The Graven Images Oracle tarot kit is a refreshing change from the many variations on the Rider-Waite Tarot. It is a brand new, yet ancient-feeling set of images, producing accurate readings that are spot-on. Of the multiude of new decks appearing annually, the Graven Images Oracle stands above the rest. Kit contains 126 page guide book and 71 tarot cards.
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Graven Images is a beautiful oracle deck that feels like it's connected to eternity. The images are ideal settings to contemplate the mysteries of your own life, or of Life Itself. --Tom Cowan, author of The Book of Séance
We are very impressed with your great photographs and the concepts in your oracle. You both have put a lot of art and soul into this special creation. --Amy Zerner & Monte Farber, authors of The Enchanted Tarot
The most unique and interesting oracle deck you will ever own! Stunning photographya must-have for collectors! --Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
We are very impressed with your great photographs and the concepts in your oracle. You both have put a lot of art and soul into this special creation. --Amy Zerner & Monte Farber, authors of The Enchanted Tarot
The most unique and interesting oracle deck you will ever own! Stunning photographya must-have for collectors! --Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
About the Author
Natalie Zaman began her professional career writing radio commercials, and then taught English, Language Arts and Creative Writing. Her love for cemeteries led her to conduct graveyard and museum tours in the United States and Europe, and her memorial photography has appeared in international juried shows, private collections and magazines. She has also published poetry, articles, stories and ritual crafts in various media. Natalie is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the American Tarot Association, and the Association for Gravestone Studies. In addition to theGraven Images Oracle, Natalie co-publishes Broomstix, an ezine for pagan children with Katharine Clark and Charlotte Bennardo. She is currently working on her first full length novel.
Katharine Clark is the author of An Irish Book of Shadows, and her work has also appeared in Dan and Pauline Campanelli's Circles, Groves and Sanctuaries. A Tarot instructor and reader, Kat is an an award winning poet and a creative writing teacher. She has lectured at college, taught in high and middle schools, and led workshops for the National Endowment for the Arts. An Elder of the Tuatha De Dannan Wiccan tradition for over 30 years, she has appeared in various live and print media regarding the Craft and has served as an expert on the Occult for local police departments. She is past Wiccan instructor and Circle leader for Earth Spirit New Age Center, Red Bank, NJ. Kat is a member of the DAR, North Brunswick Historical Society and the Association of Gravestone Studies.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Its a great Oracle....but with one complaint...,
This review is from: Graven Images Oracle (Paperback)
I agree with the other reviewers that this is a must have Oracle deck except for the issue of card quality. The cards are unevenly cut and have some dents and other imperfections. Even a cheap deck of $2.00 playing cards has better edge finishing, etc. On top of that, I paid more for this oracle than I did for others I've purchased. All that being said I still think its a unique and wonderful must have oracle, but the publishers should learn how to make a better quality deck of cards and lower the price.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A resplendent oracle of cemetery art and spirit......,
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This review is from: Graven Images Oracle (Paperback)
This an exquisite and very profound oracle, as well as being very unique in the world of oracles.
It consists of 71 cards and they are divided into 5 catagories: Spirit Divine, Physical, Mental, Social and Emotion...with each catagory having 14 cards each. & cards are the "light" interpertations or more positive meanings and 7 are "shadow" meaings, the darker events, emotions and happenings in life. The photography is excellent! The images jump right off the page and capture the haunting sense of each card perfectly. The images consist of statues, gravestones, tombs and the like from cemeteries everywhere. If you enjoy and love graveyards, you will definately love this oracle. I've done 1 reading so far and it was just astounding, quite blew me away! This whole sytstem is so well thought out and executed. One can clearly see and feel this set was created with devotion, tender care and love. It's very profound and complex...aI can see these cards really opening up to encompass many things. It comes with a 110 pg. book that is really well-written, there are many spiritual, practical and inspirational thoughts and interpertations within! The cards themselves are, in my opinion, the perfect size. Longer and a bit wider than playing cards, they sit very comfortably and feel at home in my hands. The lamination used is more of a matte type. It feels silky to the touch and shuffles like butter. The back is a no border close-up of a gravestone with a Willow relief. It's a very striking back! When many cards are layed out, it creats a sumptous montage of visions, I just love it! All my life I have enjoyed and loved cemeteries....for their art, history, serenity and calm. When I need true peace and to unclutter my mind, I go to a cemetery. So when viewing the cards and their images, I connected instantly and deeply with each image I saw, and a feeling of intense calm, warmth and "coming home" washed over me. This is going to be an oracle I am going to turn to again and again, for it's immense beauty and it's depth. This is a not to be missed set!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Innovative Oracle Using Gravestones,
This review is from: Graven Images Oracle (Paperback)
"Tomb images carry weighty traditional and personal symbolism and lend themselves as independent tools of meditation and divination. Indeed, the images bring us closer to that portal from which we have become estranged, but cannot avoid." - From the Graven Images Oracle companion book
With unique vision and stark yet riveting funerary photos, Natalie Zaman turns her lens to stone memorials, revealing an unusual glimpse into the power of monument symbolism on the human psyche. Whether to access insight or information, comfort or closure, the Graven Images Oracle is a comprehensive, innovative tool for uncovering the answers to questions both mundane and profound. Coupled with the divinatory expertise and explanations of pagan teacher Katherine Clark, the tombstones captured by Ms. Zaman are a myriad of mystical markers--from weathered friends to alabaster countenances, stoic marble to engraved ciphers, each has a story to tell and a whisper to overhear. Stars, flowers, cherubs and wheat--pointing fingers, wreaths, columns and religious icons--all timeless symbols pointing to deeper truths and the foreverness of spirit grace the black-bordered cards of this unusual oracle. Ms. Zaman and Ms. Clark have divided the Graven Images Oracle into five "suits" of 14 cards each: Divine, Physical, Mental, Social and Emotional. Within each of the suits are two continuums: seven cards dedicated to the "light" (positive) progression of the suit with seven cards reflecting the "shadow" (negative or baser) progression. In addition to these 70 cards, there is one called The Wall--a card instructing querents to stop the reading immediately. Further adding to the nuance of this oracle, there are several spreads included in the 110-page companion book--most notably the 6-card Pentagram Layout. In addition to the funerary photo, each card depicts a title and letter/number code corresponding to its interpretation in the book. A simple but attractive tree engraving serves as the card backing. Although I attempted to use the Graven Images Oracle several times over three months, unfortunately I found it be inaccurate...indeed, way off the mark (even when attempting to interpret the message metaphorically). Once, I was feeling upbeat and expansive and thought I'd draw a card for general insight. I drew a very negative card that didn't reflect my experience or demeanor-- neither at the time nor even into the future. Given its novel design and attractive cards, I truly wanted this deck to work for me, which is why I gave it months to try it out. However, the nuts and bolts for comprehensive divinatory insight seem to be all there--so if you're drawn by the imagery and subject matter of the Graven Images Oracle, by all means consider acquiring it. At the very least, you'll have an inventive deck like none other on the market. (To see 13 card images from this deck, visit the Reviews--Decks section at JanetBoyer.com) Janet Boyer, author of The Back in Time Tarot Book: Picture the Past, Experience the Cards, Understand the Present (coming Fall 2008 from Hampton Roads Publishing)
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