How to read oracle and tarot cards from your heart, not the book

Everyone can read oracle cards, but not everybody can read oracle cards well. In this video I'm going to tell you exactly why, and give you the tips and tricks to show you how to be a boss oracle card reader. My name is Victoria Bond. I'm a psychic medium and a spiritual empowerment coach, and I am here to tell you how to read oracle cards, and what not to do when it comes to oracle cards. So what can you expect in this video? One, why most people are failing to read oracle cards properly. Two, I'm going to show you exactly how I read oracle cards, and to be honest, it's really easy. Three, what not to do when it comes to reading oracle cards. And four, I'm going to take you through a very powerful meditation, which is going to help you become a really amazing oracle card reader.

So to begin with, I'm going to tell you a little bit about me, and how I came to be a psychic medium and an oracle card reader. Being brought up Catholic, I really didn't think this was something that I would ever delve into. But of course, I sensed that there was a spiritual element of me. Spirit started coming through and basically tapping me on the shoulder, saying, come on, Victoria. And the next thing you know, I am buying so many decks of cards you wouldn't believe. So I had to learn: how am I going to read these cards? I was a hairdresser at the time, and had no idea about spiritual practices. I was used to going to church and saying the Hail Mary and the Our Father. There were no pendulums, there were definitely no oracle cards. It was a no, no, no.

In my salon I had some spiritual clients, and I knew they were really tapped in and tuned in, and I started telling them, whispering, looking behind my back, making sure my Mum wasn't going to walk in the salon door, about the things that had been happening to me: the signs, the synchronicities, the pull to buy the oracle cards and to do readings. And of course they said, hey, if you ever want to practice on me, let me know. So I did. I asked one of my clients, hey, can I please practice my readings on you? I feel like I'm going crazy, because this is what I'm meant to do, and I'm sure I'm a medium. I'm scared, absolutely petrified, because I don't know what I'm doing, and I've been taught that this stuff is a no go.

So this is what happened next. I took her into my lounge. I got out the deck of cards that I had at the time, and I was like, I surrender. Here I am. I'm going to do this card reading, and I am most probably going to feel super embarrassed, because I don't know what I'm doing, and it's probably not going to work. But since Spirit had been harassing me so much, I'm going to have trust and faith and be willing to get the nos. So my client sat down, very patient with me, because I'm pacing up and down the lounge going, what am I doing? I'm shuffling the cards, and all of a sudden I heard something in my head say, put down the cards, you're not going to read with the cards today.

So all of a sudden I go from someone reading the cards and getting out the book, to put down the cards. And then the craziest thing happened. The cards were obviously activating me, because I'd been walking around shuffling them and tapping into my client's energy, but all of a sudden, in my mind's eye, like a movie screen, I see a guy that looks just like Clark Gable, the man from Gone with the Wind. And I'm hearing Gone with the Wind, Gone with the Wind. Next minute, I'm seeing two little children pop up next to him in my mind's eye, a blue eyed, blond haired boy and a girl, a little bit of height difference but a similar age. And I just started telling her, I'm just going to tell you what I'm seeing in my head. I told her the feelings and the facial expressions I was seeing, and it was just like I was telling a story that was coming through my head, and it made absolutely no sense.

The long and the short of it was, she said to me afterwards, when I was holding my breath waiting for, okay, you're crazy, instead she said to me, that was the best reading I've ever had. I've waited three years for my uncle to come through, and I've been to many readers, and you nailed it. So here is the thing. Why am I telling you this story? Because I didn't end up using the oracle cards. But this is the first part of the lesson I want to tell you. These beautiful cards are an activator. The cards tell a story, and there's plenty of tips I'm going to tell you on how to use these beautiful cards, but we must not hide behind the cards.

The beautiful combination of being a fantastical oracle card reader, an oracle, is to be able to use your intuition, to use your mind's eye, your imagination, and all of your clair senses, your clairvoyance, your claircognizance. It is time to bring in all of the parts of you, all of your clairs, so you can read from your heart, not just from a book. So here is the number one thing. Reading from the book is fantastic if you're wanting to connect in with the beautiful cards and know their individual meanings, to get the beautiful expression of each card. But this is not what I teach in my Magnificent Mediumship programs. I tell people, do not use the book unless you are just sitting there on your bed getting to know your cards. It might be something nice to do when you're getting acquainted with a new deck of cards, which I'll talk about shortly as well.

The best way you can be an oracle card reader is to tap into all of your senses, and there's a few ways you can do that. The first thing you want to do is you want to find a deck of cards that speak to you. Every deck of cards I have, and I've got quite a few, and I've given away quite a few as well, it's like the cards have chosen me. I've gone into a crystal shop, or maybe I've looked online, and they will pop off the shelf, or they will pop off the screen, and I'll be like, oh my goodness, these ones here are literally just pulling me. They've got an essence to them, just like friends, just like crystals, just like a good book that you want to read. You find something that really picks your interest. It's like a sensory feeling where you're like, I've got to have those ones.

So I don't recommend you go looking for the cheapest deck of cards. I recommend you come in with a heart space of which cards are choosing me today. Because here is a thing about oracle cards. They're not just a blanket kind of card that you can read for people from. They all have a different character. They all have a different depth. And this is something that I haven't been taught. This is something I have experienced. With some of my decks, they will be super basic, so if I'm doing card pulls online, I'm like, one card pull, here we go, some great information. Whereas with another deck, when I go in depth into a reading, I can pull one card and there's just so much in the card that's popping out at me. The cards can take you on a deep adventure.

So the deck of cards that you choose is super important, and starting with one deck is enough. I started off with a little fairy deck, a very basic deck, and I got to know that deck inside out. I would carry the deck around with me in my handbag. I would put it next to my bed. I would take it from room to room, just like if I had a book or new crystals. It's like my new friend. And the more I was with the deck of cards, the more connected I would get with it. And the more people I read for, even if you're just practicing and you're using your book, that's okay if you're a beginner. When the same card would come out for a different person I was reading for, I would still get a similar essence. So every card is like a character within a deck.

Once you have chosen a deck of cards that you're feeling pretty confident about, you're like, yeah, okay, I'm pretty sure we're going to become friends, this is the one I felt pulled to, it's really important to honour your cards and clear them. I open up my cards. The deck usually comes in a beautiful box. I open it up, and I put the cards to my chest, because this is where my heart centre is, and I desire to read with love. That's why I do what I do. So I put it to my heart portal, put my hands over, and I ask for these cards to bring joy and love, for the highest good of those that I read for, for me, and for the world and the universe. I tap my cards. I quite often will put crystals around them as well, and have a little bit of a ceremony. But my favourite thing to do is give them a bit of a shuffle.

This is quite a new deck, so I'm still getting acquainted with it. This deck of cards seems very sacred to me, like it's fresh activations coming into my life, and into the life of others as well. So you can see already, what I'm saying is, the cards aren't just here to tell the future. They are here to activate you, in whatever area of life that you're in. Cards are phenomenal. They are like a complete language of their own, but I don't really see many people talking about this, so I really want to share tips and tricks with you. And there, did you see that? A card just jumped out, and of course I'm going to be doing a collective card pull for you, so I'm just going to put that little card to the side there. Quite often one will slide out, and that's what we call a jumper. If a jumper comes out of your card deck, you can put it aside and pull it out at the end of the reading, or you can incorporate it into the reading. Just use your intuition.

One of the things I want to tell you as well is, you don't have to follow other people's rules. Some people might be watching right now going, oh yeah, whatever, that's not what I was taught. Well, good for you. But you have to go with your own discernment, because this is your relationship, and just like any other relationship, with other humans or spirits, it's a unique experience. So coming back here: I've opened my cards, I've said a little prayer over my cards, I'm shuffling them, and then my next favourite thing to do is to get a cup of coffee, or a cup of tea, or a cacao, and look at the cards. Every single card that I look at, it's literally like looking at a painting at a gallery. And these cards were paintings. Most cards are paintings, or they are definitely all art.

So I go through and I'm like, oh, what are the vibrations and feelings of these cards? Wow, this card is beautiful. What do I see in these cards? I go through the entire deck just quickly, because I don't want to hold on to too many definitions about what I think that particular card means, because it's going to have multiple meanings to it. So you can totally make your own rules up, and you don't have to use one deck of cards. Often when I'm reading for somebody, I will choose what deck of cards I want before the reading, and I'll be like, which cards are for my client? And I might choose three decks to read from. Other times I'm like, I'm just using this deck, and I might even be stuck on that deck for a month. But every single time I go to use cards, I'm like, which cards would like to be used today, and which are going to be a contribution to the readings and to the activations?

I will choose the cards, and I will have a moment with them before we get to work. I will say, thank you so much for being here, for helping me. And sometimes the cards just sit there next to my desk and I never even get to using them, but they were still a contribution. You can use as many cards in a reading as you possibly want. I can literally use one card to read for an hour, if the deck seems quite intricate and I'm getting a lot of information from one card. Other times I can use 20 different cards. I can literally just keep pulling cards and pulling cards, and I get a little snippet of a story from each card. So don't be too hung up on following what the book says with the layouts and stuff. They're simply just a guideline. At the end of the day, these cards are fun. They are here for you to play, and they are a tool for your psychic mediumship abilities.

Most people are failing at this very simple idea of reading cards because they are afraid of, you know what it is, failing. They're afraid of getting the no. So, such a big tip that I learned from a medium back in the day: get used to getting nos, because at the end of the day, you will get yeses if you keep getting nos. I know that sounds kind of like, huh, what is the point of the accuracy then? But the truth is, you have to figure out what's going on for the person, for the client. If a yellow card isn't about their solar plexus, then potentially yellow means something else. So we get quite inquisitive when we're reading cards. It's a two way conversation. It's not like, prove it to me, give me a reading so I know you're not a fraud. When we come to a reader, and when we're reading for another, we are here to try to help that other person. So there's no trickery. When we can actually ask questions and get used to getting the nos, your world will open up.

Really good mediums ask questions. If you watch any of the famous readers, they will ask questions, and they don't just get yes, yes, yes, yes. They will get a no, so they'll go back to the drawing board and they'll ask another question, because you are an investigator. So a really good thing to do when you are using cards is to ask: hmm, does that resonate with you? How does that feel for you? This is what I'm feeling, or this is what I'm seeing. What do you think about that? Does that make sense to you? And when we're asking questions like that, the person can say, well, actually it does, but this is what else has happened. You're like, thank you, there it is, and you get to build on top of that. So I quite often say a lot of coaching comes into reading.

But it's very, very important, when you are reading for people, not to bring in your personal opinions. So what we have to do, when we are creating the space to read, is ask for the highest good of the person that we're reading for. We ask our ego to step aside. We ask our higher self to drop on in, and of course we expand our energy. If you feel too connected to the person that you're reading for, maybe it's your sister, your Mum, or your best friend, or your partner, and you've got an opinion about where they should go and how they should do things, you can't use the cards and the reading to get your point across. That is a no, no, no, and that will probably come back to bite you. So make sure that you are holding a space with no judgment, because you are simply there to help the person that you're reading for. And of course, Spirit will come along and be there for the ride.

Sometimes Spirit will come on in, and then you'll have to do what I did in my first experience: put down the cards and just tell them what you see. So basically, always expect the unexpected. And here is an example of that. One day I was talking to a friend, and I said to her, wow, I just did an amazing reading, it was so accurate, my mind is blowing. And she said, can you read for me? And I was like, oh, I'm a bit tired. Okay, I'll just tap in for a second. I knew that her dad had passed away. So I closed my eyes, and this was at the very beginning of my mediumship, so I was always doing lots of practicing, and I was like, show me what my friend needs to see. And all I could see was Santa.

And I thought, okay, maybe it's the white beard. So I became the investigator. I said to my friend, did your dad have a beard? Was he grey? And she was like, no. Okay, was red his favourite colour? Did he used to wear a red T shirt, or a red pair of pants? So here I am being the investigator, going, how can I get Santa out of this? Her dad isn't Santa. And she said, I don't know, he liked all colours. And I said, look, I'm feeling that he really loves you. I'm feeling all these feelings. But I've got to tell you the truth. All I can see is a man dressed as Santa. And her eyes welled up, and she said, we miss him so much. He dressed up as Santa every single year.

So here I was, denying myself of telling my friend what it is I was truly seeing, when all along there was one message, and that was the evidence: that he used to dress up as Santa, and they were really missing that, because Christmas was coming up. If I had trusted that and said, I've got someone here who looks like Santa, she would have laughed and said, my dad always dressed up as Santa. What came from that was, as I could see this man dressed as Santa, all of a sudden he started taking the Santa costume off, and there was my friend's dad. He looked like she described. He was saying, I miss you, and I love you as much as when you were three years old as I do now. It was super emotional. It didn't make any sense to me, but one word, Santa, made all the sense in the world. It was a message that she needed to know, that helped heal her heart, to know that her dad was still living on, and still watched over her and her boys.

Of course we are going a little bit deeper than just oracle cards, because oracle cards are a door that is opening to bring in Spirit. Spirit is always guiding us, and it's very common to start reading, and then all of a sudden feel like a door is opening and a spirit's coming through to give the one that you're reading for a message. So we must be open and prepared to go beyond the cards. One of the things that I do in my Magnificent Mediumship certification is take my students through a meditation, and in that meditation, it's very much about expanding our energy, expanding our capacity, expanding our consciousness. Because if we are literally in the book, and this is nothing against the books, because the books are phenomenal, but if we're in the book and we're trying to read it, quite often we're disconnected.

I've done this in retreats before, where I'm teaching oracle cards and mediumship, and my clients are like, I don't know, I have to read from the book. And I said, put down the book, and then we'll go into this very special process of expansion. At the end of the day, we want to be magnificent in what we are doing. So we've got to start somewhere, right? If you're starting with connecting in with the cards, having one deck and reading from the book, that is amazing. But what I desire for everybody is for everybody to tap into their own abilities, and use the cards for what they were designed to be, which is of course a delightful, delicious and joyful tool.

It's so important to connect in with your cards and to choose the cards. Maybe you get gifted the cards, which is beautiful, and of course divine. It's very important for you to own that you are a part of this reading, and to get out of your own ego mind. So many of those that come to me are in fear. Fear of failure, maybe fear of success, or maybe they're like me, and they were brought up religious, and they think, oh, this is dabbling, I can't possibly do this. But I'm here to tell you that when you lead from love, when you are coming from a space of desiring more service for others, you actually can't get it wrong. When you're coming from a space of desiring to bring more joy to the world, and to help people have closure, help them have tools to go forward in their life, so they can see their highest potentials, and you can use a beautiful deck of cards to do that, which has been made by somebody who's had an intention to help the world, you simply cannot get it wrong.

And now I want to invite you to come into a space of relaxation. If you need to pause this video so you can go lie down somewhere comfortable, or go into a quiet space, do that now. Please do not drive during this meditation. I invite you now to close your eyes down. Just gently close those eyelids, and when you're ready, and if it feels good, take a nice deep breath in through your nose, all the way down to your belly. Hold for a moment, and breathe out your mouth. Breathing in again, in your own time, all the way down to your toes, bringing roots down from your feet into the ground, and breathing out and down into relaxation. And one more time, breathing in, holding for a moment, and breathing out your mouth into deeper relaxation.

And now what I invite you to do is drop your barriers. Drop them down, down, down. Your barriers are wherever you've tried to protect yourself, and I want you to know now that you are safe, guided and loved. So drop your barriers, as we call in your ancestors, the guides, spirit teams, light beings, archangels and ascended masters, and all of the earth elemental beings here to support you, and of course our beautiful Gaia, planet Earth. Dropping those barriers, and breathing into your heart space now, and expanding the warmth within your heart throughout your body. And as you breathe out, I invite you to expand your energy from your body into the room. It is safe to expand your energy. And as you're expanding your energy into the room, just notice those roots that are coming from your feet going into the earth, deeper and deeper, anchoring around your favourite crystal in the centre of the earth.

Your body is safe, guided, loved and protected as you continue to expand your energy. Now we expand it beyond the room, to fill up the house or the apartment that you're in, wherever you are. Expand your energy now, filling up the town, the suburb, filling up the city, wherever you may be. Expanding your energy even further, as you expand your light and energy through the country that you live in. Dropping those barriers, focusing on your breath, and expanding around the world, throughout the world, and now all the way out to the cosmos. As you expand, so does your consciousness. The limitations fall away. There's nothing to worry about, because you are safe and guided and loved and protected. Your body is anchored, and you are now larger than you have ever been.

Noticing the expansion that you feel, and just doing a body scan as well. Is there anywhere you are holding tension? Is there anywhere you are holding on to control? Breathing in warmth through any area that is feeling tense, and soften that space with your breath. Breathing in and softening, and breathing out and releasing. Beautiful work. And if you are in your head at all, I invite you energetically just to drop your head down into your heart, and down through the floor. This is something that your mind doesn't need to know how to do. This is something that your being becomes and is. You already know how to do this. You were born knowing how to do this. Just noticing what you notice, as you're expanded out to the cosmos. Letting all your worries just melt away, as you connect in to your senses, as you connect in to your spirit guides, as you connect in to your ancestors, your angels and your higher self, remembering who you are and your gifts.

And knowing that when you do read oracle cards, or when you give advice, or when you practice your mediumship and intuition, that you are always following your heart and guiding with love. We let our ego step aside, and our spirit teams and our higher self step forward to guide. Just noticing any sensations in your body. Any buzzing. Maybe the temperature has changed. Maybe you just feel relaxed and sleepy. Maybe you feel resistance, trying to figure out what to let go of and what to keep. All is welcome. I want you to bring your attention back to behind your eyes, and notice what you can see behind your eyelids. Bringing your attention into your fingers and into your toes, maybe moving them a little bit. Bringing your focus and your breath into your chest, breathing in and out. I invite you to come back into your body from wherever you have drifted, but please stay expanded. And when you are ready, you may want to give yourself a hug, or put your hands on your body somewhere where it feels really safe, and when you're ready, blink your eyes open, and welcome back.

Welcome back, dear ones. When we go into a meditation and we are talking about expanding, with oracle cards and mediumship and our clairs, who knows what's going to happen, and this is a really good example of what can happen when we're doing readings for others. So I promised you I would do a demonstration. At the very beginning of this video, I showed you how I tap into my cards, and we got a jumper. Now, this deck is a little bit nerve wracking, because I like to get to know my card decks like really good friends, and I feel like I've only had one coffee with this deck of cards. When I read a card, what I do, especially if I'm doing online card pulls, is I will feel the card, and I ask for the card to show me what it is the person I'm reading for requires. So when I ask this card, I'm getting words popping into my head. This doesn't always happen, but right now I'm getting the word patience. I'm getting the word progress. Try not to be a perfectionist when it comes to reading cards, because you've got to be willing to get nos. You've got to be willing to play, whether you're reading one card or 21 cards.

When I look at a card, the first thing I do is I notice what is popping out at me, and I know everything I read about the card has got to do with the person that I'm reading for. So if you haven't already, put your hand on your heart and ask, what do I need to know about? Maybe there's a question that you have. Pause this video for a moment and ask yourself what you need guidance on, and then I will read this card for you. This card is for all of those who are watching this video and have asked a question. It's a collective reading, so it's not for one individual specifically, but what I do find is collective readings will always find their way to the person, because it's not a linear process. The first thing I notice with this card is the eagle. And when I looked at the eagle, I was asking, why is the eagle popping out right now? So I look at what pops, and I literally go, why is this popping out? What is the gift that I'm seeing right now, and how is that referring to the person I'm reading for?

This card is representing all of humanity, but not just that. It's representing all of Earth, everything that is living. We can see the animals, we can see the contribution that everything creates together, all going in together in harmony. Wherever you have thought that maybe you are not a superhuman, maybe you don't have superpowers, maybe you were a mistake or an accident here, maybe you feel like the fish out of water, maybe you feel like the black sheep of the family, we've got to understand that every single one of us has got a place here on this planet. Whether it's the ladybird or the fish or the animal or the human, we all have a place here. And it's up to us to hold our standard, to hold our power, to speak our truth, and to use, mostly, our discernment on what's correct for us when it comes to our belief systems, and when it comes to reading for people. Because we have been taught to be people pleasers and perfectionists, and if you want to be an oracle card reader, you can't be those things. If you want to be a really good oracle card reader, you have to speak what is coming through.

So what does this card feel like for you? Maybe you need some earthing, to connect to your lineage. Maybe some meditation to connect in with your lineage. This is a card of consciousness, because animals are very conscious. I'm the most practical person I know, a normal hairdresser, Mum of two, from a Catholic family. We have Sunday night dinners. I've got lots of siblings. It's hectic and wonderful. And here I am, going down this rabbit hole. But it resonated. So if you are attracted to this type of work, go for it, because you're going to be supported by the world and the universe, and that is the message that I want to give you. Take whatever I've just said and apply it to your question, apply it to the guidance that you require, and I trust that it will resonate.

So you've learned about cards: how to clear the cards, how to choose the cards, how to read the cards, and of course we went through a beautiful deep meditation for relaxation and activation. I've told you about what not to do. Don't go relying just on the book, or hiding behind the cards, because then you're just going to become very average. What is going to make you spectacular is practicing, playing, and making sure that you're okay with getting the nos, always pushing your capacity and your edges a little bit. A lot of my clients will literally push the edges and go, all right, we're going to drop the cards and just go with intuition and bring in Spirit, and it's beautiful, because of course Spirit loves to help those who want to help themselves.

When you are looking at different card decks, just understand they've all got different vibrations, and whatever vibration you're looking for, you will feel it. It will be like a symphony, it will be like a harmony, or you'll just put your hand out and grab them, and be like, I don't know why I'm holding these cards. Okay, maybe these cards are for me. And you'll notice that I'm scratching my nose here. When Spirit is around, I get an itchy nose. It is literally a thing. You might notice your ears popping when Spirit's around, or your hand gets hot, or it feels like something's touching your hair. There's all these different things as you expand and open. And you can do this meditation as many times as you like, and watch this video as many times as you like. The deeper we go down that rabbit hole, the more in tune we become, and the more aware we become of our own superpowers.