This deck review has been a LONG time coming. I've been using these cards and dancing around with their energy for a while and have been dying to share them in a review, especially since I've already used them for the monthly tarotscopes in a past issue of
The Sparkler. I'm excited that now I can finally sit down and really get into for your guys!
Connected and Free: The Alchemist's Oracle is the creation of Lauren Aletta, intuitive and coach over at
InnerHue.com. Lauren shares so much wonderful stuff from her corner of the internet, giving tons of great value around the topics of intuition and working with energy.The
Connected and Free came out in December of 2014 and as soon as I saw Lauren's posts with images of the cards, I was all over it. The design and illustration of the deck and companion book are done by Tegan Swyny of
Colour Cult. I've adored her art from afar for a while and her work with this deck is tremendous.
As many of you know I'm a die hard
Wild Unknown Tarot fan. The first thing I noticed about
Connected and Free was that it felt like the slightly more colorful cousin of the
Wild Unknown. Since I often work with tarot and oracle cards together this was truly exciting to me. I hadn't found any oracle cards that resonated alongside the
Wild Unknown, so I knew right away this was an oracle deck I needed to grab.Once Lauren opened up pre-sales for the deck I snagged one. Then I had to patiently wait {or as best as I could} for them to come. When they got here I was so stoked! And it was a surprise because I didn't know they were on the way.As soon as I got them I brought them to my altar and gave them a nice smudging, a blessing, and a little time out in the sun. Then off I went with them.The cards come in a lovely brown craft box that it great to keep the cards in. Typically I toss the boxes but this one is totally worth keeping. It's beautiful because no details were missed and, really, you just don't want to part with it.
