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Part 3: The Pathway Divination

Part 3: The Pathway Divination

Last updated on: July 24, 2025 at 2:01 pm by Esa

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Part 3: The Pathway Divination 2025-07-24T14:01:08-05:00 Esa

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This is one article in a 4 part series of a spell work. If you have not read the other two, go read them now or you will be lost here: Part 1 Part 2

Now that the PSA is over, let’s get down to business. We are now at the point where the spell is completed, the candles have been spent – so now what?

Personal Actions

This spell is different then others I have shared because in this one, we are not weaving the path for the goal to manifest – We left that up to the Divine Mother and Father of Worlds. We fed and nurtured our goal or intention through our daily prayers and burning of the candles. Our work is not finished yet though.

They have created both the path through nature/ energy and the physical structures. Moving, clearing, and transforming what was needed in order for the goal to be obtained. We could leave it at that and call it a day – letting it manifest on its own now… But if we want the fastest and strongest results, we should nurture the path They created for us. We should move and act upon it. This is where the divination comes in.

We Surrendered

We surrendered the creation of the path to Them, so it can be hard to see what actions or movements we should be taking to help it along. We do not know the details of the path or what patterns and cycles They touched to create it. So we do a Pathway Divination.

It will not show us the path They forged, but it will show us how to move and act within it, to empower and enhance it, to nurture it as it manifests.

picture of the tarot cards in their positions

The Pathway Divination

The Pathway Divination – Nurturing the Path

I added the picture, but due to space restraints it might not be as clear, so here are the steps.

I did mine with tarot. I suppose you could use other methods such as Runes or another physical tool similar to them, but without trying it I’m not going to say it will work as well. It is up to you though.

I advise shuffling between each card drawn and draw in the order of the numbers. You will end up with 5 sets of 3 cards. Each set has an overall meaning and connection to our actions and ways of Being. Each card within the set gives you depth – gets more specific. The middle card (denoted by a * in the picture) is the core action or energy of each set.

I know it may sound and look like a lot, but once you see it, you will realize it really isn’t. They are giving you your story on this path created.

Roles: The first three cards are the roles each person is playing in the nurturing of the path.

Is Your role – the core of all this movement

The Divine Mother’s Role – how She will be nurturing with you

The Father of Worlds Role – How He will be nurturing with your

Set One: associated with the element of fire: What You Feel – internally, emotionally

Seer: the tool or skill you possess within you

*5. Observer: How you need to see yourself and act accordingly

Plan: What you need to bring forth and create change

Set Two: associated with earth: What You Do – governing movement and action

Illusionist: Senses, Experiences – trust and focus on what you are feeling and experiencing, not what others are putting out there

*8. Ruler: How you need to move/ act/ grow – Your ground, what centers you and keeps you connected to the path – your roots

Guardian: What is important, or how you need to guard this movement/ creation/ transformation (path)

Set Three: associated with air: Think/Speak – nurture and heal

Enchanter: What need to be reconciled or firmly set as truth within you (your truth) – shifting of the mind.

*11. Stabilizer: What needs to be stabilized within the mind – within your reality to root the work/ path

Healer: What needs to be, or is, healed through this

Set Four: associated with water: State of Being – Become – flowing

Knower: What you find/ discover in the journey

*14: Balancer: What has been balanced, gained – What you have Become in the journey

Weaver: How to move that out into the world

Reflection

Write it all down and take a Picture. Spend some time thinking about your original goal that you set for the path.

As you start reading this from that context, focus on the “Role” it has given to you. This is the center of all the other movements. It is the root of yourself to nurture the goal into being. How does that correlate with your goal? What mode is telling you to follow or root yourself in?

The First Set is the inner fire of ourselves. Our emotion, how we feel, our thoughts right now and their focuses. What we think we know and what we need to know.

The Second Set is the actual movement and actions in the physical world. It covers our physical senses and what we are really experiencing in the physical world around us. It gives directions as to what needs to guarded and how to guard those pieces. The Ruler being the main action that the other two feed into.

The Third Set is air. Taking it all back within ourselves, the mind, how we move from a place of thinking, of thought. The first card working from a place of what we thought we knew vs what we actually experienced for ourselves. Re-programming our mind or reconciling in our mind, what we found true for us and what needs to be left behind because it didn’t. The second card is how we do that, what is at the root of that work. The third is how to heal that in the mind.

The Fourth Set is water, how we flow and what we have become. The first card is what has been gained in the journey. The second, what has been balanced, new way of being or moving now. The fourth is how you move that outward, in your living life, on this path, into the world itself – all depending on the original goal.

Tomorrow

We are almost done… The last piece to this is to share my own personal experience with this spell.

I have been a witch/ spiritualist for the majority of my life. I have experienced so many moments of awe, of unbelievable miracles and occurrences, of wonderment. All the spells I have worked over the years, each one had their own impact and wow factor – even the ones that did not work right because I learned some valuable lessons along the way. This one though… This one has been unlike anything I have ever experienced spell work wise. The power, results, and experience itself has been unbelievable for me. But we will get into that tomorrow…

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Tomorrow…

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About Esa

Esa is a Crane Practitioner, High Priestess in the Temple of the Crane, a Sister of the Well, as well as a professional Death Doula and teacher. Through her writing, published works, courses, and community connections she sets the stage for personal transformation and personal path development through effective frameworks, skills, and being a Guide for others. Her personal work and tradition is rooted in the pattern of Death and Rebirth, personal transformation, soul healing, and Death Emissary work. If you want to learn more, check out her website and work! You can read more about the author here.

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