Seasons of the Witch: Yule Oracle

This is the most beautiful oracle deck I’ve ever had and I absolutely love it!! The deck is well made; the messages are uplifting and timeless; the artwork is breathtaking; and the energy of the deck is warm and nurturing! If you’re considering purchasing this deck, GET IT!! You will not be disappointed.

There is a card for orgasm depicted by a finger in an open flower. It doesn’t bother me, just throwing that out there as part of the review. It is Beltane/spring after all. I love the cards.

It was heart warming but I thought it was a bit too colorful. Simple like the Samhain deck was preferred. I like the less is more and the poems of each card are enough. A lot of color better art in other deck. Gave it to my mom who reads them during this her favorite season so it deserves a lot of starts but not for me. To each their own.

Update: For some reason Amazon allows me to just update my Yule Oracle review, so I’m going to review all three decks. I received the most recent Beltane Oracle deck today.Just like the other two decks, the Beltane Oracle does a great job of capturing the feel and essence of the Sabbat. I have few criticisms of any of the decks, though I have enjoyed the Beltane and Yule decks more than the Samhain deck for a couple of reasons: Yule and Beltane don’t have reversed meanings while the Samhain deck does. I don’t usually read reversed cards in tarot or Oracle so this is a nice change from the Samhain deck. The art for Yule and Beltane are also a bit more sophisticated. While I love the Samhain deck a lot, and Samhain is my favorite Sabbat, all of the characters in the Samhain are women who look like Wednesday Adams. The Yule deck improved by adding not only men but other races. Beltane took this theme a step further, though I hope that they authors remain inclusive without omitting Caucasians altogether. I wanted to see a Great Marriage card, though they did have handfasting. On the handfasting card, they portray what I assume is a lesbian couple. Since it’s portraying a human couple I’ll give them a pass, though the Great Marriage represents the joining of the male and female and duality of deity, which is beyond the scope of human coupling and is more centered on forces of nature than gender.The images are beautiful and do a great job of giving you a feel of a cold and dark Samhain night, the warmth of a Yule fire while a snowstorm rages outside, and the ecstasy of a warm early summer day in Beltane. I’m really looking forward to the next deck. What will it be? I’ve not heard about what will be next but I’m guessing Lughnasadh or Midsummer.I purchased the Samhain deck shortly after Samhain last year, and I’m a collector as well as a user of oracle and tarot decks. The Samhain deck is fairly dark, but that makes sense since it’s Samhain. I do have a few other Samhain / Halloween Oracle and tarot decks, so it’s yet another one to add to my collection. It will be a great deck to enjoy the closer we get to Samhain. I was excited to hear that they would be doing all of the 8 Sabbats and that the next one would be Yule.I just received the Yule deck yesterday, and at first glance, it really captures the feeling of the season. I look forward to really playing with it more as we get past Samhain and into the season of Yule. I’m also curious what they are going to do for the rest of the Sabbats, though at the rate they’re going it could be many years before we see a Lughnasadh or Mabon deck. I’m glad that the creators are taking their time with this project, though.I’d highly recommend both decks to add to your collection. As much as I love the Samhain deck, I kind of like the Yule one better, probably because I don’t have anything like it. I can’t wait to see the Imbolc one!

Great deck

I have 2 oracles where Juliete is one of the authors and I simply love it. The messages are so beautiful and unique. And the art is amazingI do oracles every Tuesday by instagram and this one and earthcraft are the favorites ones 💙

Beautiful deck! I’ve only pulled one card so far and it was spot on

I have been looking forward to this deck since their previous oracle deck - the Samhain Oracle - entered my life a couple years ago. I absolutely LOVE the Samhain Oracle. As a lover of Tarot, the Seasons of the Witch: Samhain Oracle by Lorriane Anderson, Juliet Diaz and Giada Rose (mine is the first edition as found on the Spirit Elements website) became an immediate seasonal favorite. It's mysterious, beautiful Halloween magic. The haunting artwork, the strange poetry that introduces each card that I've often contemplated for hours...yep I'm a fan. There's nothing quite like it. If you do not have this deck...at the time of this writing, it's early fall, almost Samhain season...so get it. You should have it in your collection.Finally we get the Yule season follow up! And I love it! Again, each card is given a title and a poetry line in Juliet's haunting and hypnotic style. If you are intuitive or practicing with it, you have so much to work with: the imagery, the book keywords and meaning, and the poetry line, which on several occasions was all I needed to point me in the right direction.The deck doesn't appear as dark as the Samhain (Halloween) version, and it is also smaller - 44 cards compared to 60 cards in the Samhain deck. But it is still dark and feminine, and if you are looking for a powerful, darker and feminine oracle deck to work with during the Winter Solstice, you should get this.The guidebook is quite beefy and is in full color. Each card is given a color image, three keywords and a beautiful page minimum exploration and definition.Also, as a woman of color, I was very pleased to see that this deck is very diverse, with all different hues and ethnicities represented. Love!!And bonus, this deck is edged in absolutely exquisite metallic green! It looks so stunning! I wasn't expecting that!I took a few snapshots, and I couldn't help but take a picture of the backs of this deck next to my Winter Waite Tarot by Tarot Collectibles, which I definitely will be using together! And they look great together! Check out the pics!So...yes, I definitely recommend this enchanting oracle deck for your Longest Nights! Happy Divining!

Beautiful cards - planning to buy the rest of the sets

Eu me conectei muito com o tema bruxas.Esse oraculo é perfeito, as mensagens são certeiras e vão na alma...As imagens são lindas, a caixa é dura e pode ser utilizada para guardar o baralho.A autora fez um oraculo para cada Sabbatt e isso é perfeito, eu adorei e comprei outro da coleção...Esperei a Amazon Brasil trazer com um valor acessível e super valeu a pena.Ele tem uma conexão incrível para inicio de tiragens, algo para saber mais sobre a consulente ou sobre seu momento atual

Questo mazzo oracolare è meraviglioso!!Ho anche quello di Samhain e di Yule ma questo è il più bello dei tre! Immagini evocative che rappresentano perfettamente il tema di Beltane.

Adoro questi mazzi della Rockpool, possedevo già quello di Samhain e ci tenevo tantissimo ad avere questo.Risponde benissimo! Consiglio di "intervistare il mazzo" seguendo quanto proposto dalle autrici nel libretto. Il risultato è sorprendente.Questo oracolo è una carezza, dal tepore ideale per l'inverno, ma non escludo di usarlo lungo tutto il corso dell'anno.Se alcune espressioni idiomatiche sono di difficile interpretazione Google translate confermo che traduce correttamente, per cui questo mazzo funziona benissimo anche se l'inglese non è proprio fluente e complica la comprensione dei significati!Le illustrazioni sono stupende, arrivano nel profondo.La finitura delle carte è eccezionale, vanno solo mescolate con un po' di garbo per non rovinare il verde metallizzato posto sui lati di ogni carta. Quindi come mazzo oracolare è consigliatissimo!!!!

I absolutely love this deck. Its so beautifuly drawn, colored and so representative of all Beltane means. Im totally in love! So worthy!