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This is a set of 28 cards created by Mike Richmond (ShiningMoonStudio on Etsy). I thought it was a cool concept, although somewhat limited in the number of cards. When they first arrived, I shuffled them up and got this reading:

FEATHER ----> HAT ----> PUMPKIN

The deck contains two cards that list potential interpretations but, of course, everything is up to the diviner. Some of the listed meanings make sense to me; some of the meanings I alter or extend. I wrote down:

Message, Work, Prosperity

That seemed positive. And so I waited. Two days later, I had not yet received a message at work about prosperity. I decided to use the cards again. I got almost the same message:

FEATHER ----> PUMPKIN ----> RING

I wrote down:

Message, Prosperity, Promise/Wealth

As if the cards were saying, "Yep, the message of prosperity is still coming, I promise. And its going to be big!"

And then I forgot all about the matter. Until the message about work prosperity hit me square between the eyes today.

A nice little deck, if your mind has the power to guide your hands to pick out the future.

Mr. Richmond also sells a set of 13 oracle dice marked with the letters of the Theban Alphabet and various symbols, like the symbol of the Moon Goddess, the Horned God, a Pentagram and so on. I also have them, but I find that they require almost a prophetic mania to use. It is very much like operating akin to the Cumaean Sybil, who wrote down letters on the leaves of laurel (sacred to Apollo) and then cast them to be all mixed up in a drum-like vessel. The last time I used them, the oracle came from the Horned Father, and He said:

THE GATES OPEN AT SIX.

Somewhat mystifying, yes? Unless you are a Qabalist. Then it is perfectly clear. And wise and funny at the same time, too. Even if you aren't a Qabalist, but know something about occult geometry and numbers (for instance, from cosmology or from card reading), it still makes sense. The Divine Powers, I find, have a sense of humor.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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