LisaStarlight
Reading for CosmicBeing
Hi CosmicBeing, this is your reading. I have a lot of respect for the Les Vampires oracle cards and find that they provide some really deep messages. I've combined my intuitive take on the cards with the guidebook's interpretations. Sometimes they've meshed, sometimes the two readings were like flip sides of a coin. I hope the messages make sense in any case.
Position 1 is 1 Eternal Youth
The first card that I got for Position 1 – Safety – is (1) Eternal Youth. On an intuitive level, I think that this card is showing me that in order for the character in this card to feel safe, there’s a price to be paid. And it means that there are things she cannot indulge in or enjoy. And it makes me wonder if feelings of safety only arise from a deprivation of some sort? I wonder if what makes you feel safe is paying in some way for that feeling of safety. Or depriving yourself of something in order to feel safe?
This reminds me of the book, The Great Leap, and how in order to feel safe we will sometimes sabotage ourselves and not allow ourselves to have more than we are comfortable with. I wonder if this card is talking about that sort of situation.
The most relevant part of the guidebook for this card is the section Working With this Card.
Explore the blessings of the body and mind. It is time to discover what your body can do to instigate a transformation. It is time to give in to what you love and to make it a larger part of your life. It is time to eat well, drink deeply of water, and connect with new people. It is time to love being alive, for that drinking deep of the cup of life is the true fountain of youth.
This ties in with my intuitive reading by reiterating that abundance is ok and allowing yourself to enjoy the pleasures of life is ok and although it might feel unsafe it’s all about living in the moment and enjoying the moment and letting the next moment take care of itself. We can fill our inner wells with the joy of the experience of abundance and joy and being blessed.
Card No 2 is 23 Free Will and the keywords are sovereignty, independence and free spirit.
On an intuitive level, it seems that feelings of plenty and abundance might come, for you, from feeling free and being able to take care of your own needs, perhaps, without relying on someone else to meet your needs for you. You want to make your own decisions, you want to go your own path, and do it your way. And you want to be able to do that without anybody becoming an obstacle – and perhaps there is the belief that other people get in the way, and that their needs conflict with what it is you want to do and where it is you want to go. And so this idea of being independent is what makes you feel the full potential of life and the feelings of abundance.
Remind yourself of your own dreams and desires of the purpose that has asked to be expressed through you. Activate your ability to say yes and no without guilt and fear. It is safe and easy for you to express and act upon your free will.
Linking these interpretations together – the intuitive and the guidebook – it’s all about free will and perhaps there was a valid reason for you to feel that abundance comes to you when you are independent and sovereign being in your own sovereignty – perhaps there is a reasons why this is important – so this card is saying to remind yourself of your own dreams and desires. Be able to say yes and no without guilt and fear. It is safe and easy for you to act upon your free will – perhaps this would make a good affirmation?
Your abundance appears to tie into your safety, and will make it so much easier to go with the flow but it’s a flow coming from within you rather than a flow created by others, which is what this card is about.
Position 3 – 32 Hunter. This position is about regeneration and exploring possibility.
Looking at the card, the message, from an intuitive perspective, is to go out there like a hunter and track down the possibilities. When you’ve worked with cards 1 and 2, then this is the next step on the journey, tracking down the things that you have decided are needed for you to grow and flourish. And it’s ok to do that, too.
When I read the guidebook, I’m blown away by how deep the messages are.
It is time to establish how to obtain what it is you want. You must not ask another to go after it. And while the hunt will take place on the outside, it will also take place on the inside. You must find that part of you within that has the courage to chase what you would make yours and be honest about it.
In an earlier part of this section, the text mentions that a hunter has to pick what it kills and that there’s almost an air of competition about it – You. Or Me. The guidebook says that there is no need to kill. Even though you may be feeling that it’s a case of you or the other, the guidebook says “There are other ways through to the goal you desire.” Find what it is you need deep within. Going inwards. Look within yourself. Track down the obstacles within yourself that allow you to explore the possibilities of growth and progress on the outside.
Position 4 – Hope
This position is about love in all its forms. The question asked is what does it tell you about your life right now?
The card suggests to me that there is an element of hoping within you right now looking for nourishing relationships where there is give and take. Your sense of hope has not been extinguished, but perhaps there is also a sense of passiveness or procrastination or hesitation as the character is seated rather than moving.
In the section Les Vampires speak, it says: "If this card finds you at this time, you are being asked to rise above those who are giving in to hopelessness and negativity. It does not ask you to be falsely hopeful, or put on a happy face and refuse to face what must be faced, it asks you to be hopeful. You do not yet know the outcome, you do not yet know what might happen next. But you can be assured that this hope you have will sustain you in a time of great difficulty."
You will soon have hope which will make whatever is taking place at this moment easier to bear. This hardship is impermanent and tomorrow will be better.
This suggests that in love things look bleak just now, but hang in there, because things are going to make a turn for the better.
Position 5 – (17) The Past a Prison
To me, it seems quite significant that this is a card relating to the past in a position that relates to the future. It suggests that there may be something that will not let you move forward right now, and perhaps your whole energy is stuck in the past. Remembering past hardships, and not being able or not being willing or not being in a place where you can let them go.
In the layout we’re asked to consider how position 3 relates to position 5. Position 3 was about the Hunter and going within – and the intuitive take I had was going within to look for the obstacles. Card No 5 is one of these obstacles to your moving into the future.
Working with the Hunter in whatever way you find best (meditation, visualisation etc.), track down this aspect within you that cannot let go of the past. It might be a defence mechanism to keep you safe – relates to position 1. The price to be paid for feeling safe may be an unwillingness to move into the future fully.
It also ties into card 2 Free Will – are you truly free – have you allowed all of your nature and your energy to flourish and grow and spread and see the light if you are choosing to hold onto something from the past in an attempt to be safe?
The Hunter, remember, doesn’t have to WIN. There’s no need for a win/lose situation – it’s more a question of tracking down that part and acknowledging its presence, acknowledging its purpose, and then living life without letting it into the driving seat.
I think the obstacle is part of your subconscious and that’s why the Hunter is needed to find it. It’s not something you are aware of consciously.
And again, in the guidebook, the interpretation is a flip-side.
Find those who have suffered and who have moved on, for they are the great hearts, the ones who have the most to teach, and who have the greatest souls. Find the ones who have not just forgiven but who have taken their hurt and put it to constructive purpose and helped many others.
Earlier in the guidebook, this card was about Miss Havesham from Great Expectations and how the tragic betrayal in her youth kept her locked in the past and caused her to use an innocent to wreak revenge on those who reminded her of her betrayer.
It suggests the possibility that something in your family’s past, or in an ancestor’s lifetime, has been passed down through the generations as a belief or a behaviour and the unfortunate thing about it is that the origin of the belief/behaviour was not with the intention of growth but of something else. Perhaps revenge. Perhaps justification for a way of behaving or moving through the world.
By not upholding this subconscious behaviour or belief, it could cause disruption (almost as if you’re going against a family value or standard or something of that nature) “but do your best to live your story and to distance yourself from whoever might ask you to deny your own story and live out their own again and again.
“Do not make someone else’s past your present.”
It’s a different slant on the card than my interpretation in that it relates to another – and suggests that the obstacle to moving into your future is not actually something that originated with you but with that other. They have dragged you into their story, and are not allowing you to live your own.
(Which is a lesson to me that sometimes our woes are not actually caused by something we’ve done or by who we are. Sometimes, unwittingly, we’re simply caught up in someone else’s story before we are old enough or experienced enough to realise what is going on.)
And this card relates back to Position 1 Safety – going against the beliefs and/or behaviours of loved ones or elders is not really deemed a safe way to carry on. And yet staying safe in this way has a high cost.
Taking all the cards into account, the messages appear to be centred around feeling safe and how that might be conflicting with your free will and sense of abundance, and how it is even holding you back from progressing in your life. But there are also those role models from times past that you can call on for inspiration and encouragement and determination, because they found ways to move around that obstacle. There is a brighter time ahead, hold on to your sense of hope and keep that flame alive.
So there you go, CosmicBeing. I hope this has been useful and provided some glimmers of insight here and there.
Hi CosmicBeing, this is your reading. I have a lot of respect for the Les Vampires oracle cards and find that they provide some really deep messages. I've combined my intuitive take on the cards with the guidebook's interpretations. Sometimes they've meshed, sometimes the two readings were like flip sides of a coin. I hope the messages make sense in any case.
Position 1 is 1 Eternal Youth
The first card that I got for Position 1 – Safety – is (1) Eternal Youth. On an intuitive level, I think that this card is showing me that in order for the character in this card to feel safe, there’s a price to be paid. And it means that there are things she cannot indulge in or enjoy. And it makes me wonder if feelings of safety only arise from a deprivation of some sort? I wonder if what makes you feel safe is paying in some way for that feeling of safety. Or depriving yourself of something in order to feel safe?
This reminds me of the book, The Great Leap, and how in order to feel safe we will sometimes sabotage ourselves and not allow ourselves to have more than we are comfortable with. I wonder if this card is talking about that sort of situation.
The most relevant part of the guidebook for this card is the section Working With this Card.
Explore the blessings of the body and mind. It is time to discover what your body can do to instigate a transformation. It is time to give in to what you love and to make it a larger part of your life. It is time to eat well, drink deeply of water, and connect with new people. It is time to love being alive, for that drinking deep of the cup of life is the true fountain of youth.
This ties in with my intuitive reading by reiterating that abundance is ok and allowing yourself to enjoy the pleasures of life is ok and although it might feel unsafe it’s all about living in the moment and enjoying the moment and letting the next moment take care of itself. We can fill our inner wells with the joy of the experience of abundance and joy and being blessed.
Card No 2 is 23 Free Will and the keywords are sovereignty, independence and free spirit.
On an intuitive level, it seems that feelings of plenty and abundance might come, for you, from feeling free and being able to take care of your own needs, perhaps, without relying on someone else to meet your needs for you. You want to make your own decisions, you want to go your own path, and do it your way. And you want to be able to do that without anybody becoming an obstacle – and perhaps there is the belief that other people get in the way, and that their needs conflict with what it is you want to do and where it is you want to go. And so this idea of being independent is what makes you feel the full potential of life and the feelings of abundance.
Remind yourself of your own dreams and desires of the purpose that has asked to be expressed through you. Activate your ability to say yes and no without guilt and fear. It is safe and easy for you to express and act upon your free will.
Linking these interpretations together – the intuitive and the guidebook – it’s all about free will and perhaps there was a valid reason for you to feel that abundance comes to you when you are independent and sovereign being in your own sovereignty – perhaps there is a reasons why this is important – so this card is saying to remind yourself of your own dreams and desires. Be able to say yes and no without guilt and fear. It is safe and easy for you to act upon your free will – perhaps this would make a good affirmation?
Your abundance appears to tie into your safety, and will make it so much easier to go with the flow but it’s a flow coming from within you rather than a flow created by others, which is what this card is about.
Position 3 – 32 Hunter. This position is about regeneration and exploring possibility.
Looking at the card, the message, from an intuitive perspective, is to go out there like a hunter and track down the possibilities. When you’ve worked with cards 1 and 2, then this is the next step on the journey, tracking down the things that you have decided are needed for you to grow and flourish. And it’s ok to do that, too.
When I read the guidebook, I’m blown away by how deep the messages are.
It is time to establish how to obtain what it is you want. You must not ask another to go after it. And while the hunt will take place on the outside, it will also take place on the inside. You must find that part of you within that has the courage to chase what you would make yours and be honest about it.
In an earlier part of this section, the text mentions that a hunter has to pick what it kills and that there’s almost an air of competition about it – You. Or Me. The guidebook says that there is no need to kill. Even though you may be feeling that it’s a case of you or the other, the guidebook says “There are other ways through to the goal you desire.” Find what it is you need deep within. Going inwards. Look within yourself. Track down the obstacles within yourself that allow you to explore the possibilities of growth and progress on the outside.
Position 4 – Hope
This position is about love in all its forms. The question asked is what does it tell you about your life right now?
The card suggests to me that there is an element of hoping within you right now looking for nourishing relationships where there is give and take. Your sense of hope has not been extinguished, but perhaps there is also a sense of passiveness or procrastination or hesitation as the character is seated rather than moving.
In the section Les Vampires speak, it says: "If this card finds you at this time, you are being asked to rise above those who are giving in to hopelessness and negativity. It does not ask you to be falsely hopeful, or put on a happy face and refuse to face what must be faced, it asks you to be hopeful. You do not yet know the outcome, you do not yet know what might happen next. But you can be assured that this hope you have will sustain you in a time of great difficulty."
You will soon have hope which will make whatever is taking place at this moment easier to bear. This hardship is impermanent and tomorrow will be better.
This suggests that in love things look bleak just now, but hang in there, because things are going to make a turn for the better.
Position 5 – (17) The Past a Prison
To me, it seems quite significant that this is a card relating to the past in a position that relates to the future. It suggests that there may be something that will not let you move forward right now, and perhaps your whole energy is stuck in the past. Remembering past hardships, and not being able or not being willing or not being in a place where you can let them go.
In the layout we’re asked to consider how position 3 relates to position 5. Position 3 was about the Hunter and going within – and the intuitive take I had was going within to look for the obstacles. Card No 5 is one of these obstacles to your moving into the future.
Working with the Hunter in whatever way you find best (meditation, visualisation etc.), track down this aspect within you that cannot let go of the past. It might be a defence mechanism to keep you safe – relates to position 1. The price to be paid for feeling safe may be an unwillingness to move into the future fully.
It also ties into card 2 Free Will – are you truly free – have you allowed all of your nature and your energy to flourish and grow and spread and see the light if you are choosing to hold onto something from the past in an attempt to be safe?
The Hunter, remember, doesn’t have to WIN. There’s no need for a win/lose situation – it’s more a question of tracking down that part and acknowledging its presence, acknowledging its purpose, and then living life without letting it into the driving seat.
I think the obstacle is part of your subconscious and that’s why the Hunter is needed to find it. It’s not something you are aware of consciously.
And again, in the guidebook, the interpretation is a flip-side.
Find those who have suffered and who have moved on, for they are the great hearts, the ones who have the most to teach, and who have the greatest souls. Find the ones who have not just forgiven but who have taken their hurt and put it to constructive purpose and helped many others.
Earlier in the guidebook, this card was about Miss Havesham from Great Expectations and how the tragic betrayal in her youth kept her locked in the past and caused her to use an innocent to wreak revenge on those who reminded her of her betrayer.
It suggests the possibility that something in your family’s past, or in an ancestor’s lifetime, has been passed down through the generations as a belief or a behaviour and the unfortunate thing about it is that the origin of the belief/behaviour was not with the intention of growth but of something else. Perhaps revenge. Perhaps justification for a way of behaving or moving through the world.
By not upholding this subconscious behaviour or belief, it could cause disruption (almost as if you’re going against a family value or standard or something of that nature) “but do your best to live your story and to distance yourself from whoever might ask you to deny your own story and live out their own again and again.
“Do not make someone else’s past your present.”
It’s a different slant on the card than my interpretation in that it relates to another – and suggests that the obstacle to moving into your future is not actually something that originated with you but with that other. They have dragged you into their story, and are not allowing you to live your own.
(Which is a lesson to me that sometimes our woes are not actually caused by something we’ve done or by who we are. Sometimes, unwittingly, we’re simply caught up in someone else’s story before we are old enough or experienced enough to realise what is going on.)
And this card relates back to Position 1 Safety – going against the beliefs and/or behaviours of loved ones or elders is not really deemed a safe way to carry on. And yet staying safe in this way has a high cost.
Taking all the cards into account, the messages appear to be centred around feeling safe and how that might be conflicting with your free will and sense of abundance, and how it is even holding you back from progressing in your life. But there are also those role models from times past that you can call on for inspiration and encouragement and determination, because they found ways to move around that obstacle. There is a brighter time ahead, hold on to your sense of hope and keep that flame alive.
So there you go, CosmicBeing. I hope this has been useful and provided some glimmers of insight here and there.
