Oracle Decks

Oracle of the Mermaids

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Divinity Atlas. "Oracle of the Mermaids." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/oracle-decks/oracle-of-the-mermaids.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Oracle of the Mermaids. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/oracle-decks/oracle-of-the-mermaids

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@misc{divinityatlas-oracle-of-the-mermaids,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Oracle of the Mermaids},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/oracle-decks/oracle-of-the-mermaids},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Oracle of the Mermaids is a forty five card oracle deck created by Lucy Cavendish with artwork by Selina Fenech, published by Blue Angel Publishing in 2013. Its cards carry messages of healing, love and romance framed as coming from mermaid figures, part of Cavendish's wider range of oracle decks illustrated by fantasy artists and built around a recurring cast of mythic feminine figures.

Facts

Deck

Cards in the Deck

45 1

Card Orientation

Designed to be read upright or reversed 2

Confirmed directly: an independent review describes the guidebook's dedicated "Reversed" section for each card, presenting the darker or blocked side of its theme, despite the card backs themselves not being reversible.

Identity

Publication Year

2013 1

Attributions

Publisher

Blue Angel Publishing 1

Origins

Creator / Originator

Lucy Cavendish 1

Artist

Selina Fenech 1

Theme

Attributes and Iconography

Painted fantasy illustration in Selina Fenech's signature mermaid 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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Mermaid Folklore Read Upright and Reversed

Oracle of the Mermaids is a forty five card deck Lucy Cavendish created with artwork by Selina Fenech, published by Blue Angel Publishing in 2013. Its cards carry messages of healing, love and romance framed as coming from mermaid figures, part of Cavendish's wider range of oracle decks illustrated by fantasy artists and built around a recurring cast of mythic feminine figures, a pattern that also produced Wild Wisdom of the Faery Oracle with the same illustrator three years earlier.

Like Cavendish's other decks, Oracle of the Mermaids is unusual among oracle decks in using reversed as well as upright meanings, a structural choice that sets her catalogue apart from the upright only convention used by creators such as Kyle Gray and Doreen Virtue across their own decks. Mermaid folklore appears across many coastal cultures in varying forms, from Greek sirens to selkies in Scottish and Irish tradition, and Cavendish's deck draws on that broad, cross cultural figure rather than reconstructing any one specific regional tradition, consistent with the wider oracle genre's pattern of adapting a widely recognized folkloric figure into original guidance material rather than a documented practice from a single culture.

Cross-Tradition Connections