Celtic Tree
25-card Ogham-based oracle with hand-drawn earth-tone artwork.
by Colin Murray, Liz Murray, Vanessa Card · 1988
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The record
The Celtic Tree Oracle deck is based on the Celtic Ogham runes. There are 25 cards in standard playing card size (2.5 x 3.5 inches). They are high quality cards with a wax coating that should last as long as you shuffle with care. The artwork is hand drawn by Vanessa Card. It uses earth tones in a medieval celtic style. I find the art relaxing and it puts me in the correct frame of mind for a reading. The back is green with a gold outline of a celtic solar cross (equal sides like a '+' sign) contained within a circle and gold border. An issue is that they chose to write the date on only one end of the back so you can tell if the card is reversed or not, which could have an impact on the reading due to the way the cards are read: You lay all 25 face down in 5 rows of 5. The querent then picks 5 of them and writes the card in one of 5 categories (Foundation, Spotlight, Vocalization, Dreams or Etheric Link) based on the order the card was chosen. This process is then done 2 more times resulting in 3 cards in each of the 5 categories with some potentially repeating. The cards are then interpreted based on their interaction within each section. I avoid looking at the back of the cards b
The cards
