Symbols as Oracles

Symbolism is a catalyst or key to accessing our own inner wisdom; our connection with the universal consciousness; our spirit or soul; what some call the higher self. This aspect of ourselves does not think in words, but in images, feelings, colors and sounds. It is the abstract part of our psyche that the logic dominated social creation that we live in will not accept as valid because it doesn't make sense to rational thinking. It is possible that everything that has happened since creation and throughout evolution is stored within us as an abstract memory. Not like some huge story-telling, factual novel, but as something, as Carl Jung says "beyond the grasp of reason". There are so many things in this world that affect us far more deeply than is explicable. It is symbolism that creates a pathway to our deeper understandings and brings them up into the conscious world. Tom Chetwynd, in his book Dictionary of Symbols says, "Symbols have always been treasured as a means of releasing sources of energy from the unconscious." The Sabian Symbols are a wonderful and complete system of symbols that will do just that. During those times when we need direction, reassurance or answers to questions in our lives, we can employ the use of an Oracle to reconnect with this enormous inner world full of meaning and understanding. What does an Oracle do? An Oracle is not here to give you THE answer. An Oracle is not there to do the work for you. It is there to give you the direction to access your own inner wisdom, the wisdom of the universe, for you to find your true direction and pathway to the answer. "Man's inner world is always more significant to him than his outer one, despite what may seem to be a much greater stability gained by the latter through its physical make-up or its historical continuity. The battles of life actually are fought, and won or lost, in the purely psychological and intangible areas of being." Dr. Marc Edmund Jones