What Oracles Do Elves Use? Part 6: More Original Silver Elves Oracles

"...there are also books that can be used for oracles
that are not necessarily oracle books."

     As we’ve said elsewhere, these elves love all sorts of oracles, and we think among those who enjoy doing or having oracles done, that this is probably true for most folks. Certainly, there will be those who prefer this oracle to that, and those who have their preferred means of doing or receiving oracles. But we expect, without having done a scientific study to see if this is so, that most of us are intrigued by a variety of forms of divination. These elves, for our own part, are very fond the Tarot and the I Ching, but love to learn and see other techniques done. We’ve even known elves to use Bibliomancy, which is opening a book at random and letting one’s finger fall on a sentence or word. We’ve surely done this ours’elves just for the fun of it.

     But there are also books that can be used for oracles that are not necessarily oracle books. One of these, for instance, is our An Elfin Book of Spirits, which is designed for conjurors so we might call spirits to aid (and abet) us. One might, if one so chose, go through the book and find the spirit that is right for the magical task one has in mind. However, these elves like to use a divination system, which we explain in that book, and toss stones to see which spirit we get at random. Then if we get a spirit that especially suits our quest we take it as a very good sign. Although, sometimes we get a spirit whose expertise seems totally different than the task we have in mind. We still assume this is the right spirit for the job, but we are then called to reflect upon why that particular spirit would be so. It challenges our imaginations the same way a dream or a surprising response from the Tarot might do so and we love puzzling out dreams.

     Another of this sort of oracle is our Elven Book of Dreams that is designed to help elves understand thems’elves and others by associating the degree of the Sun sign, the Moon, Jupiter or any other planetary body or aspect of one’s horoscope and getting a response about it that illuminates the individual’s nature and hir evolutionary path. But this can also be used, utilizing the same set of stones that we use for randomly drawing spirits, to obtain an oracle. This book, simultaneously, has spell chants that can be used to help one achieve one’s goals.

     And similar, in certain ways, is our book The Shining Ones, that is designed to help one find the Shining One, the angelic elven spirit that guides one, much in a way of a guardian angel, and overlooks one’s life course and development, according to one’s birthday. One could, in fact, pick any date or day of the year, say the date one is getting married or starting a business or job, etc., and find what Shining One rules that date and in that way also obtain a sort of oracle for one’s quest.

     We could say using these books in this way is a sort of Bibliomancy. Only instead of opening the book at random (although you could still do so) one uses stones or in the case of the Shining Ones, picks a date that is relevant to one’s quest or spiritual evolution. As Aleister Crowley pointed out in his book Magick Without Tears, the whole Universe is like a book that we can read, seeing the omens and oracles and hidden meanings that exist all around us. We just need to learn the methods for reading this most wondrous and esoteric of languages, the Language of the Universe, the Chant of the Stars, and the Song of Elfin.

Ver Aleli Vasadas (In dreams awakening),

The Silver Elves

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Here are our three books mentioned in the article above and we hope you will
go to the link provided to view more about each of these on our
website and read a sample section of each book:

 An Elfin Book of Spirits: Evoking the Beneficent Powers of Faerie

The Elven Book of Dreams: A Magical Oracle of Faerie

The Shining Ones: The Elfin Spirits That Guide You According to
Your Birth Date and the Evolutionary Lessons They Offer

"Ancient Elven Knowledge About the Shining Ones: From our birth to our death, they guide us and every choice we make is another lesson of life and magic. From our death to our birth, they carry us, like a wave washing us to shore and a new incarnation."

—from Elf Quotes by The Silver Elves

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What Oracles Do Elves Use? Part 5: The Elven Star Oracle

"...born of our own magic and culture....we created The Elven Star Oracle:
A System of Divination for Star Enchanters....based upon the seven pointed Elven Star"

      We, like many, perhaps most elves, love oracles and divination. We love doing them. We love experiencing them. And we even love puzzling out their meanings when the answer we have gotten to a question is truly esoteric and mysterious. They stretch our minds and imaginations. Tarot cards and the I Ching are surely our favorites and while we have a passing acquaintance with palmistry, also known as Chiromancy, it has never really intrigued us as much as the Tarot has, although like the use of cards for fortune telling, we began doing palmistry at a very early age. And unlike the tarot or other oracles, it doesn’t require one to carry around a deck. Thus we have been at parties or other gatherings and read someone’s palm on a moment’s notice.

     Because of our elven nature, and the fact that much, perhaps most of what applies to our elven culture has been lost through the ages of persecution by more dominant and dominating cultures, we have taken the tarot, runes, I Ching and other oracles and made them our own. Giving them our own interpretations with a more elven, and often in some cases, a more magical slant. And in some cases, as for instance the I Ching, we've removed the patriarchal bias that is part of their traditional formulation and is just not a part of elven culture. Our culture is based principally upon equality, but if we did have a tendency, it would be more toward a matriarchy than a patriarchy. But the strict division of male and female that have been so much a part of the cultures of man is not really a part of the elven culture and those who make it seem so are merely drawing us closer to the cultures of mankind and others and away from the true nature of Elfin. We don’t deny them their right to do so, if that is their choice, but choice is always the primary aspect of our elven life.

     There are, of course, elven tarot decks in the world today in as much as having pictures of elves or faeries or gnomes on a deck makes it elven or elfin. But most of these, like most actual decks overall, are just versions and variations of the Waite-Rider deck, and have nothing particularly elven nor even in many cases inspiring about them. Still, they can be fun and in as much as they remind us of Elfin, our elven culture and our elvish kindred, they can be quite helpful and interesting. And while these elves may not find a particular deck interesting, it is quite possible that some other elf will gain greatly from it. We don’t presume that our tastes are universally held, even among elves.

     And while our elven runes and our version of the I Ching are quite useful to us, and a great addition to any divination session, we still hungered for an oracle that was uniquely elven. Something that was completely our own, born of our own magic and culture. Thus we created The Elven Star Oracle: A System of Divination for Star Enchanters that utilizes a board that one creates (or could even draw in the sand in times of need) and that one throws stones upon (instructions for making and using the board as well as an illustration of the board and stones is included in the book). The Elven Star Oracle is our original divinatory system invoking the 88 major constellations and the blessings of the Shining Ones for guiding one through the world and ever closer to the realization of Faerie. It is called The Elven Star Oracle because it is based upon the seven pointed Elven Star, sometimes called the Faery Star, and the areas between the points, overlaid on the dimensional manifestation of Faerie and the realms that are linked to it.

     It could surely be used as one’s primary oracle, particularly when communicating with or about the Elfin and Faerie realms, although we are still inclined to use the tarot in various forms and the I Ching as our primary source of divination and to supplement them with our Runes and Star Oracle, as well as others. Doing so gives us a more complete picture and a more thorough answer and this is particularly true when the answer we first received was somewhat puzzling.

     Rather than simply doing the oracle over again with the same deck or doing the I Ching again immediately concerning the same question (something that we’ve found with the I Ching to be particularly ill advised because the answers will just get more and more painful to hear) we use these our Elven Runes and Star Oracle to give us a fuller picture, while not contradicting the original oracle we received. It is in this way our means of simply asking the oracles to say more and give a fuller picture, a more in depth explanation. Still, in the end, it is always we elfin ours’elves who must interpret the answers given according to our own experience and understanding and there is simply no way to get around this, nor would we wish to do so really.

Kyela,

The Silver Elves

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 The Elven Star Oracle: A System of Divination for Star Enchanters

To read more information about this original elven oracle and to read a sample oracle from The Elven Star Oracle, we suggest that you visit our The Silver Elves website here.  

What Oracles Do Elves Use? Part 4: Elven Geomancy

"Geomancy, which comes from the root words geo, meaning Earth,
and -mancy, meaning divination, technically means divination from the Earth..."

     One of the things that appeals to us as elves is variety. Thus in our use of oracles, we not only like to use a number of different tarot decks, but also the I Ching, the Elven Runes and Geomancy, in that way, being able to see a question from a number of different perspectives. Geomancy, which comes from the root words geo, meaning Earth, and -mancy, meaning divination, technically means divination from the Earth, which is an idea that in itself appeals to these Elfin. Alas, the old formulation of Geomancy seemed a bit limited to us, so we created our own version (Elven Geomancy: An Ancient Oracle of the Elfin Peoples for Divination and Spell Casting) that gives us a much wider range of possible outcomes. We did the same with our The Book of Elven Runes.

     Traditionally, one made a series of lines consisting of dots in the sand (thus the geo part) and counted if they were odd or even. Since we live in an apartment building, we’ve found it easier to use dice or stones or coins to arrive at a result. You could, of course, use a pencil or pen and make a series of dots on a piece of paper. Or even use tarot cards or playing cards to achieve a result. And these are all equally effective means of arriving at a result.

     But we confess, we are still intrigued by the idea that one might create the oracle naturally. Say if one scooped a palm full of water and then walked and let it drip from one’s hand and then counted the dots that had been created. But that is still when one is looking for an oracle. Striving to get an answer. As for instance when one consults the tarot with a question in mind.

     With Geomancy, however, it is quite possible that one would simply come across an oracle without asking a question. Just getting a message from Nature and the Spirits. For instance, we used to live in a house in northern Kalifornica, before we relocated to the islands in the Uttermost West, and every morning we’d go out and find snail trails crisscrossing the sidewalk. What if we had counted up the dots (or dashes) of the iridescent snail routes and used that in order to receive a geomantic message from the otherworld? That seems to us to be a pretty cool idea.

     The same might be done with a number of different things: the number of shells on a particular section of a beach, or the number of holes in a tree from a woodpecker, or various other indicators. This is what really appeals to us about Geomancy. That it is, in its way, so flexible. One just needs to look around one and the signs are everywhere.

Kyela,
The Silver Elves

"If you ask the elves to look into the future, they will tell you there is no future, there is only nearly infinite possibility."

— From Elf Quotes by The Silver Elves

  Elven Geomancy: An Ancient Oracle of the Elfin Peoples for Divination and Spell Casting is an original system of divination by The Silver Elves that creates a magical ritual with each forecast. The Silver Elves have created a new divination system for modern elves and faerie folk drawing from the ancient geomancy of ages past. It differs quite a bit from the traditional geomancy that was used by the ancients and the people of the Renaissance and Middle Ages. That form of geomancy was at one time rather widely known and popular among diviners, although it has, for the most part, fallen out of use today. Elven Geomancy has 128 possible outcomes that give a reply of a series of seven (like the seven pointed star of the elves) oracles as your response. These seven oracles show the step-by-step process or movement toward the realization of your question. The Elven Geomancy method is also a means of creating magical elfin spells to help bring about one's wishes. Eight basic mudras are used as well as mantras for each of the oracles are given for creating your own rituals that you can perform in order to increase the potency of what you wish to achieve. You may read more about it and read sample pages here on our website.

 The Book of Elven Runes:

A Passage into Faerie
http://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfrunebook.html

Elven Geomancy:

An Ancient Oracle of the Elfin Peoples for Divination and Spell Casting
http://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAgeomancy.html

Sticks and Stones, Feathers, Charms and Bones:

An Original Oracle of the Elfin Peoples of the Ancient Future  

http://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAsticks_stones.html

The Silver Elves website:
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What Oracles Do Elves Use? Part 3: Elven Runes

"... certainly when we have spiritual questions,
questions that concern our elven path,
we will consult the runes."

     Runes are letters. Every alphabet is a form of runes and could be formulated into an oracle of some sort. There was a time when the ability to read and write were truly seen as magical powers, unlike today when such an ability seems more commonplace. However, when you think about it, you still spend years in school learning to read and write, just as the Druids did, for instance, and it is still a great power. It’s just that these days, for the most part, we tend to recognize this power primarily in great literature. When we read a really great book, one that evokes our imagination or sets us thinking about the possibilities of the future, and inspires us in some way, then we really get a sense of the power of Runes used in the form of Grammarye, or the spell of great writing and the magic of good writers.

     What is nice about Runes, unlike most other alphabets, is that it is still seen as magical, although Hebrew has also retained its mystical traditions and has many followers and scholars of its systems of Gematria, Temurah and Notariqon. Alas, these elves are not among them, although we have a rudimentary and rather simplistic understanding of these systems.

     We did, however, create our own elven rune system (see the photo at the top of this page to view our elven runes). See our The Book of Elven Runes, although we might have done better entitling it the Elven Book of Runes, or the Book of Elfin Runes, because we have learned through time that many folks seeing our title leap to the notion that it says the Book of "Eleven" Runes, but then in German the word for “eleven” is “elf,” so there is, perhaps, some deeper connection there.

     We have a somewhat similar experience with a tee shirt that Zardoa wears at times that says, “Kiss Me I’m Elvish,” on it (he is wearing it on the cover of our book Elven Geomancy). However, many folks only observe that it is a green shirt and see the kiss me part and then say things like, “Oh, I’m Irish, too,” never bothering to actually read what is said, which is the way a lot of people go through life anyway, ever jumping to conclusions and never looking deeper. But that is, indeed, what oracles are for, a deeper look into the more obscure places in the magical cosmos.

     For the most part, these elves don’t tend to use our Elven Runes in the same way we use the Tarot or the I Ching, inquiring about day-to-day questions, or deep inquiries prompted by some stressful situation, although we sometimes use them as a supplement to these oracles. An additional point of view, one might say. Instead, we tend to use the Runes in coordination with some magic we are doing. Often we put them on some sigil or seal we may be creating, or a part of an elven magical circle, or some other bit of artwork that both decorate and magnetize, we might say, our eald/elven home. The magic cooking spoons in the photo is an example of our use of runes and spirit sigils for a combination spell and eald decoration.
Sometimes we engrave our original elven runes on magic wands or staffs that we have created to enhance their magic. And certainly when we have spiritual questions, questions that concern our elven path, we will consult the runes. There is a magic to them, and we admit we love them, but then, we love nearly all oracles and every form of elven magic. They help remind us of who we truly are in a world that is trying so very hard to make us forget.

Kyela,
The Silver Elves
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"We elfin often blow on our runes and chant or hum or sing while casting the stones in order to unite them with the Breath of Life and the Song of Creation."

—Elf Quotes by The Silver Elves

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 The Book of Elven Runes: A Passage into Faerie

This is not the Norse Runes but our own original elven rune divination system. It consists of 40 runes. The book is 130 pages with photos and illustrations that feature each rune and explain the rune system, how to make your own set of runes, and the interpretation for each of the runes. 
You may read a sample interpretation of one of our runes, Rune 18: "Hollow", which is a sanctuary or safe place, here on our website .

 

And For Some Practical Elven Magic for Evoking Elfin. . . .

Elven Hedgewitchery and Found Magic: Using Art-Making for Evoking Elfin Magic and Living the Elven Way by The Silver Elves is a book of magic — very practical magic that involves the creation of one’s magical tools, which include wands, staffs, rattles, crowns, hoods, robes and many other instruments of magic and, in this case in particular, of elven magic and enchantment. In this book, we share with you many of our favorite magical elven art projects that we have enjoyed doing in the last 40+ years and give you guidance and detailed instructions for creating your own and using them in your magic, along with over 100 photos to demonstrate the art processes. We show you how to use the Elven Runes and Elfin Spirit Sigils in creating your own magical tools and items for your magic. Also, this is a book of elven spells and enchantment magic, with elven rhyming magical spells (200 spells in total written in both English and the magical language of the Silver Elves — Arvyndase, including Arvyndase pronunciation keys) that you may use in rituals to empower your art and magic with each magical item and creative project. We include our magical art processes from faerie altered clothing and making faerie houses to creating magical elf stones and ritual tools such as a Book of Shadows (or a Book of Twilight as we elves call them) and also a Scrapbook of Shadows, chalices, ally dolls, wands, canes, staffs, seaweed pod rattles, magic plates, elven warrior shields, wishing wheels, mojo bags, and elven witches brooms and magic spoons. We further have chapters in Elven Hedgewitchery and Found Magic on making elfin dream pillows, fairy dust and pixie powder, elven magical boxes or reliquaries, elven Mbuti, paintings, illuminated circles, magic soul cards, tarot decks, pan pipes, fantasy maps and even some of our favorite elven group-art games like elven notan and Elven Chess. We also have a chapter on spell crafting using the seven-pointed elven star. And in our final chapter, we share with you more about the Orb of Healing, which is a magical artifact that is at the center of our elven magick.
You may read a bit more about this book and a few examples of spells from it here.

Sold here on Amazon USA
and also sold here on Amazon UK

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"Nearly all elves are diviners, 

but the oracles we read most often are the sigils of karma, fate and destiny 

writ plain in the lines on people's faces."

—The Silver Elves

Calling All Elfin Kin!
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Besides the Tarot, What Other Sort of Oracles Do Elves Use? Part 2: The I Ching

"We, ours’elves, find the I Ching to be the most reliable oracle that we know of...."

     While the tarot is one of our favorite oracular devices and surely the one we have used for the longest in our lives (over 60 years, yes, we’re that old), the oracle that we trust the most, that we use daily and use whenever we encounter any serious difficulty or have an important decision to make, is the I Ching (see our book The Elven Book of Changes: A Magical Interpretation of the I Ching)

     Our sisters of the Elf Queen’s Daughters taught us how to do the I Ching (as well as teaching us how to do basic astrological charts and giving us the tools for doing so). We had done the I Ching previously once or twice before we first met them, but we hadn’t really known how to draw the oracle, except in the simplest of ways and didn’t have any idea how to draw the individual lines that accompany each hexagram.

     The Elf Queen’s Daughters used the “Ching” regularly, as well. Every single day, every time we got together, and every time we visited someone, we’d find a quiet place, first thing, often out in nature somewhere, sit in a circle and do the Ching together, each elf drawing a part of the oracle and then passing the sticks to the next person round the circle until the oracle was done.

     Alas, while these Silver Elves have tried to teach other elves over the years how to use this oracle, most have been very resistant to doing so. Some complained about the rather sexist and chauvinist attitudes of some of the translations, which were for the most part merely trying to accurately reflect ancient Chinese culture and which is also why we created our own translation that uses non-gender pronouns and is geared toward elven culture and magic. Other elves simply said that the system was too complicated for them, although these were usually very intelligent folks and complicated simply wasn’t a satisfactory explanation for their resistance. However, we don’t strive to force people to do what they don’t wish. We, ours’elves, find the I Ching to be the most reliable oracle that we know of, but if others don’t see the value in using it, that is really their loss. Perhaps they will discover it in a future life.

     It is possible that some might feel that being of Chinese origin that it is not elven enough, but there has always been a rather Taoist aspect to the elves, although not Taoism as it has been developed into a religion but Taoism as a philosophy of living in harmony with Nature and of magic. It should be remembered that the I Ching comes from a time, thousands of years ago, when the Chinese were not one people, but a variety of tribes, often at odds with each other. Its origins are shamanic and come from so far back in history that there is no real written record of its beginnings, although we do know that it was most likely originally done using tortoise shells and not yarrow sticks, which was a later development. And it is important to note that Chinese culture has its myths and tales of faeries as do most other cultures in the world. The idea that elves and faeries are a strictly western, even Celtic invention, is simply not accurate.

     So, beloveds, if you wish to learn and use a truly great and accurate oracle, we highly recommend the I Ching.

Kyela,

The Silver Elves

"Fate is a line on the hand of Destiny."

—from Elf Quotes by The Silver Elves

The Elven Book of Changes: A Magical Interpretation of the I Ching is a magical interpretation of the I Ching or Book of Changes, and is for magicians, elves, and magic wielders of all kinds. It is written without gender bias and serves both as an Oracle and as a book of instruction to help the magician find hir way through the maze of modern life, the mystical worlds of spirit, and the magical realms of Faerie.

"If you ask the elves to look into the future, they will tell you there is no future,
there is only nearly infinite possibility."
—The Silver Elves

What Oracles Do The Silver Elves Use? Part 1 —Tarot!

"....certainly the tarot, which Zardoa first learned 
when he was about eight years old...."

     If you ask what oracles the elves use, then we suppose it depends upon the elves you are talking about. Surely we Silver Elves love all sorts of oracles and are always open to using and learning more. We enjoy creating and using some of our own unique divinatory systems like The Elven Star Oracle (invoking 88 major constellations) and the Elven Dream Oracle (with 360 magical dream symbols). And certainly, and perhaps most often, we read the tarot, which Zardoa first learned when he was about eight years old, although he didn’t really get into it deeply until he was in his early twenties. It is one of our favorites, as we expect it is for many elven. Zardoa taught Silver Flame when they first got together and she proved to be a natural.

     Although, if you ask what tarot deck we elven like best that again depends upon the individual. We’ve known elfin who loved decks that didn’t move us at all but which they found to be wondrous. For instance, a friend of ours loves the Xultun Tarot deck by Peter Balin based upon the Mayan World View but this has, for some reason, never spoken to us at all (although we still own the deck).

     For our own part, we like decks that are beautiful, that have a truly different picture or symbolic representation for each card (which is essentially the primary contribution of the Waite-Rider deck to tarot cards) and which tells us something unique or different that we can learn from or which evokes our psyche and challenges us, like dreams do, to understand their meaning. Most decks are actually a variation of the Waite-Rider deck, but there are some very good ones out there.

     One of the decks we love, even though it isn’t strictly a tarot deck, and there are more and more of these types of decks becoming available, is the Fortune Teller’s Mah Jongg by Derek Walters, which is an interesting oracle. We also love and use periodically John Matthews' the Celtic Shamans Pack, Phillip and Stepanie Carr-Gomm’s the Druid Animal Oracle, Liz and Colin Murray’s The Celtic Tree Oracle, Jamie Sams and David Carson’s Medicine Cards, Caroline Smith and John Astrop’s Elemental Tarot, Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger’s the Secret Dakini Oracle (one of our favorites), and James Wanless and Ken Knutson’s Voyager Tarot. And there is a deck we only use when the shit hits the fan and we don’t know exactly where we are going next or what to do and that is the Tele-Psychic Power Cards, which were printed in Singapore, but whose author is unknown. This deck is a set of affirmation cards that help us keep our heads together in difficult times, although they do tend to be a bit traditional at times, referring to “god”, etc. But that is no problem for these elves who simply say Divine Magic instead, making the deck suit our own needs and elven philosophy, as we do all things. And these are just some of our favorites.

     We even created our own tarot deck but because it is handmade it is a bit cumbersome to use. Instead, we wrote a book in which you could take any tarot deck or even a regular playing card deck and turn it into an elven oracle. In fact, we entitled it the Voice of Faerie: Making Any Tarot Deck into an Elven Oracle. And because we spent a number of years burning candles and drawing cards each day for magic (most of the decks we used for this were given to us by our daughter), we wrote The Elven Book of Powers: Using the Tarot for Magical Wish Fulfillment to help those elfin who wished to do the same thing.

     At one time we owned over 100 tarot and tarot-like decks, but when we migrated to Hawaii we reduced that number quite a bit. Most of those decks we had purchased used (or we suppose these days we should call them pre-owned) at a local Swap Meet where we sold used (pre-owned) hippie-gypsy-elfin-costume clothes for cheap, along with incense, oils and some imports, and did tarot readings for one dollar a reading (full Celtic Spread) for over 15 years. The photo above, "Tarot Readings $1," is of our actual sign (hand painted on wood) that we used for all those years.

     Our point is, however, that we love tarot, as do many other elves and are always open to new and interesting decks. And also that the deck that is best for a person, is the one or ones that speak to you. But there are other oracles besides tarot that these elves regularly use and we will get into that next time in Part 2.

Kyela,
The Silver Elves

"For the elven, the tarot cards represent magical powers and can not only be used as symbolic communication with the spirits but can also be combined to create various spells and formulas and cantrips."

—from Elf Quotes by The Silver Elves 

The Elven Book of Powers: Using the Tarot for Magical Wish Fulfillment  by The Silver Elves is a book for those who wish to use the Tarot for visualization and wish fulfillment. It describes the powers of each particular card in a traditional Tarot deck and how to use its powers to fulfill one's vision and achieve one's will, drawing to one the energies needed for success so all one's dreams will come true. There are also evocations, invocations and rhyming spells for each card to aid one in visualization.

The Voice of Faerie: Making Any Tarot DeckInto an Elven Oracle is designed to allow the user to communicate with the Realms and Spirits of Faerie/Elfin/Elfland, the spirits of the Nether Realms, sentient and intelligent beings of this and other planets, this and other dimensions, this world and the parallel worlds connected to it, using any tarot deck. The authors channeled it from those very spirits who are searching for their kindred on the planet.
    This is a Living Book. It is designed to be used in concert with any tarot deck so that their meanings and concepts can be easily and readily accessible to anyone interested in communicating with the elven and faerie spirits of other realms and dimensions. This book can be read from cover to cover; however, we think it best if you read bit by bit as the cards speak to you.

    While this book can be used with any tarot deck, you will note that there are additional and alternative cards beyond traditional tarots deck, which have 78 cards. Thus this deck can also be used with other decks that exceed the traditional card set up or you can create your own deck using it.