Witches Archetype Oracle deck by "The Pretty Cult" used with permission
I stumbled across this deck last October at the Oddities Expo in Pittsburgh. I immediately wanted to use it for Weekend Oracle posts It took a little while for the email conversation to get permission to use it, then life happened and here we are.
This isn't so much an unboxing, or review or how to, or getting to know the deck like we've done in the past. In working with it for a little while now, I haven't found it to be a particularly helpful deck. It doesn't give the kind of guidance that most people expect from Tarot or Oracle reading. The intuitive prompting is a bit dilute and it gives no sense of current energies. If anything, it made me appreciate the Alleyman's Tarot deck's genius all over again.
It took me a while to figure out that this deck's real strength.
It doesn't have much to do with witches or oracles at all really. Metaphorically speaking it's more like a guide about how to find a flashlight at night during a blackout. It feels like a guide to other sources of strength and inspiration rather than being a direct source of inspiration itself.
It isn't about the energy environment. It isn't about advice about what to do. It isn't about cautions about what to avoid. It isn't about guidance for making choices.
It is about the most accessible source or type of helping energy to DO what you want AFTER you've made your choice. This is about what fuel to put in the car, not about which way to steer.
To put it in GPS terms, this is the 'find the nearest gas station' function not the trip directions or traffic conditions.
Today's card is the "Cosmic Witch." I'm reminded of the idea of when we are alone we are most reminded we are connected to and a part or the cosmos - the absolute totality of everything in both time and space. Carl Sagan described the cosmos as "all that is or ever was or ever will be." You exist in this moment so you are now and forever a part of of the cosmos. It is impossible to be lonely in that kind of company
On a simpler level, if astrology resonates with you, that is a excellent guide and a strong influence for you this weekend.
Thanks for reading! Next up: Week Ahead Tarot, coming up either Sunday or Monday afternoon. See you at the next sip!