Fairy Oracle | Arthur Rackham

Blessed Imulk, everyone, and Merry Meet. This is Cherry Enchantress with Pixie Dust Tarot, and I'm here with the flip through review of the Fairy Oracle, which is something, this one by Arthur Rackham. Very famous artist, and I've been having this on my list forever, and finally my good friend and client Brie Marie sent it to me as just a little token of love. Oh, it's so nice. So I can't wait to show you guys. So I have like set up like my fairy collection and display here, and if you're interested, I think I'm going to also do a sort of a review of all the fairy decks that I have, just kind of general review, but I've reviewed every single deck that I own separately, and you can find that in a playlist called decks that I own reviews. So flip through reviews of decks that I own. I also have flip through reviews of decks that I've created as well. So let's take a look at the Fairy Oracle by Arthur Rackham. I already took the plastic off. This box is really beautiful. It's very, it's like matte, but it has, it's kind of like, I don't know how to explain it, you know, that has sort of like a raised ridge, rigid feeling, which is really cool. It's really unique and natural color. You know, there's certain decks that I think are comparable and can, you know, seem to match well with this type of imagery and that the other one would be one of my favorites as well, which is the Fairy Oracle by Brian Froud, who also has a beautiful style. And he has kind of like, you know, weird gnomey creatures and stuff, you know, and very mystical fairies too. So, um, yeah, I recommend that one as well. But anyway, let's get back to, and I got a few, a couple of tarot decks. I don't have a whole lot of fairy tarot, but I got a couple of ones that I think will, it will kind of be a good comparison with a companion, I should say, with this Oracle deck. Okay. I'm going to change my view and we'll get to it. Of course it's Los Garbao. I love Los Garbao. And so it'll be in multiple languages, English, French, Spanish, German. Let's see what else we'll find out from the booklet. Let's take a look at the booklet. English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian. 36 card divination of the Victorian realms. Arthur Rackham. He did a lot of children's books designs. You might really recognize that from, you know, some of our childhood books have a lot of his, his artwork. What is this? Card meanings. Each write-up includes a quick summary of the story captured in each of the card, as well as a description of the card's essence for you to assist interpretations. Okay. We'll have to dive into deep, deeper with this. This is like new to, I mean, I'm opening this up with you, so I haven't yet looked at the book and studied it, but it'll be interesting. Okay. So every single card is, is explained, but with no picture to go with it, which is, that's okay. And then using the Oracle of Good Folk. Okay. And advice from fairies and the spreads. And then there you go. And then it goes on to the other languages. Okay. So basically if you're English speaking, this would be your part of the book that you read. All right. Let's take this plastic off. This box had plastic on it too, that I removed. And let's take a look. So I love this. I've always loved that little image of the baby floating by. Oh, Arthur Rackham is so cute. And I have a collection of Arthur Rackham images. I was even about to make my own kind of deck out of it, but yeah, it's much better to have this one instead. Another one of my favorite artists, Margaret, can't remember her last name, but she does a lot of the Peter Pan imagery. So that's something else that I might, if they don't have that out there, I might make something like that. Okay. Let's take a look. So we have number one. So they're all just kind of numbered. That's it. So then you'll have to match them up with meanings. All right. And I'll just do that for us. So one is connection, or you can intuitively, you know, read the card, right? I think V would love stuff like this, because she doesn't like a lot too many words on a card sometimes. And it's borderless. So the image goes all the way to the edges. And this is a nice green edge. So if you wanted to, you know, edge them in a pretty color, that would be pretty nice too, thinking about that. It's also a really nice standard three and a half by five Oracle size, not too huge. Okay. Let's keep going. And then two is the observation. I feel like I'm going to trade my fingers. There you go. Yeah. So observation, my camera's not over there. Observation. Interesting. Three is night watch. I love that. I'm looking at these with you. Four is offerings. Five is tribe. Oh, they're so cute. Six is siren song. One of my favorite images. This is a really nice deck. I, I like, I mean, when it comes to fairy stuff, I like a variety of imagery and you, I'll show you in, if you're interested in my collection, you know, the difference in styles of fairy, fairy images and fairy meanings. You can get very earthy and grounded through the Nomi type fairies, or you can get very beautiful flamboyant ethereal, you know, so I tend to lean more to the ethereal type fairies, but, you know, we're all fairies and we're all connected. So every, every deck to me, every message is a special message. What was that? That was a siren song. Oh, this is gifts. This is like Santa Claus. Then we have eight revolution, nine enticement. Oh, the sun's coming out. Maybe I'll take a walk. Ten, the christening. Oh, I love this one too. Eleven secrets. I love the gnarly tree trunks. So beautiful. Twelve is rehearsal. Thirteen is danger. Fourteen is enlightenment. Fifteen defense. Sixteen is flights of fancy. Seventeen is rest. Eighteen is rejection. Nineteen progress. I love that. Now that looks kind of like a wedding. A fairy queen advances through the night like a moon-touched bride. Yapsee. And a host of fairies surround her. Beautiful childlike maidens of honor carry lanterns to enlighten her steps, while wind fairy children hold her coat so she doesn't touch the ground. She is truly dressed like a bride, her pale face looking forward to an enchanted future. She merrily walks onward, but her own steps without fear, but anticipation. This is a card of direction. It encourages progress forward to create your own light, to make your steps safe, and not to lose trust in the incoming future. Your center won't be in the present, but in the act of becoming. Every step forward will be like a kind of magic. That's really being in the now, right? When you're in the now so much like this, it is like every step is magical. Every time you touch the ground, like little sparkles of fairy dust float around. And then we have 20, Demise. And 21, Fond Farewell. 22, Righteous. 23, The Collector. 24, Delight, my favorite number. And 25, Re-evaluation. 26, Balance. 27, Supportive. 28, Shared Wishes. 29, Personal Celebration. 30, Distraction. Look at that baby. While the small fairy turned us back on the baby, a group of pixies have lifted the child up and away out of harm's reach. What caught the fairy's attention? And will he be able to capture the baby again and bring them back with him? Distractions are part of life. They remind us to be mindful of our actions and what we're doing. Follow your truth path or you'll be carried away. Make sure you limit the interruptions going on around you. Find your focus to achieve your goals. That's what I had to do today. I was like, oh my gosh, what do I want to do today? Get to it, Cherry. Get to it. All right. I kind of slept late though. So 31 is Gossip. 32 is Teachers. 33, Community Celebration. 34, Punishment. 35, Take Flight. And 36, oh that's so pretty, is Rejoice. Really pretty. Many fairies float in the air playing with the will-o-wisps surrounding them. They speak with the dragonflies on and each other and seem to be having a wonderful time with one another. This card is a wonderful omen to receive. Rejoice and celebrate with your tribe. You have worked hard and done so much. Know that bad times will pass and the good will return. You're in the moment. Let the wild rumpus happen. All right, you guys. What a lovely deck. Thrilled and excited to get busy with this. Let's see how it shuffles. Nice. It's bendable but it holds its shape. It's not too slippery either. It won't get away from you. And you can hold it like wide, which is pretty good. I think you might even be able to in time. All right, let's see. Rifle Shuffle. Very nice. And let's see what cards you guys get. I read a few. Okay. Well, I was on the road yesterday and so many ideas came into my head. So I'm just ready to start implementing some ideas. It's funny because I go through phases where my creativity sort of lapses but I have time on my hands and then all of these ideas come to mind and I'm trying to fit it all in in a certain amount of time. I don't know why I do that. Okay, let's see what you got. I'm going to take these two. You know, he looks too mean. I'm not going to talk. But this one is so cute because I have an affinity for swans as well. And when I was really little, maybe not as little as this little guy, but when I lived in Germany, I was so fascinated by the swans and I just wanted to touch them. They look so beautiful and soft. And I walked up to the swan and was about to pet it and it bit my finger and I just couldn't stop crying because I was such a baby. Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry. And then we have, this one looks sort of lovey-dovey. So let's check them out. So 25 was a re-evaluation. A baby stands in the water of a lake. The tattered strands of a kite entangle his body. The kite is heavy and keeps the child from moving on his own. Two swans rush in to help remove the strings, freeing him from his imprisonment. Oh, this could be cord cutting, right? This could also represent, interesting, like if you are involved in a twin flame situation, you have a silver thread connected to that person, but around the silver thread, you have other cords that connect you to different people and I call them, or I've read that they can be called dark cords or shadow cords or misty cords, but they're that, they're, when I imagine it in my mind, I mostly see like smoke, like a smoky cord, like a dark or something that's not tangible, something that's just there connecting, but it doesn't have to be and it's easily cleared away if you put a little focus on it. So there comes a time in your life when you need to re-evaluate your choices in order to make better decisions. The time is now. Be aware of what is going on around you. Don't let yourself get caught up in too many things. Re-evaluate your position and get help from those you trust when you get stuck. Okay, that could be applied in lots of areas of your life, so take it as it resonates. Oh, and you have secrets. All right, so a fairy and her companion sit between the roots of a great tree. They share an important moment, something no one else can hear. This is the important times to share secrets with others and go deeper with your associations of others. This card is all about sharing secrets with those you trust. Sometimes this secret can help lighten your load and brighten your day. Fairies love sharing secrets. In fact, many collect secrets and use them as bartering to trade for other services and goods. That's funny, but it's kind of funny because, oh, you know, as I evolve and level up, you know, I'm learning so much stuff about myself that I hadn't really fully integrated before. And so the issue with my particular kind of communication is sometimes I keep things to myself and sometimes I let people guess or not just guess, but I like, I assume people can use telepathy and figure things out and I don't have to explain too much, you know, like fill in the gaps, like you fill in the gaps, you should know, right? And that's the wrong approach, right? A lot of times you got, you have to be the one to fill in the gaps because people just don't know. And so when you communicate, like you communicating through just clues and little disjointed proverbs and, you know, like little sayings and clusters of words that don't have any real depth to them or explanation to them can be hard to decipher sometimes. So occasionally you have to just really dive deep and be like a school child teacher and just really explain in depth what you're talking about and in the most simplistic form that you can, you know, every once in a while. And I feel like that's kind of how the secrets go. Also the secret makes me think of the book, The Secret, which is all about how to use the law of attraction and manifest. So that's a good thing too. I feel like it's important that when you, instead of going around, okay, so this happened to me today. I've been going around with a misinterpretation or miscommunication, assuming things that were not true. And I finally just talked about it this morning to whoever needed to know, or, you know, you know, whoever needed, I needed to talk to about. And I feel like I cleared some things up that was, that I had been misinterpreting in my mind. And sometimes you just need to do that. Like you can't always just depend on the clues and your surroundings and your interpretation of things. There's a lot of times there's more to it. So if you open up and talk to somebody about some inner thoughts and feelings, you know, pick a good day and pick a good mood and pick a good moment and then see what happens. Magic can happen. Things can open up bigger and better than you thought before. So yeah. All right, you guys, well, I hope you like that. And I'm going to put this flip through away and then maybe soon I will be doing just a review of all my fairy decks. I'll see you then. Faith, trust, and pixie dust.