The Tantric Dakini Oracle Unboxing & In-depth First Look!
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The Tantric Dakini Oracle by Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger
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1. the path is not straight.
2. mistakes need not be fatal.
3. people are more important than achievements or possessions.
4. be gentle with your parents.
5. never stop doing what you care most about.
6. learn to use a semicolon.
7. you will find love.
marion winik
Natalie, I'm so grateful for your review on this deck! I don't know if you'll see this since this video is older, but I couldn't resist commenting. This deck is awesome, and so is your review! The deck only came on my radar recently, and now that I'm checking it out, I feel I am supposed to work with it. I need to explain to someone who might understand (please excuse my overshare):
As you may remember, I'm writing a novel that has been influenced by my own spiritual explorations. I started it in 2019 a few months after I had a seemingly unrelated vision in which there were a multitude of 'female ancestors' from various backgrounds who wanted to get their stories out to help empower other women. I thought that was super cool but I wasn't sure how to do it. I included a female ancestor in my novel, but she wasn't really finding her place. Fast forward to a month ago, when I realized I needed to do the same in my novel as I've been doing in my private life: show the protagonist working with multiple female ancestors. I did a reading for more guidance from the female ancestors I work with (using a random number generator, they usually pick one of my female-only decks from among my 300+ decks) and was directed to use The Dark Goddess Tarot. When I asked about the journey they wanted to take me on, the first card they brought forth was the Blue Dakini (3 of Air). Well, I studied that some, but it only came into sharp relief today when I heard you talk about Card 7, Cremation Ground, at 8:36. Then at 15:18 with the Ally card, you talk about the shadow. Well, the second card in my reading represented my deepest shadow that I’ve been working not only to heal in my life but to integrate into my writing (“hashtag inner demons need love too” LOL!). Finally, the third card represented me putting my work together step by step. It was a powerful reading that I knew I needed to digest in slow stages - and to take my protagonist on the same journey. A very humbling but fascinating process!
Whenever I work with these female ancestors, at least one among them has a fierce energy: Go quick! Be strong! Stop whining! LOL. It doesn't matter which deck I use to work with them, I usually get that kind of reading. Now I'm wondering if these ancestors are dakinis (???) Is that too bold an idea? Or maybe just one is, and the others are similar in concept but from different traditions. When I set out to narrow down their representation in the novel (not the ones I work with but those volunteering to be in the story) to 4 or 5 for the sake of manageability, I was shown that one ancestor is from the Eastern Himalayan region now know as Bhutan. That is even more meaningful now that I begin to appreciate the dakinis. :)
I have so much to learn! I'm thrilled that horses and trees figure prominently in Tibetan cosmology, too, since they are very important to my spirituality. I can’t wait to work with this deck, and I’ll be checking out your other videos on it soon. I hope you and yours are well. Blessings to you, my friend. 🙏❤
It was so great to get your take on this deck. Moments in this video I loved, “well.. truth, haha, what is truth?” And #innerdemonsneedlovetoo ☺️
I just came across this video of yours - I didn't realise that this is the pack I had 25 odd years ago and I didn't understand it and I do not recall a book with it. Thank you great informative video.
I bought this deck in the nineties or maybe early 2000, doesn’t matter but it looks the same except for the book cover and It was called The Secret Dakini Oracle. Anyway, in 2015 my neighbors house had a gas explosion and I came home to find firemen emptying my burned house of all its contents and on the pathway was the Holocaust card staring up at me. It had literally blown out of my house. I lost most of the deck in the fire, I have a few damaged cards that survived.
😧 OH MY GOD! 🫢 That’s incredible!!! Kat- I’m so sorry you had a house fire like that. That the Holocaust card blew out of the house is just … insane. I’m so curious to know how you feel about the deck after having that happen? You saved the remaining cards, right? Did you ever replace the deck? That’s one of the wildest stories I’ve ever heard. Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Honestly, I think about the deck all the time but haven’t replaced it. I just found the remaining cards- there are 27 and the Holocaust card is not there. I lost so many things in the chaos. I remember putting the holocaust card in my pocket but who knows where it is now.
I didn’t use cards for about a year after the fire and then got back into it with new decks. I still have my Thoth deck which smells of smoke. Sorry for the Long non-answer!
I've seen this deck making its way around TH-cam but I was so excited to see you doing a walkthrough of this deck. I skipped the flip through (because I want to discover the cards for myself) after hearing your overall thoughts and reading from the guidebook, I can finally order.this deck. Thank you White Lady with Pearls, I'm off to buy this deck, haha.. I respect your insights and knowledge. Thank you so much.🙏🏼
I’m so glad it was helpful! I sometimes skip walk-through’s too for the same reason until I have a deck & want to hear someone’s thoughts about it. I’m so glad you found the White Lady with Pearls to be of use! 😂❤️🙏🌈 Enjoy!
I love how this deck lets me think and allows my mind to play with the ideas it presents. I've also found it pairs really well with other more mundane decks, helping bring out the whimsy and absurdity of the universe in relation to the everyday trials and tribulations we plod through. It's a classic for sure. I like it for smaller spreads at the moment, so I can really spend a lot of time with the ideas themselves. I've made a list of all the tarot associations (specific suit cards without the courts) if you'd like it, let me know. But also I think it operates just fine outside of the world of tarot in the minors anyway, as like a 'major arcana plus bonus oracle' deck, which is all kinds of upside-down and kooky but I think it's very charming in it's own way for that reason. Thanks for the walkthrough, I always appreciate your thoughts, and just adore all of your videos. xx
would love to hear your thoughts on the book when you get around to it!!
Hi, please do an update when you've worked with it more, I have it and want to connect but it blows my mind too much!! Value your insights. Thanks
Hey! 👋 I would GLADLY do that! I’ve been working with it daily for well over a month now and I LOVE IT! It just fell into place as one of my all-time favorite decks with almost no effort. I’ll definitely do an update soon. ❤️🙏🌈
I bought a Vajrayogini incense recently - it's quite good too! I was so pleased.
Good to see how much you enjoy this deck💛 I'm not surprised the Dakini comes through if you ask ROFL Gods yes😂
Isis also a Death goddess... So yeah?
Awesome, it's a tarot🤤 in a way
Ooooo!!! Where did you find the Vajrayogini incense? 👀 I’m so glad I made you laugh! 😂👏👏👏 Yeah- it’s definitely a tarot in its own way for sure. I’m totally in love with it. 🥰❤️🙏🌈
#innerdemonsneedreallove...
I love Indra's Jewelled Net, that's just beyond words Nat...
I wasn't laughing at you, Natalie, it's the Dakini's antics❣️💛💋you know i love her
Loved your voice. But here are a couple of things. This would become a long educational post and i hope you don't mind.
1. Hinduism -actually there was no such name until the people outside India tried to define what they couldn't understand was happening in this land. They desperately tried to box it through their own limited view of life and turned it into something they thought was a religion. So, the "Hindu" word comes from 2 places. The uzbeks, Turks, Iranians, middle easterns, greeks etc - people west of India basically knew that they had to cross the "Hindukush" mountains to reach a land which was famous for its riches, arts, technology, resources, aesthetics, science, knowledge, goodness in character & deep wisdom. So they called the land beyond these mountains "Hind" or "L'Inde in French/greek" (from where the word "India" comes.
There was also a river called "Sindhu" river in this region which they had to cross to come further into that land. Sindhu became Hind/Hindu or the land/people of the Sindhu. Indians themselves called & still call their land other names - the one that i know is Bhaarat.
The name Hindu has nothing to do with the religious or spiritual self-explorations that were actually happening in India that outsiders termed hindu-ism (anything & everything that Hindus do in terms of what looked to them under the category of their idea of religion). There were Vedic rituals and vedic understanding of life but not a Vedic religion & people weren't just limited to that. There were many expressions of truth and many local teachers & enlightened beings. There were understandings based on bigger teachers like Buddha's or Mahavir's or Adi Shankaracharya's (etc.) teachings and their followers. The teachers appeared according to the time & circumstances which needed them. There are thousands of enlightened souls in this land and that's why it's the mother of spirituality. This understanding and wisdom is universal and does not separate just because of separation in the lands of Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, srilanka or india. People came from Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Bali, China, Japan & beyond to India and took this knowledge. (Or Indians went there and shared it.) Those who received dipped into the source. India gave without asking. Buddh didn't separate himself from those who followed Vedic rituals. He spoke to those very people and asked them to see beyond those rituals. He was saying the same thing that the deepest Vedas spoke but in a completely new way because it had become like dead knowledge stuck to scriptures & rituals. The absolute truth is same but still always new. But his followers too later got stuck with their rituals and books. So, Adi Shankaracharya did the same thing Buddh did, but in the 11th century to Buddhists who had become stuck in their dead rituals. But his followers again too became stuck in books and rituals. What a cycle!
2. All Indian rituals of all "religions" or rather way of perceptions came from the same land. These "religions" are called sanaatan dharm, meaning "eternal responsibilities and duties". Thats not the exact translation of the word dharm actually but let's keep it. So, since these rituals come from the same land, it doesn't matter whether you call it Tibetan or Indian, it's all the same. The land that is called "India" now was just as sacred, delicate, esoteric and refined as Tibet until the life-changing attacks on it by invaders. That aside, there was no difference in the minds of people of this land between Tibet, india, srilanka, Afghanistan etc. Kailash parvat is where Shiva stays and it's in Tibet. Raavan was from Lanka. Both these are originally from Vedic scriptures or followers. & No one thought Shiva was an actual person. Everyone understood the essence behind it & connected with it. And that essence is common to all.
Most concepts in Tibetan Buddhism are common to Vedic knowledge. Names may be slightly different sometimes but 80% of the times, even the names are the same. Because teachers who taught Tibetans went from India. The knowledge was stored in India for millennia. The word Dakini, Avalokiteshwar, Sutr (thread), Padm (lotus), yakshi, tantr, Sangh, Vajr-varhi (thunderbolt-pig -both in sanskrit), even Buddh - all these words come from Sanskrit. Pali was the colloquial language spoken around Buddh and it's just a colloquial (slightly corrupted) version of Sanskrit. Like English would be from Latin. The word Dhamma or Dham is actually Dharma or Dharm. So, many deity names, words of rituals and even rituals themselves are actually common to Buddhism and what you called "Hindu-ism". They are both sanaatan dharm from the same people in the same land. 1 set connected with the way Lord Buddh shared the truth and another set connected with the same truth but through various other ways being explored by different groups within india. The true seekers knew there was no difference and drank from cups of all teachers. If you were to give names to the group of followers of the enlightenment people in what is now called India, there would be hundred thousand groups, because there have been those many enlightened beings in "India", not just the famous ones like Lord Buddh. And there would be many in Tibet which was also earlier a part of India in a way because those geographical boundaries were very different earlier. Plus even where there were boundaries, there were no geographical movement limitations for spiritual seekers. They were respected in all the lands that had similar depth of culture and understanding.
Fyi, Rituals nowadays may look slightly different, because time and local people of that land & their own rituals leave a mark on the rituals.
Hope all that makes sense!
Woof! Long post. Take care, Namaste. 🙏🏾
Wow!!! ❤️🙏❤️🙏🪷💕 Thank you so much for your incredibly thoughtful, detailed and beautifully written post! It must’ve taken such a lot of effort to compose it and go to this amount of effort, and I’m absolutely thrilled to read it! Please accept my apologies for not responding sooner. I have been completely away from my channel for a very long time to manage other areas of my life that required greater attention.
I’m familiar with many of the concepts you offer in your second point, but many of the things you mentioned in the first one were new to me and very exciting to learn about. May I ask what inspired you to make such a generous effort? Thank you again so much for your time and generosity of knowledge. ❤️🙏💕🪷