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Liminal Spirits Oracle
The magical artwork of the Liminal Spirits Oracle connects you to the wisdom of the Witch so you can tap into the spirit realm and the deeper energies within yourself. Featuring the ethereal art of Laura Tempest Zakroff, author of Weave the Liminal and Sigil Witchery, this deck can be used as a system of divination, a tool for spellcraft, a means to commune with liminal spirits, and a focus for meditation.
168 pages, Paperback
Published June 8, 2020
About the author
Laura Tempest Zakroff
34 books426 followersLaura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England.
She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.
Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press.
Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.
Visit her at www.LauraTempestZakroff.com.
She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.
Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press.
Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.
Visit her at www.LauraTempestZakroff.com.
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June 25, 2020
What an amazingly beautiful deck. Yet another triumph by Tempest and a feast for the senses. Her art is so visually stunning that I feel as though I can reach out and feel the textures. The cards are a nice size and texture and the meanings have been so spot on for what’s going on in my life. I enjoy that they are so vastly different from most oracle decks on the market.
July 29, 2020
Book and deck.
September 6, 2026
I knew I was going to like this deck when I realized one of the cards was simply Toad. Not “Toad of Spiritual Transformation” or “Sacred Toad of the Moonlit Threshold.” Just Toad. Laura Tempest Zakroff trusts the image and the creature enough to let meaning develop through relationship, and that decision tells you a great deal about the entire deck.
The forty-two cards are divided into some wonderfully strange families. There are places such as Ocean, Forest, Desert, Cave, and Burial Ground. Trees and herbs appear alongside Snake, Salamander, Fish, Owl, Corvid, Moth, Fox, Cat, Hare, and Goat. Then there are substances and objects such as Crystal, Metal, Clay, Fiber, and Bone. Even the RITES framework from Weave the Liminal appears here through Roots, Inspiration, Time, Environment, and Star. The result is less a pantheon of named spirits than a collection of presences through which the world itself becomes oracular.
That suits Zakroff's artwork beautifully because she is not merely illustrating meanings that already exist in the booklet. She is doing what she does in Sigil Witchery and Visual Alchemy, allowing visual form to carry part of the magical information. I found myself getting impressions from the cards before reaching for the text, then discovering that the guidebook either complicated what I had seen or sent me somewhere else entirely. That is exactly what I want from an oracle. If every answer is already printed in a paragraph beneath the card title, I may as well dispense with the cards and open the book at random.
I also like that the deck can be used outside ordinary divination. Zakroff explicitly presents it as a tool for spellcraft, meditation, and communion with liminal spirits as well as readings. Pulling Forest as an answer to a question is one thing. Placing Forest on an altar and spending several weeks approaching it as a spiritual presence is quite another. The same is true of Mugwort, Bone, Moth, Cave, or Burial Ground. Some cards almost demand to be worked with rather than interpreted once and shuffled away.
That may be what separates this from the enormous number of oracle decks that give you forty variations on reassurance. There is beauty here, but there is also decay, poison, darkness, animal instinct, burial, and places where human beings are not necessarily the most important presence. It feels properly witchy without relying on black cats wearing pentacles or women in elaborate hats standing under full moons.
The deck is also a natural extension of Weave the Liminal. Zakroff's idea of liminality becomes much easier to understand when you can physically shuffle it. The boundary between natural object and spirit, symbol and presence, inner impression and outer world starts becoming pleasantly unstable. That is what I want an oracle to do. I already have enough decks willing to tell me everything will be fine. I would much rather have one that hands me a mushroom, a burial ground, and a toad and asks whether I have been paying attention.
The forty-two cards are divided into some wonderfully strange families. There are places such as Ocean, Forest, Desert, Cave, and Burial Ground. Trees and herbs appear alongside Snake, Salamander, Fish, Owl, Corvid, Moth, Fox, Cat, Hare, and Goat. Then there are substances and objects such as Crystal, Metal, Clay, Fiber, and Bone. Even the RITES framework from Weave the Liminal appears here through Roots, Inspiration, Time, Environment, and Star. The result is less a pantheon of named spirits than a collection of presences through which the world itself becomes oracular.
That suits Zakroff's artwork beautifully because she is not merely illustrating meanings that already exist in the booklet. She is doing what she does in Sigil Witchery and Visual Alchemy, allowing visual form to carry part of the magical information. I found myself getting impressions from the cards before reaching for the text, then discovering that the guidebook either complicated what I had seen or sent me somewhere else entirely. That is exactly what I want from an oracle. If every answer is already printed in a paragraph beneath the card title, I may as well dispense with the cards and open the book at random.
I also like that the deck can be used outside ordinary divination. Zakroff explicitly presents it as a tool for spellcraft, meditation, and communion with liminal spirits as well as readings. Pulling Forest as an answer to a question is one thing. Placing Forest on an altar and spending several weeks approaching it as a spiritual presence is quite another. The same is true of Mugwort, Bone, Moth, Cave, or Burial Ground. Some cards almost demand to be worked with rather than interpreted once and shuffled away.
That may be what separates this from the enormous number of oracle decks that give you forty variations on reassurance. There is beauty here, but there is also decay, poison, darkness, animal instinct, burial, and places where human beings are not necessarily the most important presence. It feels properly witchy without relying on black cats wearing pentacles or women in elaborate hats standing under full moons.
The deck is also a natural extension of Weave the Liminal. Zakroff's idea of liminality becomes much easier to understand when you can physically shuffle it. The boundary between natural object and spirit, symbol and presence, inner impression and outer world starts becoming pleasantly unstable. That is what I want an oracle to do. I already have enough decks willing to tell me everything will be fine. I would much rather have one that hands me a mushroom, a burial ground, and a toad and asks whether I have been paying attention.
June 9, 2020
This is a stunningly beautiful deck, very high quality on the printing and presentation, fitting for the intuitive artwork of each card. The groupings of five cards make for interesting depth in reading the cards, and the two outlier cards bring in more layers and nuances. I am very much enjoying this deck for my daily focus readings.
January 11, 2021
Beautiful oracle cards in LTZ’s striking style that is a feast of color.
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