Thank you Surely Serenity for sending a copies of this deck for review!
Hailing from New York, The Surely Serenity Intuitive Counsel Deck was launched in Spring 2019 as a peaceful, minimalist deck that features:
A 40-card system
A magnetized card case
Silver-gilded edges
Nature inspired designs
Minimalist word and image prints
The main four image sets of this deck are watercolor florals, shells, and crystals. The backs of the cards are sea-shell, oceanic inspired. The pack itself shuffles in an incredibly crisp way, and the cards hold very nicely in your hands. This deck feels beachy inspired.
As the creator states, the deck itself is designed to invite us to connect with our intuitive self, awaken our creative spirit, and engage our energy body.
This deck is designed to help you connect with your intuitive wisdom, and because of this, it includes a PDF booklet - as the author states, you are meant to use your intuition in reading the cards.
This makes it a higher-self communication deck, which is unique because most of the oracle decks out there are designed to connect with a particular group of spirits outside of the self, and this is not that. It’s more of a personal wisdom deck.
Check out a few images of the cards, their edges and the backs:
In experimenting with these cards, I’ve used them in three-card pulls for the week and as a single inspiration card pull alongside another three-card pull, like as a highlight card, and enjoyed them for both techniques.
I like this deck because it has great synergy.
It's calm, peaceful energy and it doesn’t stress you out to go through the cards, regardless of which card you pull. It reads with the energy of every day is going to be one of wisdom and peace.
Aesthetically, the silver-gilded edges of the cards make this deck especially unique because most oracle cards do not have gilded edges and of those that do, the edges are golden, not silver.
Overall, the colors of the cards, the beach-y images, the crisp closure of the box, the shuffle of the cards, and how all the elements play together make this deck an elegant piece for any collection.
If you are looking for a purely positive, minimalistic oracle or inspirational deck, this one is for you.
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