A box arrived yesterday in San Diego,
bringing copies of my new Ancestral Magick Oracle. It’s gorgeous, I love the image on the cover (The Trickster), and think the new boxing looks great.
If you purchased the Kickstarter Kit, it had 20 archetypal cards and 20 cards with various types of magick. In addition, you may have purchased the two expansion packs (10 cards each), giving you a deck of 60 cards.
After a lot of conversation, Stacey Williams-Ng, of La Panthere Studio, and I decided to remove some of the 60 cards, change all of the card backs to golden, and add five new cards. We also changed the image on the Storyteller card to one of me at Bandelier National National Monument - an Ancestral Puebloan ruins. In all, the new deck has 54 cards.
I hope we didn’t remove one of your favorites; we were careful to only pull cards we felt overlapped with another card, energetically.
Here are the new ones:
The new deck also includes a little book as well as a cool pendulum guide printed on antique-looking paper.
If you’re new to ancestral work,
I’ve created five ways for you to use the new deck. I’ll do an example, but please use your imagination and see what else you can create.
Note: Since some of the suggestions are based on archetypes and others on magick (or both), just shuffle the deck and draw down from the top until you get to whichever type of card is needed. For instance, if the suggestion requires a magick card (like #3) just draw down from the top until you get to the first magick card.
1. Daily Guidance Pull
Draw a card each morning to receive guidance from the archetypal or magickal energy that will influence your day. Reflect on how that energy can guide your decisions, mindset, and actions.
2. Archetypal Journey Spread
Use the deck to explore your personal journey through archetypes. Draw three cards to represent your past, present, and future archetypal influences to understand the roles you’ve embodied and the ones you are moving into.
3. Magickal Energy Activation
Draw a card that represents the type of magick you should work with for a specific intention (e.g., protection, healing, abundance). Focus on incorporating that magick into your rituals, journaling, or daily practices.
4. Past Life Influence
Use the deck to explore past life influences. Draw a card to represent the archetypal energy you embodied in a past life and another to show what type of magick or practice you carried from that life into this one.
5. Manifesting Spread
Draw three cards to represent the energy needed for manifestation:
Card 1: What to focus on manifesting
Card 2: What archetypal energy to embody
Card 3: What type of magick to use for manifestation
I decided to work with #4, Past Life Influence.
The card I drew for my energy in that life was the Teacher. The type of magick carried from that life to this life was Hedge.
As the Hedge witch works with liminal space - somewhere between this world and the Other - the Hedge was perfect as most of my work in ancestral.
I wanted to know more about me, as the Teacher, so used the pendulum and discovered:
I was male
lived in 18th century
lived in North America
was in America, in the South
lived in Virginia
was an undertaker (I don’t know much astrology, but I’ve jokingly said I must have been an undertaker as my South Node is in Scorpio in the 10th House of career!)
You may wonder how an undertaker can be a Teacher archetype. Pulling out the pendulum to delve further.
If you’d like to pick up a copy of Ancestral Magick Oracle it’s available from La Panthere Studio for $36 US. I’d love to hear how you’re using the new deck and what you think of the cards we added.
xo
Nancy
P.S. I’ve been asked if this is an extended version of the original 40 card Kickstarter. Yes and no. We took some of the cards out as they overlapped other cards energetically. We also made the new Oracle tarot card size. I made a list of the cards so you could see what’s in the new deck:
Achiever
Adventurer
Alchemy
Amulet
Ancestral
Aura
Beauty
Burdened
Chakras
Conjure
Creator
Crystal
Cunning Folk
Divination
Dream
Elemental
Energy
Faery
Father
Folk
Green Witch
Healer
Hedge
Hereditary
Hero
Holy One
Hunter
Innocent
Kitchen
Love
Magician
Medium
Moon
Mother
Muse
Offering
Omen
Outlaw
Outlier
Poetry
Ritual
Seeker
Shapeshifter
Sigil
Spells
Storyteller
Strategist
Strong One
Survivor
Teacher
Traditionalist
Trickster
Visionary
Warrior
Undertaker in Virginia? Hmmm where I live. There is sometimes an interesting history. In some cases, graves were robbed and bodies were used in hospitals to train doctors and for medical research. It happened especially to African Americans or individuals who were poorer and didn’t have much family. I don’t know if undertakers were involved much or not.
Such a great deck and project! ❤️