How to Use These Sacred Journey Medicine Cards

The screams of the Child suddenly pierce your awareness, demanding to understand why you have had to endure such heartbreak. If you have suffered this pain and loss quite recently, you may be asking yourself, where is the Divine Creator in this picture? If it occurred at a tender age, where were the human caretakers who were charged with protecting you? Pegasus comes to you as a messenger to make use of your highflying imagination. This mythical winged divine stallion, with his ability to overcome his own trauma, embodies the light and rises above the suffering to embrace freedom. Fly with him. From above, observe the experiences that have shaped you. From here you can safely formulate a plan of healing. Call upon your Spirit Guides, Angels, and others in the realm of the divine to help you do the work that will comfort and restore the little ones within you who are demanding to be heard.

Pegasus Float photograph, La Paz, Baja California Sur.

Out of nowhere, a memory flickers across your consciousness. It is strange to you and yet familiar. A song playing in a café or an article in the news reminds you of a forgotten chapter from a past life. The leftover aura of past trauma and other crucial passages resonates throughout your present experience and catches the echoes of distant lives. Otter Medicine can swim into your consciousness when you are between worlds like this, to help you move between stages: when you are at the border of water and land, neither completely wet nor completely dry, or when you are in transition, your dreams full of people and animals from another lifetime. Otter conveys a sense of fluidity and the ability to play, encouraging your flexibility. Whether during birth, death, marriage, a sacred transition, or a crossing over to past lives, Otter’s positive energy and ease navigating transition can carry you.

Otter photograph, Monterey Bay, California, USA.

Traveling on an island, you discover a young Burrowing Owl. This wide-eyed owlet, perched on a post so it can see all that surrounds it, is the gatekeeper of secrets: it sees through the darkness, through the illusions. This is an adventure of clear vision, of discovery, of deep intuitive self-knowledge. You may feel that the company of the baby owl is sparking the remembrance of an ancient prophecy. What you see now can be disturbing and can trigger transition, change, even a kind of death. Draw upon Owl Medicine to tune into your part in the fulfillment of the prophecy and embrace the change. It is possible, too, that you are the gatekeeper. Can you see your role as one who identifies and opens doors for others, creating a channel to connect with the Ancestors? Rely on your inner voice to guide you. Take this opportunity to explore the unseen, revealing what lies concealed in darkness, for yourself and others.

Burrowing Owlet photograph, Marco Island, Florida, USA.

Three bluebirds appear: a father, mother beside him, and their chick flying overhead. Like musical notes, there is a harmony to this arrangement. These colorful beings call upon you to give yourself up to the beauty that surrounds you. In the pursuit of joy and happiness, spend time in the natural world that Spirit has given us. You may be at the beginning of a new chapter, evolving into a fresh existence, or you may be at a turning point that is more challenging. If you are in the darkness at this time, the gathering of Bluebirds is an indication that things will be brighter soon. They may be the messengers of an Angel or of loved ones who are communicating their support from another realm. Call upon those who have your back, both here and on the other side, through prayer, meditation, and the power of intention. They will answer.

Western Bluebird photographs, Berkeley, California, USA.

You find yourself struggling against a torrent of resistance. This power, the work of external beings or internal demons, relentlessly opposes your progress. How will you ever overcome it? Koi fish are a symbol of hope, worldly ambition, and progress. Koi delivers to you the capacity to move swiftly against the current, arriving upstream against seemingly insurmountable odds. Try not to be distracted or deterred; this is not the time to give up or turn back. According to legend, if Koi swimming the Yellow River succeeds in climbing the falls at the Dragon Gate, it will be transformed into a dragon. Your determination and strong sense of purpose facing these difficult circumstances will carry you. Insist on wisdom and miracles, and you will receive them. Have faith.

Koi photograph, Key West, Florida, USA.