Wisdom Keepers Oracle - November 19, 2021
Your Wisdom Card
Every Shadow contains a Gift. Every Gift contains Magical Wisdom.
When you embrace your Shadow, you embody your Gifts.
When you embody your Gifts, you claim your inherent Wisdom.
Take a moment. Connect with your breath.
Choose the card that calls to you.
Continue reading below for your weekly contemplation.
1. INQUIRY - Key 63
Gift: Inquiry
Shadow: Doubt
Siddhi: Truth
Gift From The Wisdom Keeper:
Gene Key 63 is here to celebrate your love of Inquiry, but also to remind you that your inquisitive mind and gift for doubting are best used in service of the world, not in service of beating yourself up. See if you can remain genuinely curious about life, without insisting on finding answers. Stay open to learning as your understanding of life becomes increasingly complex and paradoxical. Be curious about your own suffering, for it will open your compassionate heart. One day your brilliant mind will lead you back to yourself. And how could it not? You are forever intertwined with everything you've ever learned.
Contemplations & Practices from Juliana:
Doubt is born when you lose touch with imagination. Your logical left brain is designed to see things in repeating patterns in order to teach yourself effective survival skills. Doubt is paradoxical in its method of driving you to find answers to your contemplations by seeking patterns out in your life and that it does not go away. It continues to circulate even if you have discovered the answer to your questions. Doubt can manifest in one of two ways; Self-Doubt and Suspicion. Self-Doubt is all about comparing yourself to others and becomes destructive when you identify it and allow it to transform into anxiety. Suspicion is doubt projected out onto the world in the form of anger. Contemplate: Are you more prone to doubt yourself or to doubt others? Can you track where you have had doubt and found an answer to what you were seeking but the doubt continued and morphed into feelings of anxiety?
The gift of Inquiry is manifest when you harness the energy of Doubt. Inquiry is the ability to remain open and knowing that you do not need to find a definitive answer. Doubt lends itself to the highest good of Inquiry and fuels the seeker to enter into different levels of understanding. As Richard Rudd says, "There is one golden rule with the 63rd Gift of Inquiry - if you inquire deeply enough into anything, you will arrive at the revelation that you, the observer, are intricately bound with that which you observe." In other words, you are always an elaborate piece of what you are inquiring into. Without you, that perception of the Inquiry would not exist. Practice: Look at a world event, a personal experience, a struggle or a relationship in which you are doubting either yourself or other. Breathe. Feel into what the energy of Inquiry may feel like for you. With each breath invite Inquiry into your body, mind and spirit. When you have breathed it in as fully as you can, imagine turning up the frequency of Inquiry. Now, bring what you are doubting into your mind. How does it look or feel now as you observe it with the energy of Inquiry?
2. DETERMINATION - Key 9
Gift: Determination
Shadow: Inertia
Siddhi: Invincibility
Gift From The Wisdom Keeper:
It's time to bring your heart back into everything that you do, no matter how seemingly mundane. Remember, every act of intention is an act of magic. True Determination isn't about force or struggle. It's about grounding yourself in your heart's desire. It's about building natural momentum, one love-filled act at a time. Perhaps at the beginning of an endeavor, when you're dealing with inner reluctance or habitual diversions, you may need to assert some will. But once you start moving, the entire Universe (including your body) will rise up to meet you, creating a current of support to which you only need to surrender. Soon you will see the connection between every moment of your life and your deepest dreams. So listen to your heart. Prioritize the practical or the beautiful. Let go of the rest. It's that simple.
Contemplations & Practices from Juliana:
The 9th Shadow of Inertia draws your energy away from what truly matters to you and lights you up. Without a higher sense of purpose, human beings move in circles. At our core, we are wild creatures, natural born rebels. We are here to fly, not to be tamed or domesticated. This Shadow sucks all the life, creativity and inspiration out of you. Contemplate: Where do you notice stuckness or Inertia in your life? Where would you like to get moving, to find new inspiration? Take time to move your body with the intention to move out of Inertia.
The Gift of Determination shows us that even the smallest step leads us to the next and then the next and the next. Each step creates an effect of moving off the next in which at some point you feel as though you are soaring. You get into a Groove and you continue moving forward with Determination. Contemplate: Where have you cultivated Determination in your life? What is a small step you can take to creating your next grand inspiration?
3. MINDFULNESS - Key 33
Gift: Mindfulness
Shadow: Forgetting
Siddhi: Revelation
Gift From The Wisdom Keeper:
Mindfulness is here to help you remember. And to release you from the prison of your emotional life. Even if you want to speed up enlightenment, you can't. So give yourself plenty of permission to think, to feel, to desire, to react, to hide. Let nothing be forbidden. All that is asked is that you be Mindful of what you do. The first step in awakening is realizing that you've been asleep. So do not try to change your patterns or passions. Just recognize them. Catch yourself Forgetting your true nature. Learn to feel increasingly comfortable with discomfort. In time, you will naturally come to realize that something more wondrous that you can imagine is looking through your eyes, thinking through your mind and living through your actions. In the end, all of life shall remember itself through you. And all that you'll experience is the Revelation of the eternal Now.
Contemplations & Practices from Juliana:
The 33rd Shadow is the shadow of the human collective Forgetting our true nature. It conceals the past from you. The past that tells you that you have already lived this story, experienced this suffering. Contemplate: Reflect on where you continue to repeat the same patterns. Begin noticing them. You will begin to catch these patterns sooner and sooner until you move through them and make a new choice for yourself. Be gentle. Be curious. Choose that you no longer want to Forget your true nature and allow your subconscious to show you where you repeat the past.
The Gift of Mindfulness reveals itself when you are no longer held captive by your unconscious desires, fears and reactions. You may still react or experience fear but the difference is that you are Mindful of this, you can see yourself in reaction. You are undergoing a potent state of unlearning and rediscovery of your true essence. Contemplate: What have you become mindful of already in your life? How did you change that? Consider the steps and time it took. Now, choose another habit that you would like to change. Apply the gift of Mindfulness to it, using similar steps that you have already taken.
*This deck of cards is The Wisdom Keepers by Rosy Aronson, PhD
*The Gift from the Wisdom Keeper is adapted from The Wisdom Keepers' Guidebook
*The Questions & Practices are cultivated by me, Juliana, from my own contemplation with the cards & the Gene Keys. You can read more about the Gene Keys here.