Omnia quest

Having a conversation with an old friend, we are sliding through the origins of tarot. I ask which are the beginnings of this great and widespread tradition of seeking for answers or signals of from the future, and we don’t have a specific date, or a well known story about its birth.

So, we change subject. We start wandering across cultures, tribes and ethnic groups, passing through big civilisations and powerful governors, and talking about kings, warriors and even delicate ladies, realising that they all have had the need of knowing what will come next, the whish of receiving a sprinkle of information about whether a decision will be good or wrong, if the battle will finish in life or death, or if the prince loves her or not. The need to take risks and challenge fate, but in the middle of doing it, trying to know the results, using non objective ways.

And here my question sprouts: why do we have this necessity? And over all, how is it possible to transform a maze of cards, a set of stones, a pendant, a fruit rind or a flower in a tool to get information about the future? Sounds difficult or even impossible without using magic (which is supposed to be inaccessible for commoners), using magic indeed should represent a challenge or long process; so, why do we think we can do it?, why and how do we achieve it?.

I have arrived at the point where there are two possibilities of writing about: I can give you a ton of examples of oracles used since the human being walked on earth, or I can explain how have they configured their uses (I am so excited and will definitely go with both).

Well, starting in the beginning, by definition, oracles were places where deities could give answers to consultants through a priestess or priest. They implied a person invested with the power of embodiment, “downloading” messages. Historically, we find oracling in every culture, and the term has been also used to describe an adivinatory process, using different tools, like the well known cards and runes, the simple branches of ogham, the typical crystal balls and pendulums; and nowadays, more complex instruments like magnetic diagnostic, all based in this something that sends the answers and that science cannot explain.

This oracle systems are based in four statements that involve randomisation and a conjunction of elements that are diverse, each one of them has a specific and unique meaning, excluding the others, but able to contrast or integrate with them; in order to represent a theoretical and possible scenario, which can occur with the same probability than every other inside the system, and the combination of them is randomised, so I could say that if the answer that the oracle gives is meaningful to the consultant, might be not just a matter of fortune or luck, but a reflection of truth and reality that somehow the used tool could interpret from a non visible source (and here is where the divinity concept enters to scene).

Who speaks? Is it a voice that the reader or psychic hears? Any tool or magic supply can be used to get information? I have walked a long path and wondered many hours, asking people, reading, trying to scry by myself, but never got a response for this query. What I did, was trying to build a hypothesis, where the source of information is the true self of the consultant, who literally knows any answers to any question, and when the oracle reader accesses it, then it is possible to confront the real answer to its creator (I mean: if somebody has to make a decision, he or she deeply and maybe subconsciously knows their real and sincere choice since the first moment), hence, what an oracle would do, is present the true desires, secrets, facts, circumstances, of the consultants to themselves, and encourage them to follow or do what they sincerely want, and this is done using materials, substances, games or plants, that are an extension of the surroundings, and they are a portray of the universe that is inside the mind and spirit of the consultant.

And undoubtedly: it works. So, the first answer for me is: our present speaks. Through our thoughts, energy and environment. The wisdom is inside us and it reflects all around ourselves to counsel, to give advise and confidence to us all.

We don’t have a guide to read and interpret oracles, what we should have is the certainty of our completeness and oneness with the source, that called as we prefer, or expressed as we better understand, (cards, runes, embodiment, etc.), is always there in us and for us, conspiring with our wise world to make signals, messages, intuition and magic, be possible.

May you all enjoy your intuitive and adivinatory processes, be sure that everyone practice them, even the most sceptical every now and then buy a scratch lottery ticket or toss a coin…