Numerology Guidance Cards is a forty four card deck created by numerologist Michelle Buchanan and published by Hay House in 2013, keying each card to a number and its associated numerological meaning for guidance on a question or situation.
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ArtistNot credited on any source checked; imagery is mostly numbers, colors and named geometric symbols rather than figurative art. 1 Checked fresh: no illustrator is credited on the publisher's listing or any retailer listing found. The deck's imagery is mostly numbers, colors and named geometric symbols rather than figurative art, and no separate illustrator name could be verified to certainty. Attributions
TraditionModern Western numerology 1 Origins
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How the Cards Are ReadRead by drawing a card, or by calculating a personal number, to find its matching numerological guidance. 1 Learn More
Guidance Reached Two Different Ways
Numerology Guidance Cards is a forty four card deck numerologist Michelle Buchanan created for Hay House, published in 2013, before her further Hay House title, the Numerology Guidebook and its companion course two years later. Its organizing system keys each card to a number and its associated numerological meaning, but unlike most oracle decks, which are read only by drawing a card at random, this deck can also be consulted by calculating a personal number, derived from a name or birth date under Buchanan's Western Pythagorean method, and finding the card that matches it directly.
That dual access, a reader can either draw a card intuitively or calculate a specific number to find its matching guidance, distinguishes Numerology Guidance Cards structurally from decks such as Doreen Virtue's Goddess Guidance or Kyle Gray's Angel Prayers, which offer no equivalent calculation based route to a specific card. Numerology itself assigns meaning to numbers derived from names and dates, a practice with no basis in mathematics or science beyond the arithmetic used to calculate the numbers, and Buchanan's guidebook presents the deck consistently as a self development and reflection tool rather than as an empirically demonstrated system.
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Who illustrated Michelle Buchanan's Numerology Guidance Cards?
No illustrator is credited on the publisher's listing or any retailer listing checked. The deck's imagery is mostly numbers, colors and named geometric symbols rather than figurative art, so a separate illustrator credit may genuinely not exist, but that could not be confirmed either way.
What would resolve this The deck's own guidebook or box, examined directly, or a publisher catalogue record naming a designer or illustrator if one exists.
Publishing historyMichelle Buchanan, Numerology Guidance Cards, A 44-Card Deck (Penguin Random House listing)
Does the guidebook for Michelle Buchanan's Numerology Guidance Cards offer reversed card meanings?
No review checked, including the publisher's own product page, states whether the guidebook offers a reversed meaning for its numeric and symbolic cards. Reviewers describe reversal as left up to the reader's own approach, with no official guidance found stated either way.
What would resolve this The deck's own guidebook, examined directly for a stated position on reversed cards.
Deck design and cartomancy practiceMichelle Buchanan, Numerology Guidance Cards, A 44-Card Deck (Penguin Random House listing)
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