Coming 2026
The Oracle Deck
Powers of Creation
Somewhere in a valley on the island of Sardinia, stands a group of 7 ancient tower-like temples. They are called Nuraghe and form a constellation aligned to the Pleiades star system. It was the first archeological area where Vincent Deinum sensed the Powers of Creation.
After some years of studying these energies, Vincent Deinum felt called to channel these energies into the creation of an oracle card deck, so others may connect to the wisdom and guidance of these powers.
We present to you the Oracle Card Deck: The Powers of Creation!
Read more about the background of the cards, draw one of the cards for yourself and have a sneak peek or discover how you can use the cards to connect to their powers.
Short information
The oracle deck contains 64 cards, divided over 8 suits, each related to one of the 8 powers of creation: Life, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Darkness, Light.
Each card brings you the essence of their respective power, a specific message for the reader, a practice to do for yourself and reflective questions to sit with.
The oracle deck has a guiding booklet, written by Vincent Deinum. The illustratations are created by Alisha van Meer. Both are artists, shamanic practitioners and earthkeepers, whom have studied energy medicine, shamanic nature practices and collective energywork.
About The Oracle Deck
The Oracle Deck consists of a 64-card deck and a guiding booklet. In the booklet you will be able to read the descriptions of the cards, along with the message they hold, a practice you can do at home and questions that can help you reflect on the message the card has brought.
The Oracle Deck has the intent to share with you the energy, wisdom and life guidance that these particular powers holds. In the deck are 8 powers presented: Life, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Darkness and Light.
In the video we explain more about these Powers of Creation and what they represent.
The Oracle Deck is a gateway to the story of the Powers of Creation and what the great temples of the earth mean to life on this planet.
These 8 Powers of Creation have a strong connection to a valley in Sardinia where we work with several temples called Nuraghe (houses of light), coming from an ancient civilisation from 4000-5000 before present. There is much we don’t know anymore about these old sacred places, and much of our spiritual culture, and the once common nature-based practices, have been lost in the modern world.
Therefore this Oracle Deck opens the door to you to learn more about the world of energy, how we as sensory beings are constantly interacting with fields of energy and in what way the many great temples of this world have a function when it comes to our basic daily experiences.
How to use the card deck
The card deck has 8 suits, for each Power of Creation a suit of 8 cards. Each card has a section in the guiding booklet with written text where you can read:
the card description
the message for you
a practice you can do
reflection question
Watch the video below to see the card deck and learn how to use the cards for yourself and others, or scroll down to see each of the 8 cards connected to one of the 8 Powers of Creation.
Draw a card!
Make a screenshot to randomly pick one of the cards and click on the button below to see what the card holds as a message for you today.
Have a look at the cards
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Power of Earth: The Stone Giant
Deep in the crevices of the earth lives the Stone Giant. In many folklore they speak of the giants of the earth, mighty and with immense strength and power. They make the earth tremble, causing life to quake and change landscapes.
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Power of Fire: The High Volcano
The High Volcano has the immense power to erupt violently, scientifically known as a supervolcano or stratovolcano, it is one of the bigger and explosive volcanoes on this earth.
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Power of Water: The Underwater World
The underwater kingdom is like a hidden treasure, unnoticed and undiscovered. A lost realm that remains hidden, from sight and from memory, and for good reasons!
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Power of Wind: Sky Dragon
This mythical being is a creator of dreams, riding the winds in the sky. It has its similarities to Quetzalcoatl, the feathered skyserpent in mesoamerican folklore. The Skydragon is a bringer of messages in the dreamworld.
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Power of Lightning: Lightning Storm
As heavy rains pour over the land the sky erupts with lightning bolts, electrifying the air. This is no storm for the fainthearted, courage must be shown when this storm passes the land. It will meet your darkest fears or most haunted nights.
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Power of Darkness: The Scarab
The Scarab is a beetle that in the mythology of ancient Egypt was seen as sacred. The god Kheper is one of the gods often depicted as a scarab, representing rebirth and regeneration and was engraved in many tombs, temples, seals and jewelry. The scarab beetle is a symbol of the cyclical life we live in eternity.
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Power of Light: Ray of Sun
Our sun is the livegiver on our planet. Just as much as the plants welcomingly receive its energy for their life support, and all living beings thrive under the warmth of the sun, so are we guided by the energy of the sun the moment we decide to descend on earth to be a life form.
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Power of Life: The Dance of Life
Life is a constant dance, where you engage with life as life engages with you. Sometimes the dance is smooth, sensual and synchronises perfectly with you, and sometimes the dance is messy and you don’t feel connected with your dancing partner.
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The Dance of Life
Life is a constant dance, where you engage with life as life engages with you. Sometimes the dance is smooth, sensual and synchronises perfectly with you, and sometimes the dance is messy and you don’t feel connected with your dancing partner. You dance this Dance of Life on a daily basis, where all the people you interact with are your dancing partners, and they mirror you, they respond to your energy, your intentions, your movement, often even before you make the movement, just a slight gesture, or the thought of the gesture, has already set in motion the response of your dancing partner. In the dance, your roots are connected to the roots of your partners, and your dreams are colliding and mingling with the ones of your dancing partner, and so, the dance of life takes shape. During this dance you can experience the flow of the water, the heat of the fire, the power of the wind and the drumming of the earth. Even nature and the animals around you can be the dancing partners you meet in life.The Message
You need to look your partner into the eyes, deeper than before. This card, and the Power of Life, comes before you to invite you to look deeper, beyond the person you have in front of you. What this dance is causing in your life, is related to what already lives inside you. So what is this dance teaching you? What is it exposing and laying bare for you to witness with honest truth and undeniable sight? It is easy to remain on the level of ego and dismiss the person you are dancing with, and so, dismiss what your soul wants you to see and witness. But by doing so the dance can become a painful one, full of conflict and drama. Only by learning the lesson of the dance and what your partner is mirroring in the dance, can you make it a dance full of passion, ease and beauty. You need to see this dance for what it is, not a dance of drama and difficulty, but one that brings you a great lesson of life.The Practice
Go and sit in front of a mirror and imagine one of the partners of the dance of life that has been present in your life. Imagine seeing this person in the mirror, keep looking at the mirror and feel what this dance is opening and provoking in you and let the emotions surface and be present with you. Then consider what they mirror in you: what part are you playing in this dance? In a way you are also dancing, so what dance are you performing and thus contributing to the dance? Take your time with these questions so you can slowly understand the lesson that is being presented to you, how you are part of this dance and how you are keeping it alive. See what the lesson is and what it is asking from you. Perhaps you feel you can change in who you are in the dance, how you dance or with whom you dance.Questions for reflection
Who are your main dancing partners in life? Why are you engaged with them in this dance of life?If you look at the many dances you have done in life, what is your play? What are your typical dance moves? Your typical responses, behaviours, habits in the dance?When you close your eyes and you see yourself dancing freely, what does it look like? Can you imagine a dancing partner with you? What do they look like and how do you interact? How can you bring this image into real life and the partners of this dance you are meetingSometimes you can become both dancers in this dance of life and feel the interplay of both characters engaged in the dance. If you would allow yourself to step into both dancing shoes and gain both experiences and perspectives, what do you learn from it?
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The Stone Giant
Deep in the crevices of the earth lives the Stone Giant. In many folklore they speak of the giants of the earth, mighty and with immense strength and power. They make the earth tremble, causing life to quake and change landscapes. Just like nature, the Stone Giant is a wild being, neither benevolent nor evil. The Stone Giant rumbles like thunder in the rocks and speaks an ancient language of primordial times.The Message
“Hear me speak, hear my rumble, when time comes, rocks will tumble.” The Stone Giant brings a message of a powerful stirring and tumult. The grounds you walk on will shake and parts of your known world will crumble to dust. This will bring a time of uncertainty and commotion. But perhaps you have been expecting this, as you have felt this event coming or you have been avoiding this change that was needed in your life. The Stone Giant will help you push things into acceleration, but be ready to let go of what the giant will crush underneath its feet. Lingering in the past or staying attached to what is lost, will make you lose yourself in the underground realms.The Practice
It is time to show boldness, to stand and rise up out of your misery or problematic situations that keep you stuck like stone. All you have been ignoring, postponing or avoiding now needs attention. Make a list of all the things that limit you in your life’s passion: draining relationships, limiting beliefs, painful stories of the past, disabling roles/identifications (both the ones you give to yourself as those given to you by others), addictions, physical or mental problems, ancestral issues. Write for each of these things a promise, how you will stop giving life to these issues, how you will stop putting energy into them and how you will retreat from them, detach and stop believing them to be true. Make space for your force of nature, your force of life. This life is yours, you are here, now, in this body and in this lifetime, only for one purpose, to live.Questions for reflection
Consider what you have been neglecting about yourself or in your life? What would it require to blow new life into that forgotten part of yourself?What do you need to bring this big shift in your life? Why do you think you need it, and thus making the shift conditional (only when this happens, I will be able to do that)?Who do you have around you as support? Who is always there, even if you maybe don’t notice or don’t give it so much consideration? Speak to them, share with them how you feel, it may surprise you how they respond and come to your aid.Imagine having the power to shake up your world, what would be the first thing you would want to put upside down? Why are you not doing it?
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The High Volcano
The High Volcano has the immense power to erupt viciously, scientifically known as a supervolcano or stratovolcano, it is one of the bigger and explosive volcanoes on this earth. They erupt their gases and lava, spraying ashes, rock and sometimes causing a pyroclastic cloud of destruction that sweeps the surrounding area for miles. If enough magma and gas are created it can go on for years, and so the volcano becomes a continuous threat and source of uncertainty for all of life around the volcano.The Message
How much magma have you been erupting recently? For how long already? You carry much heat and fire, boiling magma inside you coiling, burning and cooking to a point of explosion. You have reached a boiling point where there seems to be no point of return. If you continue like this, you will be a destructive force for your surroundings, damaging relationships and connections with the people around you, maybe with no possibility of reconciliation or repair. Consider carefully if and how long you want to continue down this road. It might be that you step into a karmic cycle expressing anger and rage on your surroundings that will feed itself.The Practice
Check the source of your rage and anger. What is fueling your boiling point? What is creating the gas and magma inside you that brings you to (the point of) eruption? Feel into the injustice and unfairness, the wrongness and judgement of what people have done to you or others. There is a wound there, a source of pain and suffering that is fueling your volcanic state. As long as you carry that wound, you will keep experiencing this state of injustice inside you, which is easily triggered by others. You need to face the wound inside you, allow the emotions to flow that live beyond the rage and frustration. It is time to soften yourself so you can actually feel the deeper suffering that is inside. You have learned to be tough, to yourself and the world, to stand up for what is right, to fight and protect, to judge and correct. But how long will you keep doing it and to what cost?
The High Volcano urges you to become still and silent, soft and gentle, and let loose the deeper emotions hidden beyond the eruption. Connect with them, feel them, express them physically, in art or movement, give them space in your own way. Bring the volcano inside you to a state of peace, so your relationships and way of life may find peace tooQuestions for reflection
From the top of the volcano you have an amazing perspective. Use it and see, what typically triggers you to erupt?If you feel anger or frustration with other people or their (in)actions, what is it in them that annoys you or what you disapprove of? Why is it so important to you that their behaviour stops? What is the great threat to you or others that you think you see?What you disapprove of in others is denied within yourself too. When you review the disapproval of others and what you judge in others, how does that disapproval deny a part of you? What abilities or part of your character is blocked because you judge it in others and yourself?Is the volcano in you an uncontrolled force that erupts unwillingly? Check how that makes you feel and reach out to the desire of change: how would you rather live your life? What does the answer to that question provoke inside you and how can that help you in your desired change?
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The Underwater Kingdom
The Underwater Kingdom is like a hidden treasure, unnoticed and undiscovered. A lost realm that remains hidden, from sight and from memory, and for good reasons! In this world of healing and regeneration there is also destruction. Where there is beauty, there is also ugliness, where there is love, there is hate. In this world of duality you can experience it and encounter it all in life, and in some cases life has taught you not to see and acknowledge the grand aspects of your self. Your own greatness, your light, the exceptional gift that you possess. They have been judged, limited, oppressed or have been pushed down into the deep ocean so it can not be found again. In this case the Underwater Kingdom is calling to retrieve this place inside yourself as a treasure has been safely kept hidden and the time is right to find it again.
The Message
You have a hidden gem inside yourself. An underwater kingdom of extraordinary beauty, a special place deeply hidden somewhere in your consciousness. It is likely you are hardly aware of it or you have difficulty acknowledging it. For it has had good reasons to be stored away into the depths of the seas. You have experiences that prove that the world can be a bad place sometimes and people can not be trusted. The Underwater Kingdom needs to be revealed to you. The splendor that you carry inside is this kingdom, but on a certain level of perception you are afraid of finding it, seeing it and exposing it for the consequences it may bring. But trust that not all treasures are to be shared immediately. Initially it is about exploring your own self, coming back into connection with the exceptional beauty, talents and powers that live in you, and allowing yourself to accept these, before you start considering sharing them with the world.The Practice
Start with writing down all the things you love doing, what you are passionate about. All the activities that you have done in life that inspired you. Then start listing also the activities that you have never done but always dreamt of doing. Also write down certain roles, tasks, occupations of areas of work. Just write down what comes to mind. Then feel where you are most drawn to, where does it sparkle or create a feeling of butterflies in your belly or excitement in your heart? Connect with these sensations and then stop writing, dive deeper into the feelings. Let yourself sink into them: what splendor do you feel? What is this exceptional feeling telling you? What images do you see or impressions does it give to you? Let it all come as a flow of information and then ask yourself: what have you always dreamt of being or becoming in this lifetime? Dive deep and connect.
Questions for reflection
What is it that you love doing in life? What is something you have always dreamt of doing but never did because you were ashamed of doing it, or you considered it too big for you or too threatening in some way?Is there a dream you have had as a child about a magical place? A place that had superpowers or the people there had them? What were these superpowers?Imagine if you would be your dream and have these superpowers yourself, if you would say yes to the thing you have always dreamt of being in this life, what would it bring you in a positive sense?Imagine yourself swimming in this Underwater Kingdom. Who or what would you be there?
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Sky Dragon
This mythical being is a creator of dreams, riding the winds in the sky. It has its similarities to Quetzalcoatl, the feathered skyserpent in mesoamerican folklore. The Skydragon is a bringer of messages in the dreamworld. In many traditions it is believed our dreams hold messages from either the individual or collective subconscious and can be visited by energetic or spiritual beings like ancestors or spirit guides.
The Message
The Skydragon is here to announce the importance of your dreams. They hold significant information for your soul’s journey, for what you are going through or what is about to happen in your life. In its messages it will show you the unmasked truth about what is coming. Often these messages have symbolic meaning and require interpretation. Call upon the Skydragon to be present with you in meditation and assist you in unraveling the messages he brings. Open yourself to his friendly arrival by preparing your sleep and welcoming him in your dreams.
The Practice
Go to bed earlier than usual to have a good night’s rest and assure the possibility of having dreamtime during your sleep. Put a notepad and pen next to your bed to write down your dreams. Don’t leave out seemingly insignificant details, they might make sense later. Give yourself time in the days after writing down a dream to make sense of it, especially write down how you have felt during the scenes of the dream, what impressions the occurrence gave you, as this will often explain how you have perceived and experienced the dream, which gives it the meaning it carries. When you have been able to understand the message the Skydragon brought you, acknowledge it and heed it. Don’t let distractions make you stray or ignore the message that he has brought you.
Questions for reflection
What do you notice in your dreams in regard to what is happening in your life?Although a dream is often bizarre and unrealistic, consider what the deeper meaning is of the dream you have had. What symbolism have you noticed? What do they mean?What stood out in the dreams? Where were your emotions the strongest? Consider what those moments and emotions mean, rarely it has a literal meaning so what is the message that they are trying to convey?In your regular meditation, take a moment to go back to the dreamstate where you do a rerun of the dream calling back the images and emotions, what do you notice? What new emotions and insight do you experience and how would you interpret them?
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Lightning Storm
As heavy rains pour over the land the sky erupts with lightning bolts, electrifying the air. This is no storm for the fainthearted, courage must be shown when this storm passes the land. It will meet your darkest fears or most haunted nights. But often when the mightiest storm passes, the peace that comes after is ever most calm and gentle, where suddenly it seems there never was a storm in the first place.
The Message
Know a storm is coming, you can see the dark clouds on the horizon. Welcome the storm, invite it towards you and let it wash over you. The courage needed is often to make sure you don’t run away, to not panic or despair, to not overly dramatise the events around you, to actually not think but feel and allow the experience to be exactly like it is and nothing more. Also know that the storm will pass, winds will calm, lightning will fade, and as the clouds open up, rays of sunshine will shine through, marking the places of warmth and light for you to travel toward.
The Practice
When the storm hits, be attentive to your inner world, what is triggered, opened or what emotions surface. Meet them, see them for what they are, often representatives of something deeper that wants to come forward. Journey through them with your breath, allowing yourself to feel them. Don’t hide back but stay present, give it your all, your full attention and presence. Because for many journeys it is often said that the only way is through.
Questions for reflection
When you see the storm coming, what happens inside? What is your greatest fear?How have you dealt with this anxiousness in the past? Do you want to do that again in that way, or is there a different approach you know you can take?In heavy storms it is important to anchor. Where the mind makes your head spin and thoughts can make you panic, consider how it feels to go to your body? How does it feel to breathe through it? To move your body while experiencing emotion?In some cases complete surrender is the best medicine. Can you become the storm? Can you feel the storm passing through your body, your mind, your luminous field? Can you feel how it lights up all corners of the dark areas you have been hiding from?
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The Scarab
The Scarab is a beetle that in the mythology of ancient Egypt was seen as sacred. The god Kheper was one of the gods often depicted as a scarab, representing rebirth and regeneration and was engraved in many tombs, temples, seals and jewelry. The scarab beetle is a symbol of the cyclical life we live in eternity. How life is a constant cycle, echoing back and forth its existence. Life is a repetition of itself, experiencing itself over and over again and thus, not only a human’s life can be experienced over and over again through ancestral patterns that live on in the life of ancestors and their descendants, or how a soul’s information is expressed in the occurrences of multiple lives and this can go on and on and on, but also on a collective level we as a humanity or as a larger living system, are reliving the same chapters that many societies and worlds before have lived.The Message
Insects are a species that have roamed the earth for millions of years. This sense of eternity, of continuous cycles and repeating lives and patterns, is what this card brings you. A perspective that invites you to see a bigger repeating pattern, in which your life is one of the coils of a bigger chain connecting them. How you are one of the living beings of the many that have come before you and will come after you. It can have a humbling effect, the realisation that your life is nothing more than a small moment in time of the many lifetimes that are spent on this earth. It can also have an altering effect on the enormity of issues we sometimes carry with us, the concerns or worries we might have. Or it can have a humbling effect, on the larger scale of what we call life, where life comes from, what it is and how it is lived by the many beings crossing our paths.The Practice
This power of darkness and card of the Scarab invites you to journey in the cycles of time. Take a moment and sit yourself in the dark, possibly positioned on the floor in a yoga child pose or perhaps a similar pose to the Scarab, kneeled on the ground with your face close to your knees. From this position and in this darkness, you can let yourself relax into the sense of eternity and the many lives that have been lived. Allow yourself to wonder, to journey, to let your mind go and your spirit travel, back to places in times of your ancestors. Use this exercise to travel in time and places to where one of your ancestors has lived and review how and what they lived. What do you see or feel there? What did they live or experience in their lifetime? How is that echoing forward into your life or what do you recognise which is occurring in similar ways in your lifetime? Use the insight and learnings to review how you witness and experience life, allow it to broaden your view on existence and see how this new perspective alters how you walk your lifetime.Questions for reflection
What is life about for you? If you would see life as repetitive patterns, what would it mean for you?Is there a clear pattern in your life you recognise in the lives of your (grand)parents? What aspects of their life are you continuing?What limits you to see life as one big repetition of itself? What belief keeps you away from that perspective? What does this belief serve inside you? What safety, control or predictability does it keep in place and so, keeps you from seeing life in a bigger picture?Imagine you being inside the energy of the sacred scarab, walking a life of eternity, walking the endless cycles of life, how does this alter life for you? Feel what it opens for you. See the gifts that are hidden for you in this reality.
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Ray of Sun
Our sun is the livegiver on our planet. Just as much as the plants welcomingly receive its energy for their life support, and all living beings thrive under the warmth of the sun, so are we guided by the energy of the sun the moment we decide to descend on earth to be a life form. In a human’s life it is almost something you take for granted, or you only relish them when the warm season is there, the rays of the sun. And yet, he is always there, Father Sun. A powerful and warm guardian of light, making sure life can thrive on our planet and always there when dark times pass.
The Message
Maybe you feel you don’t deserve it, maybe you feel it is even inexistent in your life right now, but the sun is here, shining for you. One of the rays falls on top of you and envelops you with lightness, casting away the shadow you have been living in for too long. The heaviness that life sometimes brings can pull you down, can make you believe that this is what life is about: suffering, tragedy, hardship and a lack of love for the world. Let this ray of the sun be a ray of love for you, for you being here, alive and living. Do not despair, for life is but a speck on the timeline of life’s existence, and your experience in the shadow will soon be a memory. Hold on, and believe that, just like every other being, you come from the same divine order as anyone else.The Practice
Go outside and stand in the sunlight. Ignore all else, all distractions, all todo’s, the traffic, the people, the sounds. Go outside and be in the sun. Not just physically, but with your whole presence. Be in the sun. Go with your full awareness into the sun, imagine reaching out with your energetic body to the sun, connecting your field of energy around you to the sun. Imagine becoming one with the sun, and the sun becoming one with you and the rays of the sun completely enveloping you, fueling your luminous field with sun energy. Breathe into it, invite that energy in, breathe it in and welcome the lifeforce the sun is sharing with you. Make this a daily practice to remember what you are made of and what life is about.
Questions for reflection
Have you been residing, more than preferred, in the darkness? In what way are you allowing yourself to be taken by difficulty and hardship around you?What do you believe about yourself and whether or not you deserve to receive these rays of life? What beliefs have nested in your mind about what you deserve and what you don’t deserve? Do you want to continue to believe these limiting beliefs?Imagine what would happen if the rays of the sun would cast light upon the darker areas of your life, what would happen? Imagine.What if life would be one ray of sunshine? Let go of the practical mind and step into the power of the sun. Imagine being the sun, and that life is only lightforce. What would change?
The Creators
Vincent Deinum
AuthorCurrently writing ‘Fantastic Temples and Where To Find Them’ and the oracle deck ‘Powers of Creation’. Vincent is teacher in energy medicine, shamanic practitioner and trained medium. He has a practice in Amsterdam and hosts expeditions, retreats and shamanic training in Europe.
Alisha van Meer
Creative maker, visual artist, shamanic practitioner and earthkeeper. Alisha brings the unseen world into visuals and creates bridges for what is unspoken or invisible through her art and her work as shamanic healer and guide where she helps people to listen to their silence and make space for their soul’s voice.
Visual design and illustrationI am the creatorI am the flow of energy that moves through me, smoothlyI am the channel that birthes wisdomI listen, to whispers of signs and symbols, write and witness the powers within us.I am like the wave crashing, a turn of the tideAn ocean’s whirlpool swirling around livesA guide, pointing the direction to passionA stars’ blessing, I am the written life lessonI am a book, a card, a drawing, an iconI am energy in writingYour pre-order helps us to bring the oracle card deck a step closer to realisation. After you place your pre-order you can make the payment via de QR code. By pre-ordering and paying directly, you get a reduced price for the oracle deck.
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