Collective messages are prose poems that can be used as creative inspiration, spiritual guidance, or for entertainment purposes. They are based on a set of cards, runes, and numbers I pull intuitively every Wednesday.
Below you will find the message in both audio and text format. If you’d like to receive the message more deeply, try reading and listening simultaneously!
These messages are timeless, which means they are relevant to whenever you feel drawn to them.
If you don’t find any resonance here, feel free to survey past messages. If you are seeking guidance, there may be something there for you!
The background music for the audio message is from the album Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba, which you can listen to here.
You must be ruthless.
There are powers in this world, some of which live within you but did not start with you. They are the powers of suppression, devouring without remission, leaving their victims without recourse.
You cannot continue to serve them.
A pattern ends, a new one has yet to begin, and a strange peace hovers over those whose liberation came suddenly and seemingly without any effort.
Effort rests with the other unseen things at times, waiting with twinkling eyes to be revealed. Effort smiles and winks, playfully chastising you for your oddly specific standards of what counts as her.
It can be easy, sometimes, if you let it. There will be something to fight for again soon. Effort can promise you that.
All that is not used will be recycled. It will blossom again in new forms at the beginning of the world after the end of the world. Nature’s genius lives in vultures and mushrooms, in the way a young deer’s demise becomes the wealth of the hunters.
Nature’s genius ensures that nothing goes to waste.
Here is a chance to root deeply and defend with honour all that is held dear. Here is a chance to truly know what it is that you value and choose fully and consciously to live from that.
Here is a chance to honour the paths now closed to you: the traditions that tried and failed to be your foundation, the lovers who couldn’t keep up, the baskets woven by grandmother’s hands that have become too frayed to hold fruit.
Lay them down gently and with reverence. They are the ones who died so that you could come to know yourself.
You must be ruthless in your commitment to honouring this truth:
Time kills all things and builds all things anew.
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Runes
Dagaz. “Day.” Total awakening. Divine twins. Paradox. Mystical insight. Synthesis. Alchemy. Inspiration. Nonduality. Unity. Equilibrium.
Numbers
4. Stability. System. Order. Law. Firmness. Security. Conservatism. Nature. Earth. Formation. Practicality. Discipline. Endurance. Work. Construction.
Astrological Oracle
Mercurius. Mercurius is the messenger of the gods whose winged feet speed news and information as fast as thought itself. In the celestial system, Mercury is the fastest planet, zooming around the sun in a mere 88 days. Astrologically, Mercury represents the mind, intelligence, and wit. It rules all communication, both spoken and written, and gives the power of persuasion and reasoning. Mercury also rules technology, innovation, and invention. The shadow side of Mercury’s sharp wit is cunning and trickery, which can be used to take advantage of those whose wits do not move at such lightning speed, or whose nature may be more naive or gullible. When Mercurius appears in your Oracle reading, there may be a need for speed and swiftness, or you may be feeling a sense of urgency.
Druid Plant Oracle
Bramble.
Upright: Tenacity, boundaries, rootedness.
Kitchen Tarot
The Cookbook
The Hierophant
Traditional values. Ethics. Play it by the book.
Cookbook Clues: Passed-down wisdom; formal agreements; contracts favoured; luck with educational/religious institutions; look to the tried and true, not novelty; material security; community; father issues; exercise; sex; wake up and “smell” the fine print
Arcana 5 Affirmation: Honour, ethics, and spirit guide my actions.
Hermetic Tarot
Three of Swords
Heartbreak, sorrow, grief, loss, depression, betrayal.
Death
Transformation, endings, renewal, transition, change, rebirth.
Four of Wands
Celebration, harmony, relaxation, homecoming, stability, success.
Universe
Completion, integration, accomplishment, fulfillment, wholeness, success.
Six of Swords
Transition, change, journey, healing, progress, release.
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