Isis Oracle

by Alana Fairchild, Jimmy Manton (Illustrator)

The luminous Isis Oracle set includes 44 oversized cards and a 220-page illustrated guidebook. Each of the card descriptions in the guidebook offers a powerful ritual to assist in the integrating of the cards. These rituals, many of which are guided meditaions, help you focus your attention to get the answers you need.

Genres: Tarot

220 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

Reviews

[Sky · Rating 4 out of 5]

The artwork isn't traditional but it still captures the energy in its own way, I love it. The guidebook is very detailed and filled with a meditation, prayer and information for each card. Overall I love this oracle deck even though there is one thing that I don't really like. It seems like Alana Fairchild doesn't really know that much about Isis and the religions she was actually worshiped in. It is very new age, even the Archangels are mentioned here, which really have nothing to do with Isis and are out of place. So if one can overlook all the new age stuff and just connect with the cards itself, it's a great deck.

[Tarot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed alongside the Kali Oracle.

FINAL THOUGHTS 28 Dec 2020 ~ Now that I've been working with this deck for a month, I have to say that despite my reservations, it turns out I enjoy using this deck, connect deeply with it, and am using it exactly as I imagined -- as a way to connect and meditate on Auset's wisdom.

I do wish there was a bibliography and more use of the original Egyptian terms for the concepts explained in the book (such as Tyet instead of "the Knot of Isis"), but the deck is bright and gorgeous with excellent card stock, and the book has helpful and wonderful messages.

I don't recommend the deck as a means of cartomancy/divination, more for requesting guidance and meditating on the concepts one card at a time. If you don't yet have any easy-to-use tools to connect with Auset and wish to, I do recommend this deck. It also doesn't hurt to do a Tarot reading for clarification on specific situations/people/things an Oracle card may refer to.

26 Nov 2020 ~

To be truly candid, I had some reservations before ordering this deck.

1) As an experienced (and sometimes professional) Tarot reader of 16 years who's tried several oracle decks in the past, I avoid oracle decks because they simply never have the depth and myriad layers of esoteric systems that Tarot does (or other older divination systems for that matter). I'd love to be proved wrong because the more tools I have to connect, the better.

2) I haven't heard of Alana Fairchild before, but upon browsing her bibliography, I was reminded that the higher number of topics one writes about sometimes (but not always) correlates to the less they've truly studied their subjects. I'm hoping Fairchild is not one of these cases.

3) Let's just say it: the faces in the deck are all Euro-centric, not Egyptian. I've seen some other people mention the same thing, so this has not gone unnoticed (on the other hand, I saw one black Youtuber say she loves the darker skin tones and feels represented), and we are now -- as a global culture -- reckoning with racism and appropriation. Let us also be clear that Fairchild is not Egyptian, nor was she raised in Egyptian culture, so there will be certain nuances missing, as is always the case when one writes about a culture they're interested in but haven't directly experienced through various stages of life. But I believe anyone can write about any culture they choose as long as proper respect and research are shown.

So why did I order this?

I'm mainly hoping to learn and be open to new ideas regarding the All-Goddess. I expect to use this as more of a meditation deck rather than a divination deck, but I truly hope it works as both.

It also came recommended from someone within Egyptian culture who follows Maat, saying that though it substitutes the original Egyptian names for the Greek names of the gods and goddesses, it does honor them and the book is well-researched. Hard to get a higher recommendation than that.

[Darren High · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a long time, as long as I can remember, I have always had a unbreakable connection to an Egyptian Goddess. For the last few years I'd known it was Isis, but deep in my subconscious mind I've always known. My mum saw a medium or some sort many years ago who told her that she had lived as an Egyptian in a previous life and I've had visions to accompany it. It's a lot for one to wrap there head around, but not for me, Isis is the one. Of course I love this deck, it's Isis. When I read through the book it just confirmed what I already knew to be true. I already have the Lightworker Oracle by Alana which I hold close to my heart and this deck I'll hold even closer.

[MK · Rating 5 out of 5]

I pull a card from this deck every morning to set my day. It's very powerful and not for the layperson who wants to have a deck to play with. The deck is for what they call "initiates" and each card comes with a ritual and an incantation. It's definitely a lightworker tool. Yes, some cards are a stretch to tie into to Ancient Egypt mythology, and the colouring in the cards is darker than I like to work with but they are minor quibbles compared to their usefulness in my journey.

[Lucia Morandini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible oracle. So strong and powerful and you can use it even if you are not into Egyptian gods and mythology. The meditations/rituals given for each card are well constructed and have a fantastic energy - you can feel them right away. Get this deck, you will not regret.

[Michele Cacano · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will continue to read and reference this book, and these beautiful oracle cards. I love the depth each reading can give, with rituals and meditations to help connect to each card.

[Josephine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this!

[Linda Hamonou · Rating 5 out of 5]

The art work is very beautiful.
I really enjoyed the rituals and the explanation of the cards.
I still need to practice a lot and to memorise, but that was a good choice for a first deck.