Oracle cards

Making a new start may be hard, but it is the only way forward. You are being urged to change things and shake everything up a little.

Change is the key to new opportunities, and if you resist it you block those opportunities and create obstacles that hold you back. You may have to change yourself to make room for what is new. But in that process you will also uncover dormant wisdom that will bring about the greatest transformation yet.

You will also have to do something about the people who are holding you back or dragging you down. That can be done kindly and with love, but be firm in setting your boundaries.

Verse
Changes surface all at once.
I turn my world round in response.
Everything old has had its day.
The future settles in to stay.

Other meanings
The situation you are in now will lead to great changes for the better. It is time to change the way you live. A deep, old wisdom is rising that changes how you see yourself and the world. Allow yourself to change.

About the I Ching
This ancient tradition is a conversation between countless generations and thousands of years of questioners. It is the oldest book of wisdom, dating from the eighth century BC. Because its great value was so widely recognized, it was not burned during the turbulent course of Chinese history. Today it answers our deep-rooted challenges in a changed world.

If you have been playing with someone's feelings, even your own, the flowers card comes to ask you to make a decision before you lose a good relationship, when that relationship may have been exactly what you were hoping for. Take a proper look at your own behavior.

Are you committed one moment and then suddenly pulling back, leaving everything hanging in the air? Your indecision affects other people's happiness and your own. It is time now to deal with the root of the problem: fear. Ask yourself what exactly you are afraid of.

Verse
Do I stay, or do I go?
With a laugh, or tears to show?
Oh, why all these questions still?
I have decided. Gone, the mist and chill.

Other meanings
Do not keep people dangling. Take the first step. Be clear about what or who you want. There is a romance waiting for you. You are worth loving.

About flowers
In ancient temples the altars and the paths were decorated with flowers in honor of the local gods. In ancient Babylon flowers were floated on water and then used in divination. For centuries lovers have pulled the petals from daisies while saying: he loves me, he loves me not, until the last petal revealed the answer.

The dowsing rod has singled you out to tell you that your search is almost over. You have spent a long time looking in the wrong places, and the moment has come to feel with your heart and let the natural elements guide you.

Then you will find yourself heading the right way of your own accord. Follow the path meant for you and stay alert to the signs in the flow of water beneath your feet and in the depth of the earth. Do not cling to someone else's path, because it can carry you into far harsher country. You are looking for your way, and they for theirs.

Nature will lead you, so go outside, find the streams and the rivers, and see what the reflection in them tells you.

Verse
I search right here; I search with care.
And still I ask: is this the where?
The answer lies all round about,
in lakes and streams it has come out.

Other meanings
Seek and you will find. Do not give up, you are almost there. It is time to take your fate into your own hands. You will soon recover something you had lost. You have found the information you were looking for. Reconciliation and reunion bring much happiness.

About the dowsing rod
More than 8,000 years ago, ancient tribespeople painted a dowser on the walls of the Tassili caves in North Africa, a forked branch in his hands, searching for water. On the Egyptian coast we also see pharaohs holding instruments that resemble dowsing rods. In one biblical account Moses uses the staff God gave him to find water.