Shadow Gate

How to Use the Deck of Nine Shadows

This is not a deck of answers. It is a mirror. A threshold. A return.

🔍 What is the Shadow Gate?

The Shadow Gate is a soulwork tool made of 9 Shadow Cards and 1 Gatekeeper Card. Each card represents an archetypal shadow that lives in your inner world: a forgotten emotion, a suppressed part of you, a truth that was once too hard to face.

This is not a fortune-telling deck. It is not a game. It is a ritual. A confrontation. A soft landing into yourself.

If you are here, it’s because something in you is ready to stop hiding.

🌌 What the Deck Contains:

• 1 Gatekeeper Card: Shadow of Guilt – The Gatekeeper
• 9 Shadow Cards:
  1. Mirror Witch – The Mirror
  2. Discarded Hero – The Hero
  3. Shadow of Rage – The Rage
  4. Shadow of Abandonment – The Orphan
  5. Shadow of Illusion – The Illusion
  6. Shadow of Worthlessness – The Worthlessness
  7. Shadow of Forgetting – The Forgetting
  8. Shadow of Shame – The Masked One
  9. Shadow of Control – The Puppeteer

Each card has a message, a ritual, a deeper insight, and a mantra.

🍃 How to Use It:

You can draw a card:

• Intuitively: When you feel lost, blocked, angry, or confused.
• Ritually: Every new moon, full moon, birthday, or threshold moment.
• In journaling: To explore hidden emotions or reveal subconscious patterns.

Each card leads you inward, not outward. It will not tell you what to do. It will tell you what lives inside you. Your job is to listen.

✨ What Happens After You Draw a Card?

1. Read the Card Description: Not with your mind. With your body.
2. Feel the Resistance: That’s where the healing is.
3. Do the Ritual: Simple acts open deep places.
4. Write What Comes: Shadow hates being seen. Writing is light.
5. Repeat the Mantra: Let it become an anchor. A spell.
6. Double Appearance of the Same Card : An Important Message. When the same card appears twice, it’s a sign that this theme requires your special attention and time. It’s an invitation to pause, look closely at the message, and engage in deeper, conscious inner work. This cannot be ignored or dismissed — the double reflection of the card signals that here lies an important lesson to be worked through. Give yourself space and patience to discover what truly wants to reach you. This is a moment for reflection, acceptance, and mindful shaping of your path.

🪴 Where Does It Go From Here?

This deck is a doorway. You can use it:

• As part of your healing journey
• In soul journaling or creative work
• Before making big decisions
• During inner child, shadow work, or therapy

Eventually, you might notice something strange:

You stop fearing your shadows. And you start respecting them.

That’s the moment you no longer need the deck. Because then, you carry it inside.