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While I also loved the book that Jessica wrote, I found myself referring to the book meanings and taking them as law, rather than going with my own, if you know what I mean .. I don't think that this was at all what Jessica intended, but because she gave such wonderfully detailed meanings for each card, I didn't feel that I could improve on it with my own interpretation. It was almost as if she had done my thinking for me LOL!DragonFae said:Another commented that Jessica's book was much richer...and I do agree the faery lore seemed to come alive in her hands....but at the same time I am finding the bare bones approach of Wendy...to be exactly what I need at this time....I find it liberating....I find that I can reach out and discover faery on my own with just this little bit of prompting. While I was most glad for Jessica's wonderful guidance with the Faeries Oracle...I also felt somewhat bound by it...as if she was the faery expert...and I but just a spectator.....this time around it is I who am the faery expert....left to wander through faery with little more than a compass....
However the new book does seem to leave scope for this, as you say, 'the bare bones' approach is exactly whats needed (for me anyway) to stretch me into finding my own meanings, with just a gentle nudge in the right direction from Wendy.