kimberlysteele | Ogham Readings on Mondays

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From: (Anonymous)

Well, how do they think my NEXT part-time job will go?

—Lady Cutekitten

From:

kimberlysteele

My Ogham give me Straif (Blackthorn) or Strife well-dignified to answer your question. This is to say that it won't be a walk in the park, however, you'll be able to handle it just fine and you will be stronger and more resilient from the experience.

From: (Anonymous)

Sounds good!

—Her Grapeness

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kimberly, thanks for this!

I would be interested to know what the Ogham have to say about my spiritual development - am I on the right track? The last two days I’ve felt completely physically exhausted (and crashed into slumber!) after having what I felt were great meditation experiences - is that normal or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thank you!

-Erika

From:

kimberlysteele

My Ogham affirm that it's perfectly normal to go through what you have recently experienced with meditation. They give me Muin (Grapevine) or Harvest well-dignified, which is to say that very soon (in the next few days?) you will be made concretely aware of the rewards of the work you have done so far. From my experience, discursive meditation balances my character and helps me to be a good influence on everyone and everything around me.

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kim,

Weather is warming up a little here. No longer freezing my fingers and toes off, so I am happy.

May I have a reading of the week?

Also, it comes to mind, we had this big earthquake a couple of days ago (7+). Was it the main event or is a prequel to something more? (We had a pattern like that 10 years ago, a couple of big-enough ones then a huge one)

Thanks.

From:

kimberlysteele

Hi There,

For your week this week, they give me Gort (Ivy) or Perseverance well-dignified. This is to say that you will be strong and resilient this week and you won't have the issue of being an overpowering influence (one of my chronic problems) and neither will you be ineffectual. Whatever life throws at you this week, you'll be able to handle.

For the Situation position, they give me Phagos (Beech) or Teaching/Mastery. This indicates that your state of expertise in some matter will come in handy for you, for those around you, or both. I would look for some kind of curveball this week you are able to either catch and handle with aplomb or nimbly dodge.

The final card they give me for your karmic lesson is Luis (Rowan or Maple) which shows the influence of your Higher Self and the considerable powers it draws upon. I would make notes this week because they may come in handy later to see the influence of both your Higher Self and the gods/God in your life. All three cards were well-dignified.

I asked the Ogham whether there would be a disruptive earthquake in your area within the next calendar year and they said No, giving me the card Ur or Intimacy ill-dignified. You might have another small earthquake or several but the Big One is at least a year away.

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kimberly,

a) You nailed it last week yet again! What's up this week?

b) Building off the question about my mother last week has me thinking through my options, and the one I think is the best right now is to cut all ties with my family by moving and not telling them my new contact information. What will happen if I do that? (This is somewhat academic at this point; I can't afford this right now and don't see a way to do so until this summer at the earliest)

From:

kimberlysteele

A) Glad to hear it!

B) My Ogham say that cutting ties with your family will not be an easy road, however, they do say a major karmic lesson would be learned by taking that route.

They give me three cards. The You card came up as Straif (Blackthorn) or Strife ill-dignified. It will be an uphill battle as you learn to be poorer and navigate without their help. You will often feel too vulnerable to continue. There is also the distinct chance they will fight your decision by doing dramatic stuff like hiring a private detective to spy on you or by showing up at your door.

For the Situation card, they give me Coll (Hazelnut) or Wisdom ill-dignified. This to me symbolizes laziness that is not you but affects you nonetheless -- most likely their laziness as they seek easy answers where there are none.

For the final position, Karma or the Lesson, it's Uilleand (Honeysuckle) or Generosity. The hardest thing that you will have to learn is how to be generous to a fault. Parsimony can be captivating because it gives us the false sense of security that we are "saving" money. But by not paying wealth forward and by not realizing one's own privileges, it's very easy to fall into the trap of feeling too poor to pay attention to your gifts. Giving more than you think you can afford to those who are less fortunate than you are, for instance, donating grocery money to a family where the breadwinner suffered an accident and cannot work or to a vetted charity that genuinely helps homeless people, sublimates the gift and will bring it back to you seven times or more. Now it's up in the air whether it will multiply by seven in the form of your own mental/emotional prosperity or in actual material wealth or both, but from what I can tell it is one of the most reliable phenomenon in the unseen world. The more your spirit embodies generosity, the more the rewards will multiply.

From: (Anonymous)

Well, I'm fully expecting them to fight it. Is this a fight I can win without moving to another area?

From:

kimberlysteele

My Ogham say Yes, you can. They give me Beith (Birch) or Beginnings well-dignified.

From: (Anonymous)

I just realized you didn't say what's up for the week ahead! I was so focused on the cutting family ties question I didn't think about the other.

From:

kimberlysteele

Looks like a bit of a rough week for you.

For the You position, they give me Fearn (Alder) or Guidance/Bridge ill-dignified. This means that it will feel as if you are getting nowhere fast and that you'll have the common tendency to either over-trust or mistrust a source of knowledge. Be ready to separate the wheat from the chaff: don't glorify or kill the messenger; instead, examine the message itself with a clear and dispassionate eye.

For the Situation position, they give me Mór or Change. There are big changes going on for you right now underneath the surface.

In the Karma or Lesson position, they give me Ioho (Yew) or Grace ill-dignified. If I remember correctly, this isn't the first time you've gotten this card in one of my Ogham readings. Ioho is talking about the lack of Grace, but now it's in the Lesson position. I think this speaks of the difficulty of walking away from all you've ever known as well as your grace-deficient family. It's going to take extraordinary grace to deal with them, even if dealing with them means never speaking to them again in this incarnation.

From: (Anonymous)

What do I need to know this week?

From:

kimberlysteele

It's a mixed bag of a week for you. Your first card is Ailm or Transcendence ill-dignified. This warns not to suffer a false sense of having triumphed over a sticky situation too early or that you might not feel your best or "up to the task" this week.

The second card they give me is Coll (Hazel) or Wisdom. This points to an outside source of wisdom that will be your guide -- rewards will come as a result of diligent, patient, and thoughtful work.

Thirdly, they give Ngetal (Broom) or Hygiene ill-dignified. As this is in the Lesson position, this indicates that something is out of balance where hygiene is concerned, and that can mean an overreaction on the side of being too dirty, for instance taking health risks by overindulging in sweets or overexerting during exercise, or by being too clean, for instance by over-washing hands or avoiding other people because of an irrational fear of infection.

From:

cs2

Thank you so much for your reading last week! Especially the warning about miscommunications. Having a heads up meant I could roll with it and not be frustrated when it happened, which indeed it did, quite a few times! Having a sense of humor about it helped a lot.

From:

kimberlysteele

You're welcome! I'm so glad my Ogham could help. I have noticed that my daily reading has saved me from being an ass quite a few times at this point...

From: (Anonymous)

Hello Kimberly

My question for the Oracle this week. Is should I do the New Thought Order of the Essene correspondence course that JMG put online.

Thanks a lot
Will O

From:

kimberlysteele

Yes, my Ogham say the time is right. They give me Koad (Grove) or Confluence well-dignified, which is to say that all the factors are in alignment for you to study the Essene course.

From: (Anonymous)

Great Thanks. I will start right away

From:

kimberlysteele

Nice!

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kimberly,

Can you tell me what has been holding me back from pursuing my path in life? I see it in front of me, but I am always derailed or held back, but I don't understand why.
-A. Aseon

From:

kimberlysteele

Interesting, the Ogham are saying it's a Watcher at the Threshold sort of thing.

You need to persevere. You are being tested to see if you will give up -- probably working out some bad karma from your past lives is my guess. They gave me Gort for the You position, which means Perseverance/Ivy. Just keep plugging is the Ogham's message.

For the Situation position, they gave me Koad or Confluence. This means there are a great many factors that have to coalesce for you to feel you are getting somewhere, but obviously you cannot force them.

Finally, the Lesson position gives me Mór, or The Sea. This points to a sort of Sea Change that must occur within you in order to pursue your path, and that kind of change has just begun for you.

All three cards were well-dignified. That means someone is looking out for you in a big way. Stay strong!

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kimberly,

My question is this: will I get the job I just interviewed for?

Thank you for this service.

From:

kimberlysteele

My Ogham say No, you won't get the job you interviewed for. We probably need to rephrase the question though, because does anyone really get the job they interviewed for? Meaning, is the job ever what we thought it would be? They gave me Duir (Oak) or Gifts ill-dignified.

From: (Anonymous)

Can you check for me what was going on towards the end of last week? I crashed and burned, complete with a weeping meltdown around fear of financial disaster.

I suspect it’s old business I need to journal about. Is that it, and can I do anything else to heal myself?

Thanks, as always,

Annette

From:

kimberlysteele

Hi Annette,

For what was going on last week, my Ogham give me Quert (Apple) or Delight ill-dignified. This indicates that you're not "stopping to smell the roses" and that is why your anxiety got to an all time high. In my last lifetime, I was a very rich widow who wanted for nothing. My second marriage was for money. I died sad, bitter, and alone. Much of this was because my two sons were killed as young men in the World War, but I also got to an age where all my friends and loved ones were dead. Because my past incarnation had it so easy, I was tasked with learning the lessons of being much poorer this time around. I have found the Stoics, especially Epictetus, to be exceptionally valuable in navigating my reactions to financial downswings. It took me a long time to detach from the comforts of my upper-middle class upbringing. I also find that praying to Jesus (the kind one of the New Testament) has helped a ton. There is no such thing as financial security -- if you have it in one lifetime, you're pretty much sure to lose it in the future lifetime so you can learn the lesson of why nobody should ever get too used to it. The richest people in the world are the ones who will become the poorest: unless they are compulsively generous like the late George Michael, they'll most likely end up getting the short end of the stick for many future lifetimes in order to redress the balance of what they took but did not earn.

For what you might do to heal yourself, they gave me Ailm (Elm) ill-dignified. Ailm Transcendence and it implores you above all things to keep your sense of humor. You've been overly serious and Quert ill-dignified says that too. It's extremely easy to focus on the negative: we are biologically wired to remember stressors so we can survive! My Ogham say you need to document and meditate upon a few of the times when you made excellent decisions/what you knew was right and were able to either personally triumph, help others, or both because of them. Then use those meditations to help you deal with the current set of challenges.

Edited Date: 2021-02-16 12:23 am (UTC)

From: (Anonymous)

Thanks Kimberly. You’re the best!
Annette

From:

andrewskeen

Hi Kimberly,

Just a quick note to say your reading for me last week as spot-on; especially in terms of astral grime and being overly relied upon. My part of the country is having rolling blackouts due to weather, but before that (i.e. for most of the previous week) I had very strong success reaching people outside my usual orbit.

Best,
Andrew

From:

kimberlysteele

Thanks for the feedback, Andrew!

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kim, Thanks for doing these!
Should I go in for a promotion at work?
Thanks!

From:

kimberlysteele

Hi,

My Ogham say No, at least not this week. They give me Eadha (Quaking Aspen) which means Limits, ill-dignified, which means the promotion is not worth chasing for whatever reason right now.

From: (Anonymous)

A general, “what’s up/how am I doing”, but more in the forefront, does my friend think of me in a romantic sense, is their someone else he thinks of romantically? Is part of his issue because of alcohol?

From:

kimberlysteele

Hi,

My Ogham say that Yes, he thinks of you romantically. They give me Muin (Grapevine) or Harvest, which means it's possible those thoughts have a good chance of earthing out on the material plane. That said, he also thinks of someone else, perhaps many someone elses, romantically. They give me Ngetal (Hygiene) ill-dignified. This points to him being less than scrupulous about his romantic partners. Is part of this because of alcohol? They say No, it is not. They give me Onn or Community. I think they are saying he is a social drinker first and foremost by this card placement.

For your general "What's up this week?" I drew three cards.

The first You card is Oir, which means lightning bolt or Epiphany. This week you'll have an epiphany. Epiphanies are usually complicated because they involve the feeling of sudden realization, but also that you sort of knew all along sense.

The second card that signifies your Situation is Nuin or Communication. You'll have a situation this week where your words reach someone far away and help them. You might not find out about it right away but you will find out eventually concerning your good deed and resulting good karma.

The third card is Fearn, which means Bridge. It's in the Lesson position and it is ill-dignified. For some odd reason, Fearn is showing up in a lot of readings today. Fearn unbalanced usually indicates either the stubborn urge to go it alone when help is readily available or a problem with a helper/mentor/guru. I would be on the lookout for either dismissive go-it-alone stubbornness or over-reliance upon a (potentially flawed) teacher/mentor this week. Keep in mind it's not necessarily you who is the person seeking the guru... you might be the guru in question. I have often drawn this card when one of my music students or their parents is behaving badly. This card talks about the lessons to be learned from teacher/student relationships, and teachers aren't always humans or even corporeal entities!

From: (Anonymous)

a) How would the planetary intelligences feel if I used the Orphic Hymns to start learning how to rap?

b) Would I be able to learn how to rap (or at least start the process) by doing so?

From:

kimberlysteele

The planetary intelligences seem cool with it! They give me Mór or The Sea well dignified, so my guess is that they don't mind if do the rap version of the Orphic Hymns. Sounds quite interesting, I think.

They say No, you won't be able to learn how to rap via the Orphic hymns. They give me Ur or Intimacy ill-dignified, which means that they think you should start with other raps. This answer strikes me as strange, but there it is. Make of it what you will.