![]() “At the heart of the Grail legacy lies the profound power of the Feminine, which carries with it the key to creativity, insight and transformation.The Divine Feminine art series is at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary for a limited time and people can explore Indigenous art as part of the Land is Home project. It’s a very gentle, encouraging, and feminine set. The Oracle of the Grail Code can be used in multi-card spreads like those outlined in the book, but I preferred to use them as single cards, drawing one a day for guidance and going through the meditation, or leaving one out to remind me of a particular quality. These are simple each card is divided into a Meaning (which explores how that attribute may appear in your life, offers advice, and asks pertinent questions) and Meditation, which takes you through a guided step-by-step meditation and visualisation linked with the energy of the card. The 33 card meanings make up the bulk of the book. The following pages of ‘Illustration Credits’ also give the copyright details and often the location of the painting itself, should you be inspired to go and see the real thing. ![]() The back of the book also has a quick ‘Index of Cards and Qualities’, for those who want to know more about the origins of the image – it lists the card name, the title of the painting and the artist. Following are two original spreads for use with the Oracle: a three-card and five-card spread, both explaining with a sample reading as well (which is always handy). The book talks initially about Amy’s journey to create the concept of the Oracle of the Grail Code, and the purpose of the deck. The inside lid of the box is also decorated with a full-size image of the ‘Honoring’ card. The cards are packaged in a sturdy, matte, flip-top cardboard box along with an equally sturdy 176-page hardcover book. The words ‘Oracle of the Grail Code: The Book and Card Collection’ printed in the centre. The 33 cards are on the large size - 11cm wide by 15cm high – and the backs have an aged looking orange background. It has such wonderful lighting, and such wry wisdom in her face, a perfect image for the feminine archetype. My favourite card of the deck was ‘Wisdom’, which has a painting of A Portrait of an Old Woman by Balthasar Denning. Some cards are portrait-oriented, others landscape-oriented, which I didn’t find ideal but is probably a limitation placed by the source image. ![]() There is no collage or tweaking to the artwork, just the original painted image. Other artists include Arthur Hughes, Walter Crane (paid homage in the Harmonious Tarot), Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Rossetti. There are several paintings by John William Waterhouse featuring elegant red-headed women The Soul of the Rose becomes the image of ‘Nurturing’. The Birth of Venus by Botticelli is ‘Beauty’. The instantly recognisable Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is placed as ‘Merriment’ (nice choice). Instead, she elected to use a well-known painting featuring a woman (or women) to illustrate the card quality or character attribute. To illustrate her deck of the 33 divine Feminine aspects corresponding to the essence of the Grail legends, Amy chose not to have a modern artist interpret her card concepts. Instead it is about recovering their original nature, their beingness, through remembering and reconnecting and then finding a way to live their Feminine selves out loud in the world.” “Women are the Grail, the cup, as Mary Magdalene was the Grail, the cup of Jesus’ blood, so there isn’t a ‘Grail Quest’ for them. She realised that as well as the Grail being a spiritual path of denial of the senses, of asceticism and hard work, by men and for men, there was another path of the Grail – one for women. She delved into the subject and the strands of myth that make up the Grail story, and found her a concept for a new deck was beginning to take shape. “The Oracle of the Grail Code is the loving, nourishing wisdom I gleaned by following the faint thread of the Feminine through history.”Īmy researched the Grail legends in depth, after being initially inspired by the mystique of the Da Vinci Code novel. This deck has 33 rather beautiful cards that bring to the light Amy’s concept of the previously hidden feminine side of the Grail legends. The Oracle of the Grail Code is the second feminine-focused oracle deck from Amy Sophia Marashinsky, previously known for the Goddess Oracle. Oracle of the Grail Code Review by Solandia
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