Healing Winds Reiki: Exploring Reiki, Crystals, and Beyond — Oracle Cards

If you've ever gone to a holistic or metaphysical fair, chances are you've seen booths featuring oracle and tarot card readers. Both types of card decks are increasing in popularity as more and more people gravitate towards new ways to connect with spirituality, source, and their life purpose. The readers you see at those fairs are often skilled in interpreting cards, but anyone can use them and gain insight.

First off, how do they work? There are an overwhelming number of layouts you can use, and an equally high number of readers and experts who will tell you that you must shuffle the cards a certain way, draw them a certain way, and interpret them a certain way, or you are doing it WRONG. Well, I'm here to say, anyone who tells you there is only ONE way to use cards is wrong. On their most basic level, cards are communication tools. Whether you're using them to connect to the Divine, your higher self, or that angsty ghost lurking in your basement--they provide a vocabulary of set meanings through written words on the cards and in the guidebooks, as well as visually through the illustrations on the cards. How you get to the card is entirely up to you.