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Oracle & Lantern · Vol. XI

✨ Two Places at Once

There are seasons when the veil doesn’t need a calendar date to feel thin.
A whisper, a glance at the sky, a breath at the threshold — and suddenly you’re standing in two places at once. One foot rooted in the ordinary, the other caught in the tide of mystery.

This Lantern asks us: what vessel do you carry between worlds?
Is it your breath, your body, your grief, your joy? What has been poured into you, and what longs to be poured out?

🃏 The Oracle

Card Drawn: The High Priestess (reversed)

When the High Priestess turns on her head, the silence breaks. What was hidden leaks out, uncontained. The reversed posture isn’t weakness — it’s revelation. She is no longer the guardian of the veil but the one who opens it, saying:
“Do not hoard your knowing. Let it spill.”

This card reminds us that the vessel is not meant to stay sealed forever. Sacred truth curdles if it never breathes. Mystery wants movement.

🌿 A Gentle Ritual Nudge

The Pouring Rite

• Take a simple bowl of water.
• Whisper into it what you’ve been holding back — words unsaid, emotions unshared, wisdom unoffered.
• With your hands, pour the water onto soil, roots, or into running water.

As you do, speak:
“I am not a sealed jar. I am a flowing vessel. May what pours from me nourish, not deplete.”

This is not about spilling everything indiscriminately, but about releasing what has become too heavy to carry alone.

🖋️ The Journal Lantern

• What truths have I been hoarding out of fear, shame, or control?
• How do I discern what is ready to be poured out, and what is still gestating in silence?
• Where in my life do I confuse containment with protection?

🔔 Invitation

Beloved one, the Lantern does not demand answers tonight, only presence. Sit with the vessel you carry, listen to the hush between your breaths, and let the water within you reflect the sky above. What spills is not loss — it is offering.

With devotion and wonder,
The Inspired Imaginative | The Devoted Mystic

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