ORACULAR SKILLS
Living with the Unappreciated Gifts
A very happy May Day to you all!
HOW WE UNDERSTAND THE UNSEEN
In this interview/conversation between myself and Liane of Wild Sovereign Soul, I look at the oracular gifts that sit outside what culture currently honours. Whether it be the everyday instinct that tells you to take your umbrella, to the individuals who have what is called ‘the second sight’, and which is actually a poor translation from the Gaelic ‘an dha shealleadh’ - or ‘the two seeings at once,’ we are using those unappreciated skills that keep us alive.
I am looking at oracular practice across cultures, how divination has always lived at the heart of serious decision-making, and what it actually means to receive truth on behalf of another person, including what to pass on, what to withhold, and how the transmission itself can harm when handled without care.
All gifts have contracts and small-print, and we don’t examine these very often, but they are what keep the gift in a good place.
Our young people don’t have any support or fostering education that could help them, and yet many people grow up with skills and aptitudes that -were they sports-related or artistic in nature - we would be rushing to place them with expert teachers in good of education and practice.
The world tends to looks at divination and the oracular skills as ‘airy-fairy nonsense:’ however, when it is done from a place of true balance, getting ourselves out of the way of it, is the service of the truth. So how we are with these gifts , and how can we work with them is a responsibility whereby we have to discern and report the truth as well as giving it to the recipient in such a way that the hearer can helpfully receive it.
In the video below we look at:
Why the gifts we now treat as peripheral were once the practical centre of how communities survived and made decisions
How to ask a question that the oracle can actually answer, and why the wrongly-phrased question can give you misleading responses.
What happens when someone with real sight passes on only what serves, and keeps back what doesn't
The bottom line of this work, is that every human being has instincts and insights - we have not been taught to honour them. But in difficult times, let us please foster these and pay attention to them, without being precious about them, without trying to score points, and with total respect for those who benefit from them.
My book, The Art of Celtic Seership, covers many of the skills in this course from the perspective of the Sister Islands of Britain and Ireland. It is available on both sides of the Atlantic.
https://www.hallowquest.org.uk/product.php?id=112&pageid=5165
Depending on when my knee operation happens, I will be offering my course AUGURY AND INSPIRATION a residential course on developing our oracular and divinatory skills from the traditional observation of nature again next year.
The new Substack Course THE ART OF NATURAL PRAYER has just started for paid subscribers. This is a new course which has appeared nowhere else and has been written especially for this platform. It is designed to help people of spirit, who are not necessarily card-carrying adherents of any religion, to practically enter their own spiritual landscape and prayer life, from the perspective of a world citizen.