Immersing myself in its heady poetry, I frequently surfaced with great quotes, images, stories and unexpected ideas. The 195-page guide book, 2013 Oracle: Ancient Keys to the 2012 Awakening, provides a wealth of information and full-color illustrations of each card. Some examples of the deck’s symbolic entities include the vibrant Waterdog (Metamorphosis), a salamander bridging the realms of water, air and fire the solemn, wise and forbidding Snake Skirted Woman (Healer) who remembers your fate and cleanses you of poison and the richly-carved obsidian Smoking Mirror (Divination), Lord of Deepest Night.
Mayan elders taught that this world, at least as we know it, would end in 2012-hence the deck’s hopeful, one-year-later name. Each card bears a stunning iconic design saturated in color, invoking energies that can guide us as the world passes through enormous changes predicted by the ancient peoples of the Americas. Inspired by ancient American/Mesoamerican prophetic themes and symbols, authors David Carson and Nina Sammons and artist Gigi Borri have produced an oracle deck of uncommon depth. The purse neatly tucks into my handbag: Good to go There’s even room for the deck’s unique, kerchief-sized cenote cloth–where the reader lays out the cards–with its print of four jaguars guarding a black reflecting pool. My newest deck–the oval-shaped, palm-sized cards of the 2013 Oracle-nestles comfortably inside. Now I finally have the perfect use for it.
I confess I didn’t need a purse at the time but I craved this gorgeous one. While traveling in Belize last fall, I bought a small handcrafted change purse studded with shiny, fiery-red, orange, yellow, black and silver beads.