The great Dakota seer and Medicine Man Black Elk had a vision when he was a young boy, he later called "the Hoop of the Nations". Although he saw the "hoop" of his own Lakota people broken, he also forsaw a future time, symbolized by a great Circle of interlocking hoops, when many people, from the world’s four directions, would come together to form a "great hoop". Black Elk's vision has been called by some the "Rainbow Tribe". Our global "Rainbow Tribe" has a multi-cultural vocabulary for the sacred. As mystical traditions of East and West join with the teachings of indigenous shamans, Goddess ways, New Age, contemporary psychology, Quontum Physics and the universal language of the arts, a RAINBOW BRIDGE is forming.
My Limited Edition Deck is inspired by many years of reading the Tarot. In Tarot, the Higher Arcana is a progression through what mythologist Joseph Campbell called the "Hero’s Journey". The first card in the traditional deck is The Fool (Innocence) representing the openness with with we incarnate into this world; the last card is The World, the return home.
To View ALL the cards and read their meanings:
please visit the Rainbow Bridge Blog
My Limited Edition Deck is inspired by many years of reading the Tarot. In Tarot, the Higher Arcana is a progression through what mythologist Joseph Campbell called the "Hero’s Journey". The first card in the traditional deck is The Fool (Innocence) representing the openness with with we incarnate into this world; the last card is The World, the return home.
To View ALL the cards and read their meanings:
please visit the Rainbow Bridge Blog
A 13 CARD READING SPREAD:
Like the Tarot, my Oracle may be used for divination in many ways. I use a 13 card spread (below) that I designed for myself. I use 13 cards because that number was traditionally sacred to the Great Mother of antiquity, as there are 13 lunations or "moons" in a year. And so the 13th Question (or, the 13th Moon, the "home moon") is the Outcome.
Shuffle the cards, and draw a card in response to each question,
laying them out in a Circle.
1. What do I need?
(At the beginning of an endeavor or a quest, one gathers the tools and resources one will need to undertake the journey.)
2. How can I purify myself?
(Purification before any form of prayer or ceremony was important to Native American traditions. Inner preparation is necessary.)
3. What must I honor?
(This concerns the importance of recognizing the gifts you possess. Establishing a foundation of gratitude.)
4. What should my intention be?
(Clearly defining the Querant's intention, understanding one's essential purpose in this undertaking.)
5. What is hidden?
(What should the Querant be willing to investigate? What is the shadow in this situation?)
6. What must I do to improve my connection to Spirit?
(What spiritual practices will assist me?)
7. What must I sacrifice?
(Letting go of control and allowing vulnerability is not easy, and often requires leaving what is known behind. What needs to be released in order to go forward?)
8. Where am I going?
(This is not about an actual place, but how am I inwardly transforming?)
9. What do I need in order to be in good relationship with others?
(The growth of compassion, empathy, and skillful means in dealings with others. What practices might assist?)
10. What do I need from others to be in good relationship?
(What is necessary for me to fully engage with others - or, what is unacceptable or destructive for me in my dealings with others?)
11. Where should I go now?
(In what direction is the Quest leading me?)
12. How may I serve?
(What service can I can make to life, community, and the Earth?)
13. The Outcome.
(Up to three cards may be pulled for better clarity.)
Like the Tarot, my Oracle may be used for divination in many ways. I use a 13 card spread (below) that I designed for myself. I use 13 cards because that number was traditionally sacred to the Great Mother of antiquity, as there are 13 lunations or "moons" in a year. And so the 13th Question (or, the 13th Moon, the "home moon") is the Outcome.
Shuffle the cards, and draw a card in response to each question,
laying them out in a Circle.
1. What do I need?
(At the beginning of an endeavor or a quest, one gathers the tools and resources one will need to undertake the journey.)
2. How can I purify myself?
(Purification before any form of prayer or ceremony was important to Native American traditions. Inner preparation is necessary.)
3. What must I honor?
(This concerns the importance of recognizing the gifts you possess. Establishing a foundation of gratitude.)
4. What should my intention be?
(Clearly defining the Querant's intention, understanding one's essential purpose in this undertaking.)
5. What is hidden?
(What should the Querant be willing to investigate? What is the shadow in this situation?)
6. What must I do to improve my connection to Spirit?
(What spiritual practices will assist me?)
7. What must I sacrifice?
(Letting go of control and allowing vulnerability is not easy, and often requires leaving what is known behind. What needs to be released in order to go forward?)
8. Where am I going?
(This is not about an actual place, but how am I inwardly transforming?)
9. What do I need in order to be in good relationship with others?
(The growth of compassion, empathy, and skillful means in dealings with others. What practices might assist?)
10. What do I need from others to be in good relationship?
(What is necessary for me to fully engage with others - or, what is unacceptable or destructive for me in my dealings with others?)
11. Where should I go now?
(In what direction is the Quest leading me?)
12. How may I serve?
(What service can I can make to life, community, and the Earth?)
13. The Outcome.
(Up to three cards may be pulled for better clarity.)
