The Nature of the Oracle

I think I have realised something about the nature of my Oracle set.

Don't get me wrong here - I'm not a believer in prediction. Not really. But I do have an Oracle set that I have owned since I was a kid, and when I stumble upon it (usually hidden in the deepest recesses of my untidy bookcase), I invariably pull it out and do a reading, just out of curiosity.

Maybe it is my lack of belief that explains why future events are never predicted correctly. But then, maybe not - chaos theory, people.

Never when I do a reading do I learn anything new. Not once.

At first, it always seems like new information. It feels new. But when it is done, and I take a step back and look at the whole picture, I realise that I already knew everything in it. Perhaps I had not fully realized it. Or simply not accepted it. But it was there.

The cards show me a path that I had known all along, but simply had not recognised. I think that this is their power - through their vague meanings, my thoughts are clarified, and I am able recognise what has been right in front of me the entire time.

That is their value. I have always held that the personal meanings found in fortune telling is manufactured by the veiwer, but now I wonder thus: Is that not what makes them useful?

Nonetheless, I think I need to invest in a new Deck. Telling my fortune on a Lord of the Rings themed Oracle makes me feel like an idiot, regardless of the result 8D