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Aboriginal Spirit

40-card Aboriginal-channeled oracle providing intuitive guidance and life clarity.

by Melinda Brown · 2012

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Mel Brown is a Ngunnawal Aboriginal woman and clairvoyant, and her forty-card Aboriginal Spirit Oracle is both illustrated and channeled by her, guidance from her own practice and heritage, offered as a tool for navigating life with clarity. That authorship is the deck's foundation: this is Indigenous Australian spirituality shared by one of its own, the same hand behind the Dreamtime oracle this catalog also profiles, and the pair form a small body of Indigenous-authored card work that the genre's costume-wearing majority makes precious. The channeled framing sets the register: personal, intuitive, message-forward, closer to sitting with a gifted counselor than consulting a symbol system. Brown's messages aim at practical spiritual navigation rather than cultural instruction. It suits readers seeking Indigenous-authored guidance, intuitive-oracle users, collectors supporting First Nations creators, and owners of the Dreamtime sibling completing the pair. Approached with the respect living traditions deserve, the deck gives generously; it was made to.

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An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.

“The Aboriginal Spirit Oracle Cards” is a 40 card inspirational deck, illustrated and channeled by Mel Brown, a Ngunnawal Aboriginal Woman and clairvoyant. The messages held within the cards are meant to act as a tool to guide us through...

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