Tap into the Power of the Aether Creatures!
This deck will connect you with the Aether Creatures – beings from another dimension that surround us all the time yet are beyond normal human perception. In this deck:
• Get to know 77 Aether Creatures and learn how to benefit from their specific strengths and powers
• Let the Aether Creatures show you what you do not see about yourself and the current situations you are in
• Discover which Aether Creature is your own birth creature and follow its guidance
This is my second Teal Swan deck and I'm really liking her use of colour in these. I'm not as good at oracle cards as I am at tarot, but these are really speaking to me.
Aether creatures exist alongisde us, unseen and intangible as radio waves but just as capable of affecting us. Some of them look like the illustrations from your favourite book of fairy tales; some wouldn't stand out in that sci fi film you watched last week. Evidence of how they've influnced people over the decades, perhaps! One or possibly two are real animals - Dodo and Koi - some you'll recognise from folktales, legends or myths, and some are completely new.
The LWB is one of the most detailed I've worked with, at 352 pages, most of which is descriptions of the cards. To be fair though, the book is the size of average tarot cards, so it's not as daunting as it seems! There's an introduction to the idea behind the cards, some ideas for how to use them, (note that although the blurb above says you can find your birth creature, the book doesn't give any guidance on this, just says that it can be done like tarot cards) and several spreads ranging in complexity from two to eight cards. Of course you can always pull a single card as well!
The card descriptions are all roughly three pages, with a small image, some keywords, a description of the creature, and - unusually for oracles as far as I'm aware - both upright and reversed meanings! With 77 cards this is obviously quite a bit of new learning.
The cards have this beautiful, reversible back design:
The front image has the creature's name at the base and a number at the top to help you find it in the book. There's a thin black frame around the image; the creatures are presented against colourful backgrounds, some resembling universes and some woodlands or other earthly backgrounds. Here's some of my (current, it changes a lot!) favourites:
The cards shuffle nicely and feel nice in my hands. I'm still getting used to how they read, but so far they've been pretty blunt! I did a sample reading for a friend and it was very clear that she needs to take some more time for herself - something she struggles with! I'm looking forward to getting more accurate readings as I get more used to them.
This deck would also be fantastic for writing prompts, which I said about Teal's last deck but I still believe! Any kind of fantasy or sci fi world would benefit from some of these creatures sprinkled in. I'll be spending a lot of time with this deck in future.
Aether Creatures Oracles Cards are available now. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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