The Elemental Oracle: alchemy | science | magic (Rockpool Oracle Card Series)

Just what I was looking for. Awesome addition to my collection

Brand new Oracle deck. Love the quality of the whole deck. Stacy Demarco puts so much into her art and content. Rockpool guilds their decks. Card quality 100%. Guidebook with great descriptions and colored photos.

Beautiful and insightful

I'm going to just go ahead and answer to what I have noticed is a top concern about card decks...this deck has gorgeous women of different races and ages! These cards are beautiful! I saw a couple reviews that weren't 5 stars so I held off on getting this deck. But I'm glad I came back for it! Stacey Demarco hasn't disappointed me yet! I have a few of her other decks and they are all equally beautiful. I use this deck with the Heavenly Bodies Astrology deck by Lily Ashwell and they pair nicely. I love The Elemental Oracle and already know I'll use it very often! The edges of the cards are lined in silver. (That's why one of the pics I posted has that light) When you fan them out, the outter edges shimmer! Beautiful touch! They may not be what everyone is drawn to, but I personally love them! The guidebook has the cards (in color), the meaning of the cards, and it's associated element. There is one thing that I haven't seen in any other guidebook...it lists the words on each card as a word of power. I absolutely love this! The words of power are in latin with the meaning of the word in parentheses. If you do witchy things, then you know the significance of this! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this deck and the guidebook! BRAVO Stacey!!!

Absolutely beautiful. The art is simply breathtaking. You will receive 44 cards with silver guided edges and nice size booklet. The backs of the cards are a lovely mix of pastels and the box is even a sight with it’s foil like gleam.The art is very imaginative as well as the theme of using elements as an oracle set.I see oracle cards as an intuitive set of lenses through which we can see the world. When we switch lenses to look at things our perspective changes and this enables us to see what we couldn’t before which helps us find solutions or other insights we couldn’t see before. This set works wonderfully with this way of thinking. This is why I love oracle decks and their free form interpretation. To me the best oracle sets are the ones with tons of details and this is just such a set that will get you thinking and interpreting even before you read what the book says about each card.I can not recommend this deck enough. I have a small collection and it is already up there with my favorites. For reference I must say my all time favorite is The Enchanted Map oracle by Colette Baron-Reid but this deck has a similar feel to it.A special note is that this deck is loaded with cultural diversity giving it a worldly feel. I would classify this deck as epic.

There was limited information regarding this deck when I purchased it since it was a new release and there was only one review online.Five stars for physical card quality. The cards come in a traditional standard/sturdy oracle box with silver hologram coloring around the sides of the top of the box. The set includes a full color guidebook. The cards have beautiful silver edging and a nice weight card stock with a pinkish colored backside. The cards stick together a little at first, but stay apart once they are initially detached from one another.Three stars for content. I find the name of the deck a little misleading since it is “The Elemental Oracle. Alchemy, Science, Magic” but is lacking science IMHO. Although the guidebook relates the words on the cards to science, the deck contains no cards with common elements from the Periodic Table. Elements are the foundation of earth and life. Metals can be a symbol of wealth, strength, etc. Other elements when combined can interact or react, create or destroy. Gold is prized (and typically associated with alchemy) and oxygen is necessary to sustain life. However these elements are not included. I feel like I could find deeper meaning in actual elements than some of the cards that are included.The creators did a good job representing most, if not all races, ages, hair colors, etc of women. There are no men depicted, just a baby boy. I’m bummed there are no men as they are essential to life and the male form is beautiful. I’m not sure if everyone will be pleased with the words on the specific racial cards (Bushfires card - I get the Australia connection to the author and aboriginal representation, but ????). Anyway, you can’t please everyone and at least they made an effort. For example, the only redhead is underwater with a castle in the background on the Lake card. Maybe this a Little Mermaid throwback...I’m not sure. Should I be happy they thought to include a redhead or mad they made the ginger a cartoon stereotype? I probably shouldn’t care since it is merely a piece of paper and someone worked really hard to create the beautiful art and write the story in the guidebook.There is too much human form photography included for my personal taste and that wasn’t conveyed in the product description which displayed more artful cards. Some of the words on the cards don’t really match the imagery. For example, the Dark Matter card is covered in butterflies. Two things here - there are no butterflies in the dark matter of space. Dark matter is supposedly empty. Second, if you have ever seen spiritual dark matter, ie evil energy in its true form, there is nothing about it they will make you feel even slightly positive or give you butterflies. It is the worst energy you can experience so I don’t understand how the two can possibly go together. Again, just my opinion.Overall, I think most people in general will be very pleased with the visual appeal of these cards and make them work based on that aspect alone. People who are looking for an intellectual inspired deep dive into meaning reflection will likely be somewhat disappointed.

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