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Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards

Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards is a forty four card oracle deck created by Doreen Virtue, published by Hay House in 2004. Each card depicts a goddess or closely related feminine archetype drawn from Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Tibetan Buddhist, Mesoamerican and other traditions, one of the foundational decks in Virtue's catalogue.

Facts
Identity
Publication Year
2004 1
Deck
Cards in the Deck
44 1
Card Orientation
Read upright only, no reversed meanings 1
Doreen Virtue's stated general practice, confirmed independently and directly for Archangel Oracle Cards elsewhere in this registry: her oracle decks carry no reversed meanings.
Attributions
Publisher
Hay House 1
Origins
Creator / Originator
Doreen Virtue 1
ArtistSourced to the subject's own account
Compiled from several contributing artists rather than one credited illustrator. Elizabeth Kyle painted nine of the deck's images, by the artist's own account, alongside other contributors. 2
Theme
Attributes and Iconography
Soft painted portrait illustration consistent with Virtue's wider oracle catalogue. 1
Method
How the Cards Are Read
Read intuitively, each card keyed to a goddess from a world tradition and the guidance she offers. 1
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A Foundational Deck in Doreen Virtue's Catalogue

Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards is a forty four card deck Doreen Virtue created for Hay House, published in 2004, the same year as her Archangel Oracle Cards and among the earliest and most foundational titles in her catalogue. Each card depicts a goddess or closely related feminine archetype drawn from Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Tibetan Buddhist, Mesoamerican and other traditions, a cross cultural structure that mirrors the similarly wide cultural range Virtue would later use for Ascended Masters Oracle Cards, though organized here around feminine rather than mixed gender figures.

Reading upright only, with no reversed meanings, the deck follows the same convention as the rest of Virtue's catalogue, and its soft painted illustration style is consistent across her decks from this early period through to Saints and Angels the following year. Drawing goddess figures from traditions as distinct as Celtic mythology, ancient Egyptian religion and Tibetan Buddhism into a single reading system treats them as a shared category of feminine spiritual guidance rather than as belonging to any one closed tradition, a structural choice common across the modern oracle genre and one Virtue's catalogue used repeatedly, pairing figures from unrelated historical traditions within a single deck built for personal reflection rather than for the devotional practice of any one of those traditions specifically.

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Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue

Depicts

Aphrodite, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Aphrodite); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Artemis, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Artemis); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Athena, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Athena); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Diana, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Diana); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Hathor, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Hathor); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Kali, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Kali); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Lakshmi, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Lakshmi); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Pele, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Pele); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Rhiannon, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Rhiannon); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Sedna, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Sedna); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Sekhmet, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (Sekhmet); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
White Tara, Deities

Confirmed card in the deck (White Tara); full 44-name card list cross-checked against the atlas Deity register.

Source Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)Doreen Virtue
Sources
1. Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards (Amazon listing)
Doreen Virtue, Hay House, 2004View the Source
2. Doreen Virtue Oracle Decks and an Australian Artist (Elizabeth Kyle blog)
Elizabeth Kyle, 2011View the Source
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