The Froud Faeries' Oracle
I love this deck!!!
OK, backing up. I've been a Froud fan since before I knew who he was. I adored The Dark Crystal (I still do a mean skeksis impression) and Labyrinth as a child. I've long had a similar reaction to his Faery work that I did to Feri early on - both fascinated and a little scared. For one thing, he writes about and draws the faeries as though they're real. That spooked me a bit.
But anyway, I won $40 to spend at Powells Books and decided to get his Faeries' Oracle deck and book for three reasons: the art is AMAZING (look! look!), Dianne Sylvan liked it, and I wanted to find a deck that didn't have the swords-air/wands-fire thing going on (my beloved Robin Wood deck has that problem and it was starting to bug me).
Well!
This deck is amazing. I've worked through the exercises in the book and am now playing with and getting used to reading with the deck, and it just keeps blowing my mind further and further.
For example, the moment I saw Card 11: The Singer of Transfiguration, I just knew He was Fire in the Earth. He had to be! Red fire coming out of darkness. Bingo. I just now sat down and looked at the seven main singers, and voila! I can line them up with the Guardians JUST FINE. Wow. Check it out:
The Singer of Transfiguration
Fire in the Earth
The Singer of Courage
Shining Flame
The Singer of Connection
Star Finder
The Singer of Intuition
Heaven Shiner
The Singer of the Chalice
Water Maker
The Singer of Initiation
Guardian at the Gates, Keeper of the Black Heart
The Singer of Healing
Black Mother
Now, I'm not 100% rock solid in this, because I've only come up with it and things can change, of course. But I love that they line up like this. Furthermore, it's pretty easy to see The Unity as God Herself, Ekstasis as her divine lust for herself, He of the Fiery Sword as the "masculine" half of the Divine Twins, and She of the Cruach as the "feminine" half of the Divine Twins. I'm still not sure what the story is with The Guardian at the Gate, but I'll figure it out.
Man. I love this deck.
OK, backing up. I've been a Froud fan since before I knew who he was. I adored The Dark Crystal (I still do a mean skeksis impression) and Labyrinth as a child. I've long had a similar reaction to his Faery work that I did to Feri early on - both fascinated and a little scared. For one thing, he writes about and draws the faeries as though they're real. That spooked me a bit.
But anyway, I won $40 to spend at Powells Books and decided to get his Faeries' Oracle deck and book for three reasons: the art is AMAZING (look! look!), Dianne Sylvan liked it, and I wanted to find a deck that didn't have the swords-air/wands-fire thing going on (my beloved Robin Wood deck has that problem and it was starting to bug me).
Well!
This deck is amazing. I've worked through the exercises in the book and am now playing with and getting used to reading with the deck, and it just keeps blowing my mind further and further.
For example, the moment I saw Card 11: The Singer of Transfiguration, I just knew He was Fire in the Earth. He had to be! Red fire coming out of darkness. Bingo. I just now sat down and looked at the seven main singers, and voila! I can line them up with the Guardians JUST FINE. Wow. Check it out:
The Singer of Transfiguration
Fire in the Earth
The Singer of Courage
Shining Flame
The Singer of Connection
Star Finder
The Singer of Intuition
Heaven Shiner
The Singer of the Chalice
Water Maker
The Singer of Initiation
Guardian at the Gates, Keeper of the Black Heart
The Singer of Healing
Black Mother
Now, I'm not 100% rock solid in this, because I've only come up with it and things can change, of course. But I love that they line up like this. Furthermore, it's pretty easy to see The Unity as God Herself, Ekstasis as her divine lust for herself, He of the Fiery Sword as the "masculine" half of the Divine Twins, and She of the Cruach as the "feminine" half of the Divine Twins. I'm still not sure what the story is with The Guardian at the Gate, but I'll figure it out.
Man. I love this deck.