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The Lunar Nomad Oracle: 43 Cards to Unlock Your Creativity and Awaken Your Intuition
The Lunar Nomad Oracle is a set of keys for unlocking and understanding your intuitive side, your "lunar self." As a nomad on the path of the lunar self, you will awaken your sense of wonder and discover your creative desires to facilitate introspection, awareness, and lasting change.
The Lunar Nomad Oracle is inspired by the traditional Lenormand system, but unlike the Lenormand, this deck comprises 43 cards and additional significator cards that are multiracial and multiethnic. The Lunar Nomad Oracle cards are rich with layers, colors, and imagery, all designed to speak to the intuitive self. The book and deck allow users to explore their inner depths, looking for clues and prompts to activate their lunar side--their creativity, intuition, and inner wisdom. The symbolism of the cards helps the user formulate a story or reading. The process will be familiar to followers of tarot, but because The Lunar Nomad Oracle does not have suits or a linear structure, readers have the freedom and fluidity to really explore the deck and add their own insights and interpretations.
The Lunar Nomad Oracle is inspired by the traditional Lenormand system, but unlike the Lenormand, this deck comprises 43 cards and additional significator cards that are multiracial and multiethnic. The Lunar Nomad Oracle cards are rich with layers, colors, and imagery, all designed to speak to the intuitive self. The book and deck allow users to explore their inner depths, looking for clues and prompts to activate their lunar side--their creativity, intuition, and inner wisdom. The symbolism of the cards helps the user formulate a story or reading. The process will be familiar to followers of tarot, but because The Lunar Nomad Oracle does not have suits or a linear structure, readers have the freedom and fluidity to really explore the deck and add their own insights and interpretations.
- GenresTarot
160 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2018
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July 2, 2018
There are two aspects to this product - the book and the deck, which is not a tarot deck. This deck is supposed to allow you to get in touch with your lunar side of self "where wisdom, insight, and your divine spark reside" according to the box. In looking at the 43 cards, the artwork is layered and stylistic, the pictures a bit fussy and too dark. For instance on the ship there is a hot air balloon to represent a ship but the background has a map and enlarged map symbols. Looking at the card it easy to see how there could be many interpretations on the meaning of the card. The deck is larger than typical playing cards and difficult to shuffle. While it makes the pictures easier to see, it makes it hard to hold the cards and shuffle the deck. It's almost easier to lay the deck on the table and move the cards around. The book provides layouts and how to interpret those layouts and tips on how to better interpret your experience.
There are many women shown in the cards. These women are from diverse backgrounds which is nice. The Man and Woman card has two versions of the card, one with a white man / woman and one with an ethnic man / woman. In Miro's description of the card he doesn't offer any suggestions on how to use the cards. Should the user take one out, leave both one? He does not explain. He also states these cards have little to no significance other than to represent a man or a woman. This seems superficial. If they have no significance, why have them in the deck? But the only nudity in the desk is also female nudity. There are men in the deck but none of them are nude. Miro may enjoy the female figure more but the cards including nudity don't really need it.
For each card, Miro provides a group of words which the card represents. Most of his words are typical for instance on the card Coffin his words are "respite, ending, burial, death, life change, illness, depletion." One thing which is disturbing is the Whip Card. This is one of the cards with a nude woman and his words are "attraction, sex, the physical, conflict, arguments, punishment, repetitive." Between the name of the card, the nudity, and the words attraction and sex it gives a negative. His description begins discussing how the whip is all about sexual attraction. Is this his view of how women should be treated?
Miro uses cliché openings for some of cards. Coffin starts with "The sands of time trickle through the hourglass…" This imagery is over used. There was a soap opera which used something similar. His writing is fussy like the cards. He uses overly flowery language which overshadows his message.
The meanings of his cards could easily be found with any internet search. There's nothing new or insightful about his interpretations of these symbols. Lunar energy has typically been considered the feminine energy. Miro's interpretation of female energy is off key. Not recommended.
There are many women shown in the cards. These women are from diverse backgrounds which is nice. The Man and Woman card has two versions of the card, one with a white man / woman and one with an ethnic man / woman. In Miro's description of the card he doesn't offer any suggestions on how to use the cards. Should the user take one out, leave both one? He does not explain. He also states these cards have little to no significance other than to represent a man or a woman. This seems superficial. If they have no significance, why have them in the deck? But the only nudity in the desk is also female nudity. There are men in the deck but none of them are nude. Miro may enjoy the female figure more but the cards including nudity don't really need it.
For each card, Miro provides a group of words which the card represents. Most of his words are typical for instance on the card Coffin his words are "respite, ending, burial, death, life change, illness, depletion." One thing which is disturbing is the Whip Card. This is one of the cards with a nude woman and his words are "attraction, sex, the physical, conflict, arguments, punishment, repetitive." Between the name of the card, the nudity, and the words attraction and sex it gives a negative. His description begins discussing how the whip is all about sexual attraction. Is this his view of how women should be treated?
Miro uses cliché openings for some of cards. Coffin starts with "The sands of time trickle through the hourglass…" This imagery is over used. There was a soap opera which used something similar. His writing is fussy like the cards. He uses overly flowery language which overshadows his message.
The meanings of his cards could easily be found with any internet search. There's nothing new or insightful about his interpretations of these symbols. Lunar energy has typically been considered the feminine energy. Miro's interpretation of female energy is off key. Not recommended.
May 17, 2018
This review originally appeared on The Magical Buffet's website on 05/16/18.
If you follow me on social media and/or have been a long-time reader you know I have a big tarot/oracle deck addiction. To me there really isn’t such a thing as a bad deck, but after a while you start to seek out things that stand apart from the crowd and I have found something truly unique in “The Lunar Nomad Oracle” by Shaheen Miro.
It’s rare to find an oracle deck with so much intense thought put into its construction. “The Lunar Nomad Oracle” starts on the skeleton of the Lenormand deck, a 36-card deck of symbols that most likely evolved from a card game towards the end of the 18th century. Miro’s deck is expanded to 43 cards but holds firm to its Lenormand beginnings. The art for the deck and the design were both done by Miro, which I feel lends a grounding cohesiveness to the dream-like nature of the oracle. Miro indicates that there are three levels of symbolism in each card: archetypal, general, and personal. Personally, I feel that checks out.
All this work is to help you get in touch with your “Lunar” self, which I would sum up as your creative, magical self. Will it work for you? If it doesn’t, it certainly isn’t for Miro’s lack of trying. “The Lunar Nomad Oracle” truly stands apart from its peers.
If you follow me on social media and/or have been a long-time reader you know I have a big tarot/oracle deck addiction. To me there really isn’t such a thing as a bad deck, but after a while you start to seek out things that stand apart from the crowd and I have found something truly unique in “The Lunar Nomad Oracle” by Shaheen Miro.
It’s rare to find an oracle deck with so much intense thought put into its construction. “The Lunar Nomad Oracle” starts on the skeleton of the Lenormand deck, a 36-card deck of symbols that most likely evolved from a card game towards the end of the 18th century. Miro’s deck is expanded to 43 cards but holds firm to its Lenormand beginnings. The art for the deck and the design were both done by Miro, which I feel lends a grounding cohesiveness to the dream-like nature of the oracle. Miro indicates that there are three levels of symbolism in each card: archetypal, general, and personal. Personally, I feel that checks out.
All this work is to help you get in touch with your “Lunar” self, which I would sum up as your creative, magical self. Will it work for you? If it doesn’t, it certainly isn’t for Miro’s lack of trying. “The Lunar Nomad Oracle” truly stands apart from its peers.
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