2013

The record

While traveling in Belize last fall, I bought a small handcrafted change purse studded with shiny, fiery-red, orange, yellow, black and silver beads. I confess I didn’t need a purse at the time but I craved this gorgeous one. Now I finally have the perfect use for it. My newest deck–the oval-shaped, palm-sized cards of the 2013 Oracle--nestles comfortably inside. There’s even room for the deck’s unique, kerchief-sized cenote cloth–where the reader lays out the cards–with its print of four jaguars guarding a black reflecting pool. The purse neatly tucks into my handbag: Good to go Inspired by ancient American/Mesoamerican prophetic themes and symbols, authors David Carson and Nina Sammons and artist Gigi Borri have produced an oracle deck of uncommon depth. Each card bears a stunning iconic design saturated in color, invoking energies that can guide us as the world passes through enormous changes predicted by the ancient peoples of the Americas. Mayan elders taught that this world, at least as we know it, would end in 2012--hence the deck’s hopeful, one-year-later name. Some examples of the deck’s symbolic entities include the vibrant Waterdog (Metamorphosis), a salamander bridging

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