Master_Margarita
This is a question to all of you who have ever created your own oracle deck, whether for personal use only or for wider distribution.
Are there any cards that you think you absolutely have to have in any deck? Not "mandatory" in the sense that there's an Oracle Author Police, but mandatory in the sense that no oracle would work without them?
I ask this because my primary working oracle deck was created using a process that didn't dictate any cards at all, but strongly recommended that all deck creators make a Fool card, a Death card, and a Divine Healer card that is obviously parallel to the Temperance card in the tarot deck.
I'm working my way through the Psycards deck now, which is really a simplified tarot in many ways, and yup, it's got a Fool and a Death card (and also a Tower and a separate Destruction card, but that's probably another thread for another day).
I also found that I could draw a lot of parallels between my deck and a tarot deck (although my Oskar Schindler card may be unique in the history of oracle deck-making), but I'm not sure those parallels are either obvious or even necessary.
So what do you think? Do all oracle decks need a Fool and Death? Temperance? Anything else?
M_M~
Are there any cards that you think you absolutely have to have in any deck? Not "mandatory" in the sense that there's an Oracle Author Police, but mandatory in the sense that no oracle would work without them?
I ask this because my primary working oracle deck was created using a process that didn't dictate any cards at all, but strongly recommended that all deck creators make a Fool card, a Death card, and a Divine Healer card that is obviously parallel to the Temperance card in the tarot deck.
I'm working my way through the Psycards deck now, which is really a simplified tarot in many ways, and yup, it's got a Fool and a Death card (and also a Tower and a separate Destruction card, but that's probably another thread for another day).
I also found that I could draw a lot of parallels between my deck and a tarot deck (although my Oskar Schindler card may be unique in the history of oracle deck-making), but I'm not sure those parallels are either obvious or even necessary.
So what do you think? Do all oracle decks need a Fool and Death? Temperance? Anything else?
M_M~