The Fractured Mind

Oracle cards serve as powerful tools for awareness and grounding, helping us navigate both light and dark moments in our lives. Today's "Fractured Mind" card from the Midnight Oracle deck explores how mental pressure and breaking points can lead to unexpected clarity and creative breakthroughs.

• The card's imagery shows a face partially floating away, symbolizing the feeling of mental fragmentation during high stress
• Mental breaking points often release pressure valves that lead to surprising clarity
• Our deepest struggles frequently precede our most significant breakthroughs
• Personal mental health journeys can spark unexpected creative outlets
• Breaking points provide opportunities to reassess what truly matters and where to direct energy
• The "fractured mind" can be viewed as a friend rather than an enemy
• Reflection question: What mental struggles have led you to moments of clarity?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there and welcome to the Cardcast.
I'm Natasha and I'm so gladyou're here.
Each day I pull an oracle cardand reflect on it as a tool for
awareness and grounding.
So take a deep breath, settlein and let's see what today's
card has to say.
Today we have a card from theMidnight Oracle, and our card is

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the fractured mind, and when Ifirst saw this card, the imagery
is a little bit dark and Ithink that's why I was drawn to
it.
I think there is a beauty.
I think many of us think this.
Uh, there's a beauty in thingsthat are a little bit dark, a
little bit reflective of, maybe,how we sometimes feel on the

(00:51):
inside, Even though we can'talways talk about that with the
external world.
So I think that's why I wasdrawn to this whole deck and
that's also why today's card isvery compelling to me.
So on the card we have anindividual who is kind of
looking up and out and it lookslike part of their face is

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essentially kind of floating off.
Even though there's not a lotof symbolism in the sense of
there's an animal or a sign oranything like that, this really
reminds me of when I am reallystressed out or I feel a lot of
pressure from whatever asituation is.

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When I get to that breakingpoint essentially kind of like
this card is saying thatfractured mind it gives me a
point of clarity that I probablycould not have gotten any other
way.
Essentially, there was so muchpressure that once that valve

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was released, the clarity that Iwas then able to gain from that
chaos was more than anything Icould have wanted or needed.
The journey to get there is notfun.
It's normally not.
However it was, it is theconcept of our deepest struggles

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lead to some really incrediblebreakthroughs.
And it is those struggles, thatturmoil, that battling with
ourselves and our beliefs andour thoughts and our feelings,
that moving through it feelsdark because it is, and then we
have these moments of microthriving and micro surviving,

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but then on the other side, itcan really transform that mental
chaos into a lot of creativeclarity.
I know that personally.
Even when I started this podcast, I was going through a little
bit of a not a little bit, I'llbe honest a lot of bit of a dark
time.

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I was on a quite a mentalhealth journey and then I got to
this point where I was like, oh, I want to talk about this
thing.
I love Oracle cards and I lovesymbolism and I want to really
do something with that andleverage some of the other
skills that I have.
So if I had not maybe had theopportunity to go through the

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struggle and the stress of a lotof other things, then I
wouldn't have gotten to thisbreaking point where I was just
like what do I love, what do Ireally enjoy doing, what do I
want to talk about?
All of the time I wouldn't havefound kind of that next thing
that fuels me in a really funway that I wasn't expecting and

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that has not only broughtcreativity in creating this but
in a lot of other areas of mylife, and it's just given me a
lot of calming clarity when itcomes to where I place my energy
.
For today, what are some ofthose mental struggles or some

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of that mental chaos that youexperienced that led you to that
next moment of clarity?
So I'll invite you to reflecton that, because then you can
use that as a tool next timeyou're struggling through that,
to realize that you'll get tothe other side of it and that
that fractured mind is actuallyyour friend.

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That's it for today's card Formore reflections and a closer
look at the cards themselves.
You can find me on Instagram,TikTok and YouTube at the
underscore card cast.
I'll see you in the nextepisode.