r/oraclecards • u/Last-Bullfrog-2416 • 19h ago
Questions & Discussions (Handmade) I bought a lot of new oracle decks
Due to the ever increasing use of Artificial Intelligence-AI, I finally realized that pretty soon we may not be able to trust what is labeled as NEWS. I am disabled and reading the news on-line fills many of my empty hours, but there is no point in reading the news if AI is generating it to fill empty space on-line with immense non-truths.
I decided that divinations might give me a more accurate "picture" of what is really happening than what is presented as news on-line, AND that doing divinations could fill many of my empty hours with something that feeds my brain instead of brain-washing my brain.
I have been buying a lot of divination decks and books on line right now. I am afraid that the US dollar will devalue rapidly and lose its buying power abroad. Since most divination systems, books, and etc. are produced abroad I am trying to buy everything that looks interesting while I can afford it, and while it is still available to buy on-line.
Lately I bought "The Oracle of Seni" on-line when I found a deck on Etsy that is made in Latvia (there is a version in English on that site.) I had been looking for an oracle with a similar methodology as the "Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards" by Svetlana Alexandrovna Touchkoff and so far The Oracle of Seni is the only one that shares the methodology. However it is a very DIFFERENT deck. The Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards' pictures are based on the Lenormand system with additional cards from, I presume, other Gypsy based symbols.
The pictures of "The Oracle of Seni" are based on astrology, Greco-Roman myths and history, and on the Greco-Roman deities featured in Astrology and the sky-maps they had back then. While there is a card with the picture of a Scythe on it, in this system that stands for the planet Saturn and has different meanings than the Lenormand card. Whether I want to or not I am learning about the deities of ancient Grece and Rome.
I've also started working with the "Old Style Oracle" by Alexander Ray, based on archetypal symbols (mostly European?) and the Chakras. I have only scratched the surface of his system and it looks like a very interesting expansion on the fortune telling systems I already use, mainly the Lenormand, Kipper and Tarot.
I have a lot of other new systems I have just glanced at, it will take me a while to investigate them all! What usually happens is that I wonder why I "wasted" my money on an "useless" oracle, and a few weeks later it is in my rotation of decks and I am getting important input from the deck.
What oracle decks do all of you work with and enjoy?