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The Fairy Ring: An Oracle of the Fairy Folk

by Anna Franklin

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The Oracle for Lovers of the Fairy Folk Combine astounding, photorealistic images with breathtaking surreal art that feature the world of the fairy, and you have The Fairy Ringoracle. This deck has four suits, one for each season, plus eight additional cards that celebrate the major Celtic "Fairy Festival" holidays. Included with the deck is a 240-page book that is filled with fairy lore, the meanings of the cards, their myths and legends, how to work with the fairy or character on each card and an amazing nine different spreads you can use. This is more than just a divinatory deck--it's virtually an entire spiritual, magickal, and oracular system! The strikingly beautiful artwork will literally draw you into the world of the fairy. It will let you cross over from our world and allow you to listen to their wisdom. But this requires you to take the first step. Using this deck will help you to let the fairies fill your dreams. Read about just one card per day, and in only two months you'll have amassed more fairy lore than you can imagine! More importantly, by working with this deck, the fairies will come to know and trust you and share their wisdom with you. The fae don't easily give their friendship and let you into their world. Ideal for all Pagans and lovers of the fairy realms. Don't let this opportunity to commune with the fairy folk pass you by! The beauty of this set makes it a great gift, too!… (more)
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I really enjoy this deck/book, and it has great layouts and meditation/visualization exercises, but lately I have not been enjoying it as much. I think that sometimes you are in a certain mind set and need one deck and at other times you need another deck.

I think I need to come back to this one a little later. The book is very comprehensive as to meanings, but I need to put my own meaning into them as well, and the book makes it hard to do. Though if you just read the descriptions of the cards and the stories behind the fairies depicting (and not the divinatory meanings, and maybe even skip the meditations), you can bring your own definitions into focus. ( )
  indiefishsteak | Mar 31, 2013 |
This set containing a quality 248 page soft-cover book and a colorful deck of 60 oracle cards plus 4 spread cards is very unusual and that says a lot in a market as swamped as the current Tarot card market is. From the creators of the Sacred Circle Tarot, The Fairy Ring uses the same type of computer enhanced photographic images of human beings. They occur in collage-like surroundings featuring fairy mounds and standing stones, forests glades and moonlit moors wearing fairy garb, altered sometimes to give them the oddly shaped bodies and features of the fairies they represent. The set is unusual, in my opinion, because it provides a much better than usual atmosphere and even some written suggestions for using these beautiful cards for deep meditation. It unfolds like guided meditation does, the images on the cards being wonderful catalysts. One's imagination melds so readily with the details on the cards that it is very easy to step into the land of the fey and to discover the teachings waiting there. The settings and the fairies are so evocative in this deck that you get a quantum leap into your meditation if you are only willing. You can meditate with any Tarot deck but with this deck it seems almost effortless.
The cards are divided into four seasonal suits depending on the time of year when a particular fairy is most likely to appear. There are thirteen cards in each suit that are numbered one to nine plus four court cards. Each card has a different fairy for a total of 52 fairies. There are also eight festival cards that mark the cheif fairy feasts. These closely correspond with Wiccan sabbats except Herfest is substituted for Mabon. The cards have both upright and reversed meanings. The fairies depicted are of all different sorts, fair and ugly. The quality cards are glossy with green backs featuring Celtic knotwork in the shape of the vesica pisces. The book contains delineations for each card that first describes the imagery of the card, then gives the detailed lore of the fairy, the divinatory meanings, reversed meanings, and finally, information and tips on working with the particular fairy including tree and herbal lore or other pertinent habitat lore.
These cards are very beautiful. The fairy lore is so excellent that I would recommend this set just for the book alone. It is packed with scholarly information and shows a deep understanding of fey beings. It has a select bibliography and has been well-researched.
This deck is not for everyone. You are either a fairy friend or you are not. If you are willing to enter into this realm with an open mind and heart in can be very illuminating. The deck is accessible and the visual images are definite portals. It is an excellent value in that the book is a wonderful resource alone and the cards are a miniature art gallery if nothing else. If used as the creators intend it is a remarkably useful tool for self-awareness. ( )
  Treeseed | Mar 8, 2008 |
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The Oracle for Lovers of the Fairy Folk Combine astounding, photorealistic images with breathtaking surreal art that feature the world of the fairy, and you have The Fairy Ringoracle. This deck has four suits, one for each season, plus eight additional cards that celebrate the major Celtic "Fairy Festival" holidays. Included with the deck is a 240-page book that is filled with fairy lore, the meanings of the cards, their myths and legends, how to work with the fairy or character on each card and an amazing nine different spreads you can use. This is more than just a divinatory deck--it's virtually an entire spiritual, magickal, and oracular system! The strikingly beautiful artwork will literally draw you into the world of the fairy. It will let you cross over from our world and allow you to listen to their wisdom. But this requires you to take the first step. Using this deck will help you to let the fairies fill your dreams. Read about just one card per day, and in only two months you'll have amassed more fairy lore than you can imagine! More importantly, by working with this deck, the fairies will come to know and trust you and share their wisdom with you. The fae don't easily give their friendship and let you into their world. Ideal for all Pagans and lovers of the fairy realms. Don't let this opportunity to commune with the fairy folk pass you by! The beauty of this set makes it a great gift, too!

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blurb: Inside this book you’ll find beautiful fairies and misshapen ogres, helpful sprites and mischievous tricksters. Those who are wise in the ways of the wee fold know that not all fairies are cute little creatures with dainty wings who flit from flower to flower.
Consider leprechauns, the crafty cobblers who guard the elusive gold at the end of the rainbow, or the beguiling will o‘the wisp, who loves to lead the weary traveler astray. Watch the ocean waves and you may see a most peculiar transformation, for selkies live as seals in the sea but inhabit human bodies on dry land.
What can you learn from the fairies who inhabit The Fairy Ring? The appearance of a leprechaun teaches us to be wise with out treasured earnings, while the will o’the wisp warns up of situations involving illusion and treachery. Turning over the selkie card reminds us to be adaptable. As you work with this book and card set, you will explore the spectrum of upright and reversed meanings and add your own as the faires speak to you in the language of the cards.
This guidebook includes nine spreads designed specifically to be used with The Fairy Ring cards, including the Fairy Oracle spread to answer specific questions, the Fairy Gifts spread to help you discover your innate talents and potential, and the Wildfolk Guides spread to help you connect with fairy energies.
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