Book Review: Heal Yourself Oracle

Title: Heal Yourself Oracle: Intuitive guidance to transform your soul
Author: Inna Segal
Illustrators: Cris Ortega and Drazenka Kimpel
Publisher: Rockpool Publishing
Release Date: April 2, 2024
Pages: 36 Cards and 96-Page Guidebook

The “Heal Yourself Oracle” deciphers the darker as well as the lighter side of life with three dozen cards to help you get in touch with all aspects of yourself. The deck’s raw, emotional illustrations and unflinching text can trigger deep feelings. By delving into the different aspects of wellness, spirituality, love, relationships, and soulfulness – and not avoiding the delicate themes – Inna Segal seeks to empower readers. With this oracle, she encourages them to explore, embrace, and heal all parts of themselves, to raise their consciousness, and transform their lives. 

For each card, the color guidebook shows the image, states the meaning, expands on the topic, and gives an action step to perform. Mastering these simple but powerful steps is required for transformation to occur, as Segal stresses in her introduction. They include such actions such as asking yourself probing questions, connecting with your inner child, making lists, dancing, and making changes to your environment. 

The thirty-six traits pictured on the cards include patience, self-love, and courage, but the majority of them are edgier. These edgier cards delve deeper into your psyche to include more uncomfortable topics such as entrapment, victim consciousness, selling out, and self-sabotage. Working with these aspects demands honesty and a willingness to accept the truth. In return the cards offer insight and messages to better know your true self, the situation, and ways to address it. When using these cards, choose a time when you won’t be undisturbed so you can give each one the attention it deserves. This deck can be an added tool for individuals doing shadow work.

A variety of spreads and ways to read them are included. For those who want to go deeper, Segal offers free videos and online seminars tackling many of the subjects contained in the cards. Find her at www.innasegal.com. 

Note: This deck was first released in 2017. This version has the same images, but the new cards are borderless, have a matte finish, and purple gilted edges.  

About the Author:
Inna Segal is an internationally recognized healer, teacher, author, and pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness. She guides people through physical self-healing and reconnecting to their spiritual divine nature. She teaches her students how to understand the symbolic ways that their body and soul communicate through metaphors, images, feelings, memories, colors, sensations, thoughts, and symbols. Inna is the award-winning best-selling author of “The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Health and Wellness” and “Mystical Healing Oracle.”

About the Illustrators:
Cris Ortega is a digital artist and writer. After art school, she worked as an art director for an advertising agency while also publishing her comics and art in multiple places. As an illustrator for Norma Editorial, she published her first art book. Most recently Cris published “Gold & Sword” and “The Shadow of the Red Crow: Volumes 1 and 2.” She lives in Spain and works full-time in digital art, particularly in fantasy and gothic aesthetics. Find her at www.crisortega,com.

Drazenka Kimpel is an awarded, licensed, self-taught digital illustrator who has worked on projects for a variety of gaming, comic, and publishing companies around the world, as well as for corporate and private clients. Her style is influenced by the color and narrative surroundings of the Neoclassical and Pre-Raphaelite masters. While she adapts to many styles of painting and design, she is most fond of fantasy as a base for her subject matter. See more of her work at creative dust.com.

About the Reviewer:
As an eclectic solitary practitioner, I travel the country in a converted school bus and share magick with those I meet. Find me at https://thewitchonwheels.com/ and on Facebook.