The Elemental Oracle by Stacey Demarco & Kinga Britschgi

, 6 Feb 2021

This deck has been a total surprise to me. I bought it in one of those Amazon flash offers, for 5 bucks, just because it was so cheap. It was in my wish list but not at the top, because I wasn't sure what this deck was about. Well, now that I have it, I have to say that the deck is mind blowing, regarding conception, artwork, structure, relation image/text and my connection with the cards.

CONCEPTION
II have so many tarot and oracle decks that I rarely get wowed by anything I get, and that is usually a wow from the artwork. In this case, I am also wowed by the eclectic approach to tarot/oracles by the Modern Witch Australian Demarco. We still have the four Tarot elements and some reinvented major arcana. Yet, there is a great emphasis on energy, whether is inner or outer, and the link between both, and also between the real and the magical, the earthy and the spacey. The result is an inebriating fresh, unique but timeless approach to oracle that relies on both imagery, words and energies to provide us with multilayered readings and accurate answers to our queries.

Demarco's introduction to the deck is short and sweet. Really interesting and beautifully explains her inspiration sources. There is a marked influence of Nordic, Aboriginal, Polynesian, Latin and Greek mythologies among others. That also shows in the pages devoted to each card interpretation in the booklet. Of course, you can intuitively use the card imagery and words to read, but the interpretations on the book are really good.   

One of the things that I love is that there aren't reverse meanings in this deck.
 

ARTWORK

I am amazed by the beauty, complexity and quality of Hungarian Kinga Britschgi's digital imagery. Really powerful for intuitive readings.

There is artistic imagery congruence in the deck, which gives the whole unity and purpose. There is a predominance of green, blue and amber colours, except for the beautiful card back, which is a simple pastel mix of pink, purple and white. 

This is a very Gaian matriarchal deck, with an overwhelming presence of feminine energies and characters. I love the fact that there are people from different ethnic groups, skin color and ages represented in the deck, too.


THE DECK

Good quality slightly-glossy card.

Cards have the right thickness, so they can be easily shuffled and handled as the deck is not bulky or heavy.

The card edges are silvered, so that's always a bonus and a touch of magic.

Good quality detailed 104-page booklet, with colored mini-reproductions of the cards.

Sturdy packing box, with iridescent print.


THE SUITES

Directions: North, South, East, West, Equator, Moon, Sun.

Fire Element:  Fire, Volcanoes, Bushfires, Hearth, Outer Core, Dessert, Passion.  

Earth Element: Earth, Mountain, Cave, Inner core, Plants, Rock, Animals.

Air element: Air, Storms, Wind, Voice, Pressure, Breath, Music.

Water element: Water, Oceans, Lake, Marine Life, Ice, Snow, Rain.

Universal Forces: Electricity, Magnetism, Dark Matter, Gravity, Atoms.

Time: Time, Speed, Magic, Biome.


 
IN SHORT
A wonderful oracle, both artistically and conceptually that speaks to me. Oracles and tarot decks speak our intuive symbolic language or not, and this speaks mine beautifully.

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