The Heart Oracle

118 messagesto you, from 700 years ago in Korea, with love

Read more of the story and origin below

Strike the bell for your Heart Oracle

Bring one question to mind, about your life, your love or your day.

Then strike the bell, and sit with the oracle it gives you.

The manuscript

The Flower Garland Sutra

Columns of gold characters on dark indigo paper, from the Goryeo manuscript
Inspiration

About the Oracle

Natalina Love at the Ten Kings of Hell exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art

Hi, this is Natalina Love.

I went to see the new exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art… and came away from it feeling a lot of things. A piece that stayed with me was this beautifully gilded book… and I got an idea, so we could all play with it.

As a love and relationship coach for women, I find each of the images in the Heart Oracle can open your heart to the possibility of every wonderful thing.

The book is written in Chinese characters, and I’ve used Chinese pronunciation instead of Korean, because it’s a language I’ve grown attached to, and there’s history there too.

I’d love to hear how you find it, and if you visit the exhibit, let’s chat!

I’m also available to talk more about coaching…

Love, Natalina
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The Book

This folded book was written by hand in Korea about seven hundred years ago, in gold ink on paper dyed deep blue. In this part of the sutra, a young seeker asks a great teacher how to live with an awakened heart. The teacher answers with these 118 oracles.

How It Works

Each of the 118 oracles is one line from the book, in the original Chinese, with an English translation and a question to sit with. You can hear each line read aloud, and write it yourself, one character at a time.

Avatamsaka Sutra No. 78. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 1300s. Folded book with illustrated frontispiece; gold and silver on mulberry paper. Each page 20.7 × 11 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1994.25. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0).