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Pleased with my oracle box of cards, it's helping me get creative projects unstuck and look at things from all sorts of angles. Also really good to practice overlapping abstract concepts to see how they combine, focus, suggest connections.
Really a good object to have around I think as a storyteller, artist, illustrator, designer of interactive things and games. It's a continuous lesson in resonance, focus, perspective, communication.
If you make one, remember it's fine to put in a deck of top trumps or snap or some postcards, if it's meaningful to you it's meaningful, and everything combines to create some sort of focus, harmony, disharmony, narrative, dissonance, absence, presence...
Vintage cigarette cards also make for good oracle.
I don't ask anything about the future, since I don't believe cards know the future, but I think about the future sometimes while looking at cards, and considering whether any of the abstract concepts depicted have any bearing on the subject.
It's just a way of finding the train of thought that I was nearly already thinking anyway, or rather one train of thought among several that might distract from one another until they're all just noise.
You can try it out by picking a mildly complicated thing that you're thinking about already asking yourself: what about this is most like a canary? And what is like a teapot, dropped? Which bit feels like the hand of the matter. If the thought were a cloud, what sort would it be
And certain thoughts just want out, all you're doing is shaking and poking and putting different things into the pit to serve as a lure and a ladder for whatever thought might want to climb out.
If you're frustrated, you could grab a random word as a swearword and then think about why that one. Why did you yell SANDWICH. do you feel squished in? Or is someone like a witch putting beach sand in the romance novel of your life
And, see, that feels quite silly really. It may be more comfortable to have a few packs of cards, and a community of people exchanging their views about what they mean to them.
And of course YOU know many things about what's likely in your future, and might not think about all of them, the ones too hopeful or too scary, too obvious or too hidden. Those cards are like well tested whistles making bird calls to those thoughts, too.
That's me anyway
