current top ten oracle decks

[greatdane]

Often there is no one simple answer, but sometimes there are simple things we may overlook. I find that tarot or oracles can help me think outside the box or strike a chord I wasn't hearing before. I think it's great one of your oracles is handmade!

[frac_ture]

Originally Posted by greatdane

I have psycards and love them. In fact, right now it's the only non tarot deck I have. I was a psych major and this speak to me. Not saying everyone would love them, but aside from the images, I love the colors and the cardstock is STURDY (you could probably dunk them in the tub and nothing would happen to them, they're LAMINATED!), and they're inexpensive. Oh and psycards has a GREAT site, you don't even really need a book to start. Everything you need is free on their site. :-)

Enabler!! After reading your post yesterday, I went to the site again to torment myself with the cards, and was struck by the realization this time that a few of the images have direct bearing on some meaningful dreams I've had recently...so I finally made the leap! The deck and the accompanying book should now be winging their way toward me as I type this (the site is great, but I'm the type of person who likes having a physical book to hold sometimes)...

This will bring my Oracle decks total to five (and counting, probably...)...

[greatdane]

I hope you will post how you like them after a couple of readings. There are a couple great easy spreads that I found very helpful and on target! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. And you're so right, the Cave is a great image, but I think you will find many wonderful cards in this deck. And oh so happy to enable lol. I get re having the book. I like having physical books around me, I just haven't bought the book yet. I have gone over the site many times though.

[frac_ture]

Originally Posted by greatdane

I hope you will post how you like them after a couple of readings. There are a couple great easy spreads that I found very helpful and on target! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. And you're so right, the Cave is a great image, but I think you will find many wonderful cards in this deck. And oh so happy to enable lol. I get re having the book. I like having physical books around me, I just haven't bought the book yet. I have gone over the site many times though.

It was actually Winterchild who expressed specific love for the Cave card...but I have big crushes on at least half a dozen of the others, and I do like that one, too. I think both the art and the overall concept are pretty tremendous! I was at first very resistant to Oracles, as I felt that without the tighter structure of Tarot, they were...I don't know, too easy somehow? Less worthy? But I've come to see both sides of that question -- sometimes less structure can be liberating, and why not have both types of decks in the collection...? Thanks for your encouragement! I've been more into Runes than anything else lately, but should try to make time to do some Oracle work (with all of my Oracle decks!), and will post some results in specific threads if/when I do!

Meanwhile, I'm also following everybody else's choices of Oracle faves in this thread...

[greatdane]

Didn't remember who liked that card. Yes, I too am watching all the oracle choices with interest, frac_ture. Totally happy with psycards, but am open to trying new oracles. I tend to look for oracles that offer an element that speaks to my psych background, it just resonates more.

I get what you mean regarding tarot. I definitely read tarot more, but psycards has a bit of the feel of tarot to me without being tarot, kind of a different perspective. Just speaking for me, oracles are just a different voice, a different way of looking at something. I have combined both before.

[PsychicLord]

I own around 18 different oracles. Until late 2010, Psycards was my deck of choice for well over 10 years. I used multiple decks [4 decks], but with only 1 copy of 'yes', 'no', 'now', 'never', and 2 of 'maybe' cards.

Occasionally, particularly if I needed a 'sugary sweet' element, I would use a DV deck such as HwF, or HwA.

I found that my clients were happy with this, but I still had a nagging feeling, I needed to get deeper, and sought to find a way of bringing out 'elements' many oracle decks cannot reach. By this I mean that a reference point in the form of a card was visible to the client. For example, if a client is being drained of her 'energy', then I required a deck that could portray this directly.

From that point I changed to using Oracle-X (54 card version), and since June of this year have moved to Oracle-X (80 card version). Being able to shape the deck to a particular clients needs is also useful...... (e.g. to be able to remove cards for certain clients with certain belief systems).

I was 'Best Man' at a wedding last weekend.... for my speech, I broke with tradition by getting the Groom to shuffle a deck of Oracle-X cards..... then giving a 9 card past/current/future reading to the assembled guests. Whilst risky, I had confidence in the deck and my abilities. As it happens all 9 cards were 'spot on' leaving some guests very emotional (in a positive way). The reading was videoed, so I will get to see a play back in the near future.

[Winterchild]

The Psy cards dont really appeal to me but I would like to see the Oracle -X..... sounds intriguing.
Slightly OT, but I was trying to find your homepage for the Oracle, and saw on your profile about your current human incarnation..... now that is fascinating!

I have never done PLR but did attend a workshop once here in NZ..... I was completely blown away by the possibilities and would dearly love to find out more.

Winter

[PsychicLord]

Hi Winter, yes PLR is a little off topic..... but I am happy to share my experiences via another medium (e.g. FB).

There are some Reincarnation themed Oracle decks...... I have one, but for me, it is next to useless, and I would never use it with a client (or indeed myself). I am hoping that one day I might find a use for it.

Many of us will get past life glimpses/thoughts/feelings etc., the art is to remember that two pieces of information may not fit together as expected. For example trying to match a segment from your last life, with one from three lifetimes earlier........ two valid segments, but more than likely, no direct link. In my case, my last life was Negro (Southern USA, c20th), and the life three before that was English (c17th).

[ladybird]

Psycards (Love them! Such a different way to read. frac_ture, i think you'll like them!)
Tao Oracle
Wisdom of the Hidden Realms
The Goddess Oracle (Marashinsky)
Druid Animal Oracle

[frac_ture]

Originally Posted by missmaree

Psycards (Love them! Such a different way to read. frac_ture, i think you'll like them!)

Thanks, missmaree! I've sure admired the artwork every time I've looked at them online, so I'm eager to see them up close and personal (and now more than ever, since I started reading some Jung). And who knows, maybe they'll be the catalyst that gets me to really start making use of my Oracle decks, which have taken a far back seat behind Tarot, Runes, and crystals to date. I have some Oracle decks that really intrigue me, too, but I just haven't made the time to use them much, as I'm still even more fascinated with the other systems I mentioned. Dilemmas like this leave me with no doubt that I'd vote "yes" on a petition to add more hours per day if someone ever decided to float one...