Tapping into your intuitive guidance for your business is a powerful skill! Oracle cards are an easy way to get started receiving messages from your intuition, or your Higher Guidance, and also one of my favorite weekly practices to help me stay on track with my business goals.
There are times we can feel like we are stuck, have blind spots, or just want more information and I discovered early on in my awakening that using oracle cards is so helpful when it comes to this.
However, the way I saw most people using them didn’t work as well for me and I want to share the pitfalls I discovered in hopes that it helps you whether you are just starting out or have been using oracle cards for a while.
What are oracle cards?
Oracle cards usually have an image and a message on each and are used to gain insight, get more information, and access your higher wisdom.
They often have a short message on the front of the card accompanied by a longer message in a guidebook.
They are said to be divination tool but are more free flowing and open to interpretation than Tarot cards.
I feel our Higher Self and spirit guides communicate through the cards. It usually mirrors what I am experiencing and offers additional support and insight.
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How most people use oracle cards.
When I first discovered oracle cards, I was early in my awakening and did not understand why I was leaving a high-paying career to pursue blogging which did not seem to be working out for me at the time (you can read more about my story here).
My walls were thumping and knocking, my house felt haunted, my kids were falling apart any time I was on any type of upward trajectory and things would go wrong any time my husband went out of town for work (which was often).
I needed guidance from somewhere and I didn’t know how to “tune in” back then.
I would see people on Facebook going live and pulling oracle cards for their audience, or sharing daily cards in their group, and I started pulling cards for everything.
Every day I would get out one of my decks and see what it had to say.
The problem with this was that I didn’t deepen into the information. I didn’t take time to really understand what I wanted to know and what answers I was receiving.
I also didn’t know how to clear my ego, my energy, or my space before using oracle cards so the messages were all over the place and it wasn’t easy to understand them.
In any case, when I decided I really wanted to use oracle cards as a tool to receive guidance for my greatest good, that is when I stopped to learn how to use them better.
I’m excited to share what I learned about using oracle cards with you now so you can receive guidance any time you are stuck, or as a weekly tool for guidance.
I also share how I use them for business if you’re a spiritual entrepreneur and would like to apply this to your business blocks to skip those upper limits! Or at least stay stuck for less time and move through blocks more quickly. Who doesn’t want that?
Mistakes I see people when using oracle cards.
One of the most important things I learned in Kyle Gray’s Angel Card Mastery Certification Program was to develop a relationship with the cards and not be in such a hurry.
He encouraged us to go through each card in a deck and get familiar with what each one meant for us.
It’s important to note, if you assign meaning to the cards, your guides can deliver messages that way. They will begin to understand how you will interpret the card and that’s what can come through when you see that card.
It’s similar to how psychic mediums learn what symbols spirits use to communicate with them. If they see a suitcase, for example, it may mean “going on a trip” or “this person has baggage”. Psychics often become become familiar with symbols, just like you can have your oracle deck have specific messages for you so you know what it means if you pull that card.
However, I see many people owning numerous decks and pulling the cards for too many decisions per day and I can’t help but wonder if they are getting everything out of it that they can.
When you are first learning to use oracle cards, it’s like building muscles. It takes repetition and attention to detail at first to see progress. Oracle cards are helping with your intuitive muscle in this sense and taking time to ask one question at a time or pull a specific spread to see if you feel it gives you guidance is worth not rushing it.
Once you get good at receiving messages from your deck and understanding when it’s ego or interference, then it makes more sense to pull a card every day if you want to.
I love to pull them at the beginning of each week and leave them up all week long to get the most out of the message and guide my week (I’ll share more in a minute on that!).
While I do own quite a few decks, I will use a new one for several weeks or more until it becomes very familiar and I have a deeper understanding of what it means for me.
In any case, how you use your oracle cards is up to you, but I will share a few tips that have enhanced the relationship to the cards for me if you would like to try them.
The first thing I do when I would like guidance from my higher self and guides and want to use an oracle deck is deciding which deck to use.
For this post, I’m going to be sharing how I use the oracle cards for business so I usually choose from my favorite decks that I feel connect me to my life purpose and help me feel soul-aligned in my business.
To do this, you can hold your deck in one hand and knock it with the other. Be sure to have a good grip so you don’t drop them!
You’re knocking any energy that isn’t yours out of it. Like you’re knocking on a door creating a clean slate.
Infuse your energy into them.
There are many ways to do this but one of the most common is to hold the deck up to your heart and take a moment to connect to it.
Holding it on over your heart is such a warm connection.
Ready to begin!
There are many ways you can use your oracle card deck for guidance. You can ask about a problem you are having or get more information on how your energy is stuck.
The best way to begin is to set an intention before you shuffle the cards.
You can say something like “Thank you cards for revealing what I need to know for my highest and greatest good”, or something along those lines.
If you want to ask a question, take a minute to think of the question while you shuffle the deck.
Then allow the card to reveal information to you. Don’t rush it. If it isn’t clear, pull another card.
Pay close attention to cards that fall out of the deck or that are upside down. These may be trying to get your attention even more!
You can also come up with a weekly spread or use the suggestion of the author in the book that accompanies your cards.
My favorite weekly spread that guides me in my business is a 3-Card Spread.
The first card is my strength that week.
The second card is what my heart wants me to know for the week.
The third card is any challenge I might have so that I can be aware of it and bring my strength to it.
It’s important to note that when you are using oracle cards, intuitive insight should feel positive and helpful.
It should offer a wider perspective or an “aha” moment that helps you move past something you aren’t seeing.
If it feels “off” or unhelpful, it’s likely your ego or your energy is not clear.
Your ego likes to stay safe, which means not changing a thing! However, the more you use oracle cards or other methods to receive your higher guidance the more your ego will settle down and realize it’s okay.
It starts to know that you did this before and it was okay and it becomes part of a routine that will become part of a new normal for your ego.
For your business decisions.
Once you have developed a relationship with your cards, you may also use them for your business when you are stuck on a decision.
But I caution you that sometimes we are so invested in the outcome of the question that we bring bias to the cards and how we interpret them.
I highly recommend you always ask your angels and guides for validation for any decision you are making whether you are receiving intuitive guidance, using the oracle cards, using a pendulum, or are just plain stuck.
This post can help you validate any guidance you receive if you would like more information on how to do that.
Validating the Intuitive Guidance you receive from Intuitive or Automatic Writing is a VERY IMPORTANT step! It’s not hard to do and is worth double-checking that the information you received is for you and is for now (and not later).
Your intuition may come to you in many ways, shapes and sizes. One of my favorite ways is through Automatic Writing or what I also refer to as Intuitive Writing. It’s a process similar to journaling, that most of us do without even knowing it and it’s a great way to receive intuitive wisdom from your Higher Self and guides. You can use it to clear stuck energy and remove energetic blocks and you can also use it much like you would use a pendulum when you’re stuck on a decision.
When people use pendulums they usually ask “yes” or “no” questions and have the pendulum “programmed” so they know what it means when it swings either horizontally or vertically.
The problem I found with the pendulum, and what caused me to crave an alternative solution, is that for me it wasn’t accurate.
It would say “yes” to something but my gut was having a response to say that it wasn’t correct. My authority in Human Design is to have a sacral response (which I didn’t know at the time!) and over time I have learned to trust my gut response, more than anything else.
The pendulum said “yes”, my gut said “no” and my gut proved to be the one who was correct most frequently in the long run.
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Now I use the pendulum as a clearing tool in line with Jean Haner’s Clear Home, Clear Heart process for energy clearing, but I no longer use it as a decision-making tool.
Even if the pendulum does work for you, and I know many of you have success with it, it still doesn’t give more insight than a “yes” or a “no”.
Intuitive / Automatic Writing allows you to go deeper. It allows you to ask questions, get guidance, find out your next step, and heal energy if something is standing between you and your dreams.
But, there’s an important step that comes before “inspired action” that I would love for you to consider adding to your practice if you haven’t already.
And that it is VALIDATING that the information you receive as Intuitive Guidance is correct and is truly meant for you.
In any case, when you receive those Intuitive nudges (or Intuitive information), it’s always a good idea to validate it if it doesn’t require immediate action. Just to make sure the information is for YOU, and for you right now.
What is Inspired Action?
Inspired action is when you receive that divine wisdom from your higher self and spiritual support team and you are inspired to take an action toward your goals.
I think of it as magic advice, the kind of magic that belongs to co-creation and alchemy, where it’s so clear and insightful that you just know that something great will come of it.
This is not to say the advice will make sense!
Often it’s a tiny baby step to a much larger puzzle that years later you can look back and think “Oh! If I hadn’t done that one thing ALL these other things would not have happened.”
Intuitive guidance is often like that (which comes through Intuitive Writing). It’s a nudge, a step, a clue… and on a rare occasion, you get a roadmap of where you are headed so you can set your internal GPS to that coordinate.
Why do you want to validate?
Intuitive Writing isn’t an exact science, especially when you are starting out. It’s similar to tuning the radio on your car to a clear station. Or finding the right spot for your cell phone if the reception is bad.
When my boys were little they had walkie-talkies. They would try to talk to our neighbor in his house but often they couldn’t hear him. Their walkie-talkies had different channels so they would change them around and sometimes we would hear strangers’ conversations!
And sometimes a stranger (or neighbor I guess it must’ve been) would talk through it. They would have to figure out which frequency their friend was on and then leave it on that channel or they couldn’t communicate.
And even then every once and awhile the walkie-talkie would have a strange voice come through out of NOWHERE if they left it on!
Intuitive Writing is like that. If you are perfectly dialed into your Higher Self and guides, you get a clear conversation and can write down (or type!) the wisdom.
But, it could also turn out you have mediumship abilities and someone else’s spirit guides are trying to get a message to them.
Or it could be your ego posing as your Higher Self (this has happened to me many times!), or your inner child may want to share.
Depending on WHO is giving the “inspired action” to you… well, it may not be for you and it may not be for right now.
Your ego, for example, wants to keep you safe. They want you to stay doing what they know, even if it doesn’t feel soul-satisfying. So if you are Automatic Writing or Intuitive Writing and you’ve tuned into your ego, the advice may be to do nothing for a while. Or apply for a “safe” position instead of taking a career risk.
Your ego isn’t likely to say “go for it!” in other words.
It’s important to validate the information you get from writing, just as I took the time to validate that the pendulum wasn’t giving the right input for me.
Here are 3 things you can do before you take inspired action from intuitive guidance:
1. Clear your energy and ground
After a writing session, the first thing I do is ground my energy. I make sure my energy is clear and that I am once again rooted to the earth and not with my head still up in the stars. This is great music on YouTube for grounding that I like to listen to and you can also try the energy clearing meditation found in Intuitive Automatic Writing 101.
Then I’ll look at what I’ve written (or typed!) and ask “Is this for me?” “Is this for my highest and greatest good?”
Clairaudience is my dominant Clair so I’ll usually hear a “yes” or “no”. If it’s a “no”, I will leave it and ask for more clarity in my next writing session as to why not. (Understanding your dominant Clair is a game-changer for Automatic and Intuitive Writing!)
If it’s a “yes”, I will go to the next step.
2. Leave it.
Before you take any action, especially big action, it’s a great idea to just leave things alone for a hot minute.
You’ll have time to take action, but it’s important to understand if you were given the first baby step, or step number 20 when it comes to fulfilling your desires.
Things do not always come through in a logical order or specific timeline. I had a spiritual teacher who received intuitive guidance about an important event she would attend in June. She was so excited for June to come but guess what? It turned out to be a whole year later! Still June but when the thing happened the following year she knew it was exactly as she had imagined it but a whole year later!
I know it seems hard, but write the guidance down and leave it be for a minute, a few days, or a week.
Go out in nature, talk a walk, ponder how it would happen.
Sometimes you want to just jump into action and get things done. I heard a phrase from one of the coaches in Aaron Daughty’s 21-Day Abundance Challenge “Start with your heart, then add your smarts”.
If you get guidance to quit your job, that would likely come from the heart. Your soul knows what you’re meant to do and when you’re off the path.
Adding in the “smarts” would be the follow-up plan. “How can I quit?” “What can I do for money in the meantime?” “Can I create a side hustle while I’m at this job until I have the income to quit?”
You’re also wanting to make sure you were tuned into YOUR frequency. What if “Quit your job” was meant for your best friend and her guides were trying to get that message to her?
It’s important to make sure the information is for you and that you weren’t tuned into a frequency that isn’t for your highest and greatest good at this moment.
It doesn’t have to take long.
3. Ask for signs.
Once I’ve grounded and cleared my energy field, explored “Is this for me?”, I will ask my guides to send 3 signs that I’m meant to take this action.
You can let them surprise you and pay attention to signs. Is a song suddenly stuck in your head or playing every time you get in the car that has lyrics that match your situation? That’s often a sign.
You can ask to find a bird feather in your path, even specify if it’s a white feather or black one. I kid you not, one time when I did this I was sitting and saw a bird hopping on my patio to our doormat where it dropped a feather from its mouth! After I regained my composure out of total disbelief I picked up the feather and marveled how there’s so much more going on in our connections and universe than we know!
Another way this often gets validated is through conversation with others.
Say, for example, you get the message to try acupuncture. Then you’re having a random conversation at the grocery store and someone starts telling you about acupuncture.
Then potentially, you look at the magazine rack and there’s an article on acupuncture. Next thing you know, you find someone’s business card and they are, I know you know what I’m going to say, an Acupuncturist.
Your guides will validate for you and you can also ask, “If this is meant for me, can you tell me which Acupuncturist can most help me?” Or whatever “the thing” is that you got guidance to take inspired action on. Which vacation, which career, which [insert the thing that’s meant for you].
I’d like to add that once you get very in tune with your Higher Self and guides through Intuitive Writing and you learn to work with and not against your ego and inner child, these steps will happen much more quickly.
These days, I get the inspired action and I will leave it for a while to see if it starts to feel urgent.
My intuition will become a small craving and the become a sense of “You have to do this now!” kind of thing.
I still validate and ask for guidance on how, but that’s how I know it’s SUPER aligned is when it feels urgent.
The difference between validating inspired action and taking action if there’s true danger.
I want to make sure I specify that this is not the same as your intuition in extreme situations or when there’s danger. That comes through calm and clear for me in those moments. “Don’t go down that street” or “Turn right here now”…
Don’t take time to validate if there is danger involved or if it’s a quick action when you’re out in the world.
This is for the guidance you receive through Intuitive Writing, not if you are doing something like skiing full speed down a mountain and something tells you to go right or left. That’s a different relationship to your intuition than the one I’m talking about in Intuitive Writing.
Although, in those moments you may get guidance like “Why not start a new business?” That would be a start with your heart and then add your smarts situation. 😉
But when something needs your immediate attention, skip the steps!
I hope this helps you get the most out of Automatic and Intuitive Writing and take those inspired action steps when they come. It’s truly magical when you can align with your soul’s desires and the guidance of your Higher Self. They want what’s best for you and want you to get the most out of life. That includes happiness, pleasure, abundance, and experiencing your life to the fullest.
Writing is a great tool for this and taking the steps after a session will help you skip some of the trial and error of it.
If you would like to learn more about how to use Intuitive Writing as the magical tool that it is, I’m pleased to announce the digital course INTUTIVE WRITING 101 to connect to your Inner Magic! It’s easy to implement, you’ll memorize it in no time and you can begin to feel the difference between interference and being a CLEAR CHANNEL. It’s a great first step!
Grounding! We need to chat about this. It seems more prevalent lately and I highly encourage you to try these easy hacks to get back into alignment.
Not feeling grounded energetically affects your safety and your intuition! It’s super quick to get back to being present and I’m sharing how you can do that in a pinch.
This episode is for you if:
You’ve been noticing that you are forgetting things (like locking the door, closing the garage, etc.)
You feel a little spacey
You notice people around you are almost running you over in the parking lot
You need to be more present on the roads these days.
Or… any other way you’ve been experiencing not feeling fully present in your life.
Highlights you won’t want to miss:
Why it’s essential to be grounded and “in your body”.
How to get out of your head and back down to earth.
Signs you’re not grounded.
How being “ungrounded” affects your intuition.
An easy way to get back in alignment.
Boundaries you can set to help you be more present.
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Nate Ortiz had a rough start! He was born to a drug-addicted mom with heroin in his system. After rehabbing as an infant, it left him with physical ailments to the point where doctors didn’t think he would ever walk or speak normally and he would need a full-time aid.
But not Nate! When you hear his inspiring story there is NO WAY you can deny the power that belief and inspired action have in our lives.
When I first heard Nate Ortiz on the Highest Self Podcast, I knew I had to have him as a guest! I reached out to him before I even had a podcast and was so excited when he said “yes”.
This episode is so inspiring because his manifestation process validates so many things I’ve been sharing with you on this podcast – and his is 10X’d!
If he can be in a situation where he wasn’t expected to walk, definitely wasn’t expected to go on and play Division 1 football, be a motivational speaker and physical trainer, then I know that anyone can create change.
I can’t wait for you to listen in on his journey, his manifestation process, and his tips for how you can do this too.
Highlights you won’t want to miss:
Nate’s background with being born with heroin in his system, having to stay in the hospital for months, leaving him feeling unsafe with an activated nervous system and physical ailments.
Nate felt like he had no control over his body as if his “wiring system was tangled”.
How an obsession with “Why” began to allow him to create change in his life.
A turning point in Nate’s life had to do with a form of writing that he calls “dream mapping” (similar to what I call “intuitive writing”).
Manifestation – how Nate does it and how we’re all different.
Nate shares how to listen to what he calls “Life’s Compass” to manifest and adjust your actions to reach your dreams.
Energy blocks can happen based your area and the people you’re around.
Nate Ortiz is a writer, celebrity life and health coach, retreat leader, workshop leader, podcast host, social media influencer (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram), and public speaker. His television appearances include Pix11 News and Hollywood All Access. He is the lifestyle coach people call when they want to turn a new leaf and need the push to make it happen.
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Being able to use your intuition at work is the most highly beneficial thing you can do!
Why would you want to be cut off from your higher wisdom and your zone of genius? You wouldn’t!
The reason I want to talk about intuition at work, in particular, is because other people and processes are usually part of your ability to implement your intuitive hits and often have to be included in your decision-making process.
It’s not the same as if you’re a solopreneur or run your own company and you can connect to your intuition and implement the guidance at will.
Learning to trust your intuition and have more confidence in it, will help you know when to go to bat for one of your ideas and when to let it go.
I share all of this and more in this jam-packed episode on learning to trust your intuition at work.
Highlights you won’t want to miss:
What can hinder you from following your intuition at work?
The time I wanted to change one form at a large company to make it more efficient.
What to do when your decision-making process is impacted by other people (co-workers or processes!)
What is Intuition and “intuitive downloads”?
Your intuition contains your Zone of Genius!
Learning to trust your intuition and be a clear channel for it.
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