Available in Print and Digital format
Animals, whether they’re in the wild or sharing our home, often serve as loving and compassionate reflections of what we need to acknowledge, change, expand, or heal within ourselves.
Animal Reflections Healing Oracle will guide you to honor all aspects of yourself and step fully into your inner sage. The timeless wisdom of the animals depicted in this 52-card deck invites you to go within and gently observe past patterns, trust in your intuitive self, and emerge to live in alignment with your truth.
Use in oracle spreads, in daily meditations, or when seeking guidance and insight into life’s deeper questions.
- 52 cards
- Two blank cards included to customize
- 21 Major Arcana of Tarot represented in the deck
- 2.75 x 4.75 inches
- Guidebook – signed by me!
- Cards shrink-wrapped for protection and tucked inside lime colored organza bag
- One card reading included
- Wolf cover art postcard
- Created from my heart with wisdom gained through deep, personal inner work. While my inner work has
been and continues to be ongoing for 25+ years, it was in the last eight years that the seed was planted and began to make its way toward the light as I opened myself to trust. I was then eventually led to the process of “how” I would create this deck in my own unique way. The actual intuitive process of finding just the right images that spoke to ancient times and the reverence of respect for what animals offer us as wisdom and reflections to help guide us in our daily lives that many have lost touch with. Plus combining these images with paper, stencils, paint, pastel chalks, and pencils, to then creating individual collages on small wooden templates became a two-year labor of love.
Honoring the teachings of the animal world has cracked my heart wide open to see myself in a more loving and accepting way.
The animals in this deck were chosen with care and thoughtful purpose to serve as gentle and compassionate guides as you explore your inner world and examine with tenderness what needs healing.
Lovely Praise for Animal Reflections Healing Oracle
Animal guides can be powerful agents of healing, helping us to sense our blocks, blind-spots, and barriers. In her lovely oracle cards, Barb Techel shows how 52 animal teachers can hold space for us, allowing us to perceive, acknowledge and release repressed pain, fear, grief and other limiting thoughts or emotions, thus allowing us to venture deeper into a more joyous relationship with ourselves.
The accompanying guide book offers ideas on how to use oracle cards, as well as suggestions from the animals featured in the cards. These vary from ones we know — Bear, Elephant, Lion and Zebra, to ones whose teachings we may be less familiar with — Capybara, Hedgehog, Iguana and Nuthatch. The artwork is gentle and welcoming, inviting us to soften and contemplate in compassionate ways with the animals and with ourselves.
-Dawn Baumann Brunke, Author & Animal Communicator
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I recently gave myself a reading with Barbara Techel’s Animal Reflections Healing Oracle. I was so impressed with the powerful messages coming through. I am just enthralled with these beautiful cards, deep in meaning and insights. This Oracle conveys a unique approach, both with the animals in the deck and the interpretations that they provide.
The Penguins ask me to appreciate my loves and go deeper into how I love, both myself and others. The Snail, in its home and shell, knows all about forgiveness and letting go of protective boundaries. The Wolf leads the way with heart and courage. The Firefly, wise and generous, illuminates where we’ve come from and encourages us to acknowledge our growth and continue forward. The Butterfly is a messenger of joy, lightness, and sensuality. The peaceful Frog demonstrates playfulness and naturally purifies itself in clear or muddied waters.
These amazing creatures all share their wisdom through Barbara’s vast understanding and intuition. The healing qualities of this Oracle are profound. After using the deck I felt a deep sense of peace and promise. I connected with a certainty within myself, guided by the Oracle, to trust, to believe in myself and in my journey. I am so grateful to enjoy these cards and share them with others. Thank you for creating this wonderful deck! I’m sure that it will help a great many people!
~Elizabeth Lee, Artist and Creator of the Inner Light Moon Oracle
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Barbara’s insights are unparalleled, and I recommend her beautiful animal oracle highly!!
~Cathy Nichols, Artist, Teacher, Author
Barbara Techel is a wonderful, heart-centered human, and you can feel her loving energy throughout every card in this deck and guidebook. Each time I’ve pulled a card, it has been exactly the animal and guidance my soul needed to pivot into a higher frequency.
These beautiful oracle cards are primed and ready to expedite your healing, and are certain to get you back in your heart to reach a new level of awareness. They are an exemplary tool to be utilized time and time again to embrace and reveal the best version of ourselves.
-Tammy Billups, International Healing Practitioner for Animals & Their People, Award Winning Author of: Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions, Animal Soul Contracts, and Animal Wayshowers
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I love the personal touches Barb have included with the deck, such as the one card reading. Very special. The art is beautiful and I look forward to working with this deck more.
-Mel Hofmann, Fine Artist and Energy Healer, Berkeley, CA
As you begin any journey to your inner self, Wolf stands reverently before you as you courageously take that first step, encouraging you to keep your heart open, and inspiring you to continue to walk the path toward living in harmony with your emotional, and mental, physical, spiritual, and energetic self.
The animals in this deck are your loyal allies. They hold a non-judgmental and loving space as you acknowledge, integrate, and heal the aspects needing the most love and compassion. They are here guiding you to let go of your never-ending story and embrace a new one representing the core of who you truly are.
Available in print or digital copy.
$44.00 (shipping included) USA
*If you are local, LaValley Home & Garden in Howards Grove, WI carries my deck or you can reach out to me if you’d like to pick up a copy from me. Cost $38
*International orders please contact me. PLEASE NOTE: Shipping internationally now may require ALL package receivers to pay tariff, taxes and fees.
I also accept Venmo @Barbara-Techel and for personal checks please email barb@joyfulpaws.com for this option.
Digital format available through Deckible.com $15.99
About Author/Artist
I’ve come to deeply understand that when we open our hearts to our emotional wounds, gently acknowledging and understanding their presence, we are then better able to heal on a deeper level which then brings us into a more peaceful and balanced state of being.
Along my own personal healing journey, I’ve incorporated different tools that have helped me to acknowledge with compassion what needs healing. Every time I’ve done the inner work it leads me to an internal anchor of peace and harmony.
And one of my favorite tools for self-reflection, self-care, and self-transformation is Oracle cards!
The wisdom I’ve gained from doing the internal work, teachings from the animal world, and the different tools I’ve incorporated to guide me are what I bring to the Oracle Readings and Healing Sessions I facilitate for people and pets because we all deserve to be seen, heard, and held in compassion.
I’ve written three memoirs and two children’s books about the transformational healing journey I’ve walked and the profound and life-changing teachings I’ve received from three special needs dachshunds, two Labrador retrievers, a wolf, a snake, and a horse.
It was my dachshund, Gidget (in the framed photo), who lovingly served as my Master Teacher to help me finally give voice to, and heal, a childhood trauma I’d kept suppressed for over fifty years which led me to my mission now of helping people and pets with my reading and healing sessions.