Les Vampires Oracle Cards is a forty four card oracle deck created by Lucy Cavendish with artwork by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, published by Blue Angel Publishing in 2014. It frames its guidance and healing messages through vampire figures drawn from folklore and popular gothic imagery rather than any single closed tradition, continuing Cavendish's pattern of oracle decks built around a mythic cast illustrated by a single fantasy artist.
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Cards in the Deck Card OrientationDesigned to be read upright or reversed 2 Confirmed directly: an independent review describes the guidebook's own "Curse" section for each card as addressing the reversed position, matching this author's other decks reviewed here that use reversed meanings. Identity
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Creator / Originator ArtistJasmine Becket-Griffith 1 Theme
Attributes and IconographyGothic fantasy illustration in Jasmine Becket-Griffith's signature large-eyed style. 1 Method
How the Cards Are ReadCavendish's decks are unusual among oracle decks in using reversed as well as upright meanings. 1 Learn More
An Oracle Deck That Reads Reversed as Well as Upright
Les Vampires Oracle Cards is a forty four card deck Lucy Cavendish created with artwork by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, published by Blue Angel Publishing in 2014. It frames its guidance and healing messages through vampire figures drawn from folklore and popular gothic imagery rather than any single closed tradition, continuing Cavendish's pattern of oracle decks built around a mythic cast illustrated by a single fantasy artist, the same pairing used for Oracle of Shadows and Light, Oracle of the Shapeshifters and The Faerytale Oracle.
Structurally, Cavendish's decks are unusual within the oracle genre in using reversed as well as upright meanings, a convention most other oracle creators, including Kyle Gray and Doreen Virtue across their own catalogues, deliberately avoid in favor of upright only reading. That choice gives Les Vampires and Cavendish's other decks a wider range of possible readings per card than a same sized upright only deck would produce. Building an oracle deck around vampire folklore, a figure more associated with popular gothic fiction than with a documented spiritual practice, extends the pattern already set by Cavendish's faery and shapeshifter decks of drawing organizing material from folklore and myth rather than from any single religious or divinatory tradition.
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