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Omorka Worldreader
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Teacher, polytheist, backing vocalist, jotter, geek. She/any.
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Today’s Oracle card: Elderflower. Where are power and nourishment hidden in plain sight? What are the common things you find everywhere that still have the potency to give you strength and enjoyment?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a twig of a Sambucus species, probably Sambucus nigra or Sambucus canadiensis, with greenish-grey lined bark, leaves with five pointed green leaflets with gently serrated edges, and tiny white blossoms in an umbrella-like cluster. Below is the phrase “ELDERFLOWER” in bold type and the words “rebirth - joy - rest” in smaller type.
August 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Today’s Oracle card: Eucalyptus. How do you grow and thrive where you’re planted, even if it’s someplace foreign and unknown to you? How do you find a place for yourself in strange, even harsh, territory?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a twig of an ornamental Eucalyptus species, possibly a cultivar of Eucalyptus gunnii, with smooth reddish-brown bark and oval grey-green leaves with a powdery finish. Below is the phrase “EUCALYPTUS” in bold type and the words “reconciliation - alleviation - purity” in smaller type.
August 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Today’s Oracle card: Black Tea. What is it that wakes you? What leads you to look within, whether for insight or for inner strength?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a coppery-pink teacup with a somewhat tulip-like shape and zodiacal constellations painted on it in white, filled with a dark brown, steaming brew. Underneath the handle are two dark green fresh Camellia sinensis leaves and a small pile of fully fermented and dried black tea leaves. Below is the phrase “BLACK TEA” in bold type and the words “grounding - strength - expelling negativity” in smaller type.
August 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Today’s Oracle card: Ginger. How do you establish your boundaries, and how do you determine when it is time to step outside of them? How do you create your safe spaces, and how do you enforce keeping them safe and healthy?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a Zingiber officinale plant, in bloom, with an orange-brown rhizome, dark green stalks with narrow pointed leaves, and a large tuft-shaped inflorescence with a yellow base shading to red. Below it is the word “GINGER ” in bold type and the words “manifesting - personal power - retribution” in smaller type.
August 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Today’s Oracle card: Hibiscus. Where are you focusing your desires? How are you balancing your energy for creating the things you want versus for preventing the things you don’t want? When are you exercising your discernment to distinguish passing fancies from true passions?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a twig from a plant in the Hibiscus genus, possibly Hibiscus x Rosa-sinensis, in bloom, with a sturdy brownish-green woody stem, teardrop-shaped green leaves with deep veins and serrated edges, and a large red five-petaled flower with a prominent red pistil. Below it is the word “HIBISCUS” in bold type and the words “passion - lust - freedom” in smaller type.
August 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Today’s Oracle card: Dandelion. What cracks do you grow through? How are you spreading your thoughts, ideas, and energies to the next place they can take root and flourish, no matter how small?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a Taraxacum officinale plant in bloom, with a cluster of long serrated dark green leaves, tall light green flower stalks, and cheery yellow disc-shaped flowers. Below it is the word “DANDELION” in bold type and the words “resilience - transformation - wishes” in smaller type.
August 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Today’s Oracle Deck card: Fennel. What have you outlasted? What do you intend to outlive, and how do you celebrate that?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a bulb of Foeniculum vulgare in bloom, with a white oblong bulb, thick green stalks, dome-like clusters of fluffy-looking, tiny yellow-white flowers, and feather-like leaves made of short, narrow, forked filaments. Below it is the word “FENNEL” in bold type and the words “longevity - victory - confidence” in smaller type.
August 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Today’s Oracle Card: Oolong Tea. How do you protect your equilibrium? When can you take a moment to contemplate and internalize instead of reacting? How do you remain aware without lapsing into hypervigilance?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a white teacup with a blue border, crescent moon, and stars, filled with steaming yellow-khaki tea. Under the handle of the cup is a pile of greenish-brown dried tea leaves that have been rolled into loose balls. Below is the phrase “OOLONG TEA” in bold type and the words “reflection - wisdom - emotional balance” in smaller type.
August 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Today’s Oracle Deck card: Lemon Balm. What are you doing to attract your community to yourself? Who supports you, and whom do you support? When you take the first steps out of your safe zone, what and whom do you lean on?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a sprig of Melissa officinalis in bloom, with tiny pale-pink blossoms springing from the leaf nodes, and ovoid fuzzy green leaves with serrated edges. Below it is the word “LEMON BALM” in bold type and the words “attraction - friendship - success” in smaller type.
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Today’s Oracle deck pull: Chamomile. How are you getting your rest? Who and what allow you to unwind and recuperate? How are you supporting others in getting healing rest when it is needed?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a sprig of Matricaria chamomilla in bloom, with daisy-like blossoms made of yellow discs and white petals, and many-branched, feathery green leaves. Below it is the word “CHAMOMILE” in bold type and the words “healing - love - peace” in smaller type.
August 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Today’s Oracle Deck pull: Cloves. What are you actively working to preserve in your environment and your surroundings? What forces, communities, ecosystems, and people are acting to preserve and enrich you?
An off-white Oracle card with a thin gold border. Inside the border is a twig of Syzygium aromaticum in bloom, with bright pink buds, small yellow blossoms, and glossy green leaves with pointed tips. Below it are several whole cloves. Below both is the word “CLOVES” in bold type and the words “protection - prosperity - courage” in smaller type.
August 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: Major XV, the Devil. What holds you in suspense? How are you complicit in your own bonds, and how do you resist being tied in place? When is being bound a positive - or at least comfortable - experience?
A tarot card in shades of red, pink, black, and deep blue on a black background. At the top is the Roman numeral XV; at the bottom are the words “the devil”. In the foreground, a nude white figure with red hair, a red halo, and red wings gestures with a crooked finger. In the background, cross-crossing lengths of chain suspend two nude blue figures entangled in more chains. There are red roses in the upper right and lower left corner.
November 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: the Knight of Coins. How do you focus your physical resources to enrich your personal environment? Do you focus on what you desire more of, or on appreciating and making the best use of what is already there around you?
A tarot card in shades of green, yellow, and violet. A young man in profile against a low wall gazes at a coin bearing a single star held in his right hand. A celestial body shines behind him above abstract treetops; in the foreground flowers obscure his legs from mid-thigh down. At the top of the card are the letter KN; at the bottom is the word “coins”.
November 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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Tonight’s Full Moon Oracle. Where does it hurt? Is the pain productive? If it is, how do you work through it? If it isn’t, what do you need to start healing from it? If you don’t know, what is the pain telling you?
A black-and-white oracle deck card with an image of a leg bone inside an oval inside a triangle. At the top is a Roman numeral VI; At the bottom is the text “One day, you realized your wounds helped you to heal”.
April 24, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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Okay, having decks in three different places was getting to me. Here’s 39 decks in one bin. (One is at school and the Tapestry Tarot has gone walkabout somewhere; it will be added to the bin when it turns back up.)
Hopefully now that I have gotten organized we can return to the daily pull.
A transparent plastic tub containing an assortment of Tarot and oracle decks in their original boxes, in wooden boxes, in canvas zipper bags, and in hand-crocheted bags.
November 28, 2023 at 5:18 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: the Eight of Wands. What moment have you been preparing for? An opportunity presents itself - if not now, when?
A Tarot card on a reading cloth. The card has a white border with the label “8 Wands” in the bottom band. The image bears eight thorny branches, each ending in an open hand, radiating from a central sunburst with an eye. A beam of light emanates from the palm of each hand. Behind the sunburst is an orange and brown background reminiscent of woven flames.
November 16, 2023 at 5:49 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: the 4 of Disks (Pentacles). What are you holding on to? What do you feel only you can support, hold up, or take care of? What have you given up in your life to hold onto this? Are there other supports you could use, either to set it down for good, or just to take a break?
A Tarot card on a reading cloth. The card has a white border with the label “4 Disks” in the bottom border. In the image, a muscular figure with skin that reflects the earth and sky rises between four stone blocks marked with the alchemical symbols for the four elements in the middle of a labyrinth of pavement stones. The figure’s face is obscured by the orb they bear up, containing a kaleidoscopic image of trees and clouds surmounted by a castle. Behind the figure in the distance rise the sheer walls of a canyon.
November 15, 2023 at 5:05 AM
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Today’s Oracle draw: Waxing Gibbous 5. What do you need to be concentrating on? Is that what currently draws your focus? How can you align your attention with your needs and your goals?
An oracle card in an acrylic holder. The card is covered with a starfield. At the top is the number 14; at the bottom are the labels “Waxing Gibbous 5” and “Focus”. In the image, a dark-complexioned person with frosted eyeshadow and lip gloss stands in a bubble of clear water that covers their face to eye level. The upper half of the bubble is filled with light that spills out into thr starfield, accompanied by smaller bubbles. A blue, black, and white butterfly sits on the person’s forehead with a lens flare at the tip of its left wing. In the upper right is a waxing gibbous moon.
November 14, 2023 at 5:24 AM
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Today’s Oracle draw: Dark Matter. What do you know must be out there, influencing your life, but is imperceptible to you? How do forces beyond your ability to perceive them affect you in ways that you *do* perceive? How do you move with the invisible? Do you accept it, fight it, or embrace it?
An oracle card in an acrylic holder. The card has a white border with a thick bottom band, containing the labels “Dark Matter” and “Mystery”. The image on the card is a Hubble Infrared Deep Field image of many distant galaxies, most barely more than fuzzy dots; a few brighter and larger ones are clear elliptical or have faintly visible spiral arms.
November 13, 2023 at 5:42 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: the Daughter (Page) of Swords. What ideas are you excited about? What actions are you taking to bring those ideas into being? How are you harnessing your personal talents and needs to create your ideas, and how are you working with what is already in your environment?
A round Tarot card in an acrylic holder. The card has a white border with the labels “Daughter” and “Swords” at the top and bottom respectively, and a copyright notice at the left.on a yellow-dun background, a woman in Greek-style armor holds a bronze sword above her head as a breeze blows her blonde hair straight backwards. She stands on three large brown rocks. A whirlwind spins above her head; her lips are pursed, and her breath is visible as sitars in front of her face. A flying horse in a cloud is emerging from a large holey stone behind her; in front of her on a steep-edged rise in the ground are a white goat, a black sheep, and a gray javelina.
November 12, 2023 at 6:52 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: the Knight of Thunderbirds (Wands). How are you in motion within the context of your life? Are you the horse or the rider - do you provide the motive force or the motivation? Are you moving towards your goals, or for the sake of being in motion?
A round Tarot card in an acrylic holder. On the left, a young man in buckskin clothing props one foot up on a stump; a large flat-topped stone is behind him. A horse looks on and a multicolored thunderbird flies overhead. The right third of the card is divided from the image by an upright stick; the label “Knight - Thunderbirds” is written in red on a white background.
November 10, 2023 at 5:00 AM
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Today’s Oracle draw: the rune Ansuz. What voices whisper to you when you listen closely? When the gods call you, how do you respond? Who is offering you advice, and how are you betting it? How do you balance discernment with inspiration?
An oracle card in a wooden holder. The card has a white border with the labels “ANSUZ” and “The gif Odin” within the bottom border. Above the label are a mature bearded man with one eye hidden, wearing a blue-gray cloak; a wolf, gazing out at the viewer; two ravens; an ash branch; and a spear with runes adorning the haft. The man’s cloak and the wolf’s lower body merge into a shroud of mist, on which is imposed the Ansuz rune in royal purple.
November 9, 2023 at 4:54 AM
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Today’s Oracle draw: Dice. What risks are you taking right now? Can you afford to lose what you are risking? If your risks pay off, how will you incorporate your gains into your life? Are you taking a gamble out of necessity, because the odds are in your favor, or for the thrill of the roll?
An oracle deck card in an acrylic holder. The card has an off-white border. Within is the image of a pair of red 6-sided dice with white pips tumbling through space, surrounded by motion lines. Both 6 sides are turned toward the viewer. Three green lens flares shine in the background.
November 8, 2023 at 5:24 AM
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Today’s Tarot draw: the 5 of Vials (Cups). How are you storing up your thoughts and feelings? What might happen when they spill out? Are there any emotions you need to uncork and pour out in order to free up space to accept the feelings you want to carry with you?
A Tarot card, the 5 of Vials, in a wooden holder. The card has a background of what might be either a light wood grain or a tan fur. A dark brown rectangle borders the image; at the top just inside the rectangle is the numeral V. Five vials rest on the background; one is purple with intricate ridges and lined textures, one is red with a wooden topper and wrapped in ragged strips of material; one is pink with very simple decoration; one is fuchsia with a simple cork and a large orb with writing; and one is purple with three symmetrical swirls meeting in a triangle.
November 7, 2023 at 5:06 AM
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Today’s Oracle draw: 40, Crossing Over. We are emerging from the time when the Otherworld is traditionally closest to our world. What messages have you received? What transitions are you going through, and how can the wisdom of your Ancestors and Beloved Dead guide you through them?
An oracle card in an acrylic holder. The card has a thing white border, containing the label “40 Crossing Over” at the bottom. Within the border is a honeycomb pattern in shades of gold and golden-brown. Inside the honeycomb is a smaller black rectangular border containing a sunflower-like mandala pattern with concentric circles, a pair of large hands extending from above, and an adult human figure seen from behind at the bottom.
November 6, 2023 at 4:05 AM