Lessons about
the De Grandis
Faerie Shaman
Oracle Deck
Cards for Divination, Talismans, and More
This Course Is also a Shamanic Journey and Training
to Transform Your Life
I don’t expect to give this training again.
What Is the
De Grandis Faerie Shaman
Oracle Deck?
Photos of all the cards are in this post, starting with the above picture.
The deck consists of forty-three cards to use:
* for divination
* as talismans
* sacred artifacts in rituals
* writing prompts
* and prompts for other art
Each card is my original full-color Shamanic art.
The deck is available only to course participants. You receive digital files to print and cut, to make your own De Grandis Faerie Shaman Oracle Deck.
The deck has gorgeous detail and clarity that do not show in this post. The site’s graphics are blurred.
Don’t have a color printer or card-stock? Print black-and-white on regular paper. Hearth art is heart art! I had a high standard for the cards’ art. But that’s different from perfectionism. So make your deck by printing whatever way you can, and then cut up the prints whatever way you can.
Once you are in the course, you receive instructions that make creating your deck even easier.
The Instruction Manual
To supplement the weekly class meetings, you receive an ebook of 17,000 words (at last count. I am doing the final edits now).
The text provides instructions for using the deck, gives meanings for each card, and conveys Fey Mysteries.
I enchanted the book. So it brings a reader into Fey realms, as well as helps them reach worldly goals.
The Cards’ Many Powers
Here is an overview of the cards’ many magics. You will learn to use them for:
Divination. You can receive Divine guidance about both spiritual and worldly concerns. You will learn to use the deck in ways that develop your intuition and other psychic abilities. After the course, using the deck continues to strengthen your psychic skills. The cards give practical and mystical advice. This helps you be head-in-the-clouds with feet-on-the-ground.
Amulets. Each card is a talisman that bestows specific blessings. I channeled a diverse collection of relevant amulets to help improve your whole life—I’ve worked on this project for lifetimes. My process was not only long but also multifaceted because there are more ways you can use the cards:
Sacred artifacts. The cards function as altar pieces for purposes of worship or as foci for rituals and meditations. As altar pieces—and talismans—the cards also provoke intuitive insights, psychic development, move the energy in and around you to happy results, and draw good luck.
Writing prompts or other art prompts. These oracle cards nurture creativity and otherwise help you express yourself.
We will have time to focus on all of the above powers.
Whatever way you use the cards, practical magic helps improve your life.
Powerful Lessons Can Be Manageable
The lessons won’t overwhelm you, despite the cards’ many uses.
We’ll explore the deck’s uses bit by bit. Each step of the way, you receive a powerful but manageable amount. Instead of being overwhelmed, you reap benefits from each lesson. Benefits range from serenity to increased prosperity. This easy step-by-step training lets the cards help you right from the start, and allows you to learn all their magic deep down instead of superficial knowledge.
Then the deck is in your magical toolbox to use for the rest of your life.
Learning Shamanic Tools Traditionally
I teach oracle work in a traditional manner. You will learn how to use the cards:
in oral tradition lessons. They allow worldly empowerment and mystical joy to come quickly. If you have not experienced my oral tradition, here is a bit about it.
through experiential lessons. Instead of only acquiring theory, you learn in your cells and are transformed.
in a Shamanic journey. We go to Fey realms. They increase psychic and other magical abilities, as well as spiritual and worldly strengths. This is a classical Shamanic training.
led by a master of divination, psychic development, and other magics. So the training can be both powerful and safe.
Let’s expand on all this:
You receive more than just an explanation of the cards. Working together will be a Shamanic journey together, into the world the cards represent, the world my students and I live in as Third Road travelers.
Third Road is the name of the body of Shamanic work I developed. I live in my own world. I created its cosmology, magical energy, and other aspects. All of them empower me to reach my dearest goals.
You receive experiential lessons: I invite you to travel in my world with me. We go on an enchanted adventure. This is a personal way to teach, requiring small groups.
In other words: I welcome you into my soul. That is how personal teaching is for me.
I commit to your welfare. You have an important, powerful world of your own. I help you build the most wonderful world possible. I love to visit your world.
In Third Road classes, we build and live within a shared world. You could also call it an environment or matrix.
We study embraced by a matrix of power, sanity, and fey enchantment. This environment also nurtures your magical style and strengthens worldly efforts. It improves your whole life.
One way we build the matrix is by fostering real relationships. For example, you receive personalized lessons about the cards, the Shamanic journey, and your life goals. You also receive direct spiritual transmissions in every meeting. Those transmissions come from my heart.
The deep, powerful Shamanic training is safe because I carefully hone a curriculum, lead carefully, am well-trained, and provide personalized guidance. A major problem is unlikely, but if it does occur, I am available to rectify the situation.
In-Depth Study of
Faerie Magic and Fey Cosmology:
In-Depth Power
Our Shamanic adventure will echo ancient initiations into magical and worldly power and gorgeous Mysteries. This post outlines many of those powers.
The Shamanic journey also helps you use intuition and your marvelous common sense to explore the cards. Between that and such powerful cards, there’s no end to the guidance, power, insights, and other gifts you can receive over the years by using the cards.
Oral tradition, my soulful teaching, and the matrix in which we study will enchant your deck, adding to its power. (If your deck becomes worn out, and you print a new one, it will be enchanted, too.)
The cards, their titles, and the descriptions I give of each card add up to extensive power, extensive cosmology, extensive magic. The cards, titles, and descriptions are:
* rituals
* magical techniques
* enchanted paintings
* poems
* talismans
* affirmations
* Faerie tales
All of these are based on the cosmology (world) I developed for decades. Then for a few years, I painted the cards’ art.
I could write a book about each card. This reminds me of how Be a Goddess! covered so much ground yet went deeply into it all experientially instead of giving a mere theoretical overview. I so wanted to create this deck for us.
It was hard to title. Any name was too limited because there’s so much to this deck. Here are a few of the many titles I considered. Each one accurately described some of the deck’s powers:
The Magic of Love Deck
Dark Goddess Oracle Deck
The Faerie Mysticism Deck
The Faerie Magic Deck
The Shamanic Journey Cards
Chaos Magic Divination Cards
Goddess Oracle Deck
Faerie Goddess Divination
The Loving Darkness
Faerie Oracle
Faerie Witch Divination
Dragon Magic Cards
I settled on De Grandis as part of the deck’s name to help solve the dilemma in two ways:
1) The Goddess is the source of everything. In Her are all things. Honoring Her as the deck’s source recognizes that the deck encompasses many magics. It holds Her far-reaching powers. But we do not honor Gods unless we attribute the humans the Gods use to convey Their gifts. I am the human source of this deck, so my name is on it.
2) My De Grandis ancestors connected with and maintained a Fey flow of power. It began when the first Shaman met the Goddess. It is an energy that carries all the Goddess’ powers and honors that She has all powers. This deck draws on and conveys that stream. De Grandis in the deck’s name honors Her as source by honoring my ancestors as human channels of Her powers.
Honoring a source creates effective safe magic. Safety is more important when using powerful cards in an equally powerful Shamanic training.
Extensive Power:
Reach All Your Goals
The course covers a lot of ground. You can expect:
A enormous amount of useful information. It is relevant to real life. Even the mysticism helps you reach worldly goals. Head in the clouds, feet on the ground.
Magic for every wish. Pure power. Far-reaching applications. I don’t want anyone to waste time or money. So if I’m leading a long training, its magic is going to have endless uses.
Tools for inner change that help you improve your whole life by strengthening you spiritually and empowering you to develop the worldly skills you want. Transformations begin in the first lesson and can make an important difference immediately.
Lessons to carry into the future because they will continue to build success in all areas. Their power will even shift to match your needs over time.
A History of
the De Grandis Faerie Shaman
Oracle Deck
Creating this course significantly echoes my writing the book Be a Goddess!:
Originally, Be a Goddess! was meant to be a lightweight guide to a Pagan lifestyle. After writing half of the original draft, and revising it a lot, I reviewed my progress. I was surprised and horrified. This was no lightweight text. The manuscript put its reader in a cauldron of change. Immense power flowed through the pages.
I felt I could not publish it. I believed it led a person through so much transformation that they’d need someone to personally guide them through it. I told my Gods, “I will burn this manuscript if you want.”
Be a Goddess! in total took eight years to write. So half of a draft represented a huge amount of work. But I felt I must be willing to burn it.
Another reason I was shocked is that I had taken great care to make a light guide, and I’m capable of writing what I intend. But something Divine must’ve subconsciously guided me, as well as made me overlook that I was forging a cauldron of change.
I told the story to an elder who feels very little should be published. He said, “Publish it!”
What?
I called another elder who believes nothing should be published. She said, “Publish it!” What?
I respected my elders. However, I did not want to betray my ethics or hurt readers. I meditated and brainstormed for months.
During that period, someone told me they wished they’d had a book like the one I was writing because they’d almost died trying to train themselves.
Still, I could not use her experience as a justification for irresponsibly sending this magic into the world through a book.
My ethics are not a belief system. They are not in my mind. They’re in my cells.
I had to go deep inside for months to transform myself. Plus, a friend showed me how some of my concerns about the reader were overly responsible.
Bit by bit, I figured out how to make the book safe and still as powerful.
It became one of the most powerful texts about Faerie magic and Goddess spirituality, as well as one of the safest.
Rewrites also ensured the reader a gentle experience that was nonetheless gorgeously mystical, manageable lessons instead of overwhelming ones, and incredible improvements in the reader’s life.
Note the similarities between that story and the following one. Commonalities might be in spirit instead of exact details:
I painted some art pieces as personal meditations for myself. I was exploring core aspects of my path. Then I realized the paintings, along with other art I’d created, could be a Third Road deck.
Third Road material is what I find in my soul and bones, by and large. So it makes sense that what I was creating for myself would find its way into the Third Road body of material. The deck holds many of the underlying principles of my life and teachings.
Also, I wanted people who study Third Road to have their own deck, one in keeping with the Third Road work they do and congruent with the Third Road worldview.
I love a lot of decks. But my students—and I—deserve one empowered by the understandings we have—or will have—of Third Road principles, and that expand on them.
Bit by bit, I painted all the deck’s pictures.
Originally, the deck was only for my longtime students. It is highly advanced Faerie Shamanism. But, as was the case with Be a Goddess!, friends and Gods intervened. This time it was not my elders, but two of my initiates, Jenelle Campion and Kat Crab. These friends changed my mind. So I offer the deck in this course.
Once again, I had to visit my depths for months because my ethics are cellular. I dived deep into prayer, ritual, the deck, and its instruction book. And I intuited that Jenelle and Kat were right. But logic still said that releasing the deck to people who had not worked with me long-term didn’t make sense. For one thing, I didn’t see how the deck could be both powerful and safe for them.
Over time, I was able to logically back my intuition. This was a lengthy process because I didn’t want a glib justification.
I devoted myself to many revisions of the book and curriculum. They remained as powerful but also safe for people who had not read my books or studied with me.
Developing the deck and its book took years. Then work on releasing the deck and book in this course took more years. There is still work to do, right up to the moment the course begins. It is like Be a Goddess!, an ambitious project that took years. It is worth it. Because it’s going to help participants so much.
I worked on the project off and on. It kept getting put on the back burner for various reasons. Perhaps the Gods delayed it until I could see that the deck was not just for my initiates, long-time students, and me. Sometimes I put the project aside so my subconscious could figure out how to make the project powerful and safe. Bit by bit.
Now lessons about the deck imbue them with true power that suits both beginners and long-time practitioners.
Now, the course and deck foster gentle experiences that are nonetheless mystical, gorgeous, and fulfilling. The training provides manageable lessons instead of overwhelming ones, even for beginners.
Course participants can experience incredible improvements in their lives.
Doing it right meant spending about a decade on the deck, the same way I spent eight years on Be a Goddess!.
What the Deck Offers Longtime and New Students
Whether you are new to my work or know it well, this is the course to take:
You receive experiential lessons that foster immense transformation of self and life, at a rapid pace that is possible when oral tradition is taught by a master, in a small group.
Studying in oral tradition lets your use of the cards go to the depths of Third Road magic.
The lessons help you experience the cards and lessons in your own way, because they meet you where you are now, to provide what you need right now.
The card descriptions, the Shamanic journey we take in the course, and future life journeys that the cards help you take create experiences unique to you and foster the power you need.
Third Road is not a tradition you need to leave to do your own thing. These cards and lessons help you draw on Third Road lineage to unfold your power and continue to do so no matter how long you use them.
If this is your first course with me:
You are guided by a teacher who knows how to help you go deep right away without getting in over your head.
When you use the cards for divination and talismans, you quickly make magical and spiritual connections with Third Road principles and energies that have helped experienced practitioners—and will help you—reach your worldly and otherworldly goals.
You are using cards that are enchanted and bestow good luck—without you having to think about it—by generations of De Grandis witches’ use of Fey magic.
You come to this course with your own wisdom, strengths, and life experiences. The deck makes sense to you in ways you need. The lessons foster this.
If you have studied with me:
You go deeper than ever.
When you use the cards for divination and talismans, they are magically empowered—without you having to think about it—by your previous Third Road experiences.
You have a deck congruent with that previous work, supporting it, augmenting it, celebrating it!
The cards help you maintain magical and spiritual connections with Third Road principles and energies that have helped you and will continue to help: They will keep unfolding, help your unique powers grow more, give you good luck, and empower you to achieve your current worldly and otherworldly goals.
The deck is not a repetition of my earlier work. You’ll discover new aspects of the Third Road, new facets of material previously learned, and, as always, support for your own unique perspective and powers.
The card descriptions and lessons create power and experiences unique to you. For one thing, you are unique. For another, the lessons honor and build on mastery you have developed. You have your own wisdom, strengths, and life experiences. The deck will make sense to you in ways you need. For yet another thing, you will experience the course as built on a foundation of previous Third Road studies. As always, my experiential lessons meet you where you are.
If you have studied with me longterm in oral tradition—or perhaps studied more than one of my books—you will automatically have a different sense of the cards than what someone new to my work might have. I’m not saying your perceptions are better than someone else’s. But they are different.
More about Receiving
a Humongous Amount of Material
Though the manual is book-length and has a massive amount of material, it is only a portion of the course. The course/journey/training also gives you a massive amount of information.
The text is not meant to stand on its own. The book is best understood as a humongous handout that supplements the course meetings, which are oral lessons.
In other words, the document does not comprise the whole of the lessons. It was meant to accompany oral transmissions.
The text will also be one of our jumping-off points to dive into a Shamanic journey, Fey Mysteries, and other experiential lessons.
The text provides new starlit mysticism, guidance on divination and other matters, heartfelt inspirational material, and more. I work hard as a writer. This project has perhaps taken me a decade. But the best writing cannot match oral tradition. The book lacks an essence that oral tradition will add. In addition to all the time writing the book, I was also developing oral lessons.
As an adjunct to oral tradition, instead of a substitution for it, the text doesn’t always have complete information or make sense without oral additions and experiential lessons. If the handouts were complete in themselves, they would be written tradition.
Crucial information about a topic can be left out of handouts. Oral tradition might be the only way to convey those pivotal aspects. I can’t explain why because you’d have to experience it. But here are two examples that are understandable in print: Perhaps you ask how to apply information to a personal problem of yours. Or the wind blows me the message that an individual in a class needs specific information not in the handout. Oral tradition is fluid.
A 17,000-word handout spares you from massive amounts of note-taking. So we can focus on oral tradition experiential lessons and go deep fast. And I know we’re going to be together so you get to ask all the questions you want about the text. And then you have the book and all the benefits from the oral lessons forever.
Enclosed in a form isolated from oral tradition, the book would not have anywhere near its effectiveness. Used within the context of oral tradition, the book is enchanted. You will get so much from it.
It has been quite a while since I wrote it. (I’d edited it when I had time, for years. More recent work has mostly been copyediting, not changing content.) Teaching in oral tradition, I can add wisdom that I more recently learned and theories I more recently developed. Oral tradition is fluid.
Underpinnings of the Deck
The deck’s foundation is comprised of many Mysteries. Here is one:
A Loving Darkness
We come from the Goddess’ womb—a loving darkness.
Stars are born … in the loving darkness of outer space.
The cosmos was born … from a loving darkness.
Faerie magic spins … in a loving darkness.
Dragon magic derives from a loving darkness.
All beauty, abundance, and self-love spring from a loving darkness.
Dragons draw on the magics of a loving darkness.
Dragons are the magics of a loving darkness.
All of creation is the magic of a loving darkness.
This deck draws on all the magics of a loving darkness.
This deck draws on many other hidden magics.
Hidden magics—Fey Mysteries—underlie existence,
even our most mundane activities.
Dragons—including our own dragon natures—
help us understand and draw on these magics
to create material well-being, spiritual guidance,
love of our unique selves, and more.
This deck helps dragons do all that.
All of creation can help us
understand and draw on these magics
to create material well-being, spiritual guidance,
love of our unique selves, and more.
This deck helps creation do all that.
Use this deck to understand and draw on life’s many magics, for worldly success, good luck charms for mystic and material endeavors, practical divination, spiritual guidance, trust in your unique self, and more.
One of the early lessons in this course is a deep dive into the above piece, A Loving Darkness, so you understand it well and profit from it immediately.
An Inclusive Divination System
An Inclusive Cosmology
The mythos expressed in the deck and lessons blows apart sexism and the other isms that are rampant even in discussions of magic, myth, chaos magic, and other Mysteries.
The deck portrays a worldview that lifts us all up.
Avoiding a Constant Battle for Power
Sometimes, we have to battle for power. The book/card/lessons fortify your spirit and help you strategize battle plans that are practical and down-to-earth.
Sometimes, battling oppression means offering alternative views to oppressive paradigms. So sometimes this course states an ism and offers a counter-view.
The above two approaches use isms as a focus. I do not use isms as my primary jumping-off point for the deck and course. Using isms as the main foundation would keep me building on them, instead of building a good life for myself and others.
My primary foundation for the deck, class, and book is the truths I try to live and what empowers me to live them. Sometimes, the way to eradicate isms is to stop fighting them and instead live by the truths that lift us all up and use tools that help us live those truths.
I will help you do that now instead of waiting until the fight for freedom ends. If we always wait until the fight is over, it never will be.
If you have not worked with me yet, you might be surprised at how much freedom we can find despite the world around us. I am not suggesting that oppression does not hurt or even kill. I should be dead many times over. And my life is far from perfect. I have a lot of problems. But Shamanism has saved me again and again, given me a life of joy, and helped me fulfill many of my dearest life goals.
The cards and lessons are a way to freely explore loving truths instead of having to argue for them. This way, we get to spend lots of time exploring and living in love.
When the book/cards/lessons do discuss isms, the discussion is held in a matrix of love.
Matrix * Mater * Goddess * Power
Using the cards, on your own and with me, creates a Shamanic journey into the world the cards represent. It is the world Third Road students come to know, with its cosmology, magical energies, and other aspects.
During Third Road class meetings, we are in this world—or call it a matrix. It is a matrix of love, empowerment, Fey magic, good luck, nurturance of your own magical style, and ways to make a good life for yourself.
Matrix. Mater. The Third Road is within the matrix that is the Great Mother Goddess. She created all and has all power. She surrounds us with all power, love, sanity, luck, and Fey magic. She gives all these to us, nurtures your magical style, and shows you how to make a good life for yourself.
I love the wonderful individuals who study with me. I am so into these cards and what they represent. I really want to take this journey with you.
Dragons abound! … though often hidden. … The Mother Goddess was the first dragon.
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