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Tarot Deck Review – The Animystic Tarot by Willow Fay
Tarot Deck Review The Animystic Tarot By Willow Fay Published by REDFeather 78 Cards & Guide Book Publication Date: November 28, 2024 It’s that time of year again, when we are giving gifts and buying new things for ourselves. If you’re like me, you probably have friends who are as into the Tarot and Oracle decks as I am – my daughter-in-law is a total devotee and I always give her a new deck for Yule – Here’s a new one to add to your list. This deck is beautiful and different. I have never seen cards like these. Based on the concept of “animism” – which is the…
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Oracle Deck Review – 13 Sacred Nights Oracle by Lara J Day
Title: 13 Sacred Nights Oracle: A Yearly Solstice Tradition Author: Lara J. Day Publisher: Beyond Words Date: September 30, 2025 Pages: 52 cards and a 272-page guidebook With this oracle deck, Lara J. Day invites readers to “[d]ive into the potent stillness within the womb of winter and plant your dream seeds in the fertile soil of the radiant darkness.” She introduces a practice to immerse themselves in the magic of the winter season and celebrations by connecting with nature’s wisdom and receiving divine guidance for the coming year. When the world is cold, dark, and still, slowing down and spending time in reflection aligns with the rhythms of the…
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Oracle Deck Review – Elemental Goddess Oracle by Bronwyn Millar
Title: Elemental Goddess Oracle Author: Bronwyn Millar Publisher: Bear & Company Date: May 6, 2025 Pages: 45 Cards & 224-page Guidebook For this deck, Bronwyn Millar created cards for forty-five goddesses, merging the five elements of Chinese medicine, the four Western elements, trauma healing, acupoint practice, and channeled Goddess wisdom from dimensions where the sacred feminine is active. These elemental goddesses are grouped by the Chinese elements – wood, fire, earth, metal, water. Their Western elements of fire, water, air, and earth are also noted on each card, along with…
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The Modern Merlin’s Summer Reading List: Lessons, Perspective Shifts, Transformation and Impermanence
Hello friends! I know it’s been a hot minute since you’ve last heard from me, and I do apologize for that. To be honest, I hit a moment of deep inner change, one that I’m still not completely out of. During this process of change, I came to realize that returning to my roots in Buddhism and Taoism wasn’t enough; I had to apply those practices in my daily life, something that I still struggle with, and likely will for the remainder of my time in this life. That’s not to say that it isn’t worth it; in my view, it’s well worth it to be mindful, live in the present moment,…
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Tarot with Lady Saoirse
Yule 2023 Bright Blessings! As Yule approaches, you might be thinking of which decks you would like to buy to give to loved ones as gifts- and you might be thinking of which decks you hope to get as Yule gifts yourself! Instead of focusing on cards this time, let’s set them aside and discuss the runes. Yule, is after all, named after Odin, and Odin was the one who gave mankind the runes. Some people say the runes are just letters of the alphabet some smart Heathen incorporated into a new form of divination at some point. Others say that Odin intended the runes for people to use to…
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Tarot with Lady Saoirse
Tarot with Lady Saoirse Litha 2023 Bright Blessings! In the last article, I had some tips for reading tarot, and how talent is required. No matter how much you read and how many classes you take, if you are not intuitive, doing psychic readings is not something you will excel at. So that brings us to a question then. How do you get a tarot reading from somebody else? You would think all you had to do is pick a random reader, then pay them, and everything else would be perfect. Sometimes, it works out that way, but sometimes it doesn’t. There are a lot of reasons that…
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Tarot with Lady Saoirse
Tarot with Lady Saoirse Beltane 2023 (Photo by Viva Luna Studios on Unsplash) Bright Blessings! Some of you may have read my previous column Celebrating the Old Ways in New Times or my film and tv show reviews on Witch & Popcorn. I decided it was time for something new, and at PaganPages.org we are blessed with plenty of people who do Sabbat articles so I don’t have to do another one. I am beginning a Tarot column this issue. Various different topics will be covered, and there are just so many wonderful things to explore about Tarot and card divination in general. I thought for the first…
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Road to Runes
Road to Runes: Ehwaz – A Journey in Trust I finally got a new set of runes. In fact, it’s one I’ve had for a long time that I was going to sell, years ago, but for some reason have clung onto. Now I know why! It’s a set of carnelian tumble stones (rocks shaken in a tumbling machine until they are smooth) each inscribed with one of the Elder Futhark. I don’t go in for a whole lot of crystal magic as mining crystals has a lot of negative impacts on the Earth and the people involved. However, I also don’t waste what I have, and these are…
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Road to Runes
Nauthiz – Need and Sacrifice As part of my ongoing journey to understand more about the runes, I’ve decided to go totally random and use a rune generator rather than my physical set of runes. I’ve fallen out with these runes for personal reasons, and I do have another set but I don’t feel like I’m attuned to them yet. As frustrating as this purgatory-like stage is for divination purposes, it’s the ideal opportunity for getting some straight up learning in without questioning my own abilities or biases. The rune generator I’m using is ifate.com which I also chose at random after a quick Google search. This month I’ve…
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Tarot Talk
Comparing The 9 of Pentacles & The Empress This month, we will examine two cards that seem to have similar messages, with the intention of discovering more subtle meanings. We will mix the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana as we compare The Empress and the 9 of Pentacles. First, let’s review some terms. If you’ve read my column before, you can skip the next two paragraphs. There are 22 Major Arcana cards in a Tarot deck, with numbers from 0 to 21; the Majors usually deal with broader and more far-reaching life experience issues, archetypes that are easy for us to identify with and connect with at…
