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Les Vampires Oracle Cards

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.

Facts
Deck
Cards in the Deck
44 1
Card Orientation
Designed 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
Publication Year
2014 1
Attributions
Publisher
Blue Angel Publishing 1
Origins
Creator / Originator
Lucy Cavendish 1
Artist
Jasmine Becket-Griffith 1
Theme
Attributes and Iconography
Gothic fantasy illustration in Jasmine Becket-Griffith's signature large-eyed style. 1
Method
How the Cards Are Read
Cavendish's decks are unusual among oracle decks in using reversed as well as upright meanings. 1
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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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1. Les Vampires Oracle Cards, Ancient Wisdom and Healing Messages from the Children of the Night (Amazon listing)
Lucy Cavendish and Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Blue Angel Publishing, 2014View the Source
2. Les Vampires Oracle review (Aeclectic Tarot deck database)
Aeclectic TarotView the Source
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