Gill Tarot

“66 which I have to say is a fantastic deal for an indie deck there are 44 cards in the deck and four of them are special Spirit cards egg feathered serpent Unis squid and Woolly Mammoth so something fun here each card features a hidden bumblebee so look out when I do a flipr through and see if you can find them additionally each animal spirit is paired with one of the Sacred elements water air fire or Earth that represents its energy so first off all the rage create Decks that I've gotten have been wrapped in craft paper and I really appreciate that and think that's a great choice as a company to have done that because it's Earth friendly and I don't have to go through plastic to get to it now something really cool about this deck is I actually plan to open it nicely so that I can cut this out and use it somewhere else maybe in journaling or I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet but I know I'll do something with it um I could see coloring this in with gel pins if you like but I do like it with this just craft paper and black text on it voila the deck has been unwrapped here we go I have the paper left over here and I didn't even cut or mess up the box and if I can do it you can definitely do because I am not the most delicate at doing things like that so there you go open no problem and I have the paper to save for later so I want to show you something that I think is really cute that I got with this deck and it is the easel style card stand and mini canvas now I use these a lot these stands I use for cards I love to put on my altar or where I read cards or sometimes where I work if there's a message or oracle card or affirmation to remind me of something but this is cool because we have a mini canvas here so you could create your own little message or piece of art and I don't know I think things like this are really cute the the small size of it and then also included is this beautiful sticker this one is 28 jellyfish all right now let's check out this beautiful box so I love how they have the white text on black here with the colors that really pop and and the front of the box is nice and smooth and we have a hard box so it's nice and sturdy to keep your deck safe and here we have the back made with love created in the USA and crowdfunded on Kickstarter now we have finger cutouts which I love and let me show you something here so check out the sides of this what a cool detail when you open this deck I love it very nice and that's a good sign of things to come when creators think of all the details like that I really love that so it opens and then you have the guide book sitting there and we have a ribbon so really especially for this price that's that's amazing a ribbon to get your card s out and then it fits nicely in here and the cards can't slip under because the way this is molded cards can't get stuck under there so that's perfect keeps everything nice and secure now let me show you the surprise that I just saw when I opened it so on the inside we have the uni squid that's amazing I love it I love it it just kind of hints at the playful and fun spirit that you are getting into with this deck and I really love these colors that is beautiful so let's get into this guide book it has a soft matte cover uh with these beautiful colors and something that I think is really interesting and inspiring that I wanted to share is I was talking with the writer of this deck and he actually channeled the messages from the beasties in this guide book when he was out in Guatemala studying mushrooms and I just think that's a pretty cool correlation because I think of the melium network and the massive communication that there is with nature and mushrooms and then you have this writer that's channeling messages from the beasties uh in this guide book and I think that's pretty amazing you'll also see throughout the deck mushrooms within it as a nod to that time and those messages so let's get into the inside of this guide book we have this great image on the front for opal that is Heath new baby daughter and then we have the contents so that's helpful to help you find things we have an intro and uh playing with the cards and guide book oh and I like this let's see May these cards be your reminder to chew through your leash bust out of your your cage Splash in the puddles embrace the mud and then it keeps going and I love that that that is a side of myself that honestly I need to tap into more often to just go and have some fun like I'm a fun person but you know there's so much adulting so much adulting and and you know that that child that freedom that creativity that that can help adulting so hey uh I think that's great that's that's a really good influence that we could probably most of us all use as adults so it's going to tell you a little bit about playing with the cards and the guide book When Your beasti speaks first if a beasti is absent reversals it's going to talk about the elements because each Beast will be connected with their uh particular element and can you spot the Bumblebee and then we're going to get into the card meanings so you can see here we have an image of the card the number the name here we have where it talks about uh the message and then here a pain party let go did you know so a did you know section which is going to give you details on that animal and then an affirmation so we've got uh the detailed insights and wisdom from the beasti and we have that closing affirmation and then the did you know which will be facts about each animal to help you deepen your connection so this is this is really cool I'm looking forward to pulling a card and seeing what affirmation we get I know I would love to have a good inspiring affirmation right about now so this is perfect timing okay and then at the back we get a nice little peek at the rage create team so very cool and of course Unis squid or squid is on the team I love that it's just is so playful and creative great energy here so here's the back of the deck we have a honey comb reversible design which is great and something really cool is that here's a standard tarot size deck these actually match I would say match a standard size Tarot deck now I like that because often oracles are quite large and you know I get around it I Sid Shuffle if they're too long but it's really nice when you can actually Shuffle in the regular way which for me is riffle shuffling when I can and so these are sized in a way where I can do that if I want to so I love that now these are a smooth matte finish actually feels nice this I think this will Shuffle well because it's not the gloss where it sticks but it's not so matte where it also sticks if that makes any sense and these are a I would call call this a medium thickness because they're definitely not thin but they're not so thick that it would be difficult to bridge or I don't think so anyway so I think these are actually going to be just right but we'll find out at the end when we Shuffle so now for the fun part let's meet these beasties [Music] oh ah [Music] [Music] he [Music] he [Music] [Music] he [Music] he [Music] he [Music] so which beasti from this deck caught your eye I know I definitely had some favorites in there so I'd love to hear yours so now let's Shuffle these cards and see which beasti wants to share its sacred wisdom with us today so side shuffle very easy nice and smooth they fly along the Finish is perfect for that side overhand that works well too riffle Shuffle is quite easy and with 44 cards it's kind of perfect because it's not so many cards to riffle through so very easy and they slide nice and smooth because of the Finish so let's pull a [Music] card okay cool we have 44 woly mammoth okay so here's a look at that write up and yeah let's read from it now 44 if I recall correctly is one of the spirit animals woolly mammoth wraps you in a thick coat of Primal power and creative evolution you are becoming something larger stronger and revolutionary you must expand your domain to fully actualize ize your potential sometimes the herd into which you were born isn't the tribe with which you will grow it's time to huddle up with those who warm your soul and spur your creative Expeditions even if it means spanking the others out of your way with your Mighty Tusk you are activated and growing at immense speed others not aligned with your path may find it hard to understand the changes you make they may even get upset or angry that you no longer want to booze it up at the old watering hole and talk [ __ ] about the drafts with them they might call you a weirdo or traitor or hairy [ __ ] in an attempt to sabotage your feelings you must see through the illusion the old herd that once aligned with your mission is now falling behind move with the seasons and find new pastures not everyone is ready for your growth but you need not freeze alongside them you did not explode out of your mama's sacred portal to play small and cower in fear and judgment when you stand tall and in your power you may trigger some creatures in the tundra afraid to take leaps but you will inspire endless others the ones you inspire will become your new tribe supporting you and cheering you as you rage through the Savannah into the Setting Sun the Creative Evolution section says those you grew up with may have been the protective layer against the biting cold of early challenges but it's the new herd That'll Walk with You Into the fiery dawn of artistic Enlightenment to create is to continuously evolve to shed the old and to take risks that lead to leg legendary tells lean into the shift and then there's a section called primordial power rituals and that message says craft rituals with ancient Stones fossils and Ice to harness the mammoth's grounding energy arrange a sacred place with these relics and as you touch each feel the pulse of past life regressions embedded in in your being's DNA a lineage of knowledge awaits you and now for the did you know section mammoths exhibited A Unique Dental progression as their massive MERS wore down from grinding tough vegetation new ones replaced them throughout their lifetime a mamama typically cycled through six sets of molers adaptation continuously progresses you need not always take targeted actions to fix challenges nature designs Solutions the affirmation is born from greatness I Rise to Greatness shedding herds no longer serving me and wrapping myself in the warmth of those who understand my journey by the way did you see the bee in the woolly mammoth so I thought it would only be fitting to have a little fun in the spirit that I'm picking up from this deck so let's play around with some deck pairings and see how well it plays with others so this is a standard size Oracle deck which to me lends itself very well with pairing with other tarot decks so here I've paired it up starting off with a deck that I know a lot of people will have and this is the universal weight tarot I think the colors combined quite well as well as the style so I'll show you and first off let's point out uh the star card is associated with Aquarius and even though we have water here Aquarius is associated with air it is an air sign and up here we do have the Air symbol and of course to me the praying mantis goes very well with the Star of Hope belief Faith as you know some of the meanings associated with the star so let's go ahead and take a look at some more and yeah as you can see I think these colors work very well and then the Border style as well cute red panta and then even like up here where we have the elemental symbol and here the number I think it's quite nice okay so let's check out another deck so next up we have The Groovy weight and I'll put links by the way in the description of this video to these decks so you know where to find them in case you want to play around with them too or pick them up so here we go I definitely feel like this deck works very well with 70s Vibes kind of decks here which you'll see I've chosen some very groovy 70 style decks to go with it [Music] cool there's those [Music] mushrooms okay and then I will show you another deck here let me go ahead and take this one away here is the spring weight this is also by the same folks who did The Groovy which is tarot Collectibles so this one as you can see has star Sparkles they do have an addition without the SP star Sparkles but you know I was given the option for the same cost and I thought yeah sure I don't have a deck with star Sparkles that's fun so tried it out oh that that's perfect look at that butterfly with the butterfly wings there and the air for and this one's Libra air okay oh yeah [Music] perfect that' be that's a great combination okay beautiful so let's grab a different deck this is the Gill tarot which you couldn't get your hands on for quite a while but now it's back in print so very exciting I definitely went and grabbed it it's it's a cool style I I like it it's a Neat Reader so here we go see what you think of these together beautiful okay and one more for the road all right now another 70s Vibe kind of deck uh this is tarot of the Moon Garden I believe that's the exact name something to that effect I have the original of this one too which would work but I don't know if you can get it anymore so I thought I'd use the borderless which you can get although the one with the borders would probably go quite well with this so let's check this out getting these 70s by oh yeah Unis squid for the magician I like how the the hat is pointy and and his horn too that works really well for me the Globes up here Globes down here yeah very cool high priestess with the stick bug there's those mushrooms yeah I think you can have a lot of fun with this I'm enjoying this it kind of lightens things up for me I definitely have uh some um very deep readers and this is nice because this de this Oracle deck is quite deep but it just kind of lightens up the message a little bit which frankly sometimes you need sometimes uh especially if it's a hard message it is nice when it's delivered in a way that makes it a little better to take and it it's almost like you can accept the message a little better uh when it's deliv Ed in such a way with a sense of humor and fun okay so there's that one so now we have the Sawyers path tarot now I'm going to tell you this is for people that already have this deck because currently and I don't know if it's going to stay this way forever currently this deck is sold out or out of print so but I think it works really well I love Jamie Sawyer's work and I want to show you because if you have the stack you can pair it up or maybe you want to pick it up some other way uh even though it's out of print these are fun together the color here's the line work oh yeah oo beautiful okay so that's the Sawyer's path now I'm going to show you another Jamie Sawyer deck but this is a larmand okay so let's see this is I believe it's Sawyer lenormand so similar to the other deck but Len norand a little bit different that Beaver so cute oh sun and hummingbird with the sun that's perfect I love those mushrooms in there tree gu start linking up we have the Earth symbol with the tree red panda oh beautiful stars the bats are out at night Under the Stars okay one more shark and anchor oh we got a sea theme going there okay and water as well so let's show you the next one this is wondering star tarot I wanted to see how this worked together uh we have the the bees and of course with this deck you find the bees in the deck and we have the uh the honeycomb backs that's that's nice [Music] oo beautiful Falcon is up for the challenge okay so that is the I believe the wondering star tarot I'll put the link in the description as well and this deck is fun because it does have some keywords here but they're not super obvious so it's kind of a nice way to jog your memory or help you out in a [Music] reading okay so now for something very different than the other decks this is the star brights tarot I backed it on Kickstarter uh but it is available I believe through the Creator so this one is themed around as you've guessed stars and constellations which is something that I study and love and I definitely think that the animal spirits in this deck work very well with constellations as you can see there are a lot of constellations that do involve animals and these bright colors I do think they work well together and of course they are associated with certain parts of the zodiac which tie into different elements as well I feel like we're dealing with some Universal themes here with these animals as well as the stars and the myths associated them and the myths around animals so this could be quite [Music] powerful okay now let's take that away all right now I want to want to try something out and we'll find out how this works on camera together so I have the sweet ass affirmations 3 which I haven't opened up yet it's in this nice craft paper this is the same creators rage create as this Oracle so let's open it up and see how it goes together I think it's going to go well together okay voila we have it out of the paper so uh yeah this already I think is going to tie together cuz we have the Unis squid which is in this deck here and we have the oh we have the mushrooms which ties in and these themes feel like they will go very well oh I have to show you this I love this look the inside underap of that that's that's awesome okay all right so there's a lot of cards in this deck so I'm going to just kind of split it in half to help my camera Focus so it's it's been you know it's on a manual focus for a certain height so let's do that amount and see how these go together so we have Earth 39 hippopotamus this sweet hippopotamus with a little Crown Here I Am the love of my life and my love creates new life for loving and on the back instead of having a guide book you have have basically the full message here which is really cool and I love how this is talking about loving herself and you have the hippopotamus here with a little crown on that works for me so let's [Music] see I grow farmlands of authentic dreams and water them with self-confidence streams oh that's a very useful affirmation and then the message on the back okay so yeah these colors and the mood works together these are fun these are the kind of affirmations that I could use in my life I just more of this playful spirit I am a playful person but sometimes too much adulting seriously more time for some fun and creativity I am the buzz within the bees I am everything I need to be without trying and then of course we have hidden bees in here somewhere and the honeycomb on the back I love that cuttlefish she's so cute in silence I hear it all in Stillness I feel it all ooh a meditating Unis squid floating in the sky yeah this this works very nicely okay so that's the last one I wanted to try with it I hope that you've found some that you think work nicely together or maybe that you already own if you're thinking of picking up the beasties Oracle that you could work with them together one of the things I really love about this deck is its voice it's very unique uh the messages are powerful and insightful yet they weave in moments of humor for me this balance helps ground the message making it easier to digest remember and apply in my life the Bold vibrant colors and playful spirit of the artwork also bring the deck to life creating a sense of joy and connection with each card as promised I have something special for anyone dreaming of creating their own card deck the deck Creator's Launchpad and Community is the ultimate resource for bringing your deck Vision to life this program was founded by Anna Frolic founder of Wonderland publishing and Heath Armstrong co-founder of Rage create Heath is also the creator of this deck the beasy's Oracle and the sweet ass affirmations 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