracle

~Kim with Abundant Life Tarot