Oracle Mornings: Spiritual Awakening for Beginners - Exploring Intuition & Oracle Cards

Amanda opens this episode with something a little vulnerable. After promising herself she'd never work in an office again, family circumstances led her right back to a desk job, thirty five minutes away, on a classic full time schedule. It felt, at first, like a step backward. But instead of staying stuck in that story, Amanda made a choice to get curious about it instead. She talks about how curiosity opens up perspective in a way that resistance never can, and how trusting the process starts to feel less like a leap of faith and more like a quiet decision you make over and over again. From there, Amanda pulls the Faith in the Process card from the Sacred Rebels Oracle by Alana Fairchild, a deck she's been leaning on a lot lately. The message that comes through is a gentle one. Sometimes we hit the edge of our own effort and willpower, and what's left is faith. Not because we did something wrong, but because something bigger is unfolding that we can't force or fully see yet. Amanda connects this to her own experience of surrender, and shares a small experiment she's been trying: instead of rushing through her to do list, she's been asking herself what it would feel like to slow down and do the same tasks with more ease. It's a simple shift, and one she invites listeners to try for themselves this week. Key Takeaways A setback isn't always a setback. Sometimes what looks like moving backward is actually part of a bigger plan you can't see all of yet. Curiosity is the doorway to trust. When you get curious about a hard situation instead of resisting it, you open up more perspective and more ease. You don't have to force your way through everything. Faith in the process means recognizing when it's time to surrender a little instead of pushing harder. If this episode's message about trusting the process resonated with you, you might be in the early stages of a spiritual awakening yourself. Grab Amanda's free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening , to help you recognize the signs. And if you're ready to build a deeper relationship with your own intuition, explore Amanda's programs at oraclemornings.com/intuition . Today's card, Faith in the Process, comes from the Sacred Rebels Oracle by Alana Fairchild . If you're new to oracle cards, this deck is a beautiful, beginner friendly place to start exploring intuition and inner guidance. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Looking for a simple way to build a daily reflection habit? Check out The Daily Oracle Journal on Amazon or Lulu . Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Amanda kicks off September with her monthly collective card pull, and this one lands right in the middle of a struggle so many beginners on a spiritual path share: the constant noise in your head that makes it nearly impossible to actually listen, whether that's to another person, to your own body, or to that quiet inner voice we call intuition. This month's card is Lynx, from the 13 Holy Nights Oracle deck by Lara J Day, and it is all about silence, attentive listening, and the power of the words we choose. Amanda walks through what Lynx is asking of us this month, and gets honest about the fact that even while reading the card out loud, her own mind started to wander. If yours does too, that is not a failure. That is the practice. She talks through why average attention spans have dropped so dramatically since smartphones entered our lives, why that makes true listening feel like a radical act, and how being fully heard by someone can change the way a person shows up in the world. This episode is a gentle nudge to speak less, listen more, and start noticing what your own intuition has been trying to tell you all along. 3 Key Takeaways Listening is not the same as hearing. Hearing is passive. Listening means giving your full attention without judgment, and it is a skill you can rebuild even if your attention span feels shot. The words you speak, and the people you choose to share your dreams with, carry real power. Lynx invites you to hold your new ideas close until they are ready, instead of announcing them before they have had a chance to take root. Being fully seen and fully heard by someone is rare and beautiful. When you offer that kind of presence to another person, you give them a gift they may go on to pass along to someone else. New here, or feeling like you are just starting to notice your own intuition for the first time? Start with Amanda's free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening . It is the perfect first step if this episode's talk of listening within felt like it was speaking directly to you. If you are ready to go a little deeper into building a daily intuition practice, take a look at oraclemornings.com/intuition for more ways to keep learning. This month's card, Lynx, comes from the 13 Holy Nights Oracle deck by Lara J Day . Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

There is something about the first day of school that makes everything feel like a beginning, whether or not you have kids in the house. In this week's episode, Amanda opens with the mixed feelings that come with a new school year, the excitement of seeing friends again, the dread of the routine, and the quiet hope that this could be the year they make into the one they actually want. That question turned out to be the perfect setup for this week's card. Amanda pulled Anchored to Fly from the Wild Kuan Yin Oracle by Alana Fairchild , and the message is one that so many of us need at the start of anything new. You have the vision. You can feel the pull toward something bigger and more beautiful than what has been. But wanting to rise is not the same as being able to. This card says the flight only works when you are anchored, when you do the practical, unglamorous, one step after another work, and then release your grip on how and when it all unfolds. Amanda talks about the two ways this goes sideways. Without the effort, we drift like a lost kite, all vision and no roots. Without the letting go, we get weighed down by a distrustful need to control every detail. It is the combination of the two that actually gets you off the ground. She also includes the healing process from the guidebook in this one, a simple invitation to feel the weight of your body, the warmth of your blood, the beat of your heart. She does not always read those, but this one brings you right back into the present moment, which is exactly where the anchor lives. If you are somewhere in the in-between right now, holding a dream you are not sure how to build, this episode is a soft place to land. There is nothing to figure out perfectly. There is just the next practical step, and enough trust to stop white knuckling the outcome. Three Key Takeaways A vision without grounded action drifts away. Inspiration and fantasy are the seeds, but seeds need soil. Doing the practical work, one step after another, is what turns an idea into something real. Trying to control the timing is what keeps you stuck. You can do everything within your power to succeed and still release your grip on how and when it arrives. That release is not giving up. It is what makes you light enough to rise. Your body is the anchor you already have. When you feel scattered or ungrounded, come back to something physical. The weight of your body, your breath, your heartbeat. Presence is not complicated, and it is always available. Are you noticing more synchronicities lately, feeling pulled toward something you cannot quite name yet? You might be at the very beginning of a spiritual awakening, and you do not need any experience to start paying attention. Grab the free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening, at oraclemornings.com/awakening . And if you have been curious about learning to read oracle cards for yourself, I am building something just for beginners. You can add your name to the founding member priority list at oraclemornings.com/intuition to hear about it first. Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

It's the final week of August, and we're still soaking up as much summer as we can hold. This week's card comes from Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides by Steven D. Farmer , and the message is Boar, also called Pig: face your problems head-on with confidence and courage, and you will emerge victorious. What's interesting is that last week's Kali Oracle card was also about facing things, specifically the parts of ourselves we thought we'd already released. So two weeks in a row, we're being asked to look directly at what we've been circling around. But Boar has a different spin on it. The card reminds us that whatever difficulty you're in right now, whether it's a relationship, a career path, or something else entirely, the invitation is to dig in and rummage around until you find how to solve it. Then take action. Every time you meet an adverse situation this way, you're uprooting the things that stand between you and your purpose. There's also this line that feels very human: if you're living on Earth, you're going to get your feet muddy sometimes. That doesn't call for panic or crisis or drama. It just calls for a couple of deep breaths and a willingness to see the problem as something that needs to be taken care of. As the card puts it, there really are no problems, only creative possibilities. Amanda's reflection lands on curiosity. When we get curious, that's where truth comes in, where opportunity comes in, and where the view gets bigger. You can see so much further when you let in all the different possibilities. She offers a simple visual to try. Picture the thing you've been calling a problem written on your everyday to-do list. Now picture checking it off. It feels smaller that way, doesn't it? Less like a wall you have to face and more like something that simply needs the right solution. You just have to do a little digging with your curiosity to find it. And sometimes the simplest messages are the ones that land the hardest. No deep spiritual wording, no long explanation. Just something you already know, said plainly enough that you finally hear it. Reflection questions to sit with this week: What problem have you been treating as bigger than it needs to be? If you got curious about it instead of anxious about it, what's the first question you'd ask? What would it feel like to check that thing off your list? Three Key Takeaways Facing something head-on doesn't have to mean bracing for a fight. Boar's message is about digging in with confidence and curiosity, not force. You're looking for the solution, not the battle. Curiosity widens the view. When you move from anxiety into curiosity, you let in possibilities your rational mind had already ruled out. That's often where the actual solution has been waiting. Shrinking the problem changes how you meet it. Picturing a difficulty as a single item on your to-do list, something you can check off, takes it from overwhelming to workable. If you're just beginning to notice that something is shifting in you, whether that's synchronicities showing up, old patterns surfacing, or a quiet pull toward something you can't quite name yet, I'm putting together something just for you. If you want to go deeper with oracle cards and intuition as a total beginner, join the founding member priority list at oraclemornings.com/intuition . Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

I have been feeling stuck lately. Stuck in a few different areas of life, and with that stuckness has come a return of some old patterns I worked really hard to release. If you have been walking a spiritual or healing path for a while, you know how discouraging that can feel. You catch yourself acting the way you used to act, and a little voice asks whether any of it worked at all. Here is what I keep coming back to. The fact that I can see the pattern this time is not a small thing. That awareness is the change. The bigger shift is still happening, even when the surface looks familiar. So I turned to a deck I save for exactly these moments, the Kali Oracle by Alana Fairchild . I think of this one as a shadow deck. Kali is very good at pressing on the things we would rather leave alone, and she does it without cruelty. She just refuses to let us look away. The card that came through is Matangi, the ninth of the wisdom goddesses. She is the tantric queen of outcasts, and her message is for anyone who has been discarded, disrespected, overlooked, or told in some quiet way that they were not quite worthy. She sees value where nobody else thought to look. She lives outside the walls of polite society on purpose, and she thrives there. What struck me most is her promise around toxic patterns. If you have been feeling at the mercy of another person or a situation, Matangi says the power to claim your energy back already lives inside you. Not somewhere out there. Inside you. She helps you shed what belongs to other people so you can feel like yourself again. She also carries the power of the voice. Poetry, speaking, writing, singing, words used in a way that can genuinely shift how another person feels. Some traditions call that spell casting. Matangi asks that we use that power to honor rather than to diminish, and she is especially clear that her blessings do not grow where the feminine is torn down. If today's reading finds you in a season of feeling like the outsider, sit with this one. You are not failing at belonging. You may simply be building a way to belong that does not ask you to leave yourself behind. Take a breath. Then take another. And if this message hits somewhere tender, come back and listen again. Reflection questions to sit with this week: Where in your life do you feel at the mercy of another person or situation, and what would it look like to take one piece of that energy back? Which old pattern has resurfaced lately, and what feels different about the way you are seeing it this time? Where have you been shrinking to fit somewhere you were never meant to fit? 3 Key Takeaways Returning to an old pattern is not the same as losing your progress. Noticing the pattern while you are inside it is new, and that awareness is the growth. Matangi finds worth in what others discard. If you have felt rejected, unseen, or labeled as too much or not enough, this card offers dignity and repair rather than a fix. You are not at anyone's mercy. The power to reclaim your own energy from a draining person or situation already lives in you, and it does not require permission, purification, or a perfect practice. New Program: Founding Member Priority List I am building something for beginners who want to learn to read oracle cards and trust their own intuition, and I would love for you to be part of the first group. Add your name to the founding member priority list at oraclemornings.com/intuition to hear about it first. New to all of this and not sure where to begin? Grab my free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening, at oraclemornings.com/awakening . It is a simple, no jargon place to start. Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Amanda opens this Monday episode with a tender personal update. After the sudden loss of her father-in-law, the person who held their family together, she's been leaning fully into grief and family time, and her usual projects took a back seat. So today she's sharing two card pulls instead of one. First, she draws Summer from Kyle Gray's Angels & Ancestors Oracle deck , a message she feels came straight from her father-in-law: bask in the joy and light of this season, don't rush toward fall, and keep showing up for the people and moments you love. Then, for her monthly August pull, she draws Deer from the 13 Holy Nights Oracle by Lara J Day, a reminder to slow down and root into present-moment awareness. Amanda shares a grounding breath practice for anxiety and overwhelm, and reflects on how presence can dissolve the frantic, go-go-go feeling so many of us carry. She closes with an update on a new program she's building for oracle-card-curious beginners who want to reconnect with their own intuition, and how to join the priority list to become a founding member. 3 Key Takeaways: Grief and joy can live in the same season. Amanda's father-in-law passed suddenly, and the Summer card felt like his own reminder not to stop living fully, even while grieving. You don't have to choose one feeling over the other. Presence dissolves overwhelm. The Deer card's message, paired with a simple grounding breath practice, is a reminder that the anxious, spiraling feeling of "what should I do next" loosens its grip the moment you arrive in your body and your surroundings. A new beginner-friendly oracle card program is coming . Amanda is opening a small founding group later this summer to teach a five-minute daily oracle card and journaling practice designed to rebuild trust in your own intuition. RESOURCES If this episode resonated and you're new to this whole spiritual awakening thing, Amanda has a free guide just for you: 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening. 👉 oraclemornings.com/awakening Also mentioned in this episode: Amanda is opening the priority list for her new oracle card program for beginners, a small founding member group launching late August or early September. Join the priority list at oraclemornings.com/intuition or email hello@oraclemornings.com to be added. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Want to build a daily reflection habit? Grab The Daily Oracle Journal: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Amanda's been away from the mic for a few days after the sudden loss of her father-in-law, the true glue of her husband's family. In this quieter, more reflective episode, she opens up about grief, empathy, and what it means to keep choosing your future even when the present feels hard. She pulls the card Manifesting the Future from The Empath's Oracle by Raven Digitalis , and unpacks how manifestation isn't just hoping for something better, it's the daily practice of noticing your reactions and choosing, again and again, not to stay stuck in victimhood. She also shares that Oracle Mornings will shift to one episode a week for a little while so you have more time to sit with each message. Take a deep breath, and let this one hold you. Three Key Takeaways Manifestation isn't just hoping and wishing, it's feeling into what you want as if it's already safe to receive, which trains your nervous system to accept it. Your past isn't a life sentence; it's a foundation. Every present moment becomes a building block for what comes next, so how you respond right now matters. The real turning point in grief or hardship isn't avoiding the victim mindset entirely, it's learning to recognize the pattern when it shows up and choosing to move beyond it. Not sure if what you're feeling lately is a spiritual awakening or something else entirely? Grab my free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening , and start making sense of it. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Continue the daily practice with The Daily Oracle Journal: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

If you've ever felt like you used to be creative, back before life, career, or conditioning got in the way, this episode is for you. This week's card pull is The Seven Star Sisters, from Rebecca Campbell's Starseed Oracle . It's a card about birthing creations, about the beauty that's yearning to be woven through you right now. Amanda talks about why we lose touch with our creative nature in the first place, especially living in a culture that treats careers as more important than expression, and how creativity and intuition are actually two sides of the same coin. She also shares how getting into flow can quiet the noise of anxiety and overthinking, and opens up a little about a new program she's building rooted in using oracle cards as a daily practice. If you've been feeling something stirring, something wanting to come through you again, this episode is your gentle nudge to pay attention. Key Takeaways Creativity and intuition come from the same place. When you're in flow, there's less room for anxiety and overwhelm to take hold. Losing touch with creativity often comes from conditioning, culture, and the pressure to prioritize career over expression, not a lack of creativity itself. Amanda is in the early stages of building a new offer around using oracle cards as a daily practice, with founding member spots opening soon. Not sure if what you're feeling is a spiritual awakening or something else? Grab this free guide to help you recognize the signs. 👉 Get your free guide here Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Grab your copy of The Daily Oracle Journal: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Have you ever caught yourself thinking, "I'll start when I'm ready"? When you're more healed, more confident, more figured out? Friend, this episode is for you. Today we're talking about the myth of arrival, the idea that there's some finished version of you waiting at the end of all your inner work. There isn't. The becoming is the life. And the vision or idea that's stirring in your heart came to you now for a reason, not for some future, more evolved version of you. We explore why action leads to clarity (not the other way around), why "my best self" can quietly become another form of self-rejection, and the one question to journal on this week: What would I do today if I trusted that I was already enough to begin? Then we pull Our Lady of Blessing Bestowed from the Mother Mary Oracle by Alana Fairchild, a beautiful reminder that a blessing is being offered to you right now. It may shake things up. It may not feel safe or easy. But something larger than you knows it's time. 3 Key Takeaways There is no finished version of you waiting at the end of the work. Becoming is not a destination, it's an evolution. By the time you near one goal, you've already grown toward the next one. Your life is the becoming itself. Action creates confidence, not the other way around. Action leads to clarity, clarity leads to more action, and courage builds along the way. You don't have to feel ready to begin. You become ready by beginning. A blessing doesn't always feel safe or easy. Real growth can feel like being cracked open. That discomfort is often a sign you're outgrowing a past that's too small for your soul's future. Trust the timing. Wondering if what you're feeling is the start of something bigger? Download my free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening , and get clarity on what's stirring inside you. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Deepen your daily practice with The Daily Oracle Journal: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Good morning, friends. This episode opens with a relatable Monday moment: Amanda shares how she had to make a choice about how to show up for the week, even after a beautiful afternoon at the beach turned into a full case of the Mondays. Because here's the truth — your week doesn't just happen to you. You get to decide how you step into it. From there, we move into a card reading that Amanda didn't prepare for in advance. She came in open, not knowing what the Elder was going to bring, and what came through felt like a direct message. Amanda pulls the Elder card from Angels and Ancestors Oracle Cards by Kyle Gray — a card about ancestral healing, lineage, and the profound power of creating your own story. The Elder carries the energy of a reclamation of power: when he appears, it's an acknowledgment that you have the capacity to move beyond the limitations that have been placed on you. If your family handed you expectations about success, failure, sadness, or even sickness, this card is a gentle but clear reminder that those stories don't have to be yours to carry. What makes this message so powerful is the scope of it. The healing you do for yourself isn't just for you. It ripples backward through every generation that came before you, and forward through every generation that comes after. You are currently the dream of your ancestors, and the freedom you claim is a gift to your entire family constellation, past, present, and future. So, what story were you handed that was never actually yours? This might be your moment to write a new one. New to the spiritual path, or feeling like your soul might be awakening? Amanda created a free guide just for you: 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening . It's a gentle, no-pressure starting place for anyone curious about what's stirring inside them. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Has an idea been quietly knocking on your heart lately? Maybe it comes through in meditation, on a walk, or first thing in the morning, and it feels a little too exciting to be real. In this episode, we sit with that feeling. Amanda shares a personal moment from her own morning journaling, when a new project idea arrived and she turned to her cards for reflection, not for a yes or a no, but for validation and perspective. The card pulled is The Word Wants to Be Written from the Sacred Rebels Oracle by Alana Fairchild. Its message is a permission slip: what you're dreaming of creating is natural for you. That's why you want to do it. The real work isn't in searching for your path, it's in getting out of the way, releasing the layers of shame from old conditioning, and letting your true self come through. The card also includes a beautiful healing process you can practice daily, and Amanda walks you through it in the episode. Here's the core theme to carry with you this week: your clarity will follow your actions. Listen for the small nudges, carve out even 15 minutes a day, and start there. Key Takeaways: If an idea keeps returning to you, pay attention. Recurring nudges are often your intuition pointing toward what you're meant to create next. Clarity follows action. You don't need the whole plan before you begin, just small consistent steps, even 15 minutes a day for two weeks. Shame is an emotion, not a truth. Releasing old conditioning about who you were taught to be is what frees your natural creativity to come through. 🌱 New to your spiritual journey? Download my free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening , to help you recognize what's stirring within you. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! 📖 The Daily Oracle Journal: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

This week's episode opens with an honest moment: Amanda shares why she gave herself permission to skip Thursday's episode, and why protecting your energy is sometimes the most aligned choice you can make, even when you love what you're building. From there, we step into the energy of July, a month so many are calling a turning point. Rather than asking us to push harder, July invites us to slow down, go inward, and see what wants to come through. If your old ways of doing things no longer fit, you are not alone. This month is about releasing what you've outgrown, staying open to unexpected opportunities, and remembering that the greatest transformations often begin quietly. Amanda pulls the Ram card from The 13 Holy Nights Oracle by Lara J Day, a powerful message about courage, the spiral of evolution, and bringing your ideas into the world. Ram reminds us that the biggest obstacles on our path are usually our own fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs, and that facing a challenge head on often reveals a way through we couldn't see before. So, what's that thing your heart keeps bringing up to you? This might be your month to follow it. 3 Key Takeaways Patience is active, not passive. July asks us to slow down and go inward, and that slowing down is exactly what creates space for clarity. Inner transformation comes first, and external opportunities tend to follow. Follow the little nudges. You may not see the whole path ahead this month, and that's okay. Those small nudges are painting your next steps, one at a time. Let them through. Your biggest obstacles are usually internal. The Ram card reminds us that fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs block our path more than any outside circumstance, and that meeting them with courage reveals a way through that was invisible from your old vantage point. New to the spiritual path, or feeling like your soul might be awakening? Amanda created a free guide just for you: 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening . It's a gentle, no-pressure starting place for anyone curious about what's stirring inside them. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Deepen your daily practice with The Daily Oracle Journal: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

This Monday morning oracle reading features not one, not two, but three cards — because sometimes the deck has a lot to say. Pulling from the Spirit Animal Pocket Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid , Amanda works with Hawk Spirit, Squirrel Spirit, and Mouse Spirit. Each card carries its own message, and together they build something really beautiful: first, pay attention to the signs and synchronicities the universe is already sending you. Then, believe in yourself enough to take the next step. And finally, don't overlook the small things, because the details matter more than you think. This is a short, grounding episode to ease into your week with a little spiritual clarity. 3 Key Takeaways: Spirit is always communicating with you. Hawk Spirit is a reminder to stay open to signs, synchronicities, and meaningful coincidences. The universe is reaching out repeatedly. Your job is to pay attention. You already have what you need. Squirrel Spirit shows up to remind you that the wisdom and experience you've gathered are real, they're yours, and they're enough. Belief in yourself is the bridge between where you are and where you're going. The small things are not small. Mouse Spirit asks you to slow down and tend to the nuances: the quiet inner voice, the subtle signs in your relationships, the fine print of how you show up. What seems minor could be the key to everything. If this reading stirred something in you and you're wondering whether you might be at the beginning of a spiritual awakening, I created something just for you. Grab my free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening, and start making sense of what you're experiencing. Download it here: oraclemornings.com/awakening ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Want to deepen your daily oracle practice? The Daily Oracle Journal is a beautiful companion for your readings: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Ever have an idea hit you on a walk, in the shower, or driving in the car, and then by the time dinner rolls around, you've already talked yourself out of it? Amanda's pulling over in a parking lot to talk about exactly that. She's sitting with a new idea of her own (one that beautifully marries her real estate background with her spiritual work) and noticing how fast the what-ifs try to shut it down. She shares three ways to keep your vision alive: sitting with it from the heart instead of the mind, returning to your why when fear creeps back in, and sharing the idea with someone you trust instead of keeping it locked inside your head. Then she pulls the Snake card from the 13 Holy Nights Oracle by Lara J Day , a beautiful message about shedding old patterns, releasing toxic baggage, and learning to let life's bumps and bruises move through you instead of lodging inside you. 3 Key Takeaways Your best ideas come from presence, not your phone. Notice where you were when the idea showed up. It probably wasn't while scrolling. Protect that kind of stillness on purpose. Fear shows up with very specific questions. What if no one finds me, what if I don't know enough, what if I can't figure it out. Naming them takes away some of their power. Returning to your why gives you the bird's-eye view. When you're in the weeds of building something new, zooming out to remember your original reason for starting helps the next step feel less overwhelming. If this episode is stirring something in you, you might be in the middle of a bigger shift than you realize. Take the free quiz, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening , and see what's actually happening beneath the surface. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Looking for a daily practice to go with mornings like this one? Grab The Daily Oracle Journal on Amazon or Lulu . Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

This week's reading landed in the most beautiful, timely way. We just passed the summer solstice, and the card that came through is the Air Guardian from Kyle Gray's Angels & Ancestors Oracle Cards , with the message: shift your perception. Air, in oracle and spiritual tradition, governs the mind, our thoughts, and the stories we tell ourselves. And if you've been feeling stuck, unclear, or like opportunities keep passing you by, this card gently asks: what if the way you've been thinking has something to do with that? This isn't about toxic positivity or forcing yourself to "just think good thoughts." It's about building awareness, having compassion for the patterns that were wired in long before you had any say in the matter, and taking one small step toward a different perspective. Amanda also shares a simple practice to get started: gratitude as a daily reset, and the question she asks her own kids when they're being hard on themselves: Would you ever say that to your little cousin? Sometimes the kindest reframe is that simple. 3 Key Takeaways: Your thoughts shape your experience. The Air Guardian card reminds us that the way we perceive our circumstances directly influences what we attract and what we're able to receive. Shifting your thinking isn't a quick fix, but it is the foundation. Gratitude is a practical tool, not a platitude. Starting with genuine gratitude, whether through journaling or taking a quiet moment to feel appreciation for the people and things you love, is one of the most accessible ways to begin rewiring negative thought patterns. Compassion is the first step, not the last. Old thought patterns didn't form overnight, and they won't dissolve overnight either. Recognizing them with kindness rather than frustration is how real change begins. Talk to yourself the way you'd speak to someone you deeply love. Not sure where to begin with your spiritual practice? Download the free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening, and learn how to recognize what's already unfolding in you. Grab it here ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Want to take this week's message deeper? The Daily Oracle Journal is a beautiful companion for exactly this kind of reflective work. Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

In today's Monday morning oracle card reading, Amanda explores how to trust yourself during times of uncertainty, embrace personal growth, and move through life changes one step at a time. Inspired by her dog Zelda, Amanda pulls from the Divine Dog Wisdom Cards and receives the message Breakthrough: Be Bold—a powerful reminder that sometimes the greatest growth happens when we're willing to step beyond what feels familiar and trust the unknown. If you've been feeling called toward a new chapter, questioning old patterns, or sensing that life is asking you to grow in a new direction, this episode is for you. Card Pulled: Breakthrough: Be Bold From the Divine Dog Wisdom Cards by Barb Horn and Randi Kreger This card reminds us that breakthroughs often begin when we recognize that we have more choices than we thought. Sometimes growth requires us to leave behind old beliefs, old stories, or paths that no longer feel aligned. The unknown can feel uncomfortable, but it may also be the doorway to greater freedom, joy, and authenticity. In this episode: How to trust yourself when change feels scary Why breakthroughs often require courage and uncertainty Letting go of old perspectives that no longer serve you Navigating life transitions with greater confidence Learning to trust the unknown one step at a time What happens when you choose a path that feels more aligned with who you're becoming Why personal growth sometimes requires disappointing expectations—your own or someone else's Reflection Questions: 1. Where do you need to be bold in welcoming a breakthrough? 2. Are you holding back because of fear, or are you ready to put one paw in front of the other and step into the unknown? 3. What feels more painful right now: the risk of changing, or the risk of staying exactly where you are? 4. What new perspective is beginning to open up for you? Take a few moments today to journal, reflect, or simply sit with whatever arises. Are you feeling like something is waking up inside you, but you're not quite sure what to call it yet? My free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening, might be exactly what you need right now. Grab it at oraclemornings.com/awakening . ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here !Looking for a way to take your oracle card practice deeper? The Daily Oracle Journal is a beautiful companion for your morning reflection practice. 📖 Grab your copy: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

Have you ever been sitting in a perfectly good moment — coffee in hand, everything around you looking fine — and still felt this quiet, inexplicable sense that something is just... off? Not sad. Not anxious. Just off. And you couldn't explain it even if you tried. In this episode, Amanda gets into exactly that feeling. The one that doesn't come with a clear reason. The one that shows up even when life looks good on the outside. And the one that a lot of us quietly carry around, wondering what's wrong with us. Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you. That feeling is information. And in this episode, you'll learn how to start listening to it. Amanda covers: Why "something feels off" isn't a malfunction — it's your inner knowing trying to get your attention How this feeling often shows up right before a real internal shift begins The one simple, tangible starting point when you don't know where to begin Why slowing down is actually how you speed up your healing and growth For the card pull, Amanda draws from the Kali Oracle by Alana Fairchild — and the card Anahata Kali delivers a message about the power of the heart to heal, grow, and break open into something greater. Even if you've been carrying old pain for a long time. Even if you've built walls. The heart always has a way through. If you've been feeling off lately and didn't know what to do with that feeling — this one is for you. Key Takeaways: "Something feels off" is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is information. Your inner knowing uses discomfort to get your attention — and it's worth listening to. This feeling often arrives right before a real internal shift. You're not falling apart. You might just be outgrowing the version of yourself you've been living as. The starting point is simple: get it out of your head and onto paper. Write what's heavy. A thread will emerge — and that thread is where you begin. Free Resource: Grab your free guide — 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening — a helpful starting point if you've been feeling like something is shifting but you can't quite name it yet. ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Pick up a copy of The Daily Oracle Journal on Amazon or Lulu — a beautiful, structured space for exactly this kind of inner reflection. Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

This Monday, we're pulling from The Starseed Oracle by Rebecca Campbell , and the card that came through is Earth Pulsing. It's a card about the rhythmic pulse of the Mother, the seasons, the tides, the deep and ancient connection we all have to the Earth beneath us. And honestly? For a lot of us, that connection has been quietly severed. Not because we did anything wrong, but because life got loud. Work got long. Screens got bright. And somewhere along the way, we stopped feeling held by the ground we walk on. Amanda shares a simple grounding visualization in this episode that anyone can try, whether you're a seasoned practitioner or you just googled "what is an oracle card" this week. If the idea of connecting with the Earth feels a little woo-woo to you, that's okay. She's got something gentle to say about that too. This is your permission slip to slow down, get outside, and let yourself be received. 3 Key Takeaways: The Earth has a rhythm, and you're part of it. The seasons, the tides, the natural pulse of life on this planet are not separate from you. When we slow down and tune in, we can feel that rhythm again. Feeling disconnected is not a personal failing. Modern life, artificial lighting, long hours, and overstimulation have quietly pulled many of us away from a sense of belonging and support. The card reminds us that the Earth is still here, still waiting. It's never too late to come back. You don't need to have it all figured out to start. Whether you try a barefoot walk, a visualization, or just five minutes outside, something shifts when you consciously choose to reconnect. You don't need to believe it perfectly for it to work. Are you feeling like something is waking up inside you, but you're not quite sure what to call it yet? My free guide, 5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening, might be exactly what you need right now. Grab it at oraclemornings.com/awakening . ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Looking for a way to take your oracle card practice deeper? The Daily Oracle Journal is a beautiful companion for your morning reflection practice. 📖 Grab your copy: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.

5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening is a beautiful companion to everything we explored today. Grab it free at oraclemornings.com/awakening . __________ You've been doing the work. Showing up for your practice, pulling your cards, paying attention to the signs, trying to trust the path. And then something hard happens. Again. And you think — shouldn't this be getting easier? ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! When a spiritual test arrives, one of the most grounding things you can do is reach for your practice. Pull a card. Sit with it. Write down what's moving in you. The Daily Oracle Journal was made for exactly these moments — the hard ones as much as the easy ones. Grab your copy here: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings. This episode is for that moment. We talk about what spiritual tests actually are, why they don't stop as you grow spiritually, and — most importantly — five practical tools you can reach for the next time one arrives. We walk through the most common tests on the spiritual path: the patience test, the boundary test, the old pattern test, the trust test, and the worthiness test. And we give you something specific to do with each one. We pull The Heart's Wisdom from Catherine Maillard's The Medicine Woman Oracle — a deeply tender card about the armor we build over our hearts through hardship, and the invitation to find, once again, the courage to love. The tests don't stop when you wake up. But the way you move through them changes completely. 3 Key Takeaways: Spiritual tests arrive most precisely in the areas where you're growing. They're not punishment — they're confirmation. A test showing up in exactly the area where you've been doing the work isn't a sign that the work isn't happening. It's evidence that it is. The path doesn't get easier as you grow; you get more capable. And the tests evolve to match you. Every spiritual test, at its deepest level, is asking you to choose love over fear. The patience test asks if you can love the process when it's slow. The boundary test asks if you can love yourself enough to hold the line. The worthiness test asks if you can love yourself enough to receive what's meant for you. Love is the thread running through all of it. You don't have to just endure a test — you can work with it. Naming what's happening, asking what skill it's asking you to practice, pulling a card, looking for what's being cleared — these are real tools that shift your relationship to the experience. You move from suffering through a test to learning from it. That shift changes everything.

What if the things you walk past every single day were actually extraordinary, and you just forgot to look? This episode features the Dandelion card from the 13 Holy Nights Oracle by Lara J Day, and it is one of those readings that is simple, potent, and lands exactly when you need it most. We talk about how routine can quietly make us numb, and how gratitude is more than just a feel-good habit. As Dr. Joe Dispenza says, gratitude is the strongest state of receivership. When you're truly grateful, you become a magnet for more things to be grateful for. Amanda also shares a beautiful exercise: spend an afternoon imagining you're a tourist in your own life. What do you notice? What beauty have you been walking past without a second glance? Whether you're new to spiritual practice or have been on this journey for a while, this is a gentle and grounding reminder that the magic is already here, right where you are. 4. Three Key Takeaways Gratitude is a frequency, not just a feeling. When you focus on what you already have with genuine appreciation, you literally match the vibration of more. This is the law of attraction in its most accessible, everyday form. Routine can make us spiritually numb, and there's a simple fix. Try viewing your familiar surroundings like a tourist would. That small shift in perspective can reveal beauty, connection, and wonder you've been overlooking. Wishes are already present in seed form. The Dandelion card reminds us to reflect on how the essence of what we're asking for may already exist in our lives. Acknowledging that is what allows it to grow. Card Pulled: Dandelion from the Deck: 13 Holy Nights Oracle by Lara J Day Are you new here and curious about what a spiritual awakening actually feels like? I created a free guide just for you: "5 Signs You're Beginning a Spiritual Awakening." It's a gentle, beginner-friendly starting place for anyone who has been feeling that quiet pull toward something more. Grab it free at oraclemornings.com/awakening ✨ Stay connected! Sign up for my newsletter here ! Looking for a beautiful way to deepen your daily oracle practice? The Daily Oracle Journal by Amanda Johnson is the perfect companion for your morning ritual. 📓 Get your copy: Amazon | Lulu Note: Some links shared above are affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only share decks and programs I genuinely use and love. Thank you for supporting Oracle Mornings.