Elven said:
Hi All ...
I am now interested in the Faeries Oracle Deck. I think this will be the next deck I buy after all the comments here!
Blessings
Elven
I just got the Faeries Oracle this week, and I fell instantly in love with it. I am sure you will too. The artwork is stunning which is important to me when I buy a deck. I was unsure about it when I ordered it. I found some of the images a bit frightening, but as soon as I got it I fell deeply in love with it. Just after reading the hard cover book that comes with the deck I have become so fascinated with the topic I have gone out and ordered two other books written by the artist of the deck (Brian Froud) on faeries. I also received the bool "Good Faeries/Bad Faeries". It is just a stunning book. After completing that I just ordered his previous book "Faeries".
The deck seems to give me something my others (I have 12 now) don't, something I seemed to need but didn't recognize it till I saw it. I use Tarot to read for myself 99% of the time, for self-exploration, enlightenment, to draw me closer to the universe everyone in it....This deck seems to me to have a great sense of humour. It seems to encourage laughter, which is something we can always use in life.
And it may sound strange, but the cards (the faeries on them) often seem to represent pyschological traits we may have in us, like jeolousy...I find it could be helpful to somehow put an image to them and see them as something apart from ourselves so we could deal with them rationally as such. And his books do tell you how to deal with these characters/traits/faeires both the positive and the negative effectively. How to send the negative ones packing and embrace the positive ones.
According to the author in Good Faeries/Bad Faeries:
"In early Greece, the Neoplatists wrote of the Anima Mundi (or world's soul), which mediates between the ultimate divininty adn the mundane sensory world--just as the human soul mediates between the body and the spirit. ...The human soul flows into and is part of the world soul: there is no barrier between our essential selves and teh world's self. Faeries, being denizens of the world's soul and thus also of our own, exist in both the outer world of nature and the inner world of the mind. "
I somehow have a sense that this will not soon become my favourite deck.
Bar