Bird Cards
Publishers in Cape Town

Like other oracle cards, the Bird Cards can be used as a way of mirroring back to one the issues that are current in one's life, to help one to transcend and transmute them, but they can also be used to understand the meaning of a bird that has appeared in a dream, a meditation, or a significant encounter.
The Story of the Bird Cards.
This is the second set of Bird Cards, published as 'Ascension to Paradise: the Transcendent Power of the Bird Kingdom'.

On New Year’s day in 1999, while in a deep meditation, Jane was told to listen to her inner voice and write down what she heard, after previously wondering about the metaphysical nature of bird energy and what it offers to the planet. Jane then went through a transformational process where the subtle healing qualities of 55 birds were revealed to her, over a period of about a year, and these were written as the text of the Bird Cards: The Healing Power of the Bird Kingdom. In the course of that year, Jane, who lives in Cape Town, South Africa, was put in touch with Joyce, who lives in Spaarnwoude, the Netherlands. There was instant recognition that Joyce was the right artist to illustrate the cards. Joyce then began her own transformational process, as she beautifully illustrated each card, using metaphysical symbols to illustrate the quality that each bird is expressing. Joyce and Jane only met physically at the end of the process when Joyce had finished all the pictures, but from the beginning it has been a wonderful partnership across the northern and southern hemispheres! The first set of Bird Cards is now out of print in its original format, but the new pocket edition published in 2014 replaces it, with the same illustrations and a slightly reduced text. You are moving on the wings of Light to a new harmonic. These Bird Cards are given to you all to connect you with us, so that we can begin our task of moving you to this lighter expression of yourselves. Each of you is beautiful beyond your present very limited conception of yourselves. Do not ever get bogged down in fear and apprehension about this process of becoming a lighter version of yourself; just ask us to be there and we will. We know that it is a difficult challenge to be in a physical body. Once Jane had submitted the manuscript to the publisher, it became clear that this was by no means the end of the process and that there was another set of Bird Cards to write! Joyce then took 5 years to illustrate them, a real labour of love. At the end of the second set is a Glossary, which covers almost all of the birds in the world.If you look up a bird that interests you, it will tell you which one of the 121 cards you should read that is closest to its energy. This means that people all over the world can enjoy the Bird Cards and relate them to the birds that they encounter in daily life. Like other oracle cards, the Bird Cards can be used as a way of mirroring back to one the issues that are current in one’s life, to help one to transcend and transmute them. But they can also be used to understand the meaning of a bird that has appeared in a dream, a meditation, or a significant encounter. The bird energy is offering itself to us to help us to lift our frequency to a higher expression of ourselves. There is a birthing, and a remembrance, taking place. All around, life is awakening and remembering that now is the time. Now is the time to lift up, back to the knowledge of our Oneness with all things, back to joy. There is so much joy for those who will lift up their wings and fly. She works as a complementary health practitioner, using the Bird Cards for insight and support. She discovered bird watching as a teenager and has enjoyed taking note of the birds that cross her path ever since. Joyce van Dobben has also always had a strong connection to birds and nature. She lives and works as an artist in the countryside in Spaarnwoude, The Netherlands. Joyce takes orders for handpainting nature designs on porcelain and on feathers.