Earth Magic Oracle Cards: A 48-Card Deck and Guidebook

This box contains the Earth Magic oracle cards securely wrapped with a paper "ribbon" and the instruction booklet was on top. The book itself is about the size of your hand and includes an author background, introduction, various spreads to use for a reading and an index for the cards. It is simple, helpful and insightful.These cards have absolutely beautiful artwork. Even if you don't feel connected to the act of oracle reading or meditating, you will enjoy these cards for their aesthetics. They are larger than a regular deck of cards, and have a thickness and gloss to their stock that make them high quality. It makes a lovely addition to your bookshelf or altar.It’s important to make note that the publisher considered a reviewer's specific suggestion and included page numbers in the instruction booklet so that you can now easily look up the card name in the index near the front and just flip to the corresponding page. I was very pleased by that!I think these cards are an excellent gift or starting point for someone with a newfound interest in tarot. No, it’s not exactly the same, but there are similarities and Oracle cards provide a more simplistic, yet meditative approach that can be a wonderful introduction and useful every day tool.

Though some reviews say the images are a little dim, I found that this stopped bothering me once I started using the deck. The key of this deck is usability - it is very grounded and functional! The artwork IS very beautiful, nevertheless, and sensitively rendered, but more importantly it is a true and honest deck. Quite harmonizing when integrated into readings.It's not the most up-to-date, aesthetic, eye-fest that some decks are now, and though I like some of those too, if you want something that does it's job - i.e. give you a clear and honest reading - then this is a good deck for that. Also the images really are quite beautiful in a low-key way.

Loved the size and quality of the cards, as well as charming artworks! Amazing set!

There’s a reason this deck is still being purchased and recommended 10+ years after its original publication. It’s just an all around great Earth based oracle deck. The keywords and guidebook explanations are great - you can also easily forgo using the guidebook as the cards are wonderful to read intuitively which the author recommends. If you pair tarot with oracle, this one will go well with so many decks. It’s an amazing general deck and I love it!

I now have all three of Steven Farmer's oracle card decks. I really like the Earth Magic oracle cards. The wisdom in them is ancient, centered and strong, much like the earth herself. I get the sense of a larger perspective from these cards.In terms of the age of our earth, a human lifespan is so brief. In terms of the size of the cosmos, we are so small. These cards take me outside the human drama of current bank balance or relationship status, into the realms of deeper questions. What is my relationship to the earth and how can I leave it a better place? How can I balance the areas of my life better? What perspective can help heal this heartache? These cards have a weightiness to their energy, power and sacredness and perspective and I really appreciate them as a way to tap into guidance.Like the earth herself, these cards are grounding. They take scattered thoughts or anxious energies, and pull them into the earth's heartspace, where there is only the present, and I find them a great re-focuser. Thank you, Steven and thank you Hay House for publishing yet another stellar deck.

I ordered this deck through another well known website and was highly disappointed because I did not get the book. Well now that I have received this deck I am glad I ordered this deck when I saw it came with the book and it is not a playing card size deck. It is a womans hand size deck and comes ina box not a cheap piece of playing card type of deck. I had to try to figure out what the cards meant. Now I am excited I have sturdy cards along with a sturdy box to store them. The book is wonderful. I am a very good at shuffling cards and they are stiff for shuffling. So if you get the deck and have a little bit of a problem because you arent used to shuffling then shuffle on the side of the deck. I hadvthis come up with a friend.

So let me start by saying at first I could not connect with this deck, when I saw them I was taken with the colors and earthiness,but when I opened them up as beautiful as they are I put them on a shelf and they were part of my collection. Then a few days ago I was reading for someone and this deck just came to mind. Now I have another deck that is my go to deck so when this one started coming to me as far as this reading I was a little hesitant but I know better then to question Spirit. I did the reading for this gentlemen and the deck was on point with everything I beleieve he also connected with this deck because it is has a masculine feel to it. Now I cannot put it down, it has such a sacred. This is a serious deck for truth.Yes now I have connected to this amazing deck.