Facing a Problem You've Been Avoiding? Start Here

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 [email protected] 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.