The Divine Feminine Oracle Circle
I remember walking into my first tarot reading as if that moment remains in present tense. A close friend had booked the appointment because she had heard that this particular card reader was really powerful.
I wasn’t sure what to think, but I was studying world religions in graduate school, and I wanted to be open. To try new things. I passed through these dangling beads and felt like I was stepping into an alternate reality. There was a haunting, sort of mystical music playing in the background (heavy on the flute), and a very odd, not gross, but odd smell, like dried out, dusty rose petals.
There were crystal balls and tarots galore for sale on the shelves, and a whole mess of shining objects I didn’t recognize, like a statue of the god Thoth, and accessories for being witch-y… incantation bowls, pendulums, phases of the moon jewelry: all the essentials.
I felt vaguely nervous as I sat down in front of the man who would read my cards. He saw this and told me to take a deep breath. Then he asked me to place my hand on the tarot deck before he drew my cards. After I did, he shuffled the cards and carefully placed each card on the cloth that stretched out between us.
He stared at the cards for what felt like a concerning amount of time and then he lifted his head and said, “You should be a lot happier than you look. You’re going to have an amazing life.”
My eyebrows went for my hairline. I wasn’t expecting to hear a prediction about my entire life from one spread. And what I was expecting even less was to suddenly feel disempowered.
Whatever he was doing, whatever he was seeing for me, I wanted to be able to do for myself. I didn’t want a middleman between me and some sort of vision of how my life might unfold.
There was power laid out in those cards on that cloth that stretched between us. And there was no reason, I realized in that moment, that I needed to experience that power once removed, via someone else. I wanted to know that power directly.
I bought my first tarot card deck right after my first reading. It was the MotherPeace Round Tarot by Vicki Noble and Karen Vogel. I wanted a deck that was rooted in the feminine, since I was studying the divine feminine in world religions at the time.
The concept of spreads for reading my cards just never made sense to me. What felt natural to me was to simply hold the deck in my hands, take a deep breath, and just get very clear on a question or issue I might be dealing with at the moment.
Then I fanned the cards out before me. And just slowly hovered my hand above each card. And this is the part I can’t really explain, but I just knew, or I sensed, the card or series of cards that I was meant to turn over and then read as my answer.
What began to happen over the years is that I trusted more and more that small, quiet voice that felt like a gentle yet unwavering knowing inside me. The more I used the Round Tarot deck, the more I trusted that inner guidance, and the clearer it became to me.
The deck I really wanted to use though didn’t exist yet. I wanted a deck that included all the forgotten voices of women throughout time and throughout the world religions. Voices like Marguerite Porete, a French mystic who was burned at the stake in 1310 for the radical book she wrote titled The Mirror of Simple Souls that reveals the seven stages of her spiritual transformation by the Love she found within her, a Love she knew as God.
Radical voices of love, determined to live out their truest and direct connection to the divine from the high priestess Enheduanna in ancient Mesopotamia of approximately 2285 B.C. to Miao Shan known as the incarnation of the goddess Quan Yin in the Tang Dynasty of China to Perpetua in the third century of North Africa who represented a form of Christianity that believed in the equality and worth of all people.
This is why I created the Divine Feminine Oracle, because it is the oracle I felt was missing. It is the oracle I most wanted to share. It combines both my passion for wanting to strengthen that trust of the voice of love and guidance within me with the passion I have for learning about female saints, gurus, mystics, and poets throughout world history.
Now for the first time since the Divine Feminine Oracle was released in 2018, I'm holding an online event where we can come together as a community. I will share the reason behind choosing this particular collection of sacred ladies, and I will share the mystical theme of the red and white streams of spirituality that runs throughout the DFO.
Ultimately, the DFO is about embodying love more fully. So, we will also practice together the soul-voice meditation that this oracle encourages. And we will end with a Q & A so I can hear from you about personal questions and experiences with the oracle.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18th 2022
3:00PM - 6:00PM Eastern Time
Cost: Sliding Scale from $22-55
Tuition is offered on a sliding scale from $22-55. Pay what feels most aligned with your current financial resources and desire to support Meggan’s ongoing work and writing.
A recording will be sent out afterwards if you can't attend live.
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With only more love,
M.