Oracle Deck

Archangel Oracle Cards

Archangel Oracle Cards is a forty five card deck created by Doreen Virtue and published by Hay House in 2004, one of her earliest angel themed oracle decks, keying each card to one of fifteen archangels for invocation and guidance.

Facts

Origins

Creator / Originator

Doreen Virtue 1

Open Questions

Artist

Compiled from multiple artists rather than one credited illustrator; none could be individually confirmed. 1

Checked fresh: independent reviews describe the artwork as compiled from several different artists rather than one credited illustrator, and Aeclectic Tarot's own review of this deck describes the imagery without naming an artist. No source found names a contributor for this specific title.

Deck

Cards in the Deck

45 1

Card Orientation

Read upright only, no reversed meanings 1

Doreen Virtue's stated general practice, confirmed for her oracle decks: no reversed meanings in the companion booklet.

Method

How the Cards Are Read

Read for invocation and guidance, each card keyed to one of fifteen archangels. 1

Identity

Publication Year

2004 1

Attributions

Publisher

Hay House 1

Tradition

New Age angelology: framed around a divine legion of angels charged to serve, protect, heal and guide humanity, including named archangels such as Michael, Raziel and Gabriel. 1

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Doreen Virtue's Earliest Surviving Angel Deck

Archangel Oracle Cards is a forty five card deck Doreen Virtue created for Hay House, published in 2004, and it is one of the earliest entries in the long catalogue of angel themed oracle decks she produced before her public break from that work in 2017. Its organizing system keys each of the forty five cards to one of fifteen archangels, a smaller and more tightly defined set than the wide, loosely bounded cast of ascended masters and goddesses Virtue would draw on in decks published in the surrounding years, Ascended Masters Oracle Cards in 2007 and Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards the same year as this deck. The deck reads upright only, with no reversed meanings, a convention shared across Virtue's oracle catalogue.

Keying a deck to a fixed set of fifteen named archangels rather than a single addressed prayer, a broad set of ascended masters or a rotating cast of saints, as her later Saints and Angels deck would, made Archangel Oracle Cards one of the more narrowly scoped decks in Virtue's early catalogue. That narrower structure sits alongside the wider, more eclectic decks she published across the following years, and together they illustrate how a single prolific creator working within the oracle genre, which sets no fixed card count or organizing system the way tarot does, can vary how tightly bounded each deck's central cast is from one title to the next.

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