# Gilded Oracle Deck

> Forty-four gilt-edged cards, each a single gouache image and a single word, drawn one at a time for a gentler, more open kind of reading than tarot's fixed spreads.

Price: 25.00 USD · in stock

## About
Morning, the coffee still too hot, and one card turned face up on the table: a moth, a compass rose, a closed door, and a single word beneath it. Let the word sit with you through the day rather than rushing to interpret it.This deck holds forty-four cards, a fraction larger than a standard tarot, each edge brushed with gold. There are no suits and no fixed order; the deck is made to be drawn from rather than laid out in a strict spread, three cards at most for most questions. It was illustrated over two years by a single printmaker working in gouache, then reproduced with a soft-touch laminate that keeps fingerprints from dulling the color. The gilt is applied by hand in small batches, so no two decks gild quite identically.Oracle decks sit outside the seventy-eight-card tarot and any single codified tradition, drawing instead on folk symbolism and dream imagery. Readers who find the tarot's rulebook heavy often turn to them for a gentler, more open-ended kind of listening.Details44 cards with hand-gilded edgesGouache illustrations with a soft-touch laminateWell suited to beginnersForty-four small doors, opened one at a time.