The Tarot Room – Georgianna

Today’s pull from Georgie’s Magic Card Collection is the Happy Soul Yes/No Crystal Oracle Deck by Diane Kewley and Joey Wargachuk. I’m not sure when it was published, but I got my copy this past summer.

5 Points About This Deck

1. Purpose: The Happy Soul Yes/No Crystal Oracle Deck is meant to offer a straight up affirmative or negative answer to a querent’s question … which is often what people are looking for when they’re wanting a divinatory reading, and Tarot isn’t always so good at that.
2. Oracle Deck: The Happy Soul Yes/No Crystal Oracle is an Oracle deck, not Tarot. There are no Major or Minor Arcanas, simply 28 cards – 7 Yes, 7 No, 7 Maybe, and 7 Defer
3. Crystals: Each card shows a different crystal along with a short phrase connected to the energy of the pictured stone, and the answer, ie. yes, no, maybe, defer
4. Works Well With Others: This a great deck to use in tandem with other Oracle or Tarot decks … the Yes/No Crystal Oracle can suggest a yes/no/maybe/defer answer, while the other decks can fill in the details of that suggestion
5. Happy Soul: Happy Soul is a crystal and metaphysical shop in Toronto with two locations, one on Bloor Street West, and the other on Queen West (I’ve only been to the Queen Street store). The founder of the shop, Diane Kewley is one of the deck creators, and as far as I know, Happy Soul is the only place to get a copy (in person, or online).

If you’re looking for a straight and easy answer from your cards, this is a fun deck to try. And if you’re already familiar with the properties of crystals, you might especially like it.

Remember though, nothing is definitive with Tarot, or any Oracle deck, so always use good judgement and your own discernment when making decisions that matter.

I really like this promo piece created by PaperSpecs, a paper company out of Palo Alto, California.

It’s a five-card oracle deck meant to prepare a sales person for their next client.

Each card represents one of five potential client types – Soul Mate, Carte Blanche, Delusional, Tacky, and Micro-Manager.

They’re pretty funny. Take a look at the video to see …

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Rock and Roll is the inspiration behind David Rosenhaus’ new deck – The Rock and Roll Oracle Card Deck.

He sees music as intimately connected to the spirit and wanted to use songs we already know and love to deliver messages from the divine.

It’s meant to be the first in a series of Rock and Roll Oracles, covering the years, genres and styles of popular music through the last half century.

This first one is the Classic Rock Edition and focuses on music through 1973.

It includes classics like Zepplin’s Stairway To Heaven as the Choices card, and the Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil as the Shadow Side.

Appropriately, Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze represents Confusion.

The 44 Card deck and its accompanying guide book are already at the printers, and the deck should be ready mid-December.

If you’re interested in supporting the project, Rosenhaus has a Kickstarter page where donations turn into Rock n’ Roll rewards.

Check it out.

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Oracle of Initiation

Tonight’s Beyond Worlds features Melissa Weiss Steel and her Oracle of Initiation.

Melissa Weiss Steele is an artist and adventurer.

She’s spent two decades immersed in Norse, African and Native American sacred traditions, cross-cultural divination, indigenous dream-work and Archetypal Psychology.

Tonight she’ll be sharing the powerful story of how The Oracle of Initiation emerged from her own resurrection after the death of her husband.

Melissa shot The Painted Body images in the deck alone, in the ancient desert landscape of arroyos, canyons, caves, and tunnels surrounding Santa Fe, New Mexico.

They’re gorgeous.

Join Donnaleigh de LaRose and I in welcoming Melissa. And learn more about her magical Oracle and it’s shape-shifting mysteries.

We’d love to see you in the chatroom! Or call in (646) 200-0765.

Beyond Worlds w/Melissa Weiss Steele (live or in archive)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
7:00 pm EST (4 pm PST)

Here’s Donnaleigh’s video review of The Oracle of Initiation ….

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