Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Earth Power Oracle - An Atlas of the Soul by Stacey Demarco, published by Blue Angel Publishing. £18.25 Boxed set of 41 cards and guidebook. www.themodernwitch.comThese are brightly coloured cards with traditional images based on the Marseilles Tarot. Described as an ‘alphabet’ and language’, a ‘road map’, the Tarot is explained, with all aspects of our life covered, it warns, encourages, prompts and guides. 5 rules are important to remember - never impress a crowd with your Tarot readings. Do not use it to control others. Do not live your life based on a tarot reading - you are to remain in control of your life. Keep your readings simple and accessible. And do not assert but suggest!
I enjoyed these cards, their gentle coloured drawings, beauty, concepts and write-ups on each card. The cards display an image, a number, a title and three keywords on their face. In the guidebook, we have more information in up to 1,000 words of meaning for each card. Information on how to use the cards is detailed. Focus on the outcome you desire. Ask an open question, such as “What am I Missing?” Several other suitable questions are suggested. Spreads include The Triquetra or 3 Card, Past, Present, Future, the 5 card Pentagram, and the 10 card Celtic Cross.
Nicola practices Celtic Shamanism and her card titles bring elemental messages of the land, and the myths and traditions of the Celts. Information is provided about ancient and advanced beings called Elementals. She describes how each card relates to her.
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn. should never crave the rose.” Anne Bronte
The deck’s creator is an Australian florist, organic gardener, ethnobotanist, and has more than a dozen other botanical titles already published. She has a regular popular radio show “At Home with the Gardening Gang”.The very beautiful paintings are in the public domain.
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: The Bohemian Animal Tarot, written by Scott Alexander King and illustrated by Sharon McLeod. A boxed set of 80 cards and guidebook. Published by Rockpool Publishing.
This is a truly beautiful Tarot deck. It is enriching, nourishing, and powerfully connects to many rare and iconic species that will facilitate great enjoyment for the reader and their clients. I like the deck and I like the work of Scott Alexander King. In addition to the suggested spreads, the deck can be worked through by choosing one card for each day. The species that are depicted are illustrated realistically and in great strength and skilfulness and admirability.
Cards with impressive red gold leaf edges, and gentle pearl pink cards. Using crystals, astrology, colours, elements, chakras, and mantras, there is lots of woo-woo here to enjoy. You will be a woo woo expert! I would say that this deck is for readings for oneself not for others as too much explanation will be required to explain the concepts involved.
The book provides information on how to use the cards, though you are invited to use your intuition. Each card has an image, a title and subtitle, a number, keywords, a message, activation guidance and an affirmation. Spreads suggested are Single-Card Pull, a Three-Card Spread and a Five-Card Guidance Spread. The book provides a chakra chart.
Can you hear her song? Mother Earth is calling you!
Archetypes of 13 moons, ancestors, seasons, totems and endangered animals offer to awaken us with many aspects of the sacred life of women, as an encouragement - and a reminder - of the strengths, healing, empowerment and wisdom of our sisterhood. The deck is divided into 13 brown archetypal medicine cards, with advice, a message, guidance, and a ritual, and 12 pink gifts cards also with advice, a message, guidance, and a meditation, 12 green totem/allied spirit cards with a channelled message, symbolism, guidance, animal contact and a ritual, and 12 red wisdom action cards.
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Book Review: Mandala Source Book - 150 mandalas to help you find peace, awareness and wellbeing By David Fontana and Lisa Tenzin-Dolma, Published by Watkins Publishing.
This deck is included in the Total Tarot Course, in magazine numbers 8 and 9 providing The Marseilles Mystery Spread in issue 8.
The Marseilles deck provides the template for our well known recent decks having originated in Renaissance Italy and moved to Marseilles in France. Soldiers from Milan are thought to have travelled with the deck as playing cards when images were engraved on wood for printing, hence the lined images. Their use for divination is much later.
22 Major Arcana illustrated cards and 56 Minor Arcana unillustrated (pip) cards comprise this 78 card deck. Odd numbered cards are active and masculine and even numbered cards are reflective and feminine. Numbering, suits of cups, pentacles, wands and swords, eight major colours, and images have special meaning.
‘Our health is dependent on the health of other species.’
Healing plants of Native American traditions, especially the Cree, with practices and stories. These are 3 experts on the uses of plants and recorded them with warnings against misuse. We are all interdependent. A highly specialised book by Anthropologist, Dr David Young, Ethnologist, Robert Rogers, and Medicine Man, Russell Willier. English and Latin names of plants provided, an extensive bibliography, and maps of where to find the plants.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it!”
Extract: “Haniel touches your third eye, and your heart, gifting you with a memory of a very special moment when your father first held you in his arms, after you were born, and when you met, soul to soul, looking deep into one another’s eyes, he realised what a miracle he had conceived, and that it came about through his love of your mother.”
These 14 ‘saints’ are in Catholic and Christian theology can intercede/petition for us and bring specialised power to us. They have been venerated, especially in times of difficulty and over the centuries, they have represented particular professions. Their traditional life stories are given in brief. Prayers are provided for each helper, to be recited in triplicate, and there is a communal prayer to all fourteen. These helpers and their prayers can be used for the self or for others in need. There are, alongside each helper, the ailment they attend to (mostly modern and common illnesses that we would recognise).
Quality presentation box with magnetic lid. The full colour book and cards are well produced with gold edged cards. The deck describes the Dickensian era and reflects the life and history of Charles Dickens through the Major Arcana, so we have real people, such as his family members and these are mixed in with the fictional characters from his books.
The computer graphic illustrated cards are presented in landscape to suggest an open book. The 4 suits are Fire, Water, Air and Earth, and the Court Cards are Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter to give a Victorian family energy to the readings. We are given the card image, and each card carries a new title and the book to which they refer. Dickens taught himself as a young man to write in shorthand, and this is stylised in the deck with keywords.
Written from a Celtic perspective, indigenous British trees are described. The author, a Glastonbury Archdruidess, and holder of a Bardic Chair of Avebury, died in 2004. She left this beautiful book with text written with great love and reverence. Hailing from North Devon, she appreciated trees as a young child. She senses them in a similar way to her ancestors, valueing, admiring and looking after them. 
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Messenger Oracle 50 Cards plus Guidebook by Ravynne Phelan, published by Blue Angel Publishing www.dreamsofgaia.comDrawer pull, quality boxing of comprehensive full colour book and Tarot card deck. We are provided with a blessing to begin our exploration of this interesting concept deck which deepens our understanding of the natural world as birds, flowers, insects, reptiles, herbs, and other symbols and motifs are taken from many of the world’s traditions and philosophies. Some are rare and some endangered species are included.
"Having no destination, I am never lost." Ikkyu
36 cards size 13cm x 17cm with figurative and animal art that expresses symbolism and meaning.
From the accompanying book - Sample: Rabbit: Productive, daring, unpredictable, courageous. Smart little rabbits can win your heart. If kept domestically, they are capable of providing similar delights as a cat. They can be brave beyond belief. They are also beautiful to see and touch. Message: remember your rabbit qualities and charm dear to delight others with your unpredictability and sensual attributes. Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. From Zenrin-kushu
Animal Love Oracle Cards - Advice, Compassion & Wisdom from Our Animal Mentors. Written and Illustrated by Nadine Gordon-Taylor. Set of 52 cards and guidebook in magnetic flip top box. Published by Bear & Co. US $30 : Can $37.50 UK: £25 :
Sample card reading from the book: Lion – Authority, Cooperation, and Overcoming Struggles.
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Enchanted Blossoms Empowerment Cards, by Carla Morrrow. Boxed Set of 44 cards plus guidebook. Published by Blue Angel Publishing £17.99
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Botanical Inspirations Deck and Book Set by Lynn Araujo, published by US Games Systems, Inc. Boxed set of 44 cards plus guidebook and pull out chart and card bag.Dedicated to restoring of our relationship to nature, and the knowledge of how we are a necessary part of the intricate web of this planet’s amazing life.
From the box lid: Discover the Magic of Communicating with the Spirits of Nature
The intention of Messages from the Spirits of Nature Oracle is to help us to connect to the beauty, majesty and wisdom of the elements; to help us to understand the messages from plants, rivers, stones and species; and to help us to honour the natural world and appreciate how it can guide and teach us. The deck provides a revival of the ancient shamanic knowledge and is designed to help shift our consciousness towards navigating through the challenges we face, personally and collectively.
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Oracle Card Deck Review: Animal Dreaming Oracle Cards by Scott Alexander King, published by Blue Angel Publishing, boxed 44 cards with guidebook. www.animaldreaming.com
This information is comprehensive. It is also ideal
for a young woman, as a gift for for a special event, maybe the onset of
menstruation or a teenage birthday. It provides background of the international
history of women, of goddesses across the world, there is also information on
chakras, meridians, astrology, women's sexual organs and hormonal systems,
sacred sexuality and women's cycles, sacred sites and more. Rituals are
suggested, Ritual 1: for cleansing and purification, revitalising the womb with
dragon energy, Ritual 2: health advice for alcohol, chemicals, obesity,
exercise, etc., smoking, pesticides. author received her medical degree at the
University of London and is now living in California and provides many examples
from her own practice. Ritual 3: surrendering into love with mother cow. Ritual
4: receiving inspiration from the Queen Bee, a channelled message from the Queen
Bee. Ritual 5: giving birth to new waves of consciousness. The author is a
qualified medical doctor. 
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: The Triple Goddess Tarot - Using the Power of the Major Arcana, Chakra Healing, and the Divine Feminine by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman, set of 33 individually illustrated cards and explanatory book in a sturdy drawer pull box. Published by Bear & Co. £30 
"A gateway to the invisible"
A quality, magnetic flip top box contains the cards and the instruction book. Each card offers artwork and title and keywords on the face. The book has meanings for each of the cards. Both art and text provided by New York experimental and visionary artist, tutor and gallery owner, Nadine Gordon-Taylor MFA, EdD.
"Step through the portal"
"Designed to be felt rather than intellectually understood"
"The symbols are our mentors".
Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Sacred Destiny Oracle by Denise Linn, published by Hay House. US $22.99 Can $29.99 UK £16.99
Since ancient times, shamans, seers, medicine women and healers have been able to access wisdom from the natural world and these cards have been designed to help you to decipher the spiritual and psychic messages of animals, flowers, birds, lakes and ponds, moon and sun, in feathers and rainbows seen within the landscape.
The Angel Guide Oracle by Kyle Gray with artwork by Jennifer Hawkyard, published by Hay House, Boxed set of 44 cards and Guidebook. US: $19.99 CAN: $25.99 UK: £15.99
Text from the inside box:
Thank you, angels, for reminding me of your presence and for revealing to me
what I need to know. I am willing to listen and receive. And so it is!
Angels record our life and evolution. They are extensions of divine love and are messengers from God. When we connect to angels, we connect to God. They want to guide and protect us and send us messages, signs and reminders of our true and highest aspirations. We all have a guardian angel to guide us and who knows us intimately because they were created especially for us.
