Les Vampires
Les Vampires
Score: 3.71 (votes: 7)
Reviews: 1
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Ancient Wisdom & Healing Messages from the Children of the Night

Featuring the award-winning art of Jasmine Becket-Griffith and insightful wisdom channeled by Lucy Cavendish, Les Vampires is a profound oracle for healing our inner fears, harnessing our power, and dissolving the patterns that hold us back. Full of wise guidance, ancient teachings, comforting advice and thoughtful challenges, this stunning deck offers a pathway through the darkest, most troubling times.

Jasmine Becket-Griffith is world-renowned fantasy artist whose works appear in numerous books.

Includes 44 cards and 136-page illustrated guidebook.

Specs
    • SKU
      LV44
    • Weight
      1.09 lb(s)
  • ISBN
    978-1-57281-786-9
  • Size
    Cards measure 3.75" x 5.5" Box measures 4.75" x 6.5"
  • Language
    EN
  • Author
    Lucy Cavendish
  • Artist
    Jasmine Becket-Griffith

What Customers Are Saying About Les Vampires

This intriguing oracle features lady vampires as guides to both the light and dark places we encounter in our life. The wide-eyed femmes appear young, and throughout the varying images of the 44 cards, also wistful, plaintive, rebellious, saintly, angry, innocent, alluring, erudite, seductive…and more! The vampire element is not overplayed, as only a small portion of the young females display two biting incisors. Other pictorial images that repeat in the background include: nighttime ambiance, skulls, wolves, cats, indoor gothic architecture, sumptuous attire and gilded card borders and furniture.

In the companion Guidebook, the handy Contents in the beginning of the book conveniently list each card, with card number and page. In addition, helpful basics are addressed, such as blessing the deck, how to shuffle the cards, and reading for others. The 17 page introduction is comprehensive, including the discussion as to why vampires can function as effective guides, and three sample layouts are delineated: The Trinity, The Path Through the Night, and The Byzantine Cross. I will need to practice the 13 card Path Through the Night, but the Trinity with three cards and the Byzantine Cross, with six cards, were simpler for me to immediately grasp. The book is very well organized and offers much wisdom gleaned from the author’s metaphysical life experience and practice in presenting workshops. The book is 135 pages and each page of interpretation includes a small black and white image of the card, key words, card meaning (Les Vampires Speak), and further brief notes titled, “Blessing”, “Curse” and “Working with This Card”. The author notes that the short mentioning for each card under the “Curse” can refer to the reverse card position as well as pointing to remedial areas for right action, to rebalance that area of one’s life.

Jasmine Becket-Griffith’s artwork is evocative of a host of artists from the 1960s and 1970s, (one artist in particular that I recall, having traveled to the American Southwest is Ted de Grazia), who painted wide-eyed young ones—this Oracle goes beyond innocents gazing at us and becomes a compelling journey into the layered world of fantasy, attraction, and the fated journey that we walk in responding to our own impulses and the world around us.

In other words, I found an increasing notion that the Les Vampires Oracle carries a well-constructed and carefully considered set of layered archetypes and metaphors; surely there is sufficient mystery and wisdom here to both study and to play with for some time. 

—Thomas Freese, Aeclectic Tarot
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