Two Card Oracle Spread

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The two card oracle spread allow you to examine a question in a little more detail, or enable you to look at two aspects of a situation. It may the the cause and the outcome, or the decision and the potential. Here are some suggestions, but feel free to be creative with what you ask.

Two Card Oracle Guide Questions:

The following are guides as to how you can use the two card oracle spread.

Card 1: Aim – Card 2: Blockage

Using this spread the first card represents your desired outcome, or what it is you are wishing to achieve. The second card gives you insight into what currently is preventing you achieving the goal.

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Card 1: Blockage – Card 2: Solution

In this spread the first card is the blockage, or the problem that stands between you and your goal. The second card offers a solution and speaks to a different way forward which will address the issue and enable you to solve the problem.

Card 1: Ideal – Card 2: Settling for

Using this spread the first card reflects what you truly wish for, your desires, your goals, your ambition, whereas the second card represents your current situation, or what you are ‘settling for.’ If you understand this situation, you know what needs to change. However if you are unaware of why you are settling for less, you may wish to use the following spread to try to find out why this is the case.

Card 1: Situation – Card 2: Extra info

The first represents the situation, the place you are in right now. In the second card you will be offered additional information and insight into why the situation exists.

Card 1: Querent – Card 2: Adversary

In this spread the first card represents you, or the person you are reading the cards for. The second card represents the person, or the persons actions, who is holding you back or is for some reason ‘getting in the way’.

The two card oracle spread is useful for new readers and those practicing interpreting cards.

Additional Two Card Oracle Spreads

Daily Energy Guide Questions:

  1. Describe this day’s overall energy.
  2. How can I use this energy for my benefit?

Guidance from Higher Self or Spirit Guides:

  1. What do my spirit guides or spirit animals need me to know?
  2. What do I need to do to ensure I achieve this?
  3. What guidance or message does the universe have for me right now?
  4. What can I do to enhance my spiritual growth and connection?

Two Card Oracle For Action-Oriented Advice:

  1. What should I do about the current situation?
  2. What should I not do to ensure the problem doesn’t worsen?
  3. What is the current energy or theme that is influencing my life?
  4. What past experiences or patterns may be influencing my current situation?
  5. How can I best cultivate self-care and self-love in my life?

Two Card Oracle For Determining Strengths and Weaknesses:

  1. What are my current strengths I need to foster?
  2. What are the aspects of life I should focus on and improve?
  3. What actions or steps can I take to manifest my desired outcome?
  4. What challenges or obstacles may I encounter on this journey?
  5. What strengths or resources can I rely on to help me overcome these challenges?

For Differentiating Perception and Reality:

  1. How do I currently perceive and understand this current challenge?
  2. What is the reality of the issue that my spirit animals need me to become aware of?
  3. What aspects of my life should I focus on nurturing or developing at this time?
  4. What is the potential outcome or final result of my current path or decision?

When you are ready focus on your question, then press shuffle the cards until satisfied and flip them over for your answers. The first card gives the response to your first question and the second card provides the insight for your second. Then focus on both to see if there are any connections or patterns.

The Two Card Oracle Spread.

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Playful - The Dolphin

Playful – The Dolphin

Take time to experience joy and play, create harmony of spirit.

Keywords: joy, play, harmony, free spirit, teamwork, connection, overcoming fear, growing in self-confidence, humor in daily life, improve communication

Dolphins are considered highly intelligent, playful, and well-meaning animals.

Dolphins represent harmony and peace.

They also represent joy, playfulness, the strength of will, inner strength, protection, mental acuity, politeness.

Sunrise is symbolic of birth, growth, new beginnings.

The color pink provides a feeling of peace and sweetness that triggers a desire for harmony and evolution.

Jumping out of the water may represent trying to avoid something or simply the need for having fun.

Number 1 is associated with beginnings, newness, and change

The dolphin card encourages you to take time to experience joy, to play and to consider how you might create more harmony within the situation you are asking about.

You might consider how you can add more relaxation to your daily life. Taking a break from your ever-growing list of responsibilities might feel wrong but you need to find a way to get more relaxation in your life.

There is a strong pull to find more harmony and peace. You may be looking for a sign that you are being protected and that you are safe from harm.

For now being part of a group is important and this will encourage you to more playful as you engage with a team or your family unit.

It may also indicate you are looking for a deeper connection within your relationships.

The card represents the need to develop your self-confidence if you are to overcome the fear that you are experiencing. It may indicate a deeper fear, one that is holding you back from being able to express your joyful and playful self.

It is a call to grow, or continue to grow, your self-confidence. By improving your communication will achieve the strong connections you have, or that you wish to have.

Reversed – indulging in too much play, recklessness, risk taking.

The dolphin calls fort you take time to experience joy and play, create harmony of spirit.

Keywords: joy, play, harmony, free spirit, teamwork, connection, overcoming fear, growing in self-confidence, humor in daily life, improve communication

Dolphins are considered highly intelligent, playful, and well-meaning animals.

Dolphins represent harmony and peace.

They also represent joy, playfulness, the strength of will, inner strength, protection, mental acuity, politeness.

Sunrise is symbolic of birth, growth, new beginnings.

The color pink provides a feeling of peace and sweetness that triggers a desire for harmony and evolution.

Jumping out of the water may represent trying to avoid something or simply the need for having fun.

Number 1 is associated with beginnings, newness, and change

The dolphin card encourages you to take time to experience joy, to play and to consider how you might create more harmony within the situation you are asking about.

You might consider how you can add more relaxation to your daily life. Taking a break from your ever-growing list of responsibilities might feel wrong but you need to find a way to get more relaxation in your life.

There is a strong pull to find more harmony and peace. You may be looking for a sign that you are being protected and that you are safe from harm.

For now being part of a group is important and this will encourage you to more playful as you engage with a team or your family unit.

It may also indicate you are looking for a deeper connection within your relationships.

The card represents the need to develop your self-confidence if you are to overcome the fear that you are experiencing. It may indicate a deeper fear, one that is holding you back from being able to express your joyful and playful self.

It is a call to grow, or continue to grow, your self-confidence. By improving your communication will achieve the strong connections you have, or that you wish to have.

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Resilience - The Camel

Resilience – The Camel

Look for the duality in your resilience. Seek both inward and outward as you seek to find your physical and spiritual path. You may wander, but you are resilient and will manifest your goals in time.

The camel represents travel, journeys, wisdom, endurance, survival, service, self-sufficiency, conservation, and, of course, stamina.

Keywords: Travel, journey, wisdom, endurance, resilience, self-sufficiency, conservation, stamina

Number 36 represents the materialization of your ambitions and goals by the intelligent use of your thoughts and brainpower.

36 is also universe is reminding you to go within, to concentrate on your spiritual life as much as you have focused on the materialization of your ambitions.

Deserts are the symbolic dominions whose apparent emptiness feeds the search for spirituality and enlightenment.

The image desert lacks both the specificity of sand or the definition of a worn path.

This card often comes up if you are coming into or going through some challenge in your life.

You may feel lost or have a sense of aimlessness. Look for the duality in your resilience. Seek resolutions both inward and outward and seek to find your physical and spiritual path.

You may wander, but you are resilient and will manifest your goals in time.

The card suggests that what you view as your strengths may be your greatest weakness, and what you view as your weakness may actually be your greatest strength.

You are being told that you must look both inward and outward if you wish to move from where you are to where you want to be.

Some days you may feel that your life is justr about survival and that you cannot endure. Yet, you are self-sufficient and you will find a way to conserve your strength and your energy. You will be able to stay the course.

If you are lost, look first inside yourself instead of outside.

*Reversed – isolated, aimless*

Look for the duality in your resilience. Seek both inward and outward as you seek to find your physical and spiritual path. You may wander, but you are resilient and will manifest your goals in time.

The camel represents travel, journeys, wisdom, endurance, survival, service, self-sufficiency, conservation, and, of course, stamina.

Keywords: Travel, journey, wisdom, endurance, resilience, self-sufficiency, conservation, stamina

Number 36 represents the materialization of your ambitions and goals by the intelligent use of your thoughts and brainpower.

36 is also universe is reminding you to go within, to concentrate on your spiritual life as much as you have focused on the materialization of your ambitions.

Deserts are the symbolic dominions whose apparent emptiness feeds the search for spirituality and enlightenment.

The image desert lacks both the specificity of sand or the definition of a worn path.

This card often comes up if you are coming into or going through some challenge in your life.

You may feel lost or have a sense of aimlessness. Look for the duality in your resilience. Seek resolutions both inward and outward and seek to find your physical and spiritual path.

You may wander, but you are resilient and will manifest your goals in time.

The card suggests that what you view as your strengths may be your greatest weakness, and what you view as your weakness may actually be your greatest strength.

You are being told that you must look both inward and outward if you wish to move from where you are to where you want to be.

Some days you may feel that your life is justr about survival and that you cannot endure. Yet, you are self-sufficient and you will find a way to conserve your strength and your energy. You will be able to stay the course.

If you are lost, look first inside yourself instead of outside.

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