Liminal Spirits Oracle

Amazing. Beautiful. Sturdy.

This deck is prefect for me. This is my first Oracle. I love the art and color pallet. Everything is well thought out yet allows for you to have your own associations as well. Most that I have seen are more like pulling a fortune cookie, with the message printed on the card. I have small hands and don't like chunky cards. These are the largest I own, but they still fit comfortably in my hands. They are thick enough to be durable, while still allowing me to ripple shuffle. The book is full color and the pictures is true to size allowing you to really get to know the cards in great detail. The box is very nice, but did come with some damage from shipping in an envelope. I did not remove stars, because the product itself can not be blamed for shipping

There's something quite special and different about this deck. I love the art and color even though the cards are large sized and hard to shuffle. The images are so vivid they come alive when you read the meaning in the color book. They are perfect for meditation and shadow work as well as a daily energy pull. The rawness and life in the cards is what really draws me in. Card stock is ok but the rest makes up for it. There's magic in here and it feels nice.

Love the art! Very unique deck and the box is such a nice touch. Love a deck that comes with a sturdy and secure box, but this one is also a piece of art in itself. The cards are a nice size to view the image details and love that the book has a description for each of their meanings. Nice card stock that is easy to shuffle…Just Lovely

I’ve been using this deck for months. It called to me so I purchased it and have been using them all the time. I feel so tuned to it and I swear it’s never turned me in the wrong direction. I’ve given many reads that everyone says are accurate, even some after the fact. This deck is seriously amazing.

This deck and her other one, The Anatomy of a Witch Oracle are close to perfect. I love the artwork, they shuffle like a dream right out of the box. They are well thought out and deliver deep messages without being overbearing.

I personally cannot abide the vast majority of oracle decks that are constantly being published these days. Most of them are very obvious, shallow money-grabs that have been getting more and more common in the past several years as anything "witchy" or "new age" etc. gets more popular. Especially in the last few years it just keeps snowballing into the lucrative racket that is both responsible for and perpetuating Instagram "witches" and the like. That being said, this is a very surprising deck that comes very close to ticking almost all of my boxes. I'm exhausted with most ready-made "systems", "traditions", to the point that I'm not even crazy about the word "witch" anymore because some 90% of modern witches are affected phonies who still have to be told what to do, what to believe, how to dress and act and who STILL just aren't seeing the forest for the trees because ultimately, for a lot of them, it's all still just about appearance, acceptance, popularity, an aesthetic, and so on, rather than about genuine, unique spirituality and truly connecting with nature. Fortunately this deck mostly stays away from too much in the way of typical, structured, traditional "witchy" concepts, save for one category of cards, almost all of which I have removed from the deck because, tellingly, they just don't really resonate with me. The RITES category (deck has eight categories with five cards each, also two "outlier" cards) is the only one that I take issue with. It stands for Roots, Inspiration, Time, Environment, and Star. The author explains this category and each individual card and I get it but I don't find most of them useful or suitable for my practice. Usually I like to just use and start to familiarize myself with a deck before I start reading the guidebook, and I started off mostly doing that here. As I started to weed out the few that I felt actually fell kind of flat or were confusing to me, I decided to start reading the explanations of those cards as they were the only ones that felt so disjointed from the rest, so it came as no surprise that they were all together in a category that just seems a little weird and out of step with the rest of the deck. Others may not feel that way though, I just have specific reasons and leanings that make those useless to me and even turn me off a little bit. The RITES category feels forced and kind of like elementary school, I hate those cheesy acronyms where each letter in a word stands for another word and they're all related to illustrate some point or theme. Except in this case these don't all feel related enough to me. Comes across as trying a little too hard. The rest of the categories make sense and mostly work well together and within themselves. They are all based on natural spirits that are or occupy in-between states and/or spaces and so most of the deck has a very lovely, raw, natural, elemental feeling to it. That's what I'm after, that's what's at the core of my personal spirituality, just nature and the elements. I'm sick of gaudy borders, numbers, arbitrary pretty symbols, busy obnoxious and/or cartoony artwork, strained concepts, dated, repetitive structures, poorly written guides and explanations, poor research, the list goes on. That sums up most decks these days in my opinion. But this one has a wonderful, mostly simple and authentic earthiness to it and I love that. A few things that really just don't work in my opinion - most of the art is pretty perfect for the themes and for what I like and am looking for, but a couple are just not great. I can't keep the Deer in the deck, I just can't. It looks like one of the blue people from Avatar mated with a goat. It is the most jarring and out-of-place image to me, especially of the animals. It's way too anthropomorphic and the long beard on it is just weird. Nothing about this image of an elven, alien man-deer reflects the energies or abilities of an actual deer, which is otherwise described very nicely in the guidebook. Another animal that I might have to take out and that I think could have been replaced with a much, much more apt bird - the Peacock. It's not just because of personal tastes and connections that I think this one was a misstep, it's because of how the author describes the category, i.e. with a lot of grand, specific language all about the flight of birds and the gift and perspective they have that no other animal does, how free and soaring they are, on and on. Yet then....peacock. Peacocks do not have a very unique perspective nor do they remotely soar or really even fly. Flapping your wings a bit to get up a tree and being able to flutter back down (falling with style?) is not flying, not at all what she spends a couple of paragraphs describing in the context of the category. Nitpicky, maybe. But if you're going to base a whole category of winged creatures mostly on the fact that they can fly (and fly well and continuously), I just don't think a borderline flightless bird is good representation, particularly with the liminal theme. I know not everyone can have every spirit they like included here, she even makes a fair point in the guidebook of explaining how hard it was to narrow it down to the final deck, but in this case I think a hawk or a great blue heron would have been a far better choice - they are much more prevalent and powerful in tons of cosmology, shamanism and magic and have a much more decidedly liminal (a word she seems to lean on a little too heavily too, despite the theme) quality to them than peacocks. In my view, peacocks are dim, loud, annoying and showy yet boring (like most people). And I just don't see what's especially "liminal" about them. Limited, yes. My last criticism of what is still a great deck - the card size. The stock and gloss level are just about ideal. However the size is almost uncomfortably big. To touch again on the author's disclaimer about how only so many spirits/cards can be included; she says something to the effect of having to keep it trimmed down so it can be used and shuffled easily. Well, the issue here is not the number of cards, as Tarot has proven. Tarot decks contain almost twice as many cards as this and most average oracle decks. What matters is the size of the cards themselves. If they hadn't made the cards so massive they would have very easily been able to include more cards (why do most decks now have to be up to only 44?). These cards are very close to being too big for me to comfortably hold and shuffle, I really wish people who design and print oracle decks would cool it with these big old things, they don't need to be so long or so wide. Ultimately though, this is still one of the best new oracle decks I've seen or used. I especially love that the first card I pulled was "Cat", who, with a dark tail and a couple of dark patches on top of the head added, looks just like my own magical kitty.

Whst a pleasant surprise! Pictures don’t do justice to this beautiful Oracle cards deck. I have many different Oracle and Tarot decks, and I have a feeling I’m going to keep this one close to my chest, it is gorgeous! The energy is amazing !

Beautiful images and quality presentation.

Je suis sensible à son esprit, à son graphisme, aux couleurs. Un oracle connecté à la nature et à son monde subtil, idéal comme point de départ à une méditation ou à une réflexion sur soi. texte en anglais.

Schön abstrakt mit guter Druckqualität. Die Box ist auch super, mit Magnetverschluss. Beim Buch wäre es meiner Meinung nach besser gewesen, wenn die Karten alphabetisch sortiert gewesen wären, aber das ist nicht so schlimm.

Good quality card with colourful guidebook and sturdy box gorgeous artwork.

If you already have an expansive collection of oracle decks, make room for one more!! This one impresses! The artwork is stunning- so much so that even the backs of the cards are entrancing! The card stock is a nice quality, not too thick or thin, and the book is in colour packed with interesting write-ups on each card. Highly recommended!