Decks I Use

 Welcome, here is a list of decks I use in my readings as well as other divination systems. This is a list for curiosity and interest as well as for clients who purchase a reading from me. 

TAROT DECKS

The Light Seer’s Tarot (Chris Anne)

Crystal Visions Tarot (Jennifer Galasso)

The Steampunk Tarot (Barbara Moore)

Tarot de la Santa Muerte (Publisher: Berbera Editores)

Rider-Waite Tarot (Arthur E. Waite & Pamela Coleman Smith)

Tarot of Haunted House (Sasha Graham & Mirco Pierfederici)

Golden Tarot of Marseille (Lo Scarabeo)

Mystical Lenormand (Regula E. Fiechter)

Witches Tarot Mini Edition (Ellen Dugan)

Tarot of Sexual Magic (Laura Tuan & Mauro De Luca)

Golden Art Nouveau Tarot (Giulia F. Massaglia)

Thelema Tarot (Renata Lechner)

Da Vinci Tarot (Ghiuselev/Atanassov)

After Tarot (Corrine Kenner)

The Halloween Tarot (Kipling West)

 

ORACLE DECKS

The Anubis Oracle (Nicki Scully, Linda Star Wolf Ph.D. & Kris Waldherr)

Healing with the Angels Oracle Cards (Doreen Virtue)

Angel Answers (Doreen Virtue)

Romance Angels Oracle Deck (Doreen Virtue)

Archangel Oracle Cards (Doreen Virtue)

Healing With the Fairies Oracle (Doreen Virtue)

Gateway Oracle Cards (Denise Linn)

Wisdom House of Night (P.R. Cast + Colette Baron Reid)

Cat Tarot (Julia Smillie & Megan Lynn Kott)

The Chronicles of Destiny Fortune Cards (Ellershaw & McKinney)

Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Cards (U.S. Game Systems Inc.)

The Love Pack (Chuck Spezzano)

Crystal Oracle (Toni Carmine Salerno)

The Plutonian Oracle (Monique Kirkley)

The Pet Oracle (Monique Kirkley)

The Faeries Oracle (Brian Froud)

Astrology Cards (Gift Republic)

  

LENORMAND

Gilded Reverie Lenormand – Expanded Edition (Ciro Marchetti)

 

KIPPER

Fin De Siècle Kipper (Ciro Marchetti)

 

OTHER

Astrological dice

Dowsing rods

iamkcrafts

Hello everyone! I'm back with another update: I've been working on my brand here and there. Now that I've gotten a little more time on my hands, I'm currently in the process of undergoing a name change with my brand! I wanted something that would cover a variety of themes and hopefully this brings more simplicity to the merch front. 

I've also placed some new items in my Ko-Fi shop called companion dolls. Please check them out as there are more to come. 

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Happy 4th of July!

Monique

Moving to Ko-Fi from Etsy!

Hi everyone. I know it's been awhile. Being a full-time mom hasn't been easy, but I've been in the process of making products for my shop. These include more voodoo dolls and junk journals. As soon as I am able, I will be creating videos and putting these items up for sale in my shop. For now, I hope everyone has been doing well. 

Happy Caesar Chavez Day, America! 

Introducing The Plutonian Oracle

You made it! Welcome to my blog. Here I will introduce and talk about The Plutonian Oracle and give you some ideas on how to use it. At first, it may seem like a complicated deck, but it's an oracle that is as simple as you'd like to make it. :) All I ask is that you forgive the lousy image quality in this post, but hey, it might just prevent image theft, right? 

In my background post about The Plutonian Oracle, I talk about its origin. Click on the link if you'd like to know more about how I created this deck and why. 

Now, onto how to use the oracle! This deck was created to be used on many levels. The first level focuses on the central symbol of each card. Take for example the crescent moon on the Hidden card (see above image). It's meaning is traditional in that it indicates hidden things, i.e., secrets. 

Second level reading is designed to give you specifics on the general message. For example, knowing whether the person in question is male or female, or if something is short lasting or long lasting. Extracting specifics can be done using the extra set of symbols (or what I call indicators) located at the corners of a card. Depending on what card you get or use, there may be only one indicator or several.  

Some cards do not have indicators. That's OK. I did this on purpose. For example, indicators like the sun and moon glyphs appear on several cards, but it would be redundant and wasteful to put them on the entire deck. What's nice about the blank corners of these cards is that you can draw in indicators, or simply use them from another card (if not in use). You can also substitute different meanings for indicators.

Third level reading is making use of space, which is a reading method similar to Lenormand. This is where the arrows in the deck come in (see the Unknown Person card below). Arrows help the reader focus on a particular direction in a reading. Depending on where an arrow points, readers can look to the card in that area of the reading or place one there to shed light on the first (arrow) card. Some indicators can also be used in this manner as well. 

Fourth level reading is the use of the deck's optional correspondences. These include elements, astrological signs, planets, colors, chakras, numerology numbers, and guidance messages assigned to each card. Correspondences assigned to the Unknown Person card are: earth element, the number 4, the root chakra, the planet Pluto, the color red, the sign of Virgo and the general guidance message is strength. You can use these apart from the oracle symbols or alongside them.

There is much more information on how to use this fourth level in the oracle manual as well as on how to use the deck in many other ways. I will also be sharing more information on this deck as well as some sample readings in a future post, so stay tuned! 

Free Tarot Journal Pages

Put together a journal using a PDF editor with these pages, or simply print them for your physical journal. Click on the image of the page you want to download. Links to each page and zip file can be found below. 

Enjoy!

                           

Page 1.pdf |  Page 2.pdf | Page3.pdf | Page4.pdf | Page5.pdf | Page6.pdf

ReadingJournal.zip

                                     

Relationship Spread

So I was asked by a good friend of mine to share a relationship spread I stumbled across under natural circumstances - these natural circumstances being the way cards happen to spatially present themselves in readings. This spread provides assessment for a commonly asked question in divination: how does this person feel about me? Not only that, it provides an assessment of both parties - as a traditional spread - at conscious and unconscious levels.

First, a significator card or cards is used to represent the two people in the relationship. These cards are placed in the center of the spread. For example, The Lovers may be used to represent a romantic relationship. Court cards can also be used to represent each individual. For non-romantic relationships, the 2 of Swords may be used. Of course, if you don't want to use any cards from the deck for card-saving purposes, then a piece of paper with the querents' names or other objects may be used to represent the pair. 

Next, cards drawn are laid out behind each individual. Cards leading up to the individual may describe present feelings, or a progression of feelings over time. The initial root feeling/desire/need is the farthest card from the individual, while current feelings fall near or just behind. Here's an example:

Here, the Queen of Swords and King of Cups are used to represent a romantic heterosexual couple. The first cards represent current feelings, while the cards on each end of the spread represent initial or past feelings. However, this may not always be the case. In this example, my initial impression of the cards behind the man reads differently because of the court card (Queen of Pentacles). In this case, the past may not be represented by the man's initial feelings but by someone who has influenced him to feel his current feelings (5 of Wands). (I tend to read courts as people until feedback is given.) 

Cards in this spread may be read as events going on behind each individual as well. It depends on the reader's intuitive register of the cards. For example, behind the man, the 5 of Wands could be read as several women vying for his attention, and the Queen of Pentacles is a potential past lover. To shed some light on the couple's current status, they've been navigating troubled waters negatively affecting their relationship for years now.

Now, let's take a look at the woman's side of things. She has The Sun as her current feelings in the relationship and the 5 of Cups as past or initial root feelings. At first glance, these cards present a self-explanatory assessment. Her feelings about the union are positive and hopeful. The sun provides growth, and that's the energy she's offering. Her past feelings represent disappointment and regret over issues that may or may not have been under her control (5 of Cups). To say the least, she has come out of inner struggle. 

The reader could spend all day analyzing the relationship with this spread; however, the basic concept of its use has been clarified. Can you use this spread to read on two separate circumstances? Why not? I'd love to hear comments about how this reading went for those of you who try it. Better if it's taken out of the box and experimented on in your lab of card reading. Until next time... 

Happy Halloween!  

Are you ready for Jupiter in Aries? A Sample Reading

Jupiter will make its way into the sign of Aries on April 21, 2023 and exit May 1, 2024. (For those of you who go by tropical astrology, Jupiter enters Taurus ;) If you plan to track this transit, have a look at where it will be in your chart this year! Then do this reading to see how it will affect you. 

For this sample reading, I'm using The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck Pocket Edition. I really love smaller deck sizes because they not only accommodate my small hands, but they are great for spreads that need to be photographed! 

THE READING

Overall you can see that the energy is dynamic - matching the fiery combinations of Jupiter and Aries. Keep in mind that the reading is balanced with the element of air (Magician and Ace of Swords).

Between May 2023 and 2024, Jupiter will be transiting my 5th house - which rules children, entertainment, sports, artistic talent, and romance.

1. CURRENT YEAR: 10 OF WANDS REVERSED. The current year brings an end or "loosening up" of burdens. Perhaps these burdens may be from the last 9-10 months. Overall, there is a lightening of stress and perhaps a push back to the 9 of Wands energy. There is less impulsiveness at this point.

2. BEGINNING (MAY-SEPTEMBER): ACE OF SWORDS REVERSED. The way forward with the new transit brings challenges in the area of decision-making. The advice is to be able to have the facts necessary to be able to make a good stand or decision. Mercury will also be retrograde until mid May. Careful planning around entertainment, children, sports, or other 5th house rulerships. Rahu or the North Node will conjunct Jupiter April to October 2023. Rahu shakes things up a lot and so I have no doubt this will make the ride more unstable.

3. MIDDLE (OCTOBER-JANUARY): MAGICIAN. Things start to come together with this card. Having everything I need by October and into the New Year will feel good, especially with respect again to 5th house ruled areas. It will be a good time to take action and make a decision during these months (with respect to artistic talents and children especially). There could also be renewed spark of romance in a marriage. Jupiter will finally unchain itself from Rahu.

4. END (FEBRUARY-MAY 2024): PAGE OF WANDS. The energy tones down, as Jupiter begins its exit out of Aries. The page is about new beginnings and new roles. I also tend to look at the pages as new horizons or embarking on a journey to become something more (King).

Questions, comments, observations? Feel free to leave me a comment below! 

-Monique