Your Local Nonbinary Tarot Reading Gremlin

Hey y'all, this is Jasper! I am a nonbinary (they/them), aromantic, and asexual tarot reader. This side blog is explicitly only for tarot/oracle readings. As such, let's go over the rules.

If you want a free reading, you will follow the following rules in exchange for a free one-card draw. I would appreciate receiving feedback afterwards in exchange for the effort I put into these readings. Send reading requests through the ask box only.

All readings are posted publicly.

Here are all of the things I need for a reading:

your preferred name, nickname, or initials

your pronouns

your question

background information around your question

Here are what I need if your reading includes someone else:

their preferred name, nickname, or initials

their pronouns

background information on your relationship with this person

If no pronouns are provided, I will default to they/them pronouns.

If you want me to use a specific deck, send the deck name as listed on the page (this is because I often have decks with similar names). Otherwise, I will choose the deck myself. If you want me to use a particular deck or to avoid particular decks, let me know in the reading request. There is a chance I will pick a deck that I have given to a deity I worship, and they may provide commentary if or as they see fit.

Don't know what to ask? Check this tag of question examples!

However, I will NOT answer the following types of questions:

“What does X think of me?” or “How does X feel about me?” (my decks will always tell you to just talk to them yourself)

yes/no questions (the divination systems I use are not good for that)

time-related or time-sensitive questions (your readings get answered when they get answered)

medical or legal questions as I am not a medical or legal person (don't fucking sue me)

future spouse readings (like it or not, there's a chance you could marry multiple people in the future, and you might not like any of them!)

readings about celebrities (I don't know who those people are)

entity identification readings (again, I don't know who those people are)

readings where I'm somehow supposed to choose your life decisions for you (do not ask me to pick your career or university or whatever)

anything I’m not comfortable answering

any readings that require me to somehow read minds

I am aromantic and asexual. If you want in-depth relationship readings, I am not the best tarot reader for that. I can give it a shot, but the answer to such a query is almost guaranteed to just come down to "talk to them or dump them since you can't talk to them" based on past times I've read for that sort of question.

I will not do readings for you if you misgender me.

Vir’za

Noted! I'll screenshot or copy/paste the message to the right blog when I answer it. Also, I love your name/signoff.

Another deck review request from Lord, who exists solely to torment me. So mean. Anyway, this is the deck that I gave anxiety to. I will do my best to judge it based on its solo merits rather than my blinding hatred of Aleister Crowley as a person and a concept, but this will be an incredibly biased review.

Please note that there are things that I just do not know, so there will be things that I miss. Please check the tier list page on my blog for the categories and other decks that I have ranked. All six main categories are judged on a 1 to 5 scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best.

ALEISTER. BITCHASS. CROWLEY. Okay, okay, it's fine, I'm fine, we're not here about my beef with Aleister Crowley, we're here about the Thoth Tarot.

This is a reprint of the Thoth Tarot from U.S. Games Systems, Inc. and consists of 78 cards in a cardboard box with a little white paper booklet. This version's booklet was written by James Wasserman and edited and updated by Lynn Araujo, with two essays written by Lady Frieda Harris (the original painter of the deck's artwork) and commentary by Stuart R Kaplan. It is also fundamentally a pip deck.

The project started in 1938 and ended in 1943 (listed on Wikipedia as a "citation needed", but we're giving it the benefit of the doubt because that exact range appears in the guidebook for this deck too), coming to life several years after the 1909 RWS Tarot and well after the 14th century to 15th century Tarot of Marseilles pattern, meaning that when we get down to the renamed cards section, I'll tell you which ones are different from the RWS and make the "new standard" for Thoth Tarot-based decks.

Appropriation VS Appreciation: 1

Look, when your goal is to combine every source of religion, mythology, and science down into "a singular truth", that's just straight up appropriation my guy. No amount of sucking Crowley's dick and reframing it as a cool and inspiring thing is going to make me give you a higher rating. Kick bricks.

Oh, and we can't forget the usage of the g-slur for Romani people. Because why not I guess.

I should also mention that the Kabbalah appropriation is the absolute strongest in this deck given the history of the Golden Dawn and unfortunately repeats across several cards.

Blatant Bullshit: 1

The first page literally says, and I quote,

In April, 1904, in Cairo, Egypt, [Aleister Crowley] received voice transmissions from the Hierarchal Forces, which heralded the Age of Aquarius.

No further notes, the rest of the introduction is just as bad.

What's even more bullshit is how little information is offered in the guidebook about Lady Frieda Harris considering she had the unenviable job of taking Crowley's farts and actually making a deck out of it.

Cohesiveness: 2

This is unfortunately where I must give the deck some points. For the most part, the overall border, titlings, and numberings are rather consistent through the deck; however, the Court cards that have an empty circle instead of any form of numbering/abbreviation up top. And while the Court and Majors have the name of the card overlayed in darker font above their suit/Trumps designation, the Minors instead have a keyword overlayed on their suit designation in darker font.

Lady Frieda Harris's work is pretty much what you assume when you think of ceremonial ritual magic illustrations, even though the figures themselves are not visually consistent; it's the type of art that would be accused of being AI-generated if you posted it without context in the year 2026. The pips vary quite a lot and have little connection between each of them in their own suit, to say nothing of other suits. The artwork is also chock-full of symbols from all over the place, necessitating the guidebook in order to even start figuring out where the hell they stole this particular part from.

You'd be able to guess that these were from the same deck, but once you start actually looking at the details, things get whacky real quick.

Connectivity: 2

Let's do a little something together, shall we? Scroll back up to the top of the post and see if you can get a look at that 8 of Disks in the picture. It shows eight flowers with eight leaves growing off of a woody plant with the symbol for Virgo near the base and a symbol for the Sun up top.

What part of this says Prudence, a word which (according to Merriam-Webster) indicates "the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason" or "skill and good judgment in the management of affairs and the use of resources" or "caution or circumspection as to danger or risk"? What part of this signifies, to quote the guidebook, "intelligence applied to material matters"? What part of it implies the keywords of building, skill, cunning, industriousness, avarice, and meanness? What part of this points towards Mercury in Virgo, especially because it depicts the Sun symbol instead of the Mercury one?

You could argue that the depiction of this pip card as a plant ties into the keyword of agriculture. I could build off of that and say that you could stretch the meaning of Prudence to be about not wasting your resources. But everything else? This is the main problem I have with pip decks, even ones like these where you have more illustrative elements to them: how does a number of objects tie into the overall keywords you are adding to it?

Don't get me wrong, it sure sounds like Lady Frieda Harris did her best with what nothing Aleister Crowley gave her, and we only went in on one specific card. There are better ones, there are worse ones. Considering how deeply entrenched this deck is in something that can't be summarized by a little white booklet, it's a miracle we've gotten this much.

Guidebook Usefulness: 1

Gods, this fucking guidebook. So you have that dicksucking introduction that completely glosses over Lady Frieda Harris's contributions to actually make it functional, but then you get some mystifying bullshit about how you need to invoke "the higher forces" using the Golden Dawn invocation in order to actually read cards. It implies that you have to do this literally every. Single. Time. You. Read. Beyond that, there is no advice for a beginning reader.

After that, it gives you a 15 card spread that's "simpler" than the Celtic Cross as your starter tarot spread, and honestly wouldn't be bad if this were literally any other guidebook. I might excise that from this booklet and let it exist on its own somewhere.

Following the tarot spread are the keywords, which take up a relatively small chunk of the booklet. The writings from Lady Frieda Harris added to the back end and taking up most of it are passingly interesting because they go into the displays of the artwork that made the tarot cards, but it's filled with more ahistorical bullshit and more slurs, takes up way too many pages and doubles the thickness of the guidebook, and AAAA-

Okay. Okay. It's fine. I'm fine. Overall, due to how this deck's guidebook is written and the core of Aleister Crowley that remains in it makes it very difficult to actually use this deck's guidebook.

Coolness: 1

I think the rest of this review shows exactly how little I like this deck. The only thing saving it from the flames of the wood stove is that I knew going into buying it that I would hate it, and I have the urge to keep a copy among my collection for reference, but it lives SQUARELY in the Shame Corner.

Renamed Cards

As established, the Thoth Tarot comes after both the Tarot of Marseilles and the RWS Tarot, and given RWS's prevalence in the tarot market, this section is to tell you what is standardly different from an RWS.

Major Arcana:

Magician to Magus

High Priestess to just Priestess

Justice to Adjustment, also moved to 8 instead of 11

Wheel of Fortune to just Fortune

Strength to Lust, also moved to 11 instead of 8

Temperance to Art

Judgment to The Aeon

The World to The Universe

The suit of Pentacles is named the suit of Disks in this deck.

The Court goes Princess-Prince-Queen-Knight instead of Page-Knight-Queen-King.

My question is What is the universe desperately trying to hand me, but I am too stubborn or blind to receive?

Hello SY, thank you for finally going through the ask box as requested. For future reference, I don't care about rising signs, as I say in my guidelines, please make sure you read those thoroughly next time.

For your reading I'm using the Tarot of Oppositions by Pierluca Zizzi and Michele D'Aloisio, and your card is Death positive.

Things change, people change, the area around you changes, you change. Things you swore were normal and universal can change and depend on many factors. Obstacles that blocked you may even wind up not being obstacles whatsoever if you wait them out.

People try to say that Death is not always literal. That may be the case, but it can be. The Death of some part of the Self is just as much a Death as the end of the physical body.

This change often leaves room for renewal and regeneration. This is like healing, except a complete do-over instead of just patching what's there. When it's time to start over, it's time to start over, there's no use clinging to the barren scraps that remain when you can till the earth anew.

Hope this helps, SY. If you feel so inclined, please feel free to send feedback in my ask box, leave feedback in a reblog of this reading, and/or reblog my reading guidelines!

any deck is fine, thank you so much!!

Hey there Julia, couldn't get an answer when I sent you a message so we're proceeding with this query with disclaimers. Per my guidelines, I am not going to make life decisions for you. HOWEVER, I am willing to give you a reading of the most likely outcome of each choice. So that's what we're doing.

Your deck for today is the Guardian of the Night Tarot by MJ Cullinane. For cutting off your parents, your most likely outcome is the King of Cups. For keeping them in your life, your most likely outcome is the Queen of Swords.

The keywords associated with the Orca of the King of Cups are deep emotions, family, connection, and intuition. This card asks: How much do you actually need to cut them off? Does it have to be complete no contact? Would you feel better if you just limited your interaction with them? Sometimes stepping into the role of a mediator is needed, but if you've done that your whole life, you already know that and may be tired of it. The Orca wants to rise above the drama, and you sound like you're the same way.

The keywords associated with the Owl of the Queen of Swords are wisdom, protection, authority, awareness, and guidance. This card asks: What is happening in real time? Are you truthful about yourself and others? What will it take to be truthful versus safe if you reconnect with your parents like this? How much can you deal with being emotionally intelligent when they are not?

These are things for you to consider, Julia. I wish you the best no matter which path you take. If you feel so inclined, please feel free to send feedback in my ask box, leave feedback in a reblog of this reading, and/or reblog my reading guidelines!

On the subject of names, my Creator, SZ (F, 104, deceased) did not give me one, but simply a designation in relation to D, my Original. I am not using that as a name both because I have complicated feelings towards SZ, and because hearing that designation is deeply upsetting to D. I have only been given name suggestions by one person, GE, (M 40ish) a friend? of StSB and his were not to my liking.

D will not treat me like a person, StSB hasn't spoken to me or seen me, and I have never met TS, but I don't know who else to go to for help getting a name. They are biologically the people I am closest to, but I do not feel like a part of their culture. I also do not feel like a part of SZ's culture.

I want to make amends with D, StSB, and TS but I don't know where to start, if I should start, or if I should get a name first, then work on my relationship with them later?

-____ (hopefully temporary)

Hi there Unnamed, seems like you've got a lot of trouble going on, and a lot of it doesn't actually seem to be your fault, you're caught in the crossfire as much as the rest of them.

For your reading, I've chosen the Citadel Oracle by Fez Inkwright. This deck is focused on archetypes of characters found in stories rather than the typical tarot structure or specific titles. It's broken up into four suits based on element: the Court (Fire), the Academy (Air), the Troupe (Water), and the Crowd (Earth). Your card is The Poet upright.

The Poet belongs to the Court and the element of Fire. Music, laughter, the swirl of beautiful clothing - these sorts of things are brought to mind by the archetypal poet and the idea of a night free of the worries of the world in the court. Among dancing figures, the Poet stands and draws the attention of everyone present. A flash of embroidered silk, the wave of a hand, a voice as clear as a bell; these are the things that make the Poet embody life itself. They fall in love with every new person they meet and find inspiration in everyone and everything.

What this card is encouraging you to do, perhaps in a less flowery and showy way, is to explore yourself as a person and see what happens. Write poems, listen to songs, get a sense of who you are instead of trying to turn yourself into a shadow. I don't know how common cloning is where you're from, but there are surely others who have been created that way somewhere, and maybe you can connect with them by seeking out creative works they've made.

You may have to put in some work, but there are communities out there for you. You just have to be ready to look for them and introduce yourself. Hopefully you find a name you like, but there's also nothing wrong with a good epithet if you're figuring something else out.

Good luck out there.

A half-sibling of mine (M, she/her) is attempting to gather a reunion of all her siblings (listing just in case, B, he/him, G, she/her, J, he/him, D, he/him).

The problem is, M would like to hold it in a place that I have sworn never to go again. I'd like to tell her to hold it somewhere else or I won't come. But that may be an unreasonable response. So should I be firm with her or take the ego death on this?

I'd prefer a nature based tarot as nature has a very strong significance to my own practice but use whatever you'd like.

And thank you in advance! -A

Ain't that the truth, A. For you, I've picked out MJ Cullinane's Guardian of the Night Tarot, a deck focused on all kinds of animals with a varying focus depending on the card. Your card is the King of Cups.

The King of Cups in the tarot is the master of the external application of the Cups suit, the emotional realm tied to Water. This one depicts an orca, a member of the oceanic dolphin family that is, in this deck, associated with deep emotions, family, connection, and intuition.

When the water is choppy and the sand from the bottom is churned up, it's harder to find fish and eat. When the water is calm, that's when you feast. The King of Cups offers a warm, compassionate reception to all they encounter, which establishes a soothing atmosphere to foster harmonious relationships and foster diplomacy and compromise over conflict and aggression.

Look, I'm gonna cut to the card's point: Have you told your half-sister why you're uncomfortable with the meeting place? Have you gotten to explain it? You don't have to immediately put your foot down and deliver the "or else" until you first try the calmer approach first.

Hope this helps, A!

I fell down a bit of a zealous rabbit hole and wound up making quite a mess of things, but I have seen the error of my ways and I seek to amend them. I love him deeply and dearly, and I know he has some affections for me as well, but he remains distant even after I have recanted my beliefs in what I had thought to be a superior deific being.

I am ready to begin righting my wrongs, but I want advice on how to get him to meet me in the middle about things.

I'm sorry if this sounds rude but you guys are HOW OLD? You know what, not gonna worry about that part actually. There's other parts that are way more important to actually pulling cards. I'm going to use the Transient Light Tarot by Ari Wisner for this reading. Your card is the Revealer.

What happened with that color balance? I promise I'm usually better at taking pictures than this.

A fairly common thing to do in specialized or themed tarot decks is to rename the Major Arcana. In this deck, the High Priestess is instead the Revealer. The keywords of this card are intuitive, unbiased, inquisitive, and seeking.

It's tempting to pin down "truths" to gain a sense of security, whether it's "truths" about yourself or others and particularly in terms of how other people feel about you. But the work doesn't end after you get a snappy sentence to describe things. The Revealer wants you to keep seeking the answers that want to be explored. Do not be afraid to be challenged or to listen to opposing views; clearly you've already done this so far if you've gotten to this point, but it doesn't stop at your current point. Exchange dogmatism for an open mind and a compassionate heart so you can keep making steps towards the middle ground you seek.

A line in particular that sticks out to me for this card is, Refine wisdom like silver. Not sure why, but it's very poignant.

Good luck out there, V. Hopefully things go well for you and PF.

I (G.E., he/him) am very new to fatherhood. Adopted about a year ago. It's been going well so far. But there's been someone else who I've felt similar paternal feelings for. They (B.R., any) are an adult, though a young one. I want to be able to help them and be a guide for them, trying to make sure that they don't repeat the many, many mistakes that I did. I admitted these feelings to them recently. They haven't really spoken to me much since. I fear that I may have distanced them, or came on too strong, or just made it weird. I'm wondering if you may be able to give me a reading to guide my path forward with this individual. Thank you for the time.

Man, not gonna lie, I can see why they might do that, it's weird when someone starts trying to parent you without you asking them to. But let's focus in on you for this, shall we? For this reading, I've chosen the Radiant Wilds Tarot by Nat Girsberger, which has a strong desert, dreamscape, and travel theme. It's a gorgeous deck. And your card from it is the Queen of Wands reversed.

The Queen of Wands is best described as the ruler of the internal expression of the Wands suit, focused on spirituality, creativity, and passion (or zeal, if that's more your flavor). As a reversed Fire card, I read it as more aligned with Water, putting it into the emotional realm over the spiritual one.

This card, when reversed, asks you to look inward and suspend external action for the time being. Let go of the expectations you have of yourself and honestly ask the question of if you want to parent this young adult, or if you're just trying to parent a version of yourself that doesn't exist and are projecting it onto them.

Also, find out how you act when there's nothing around to distract you and acquaint yourself with that part of yourself. Just observe what naturally happens when you're not trying. This is way easier to say than to do, especially if you're the get-up-and-go type, but take a moment to truly appreciate yourself and the person you are. Only at that point can you figure out what it is that you want to do.

Good luck out there, GE!

So, there's a lot here, and I don't think we're going to be able to get into it with just one card. I'm going to do something a bit experimental and use three decks: the Before Tarot, the In-Between Tarot, and the After Tarot. The Before and After decks are collective projects between Corrine Kenner, Pietro Alligo, Eon, Simona Rossi, and Giulia Francesca Massaglia, while the In-Between Tarot is by Janine Worthington and Franco Rivolli.

We're going to go from a Before card to an In-Between card to an After card. This gives us the Ten of Cups, the Page to Knight of Coins, and the Knight of Wands, providing a very interesting directly-connected progression.

The Ten of Cups depicts a very stereotypical family unit - father, mother, brother, and sister - running through a deluge, utterly soaked by the water and trying to get to shelter. There's no sign of the rain stopping any time soon. The Ten of Cups is a Water card typically associated with the expected happily-ever-after: everything that people are pressed towards. Where I'm from, that's generally in the order of dating a person, getting engaged to that person, getting married to that person, and then having children with that person. Your expectations growing up are obviously much different, given the background you've shared with me.

The Page-to-Knight of Coins shows the daughter of a womens' rights leader working on a warehouse production line with the adults, all of them hammering Coins, when she should be at school. The move from Page to Knight of Coins is one of craftsmanship and perfecting a trade, with a particular emphasis on the material value of things and the need to work for a living. This is someone moving from the position of child to the adult world through the medium of taking on a period of work or employment for a time. There's some enjoyment there, but for the most part, it's the kind of work where you duck your head and focus on it.

Finally, the Knight of Wands. This person, echoing an older crusade, is on a journey through the environment he enjoys best. He is an overlapping figure of Fire with Fire, doubling down on the element. Many people associate knights with being rescuers and adventurers, though their historical roles were generally more nuanced. The Knights of the tarot deck are on a quest to obtain something, but by the time the quest is over, they'll realize just how much it's changed them.

The progression here is most notable because it is directly sequential: a 10 into a Page (11) that's turning into a Knight (12) into a full Knight (12). It is also, interestingly enough, a complete change of element: from the emotional realm of Water into the material realm of Earth into the spiritual realm of Fire, with Earth bridging the gap between the enemy elements.

Together, these cards help re-examine your own journey. You're growing up, and as part of that, you're growing away from what you've known and the world you were prepared for, especially since you've distanced yourself from it. Sometimes it's not just going back physically to a place, but mentally; you've changed. You will never again be the person you used to be, even if you throw yourself back into your old religion. All you can ever do is what the Knight of Wands is doing: keep going forward and see where it takes you. You can change your direction how you please, but equally, others around you will always treat you how they see fit based on what you do and what you have done and the circumstances you all see each other in.

The question I pose to you is this: Do you want to be someone else's stagnant version of you, or would you like to become your new favorite version of yourself? There's always time to find out what that means, and I wish you the best no matter what path you choose to take. Just remember that you should choose to take it.

Hello there T.A. I understand the feeling, though I can't imagine the stress you yourself are under. I'm using MJ Cullinane's Crow Tarot for this reading, and your card for advice is the Four of Cups reversed.

The Four of Cups is a fundamentally simple card. In its typical upright position, it's a card of disinterest and a numb disconnection from life itself. When reversed, it tries to change that message, yet the core of it remains. Instead, the reversal is about a resignation of sorts to the fact that the work you have already put in has to be enough, as any further will simply not stick. It also indicates that hardship and difficulty will soon come to an end, but this card's portrayal of it is not uplifting and hopeful. Rather, it's grounded and realistic, saying that one way or another, what troubles you will be decided.

It seems to me like you've done everything you reasonably can for your people at large, T.A. Now you have to focus on just making it through the hardest part that remains. Prioritize those closest to you and just do your best with what you have.

How strange, I could have sworn I centered that photo better...

Hey there to all of you! Love a good revenge plot. For you all, I've chosen the Tarot For You And Me by Gary D'Andre and Jess Vosseteig. It's one of my newer decks compared to the rest of my collection. (...Ignore the part where I get decks somewhat constantly.) Aaanyway, for your question, I split it into two for the reading and drew a card for each. In answer to why the world decided your paramour was evil, your card is the Moon upright, and for spite advice, your card is the 9 of Lanterns upright.

The Moon upright is a card about the subconscious, the emotional realm, and accepting the shadows. It's a card that illuminates the changes or habits in one's life that were just quietly shifting around in the dark. Sometimes, one needs to make peace with themself and recognize that they don't actually know themself all that well.

So, there are a couple ways to read this card in relation to your question. It could be that you don't see the parts of your partner that others do. It could be that they don't see the parts that you do. I don't know y'all, so I can't say for sure, but this is something to think on.

As for spite plays, the 9 of Lanterns takes the place of the 9 of Wands in a regular deck, making this a pretty high-tiered Fire-aligned card. It's primarily about reaching the end of a journey and getting over one final obstacle. It's about showing off all of your creative skills by creating something that you really want to. One line in particular that stood out to me was, Just because it's not coming to you easy doesn't mean it's not for you. Bravery, discipline, and courage are just as necessary to see things through as the initial idea.

This isn't so much giving you ideas for how to get back at people, and more about what it takes to actually see that through. Do one thing, and then put it away. You don't want to be trapped in a loop, so just see one plan through, make sure the dust settles finally afterwards, and then move on with your life alongside your partner.

I wish y'all the best!

We're using one of my favorite oracle decks to see how we're going to adapt this tier list system to oracle decks. I love this deck a lot, but that's all the more reason for me to be mean to it.

Please note that there are things that I just do not know, so there will be things that I miss. Please check the tier list page on my blog for the categories and other decks that I have ranked. All six main categories are judged on a 1 to 5 scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best.

The Seed & Sickle Oracle is a 55-card oracle deck by Fez Inkwright stored in a cardboard box with a slidout box for holding the deck and two guidebooks that closes on the bottom with a magnetic closure. I bought a very beat up one on purpose in person because I felt bad for it. The reason why this book comes with two guidebooks is because the Dawn guidebook is for an external, actionable approach, while the Dusk guidebook is for an internal, introspective approach. The deck itself is split into four suits for each season: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Appropriation VS Appreciation: 5

This deck was crafted with an affection for the natural world and the history and mythology of various plants from several locales. I did not personally find any elements that were appropriative.

Blatant Bullshit: 4

So, I'm pretty sure that at least some of the historical claims in various entries are at least a little bit oversold, but I don't know how to go about it. So I'm leaving it at a 4 with a raised brow.

Cohesiveness: 5

Every single card has the same art style, the same numbering and naming pattern, and the same lovely attention to detail. Not only that, but the entire deck in numerical order creates a gradient of color that progresses throughout the whole thing.

Connectivity: 4

Now, this is a tricky part. In order for the deck to use both guidebooks, the meaning has to be different enough between them to justify it but also similar enough for it to still be the same base card. Because of that, each card has additional elements worked into it, but those additional elements may be discussed in one guidebook but not the other.

For example, the Cherry card depicts a Cuckoo nesting among its branches. The Dusk guidebook talks about the bird and tree together as part of its meaning because of some folklore, but the Dawn guidebook makes no mention whatsoever of the birb and instead focuses on the fruit of the Cherry that are also depicted.

Because of this, if you're only using one guidebook for a reading (which is the normal way, if you ask me), you may wind up wondering where the hell the elements of the card actually came from. Since both guidebooks are sold together with the deck in one little bundle, it's not terrible because you can poke the other booklet and see if it's mentioned there. And that's relatively fine, it's manageable.

But some cards may have elements that are discussed in neither guidebook, like the red thread on the Rowan card. Neither its Dawn nor Dusk entries give any suggestion of why it's there.

So overall, while absolutely gorgeous, some cards miss the brief.

Guidebook Usefulness: 5

One of the key appeals to this deck is the dual guidebooks. Both of them bear a near-identical foreword written by Yoshi Yoshitani (of Tarot of the Divine and nowadays Oracle of the Divine fame) where the difference outlines what the guidebook you're holding is for, an identical introduction, a quick-reading guide of keywords that differ between decks, a near-identical introduction to the cards where the difference directs you to the other guidebook for its respective reading type, and then it gets into the suits/seasons and the cards. The suit/season descriptors are identical, but the card meanings themselves are the biggest difference.

Once you get past the card meanings, we get more identical parts involving how to read the cards, the difference between Dusk and Dawn readings, reversals in this deck (which can be read as the opposite guidebook to the one you intended), and then the spreads. At the very end there are a few suggestions for how to use the oracle deck to supplement your regular tarot readings.

The spreads are very, very interesting:

The Seed [shared]: a 1-card draw for the morning about a core message to keep in mind for the day.

The Seed In Growth [shared]: a 5-card draw for bigger questions. The pattern is past-present-future-advice-obstacles.

The Sickle [shared]: a 4-card spread exploring what needs to be removed from your life. The pattern is what was sown-what events rely on-what will be reaped-what will be nourished.

Spring Equinox [Dusk]: a 5-card spread about the first steps on self-improvement. The pattern is area of growth-what needs to be cleared-what beliefs should be expanded-what new growth is possible-what could the best self look like.

Summer Solstice [Dawn]: a 5-card spread continuing the path to achieving one's goals of self-improvement. The pattern is what behavior can be changed-what needs to be let go-what obstacles are there-who or what can help with focus-how might things differ if things are changed.

Fall Equinox [Dusk]: a 5-card spread about reflection on a journey of self-improvement. The pattern is which goal have I achieved-what area of growth has benefitted me most-what element hasn't thrived as I hoped-what's held me back-what should I focus on.

Winter Solstice [Dawn]: a 4-card spread for further self-reflection, this time over the year. The pattern is what outlook has served me best lately-which viewpont could use more work-which approach hasn't worked and should be left-which attitude worked best and should be carried forward.

The Seed In The Wild [shared]: a 5-card spread involving a Significator and has you select the significator, shuffle, flip the deck over, and find it and the four cards beneath it for the reading to cover your development as a person. The pattern is the grounding connection to your past/culture-what's supported your growth-what brings light and energy into your life-what lies beneath your exterior in your subconscious-Significator/how you present yourself to the world.

I find this deck to be somewhat poetic and lyrical with its short escapades into plant folklore and history, but also very straightforward. This deck's guidebook is written with the intention of you actually using it in order to get answers, not to mystify the whole situation. And the dual guidebooks for one deck is such a good way to elevate the deck and its themes.

Coolness: 5

I told you up top that this was one of my favorite oracle decks. Since I don't have as many of those as I do tarot decks, I can list them on a separate favorites list and not take up the top 10 tarot slots. Nyehehe.

Notable Cards

The eponymous Seed & Sickle cards.

Please look at and reblog this post by @windvexer showing the full deck and its beautiful gradient of the cards!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read for me. I will take this guidance and use them for the best during my journey. I noticed that the more I sat with my emotions and understood them, the more I felt at peace. But somehow, it feels like I am misunderstanding something. I don’t want to control it since I can’t, but I want to take the best out of it to guide me in my life. I’ll keep your reading in mind, thank you so much again! Have a nice day or evening! 🩵

Hey, thanks for dropping by with the feedback! I'm glad that the reading helped at least a little. Hopefully that masterpost post I linked may also be of aid. Good luck!