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Getting to know your oracle decks
The Venelestis oracle decks are curated collections of cards featuring illustrations of natural presences. Plants and mushrooms form the core, with companion cards including insects, herbal preparations, and eventually other animals and organisms.
The main decks contain 56 cards: 49 plants and 7 companions.
These combinations encourage you to explore the relationships, cycles, and interactions of nature, and to curate your own system of meaning. Each deck is a tool for noticing, observing, and connecting — giving you the freedom to shape a personal practice that reflects your own insights and discoveries.
Below, you’ll find some ideas to get you started on your journey:
Working with Venelestis Oracle Decks
Venelestis decks are tools for observation, reflection, and divination. Without prescribing fixed meanings, they invite you to notice, explore, and define your own symbolic relationships with plants, fungi, and other organisms.
By working with the decks, you can develop a personal divination practice, where every draw, placement, or spread is shaped by your experience, attention, and intuition.
Divination and Symbolic Practice
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Interpret intuitively: Draw cards and reflect on what they suggest to you personally. Your own experiences, memories, and observations guide meaning.
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Develop a personal system: Over time, you can create methods for spreads, pairings, or layouts that suit your practice — a system tailored to how you perceive and relate to symbols.
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Track relationships: Notice patterns and connections between cards in readings. How do certain plants or companions interact in your interpretations?
Ideas for Engaging With the Decks
1. Start with familiar species
Select plants, fungi, or companions you already know. Observe their forms, colors, and behaviors, then assign your own symbolic associations for use in readings.
2. Observe and learn from nature
Bring your deck on walks or study local plants and fungi. Compare cards to real-life encounters, noting similarities, patterns, and interactions. This strengthens attention and enriches your divination vocabulary.
3. Reflect and record
Keep a journal of readings, insights, and personal meanings. Recording experiences creates a living reference for your divination practice and helps you refine your symbolic system over time.
4. Explore creative prompts
Use cards to inspire writing, drawing, or other creative work — especially as a way to explore symbolic meaning and intuition beyond verbal analysis.
5. Integrate into personal practice
Use cards in rituals, meditations, or seasonal observances. Rather than dictating outcomes, they serve as companions that focus attention, guide reflection, and inspire insight.
The Result of Regular Practice
Working with a Venelestis deck develops:
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A refined attention to detail: noticing distinctions in form, habitat, and relationships.
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A personal symbolic language: your own flexible divination system shaped by experience.
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Mindfulness and curiosity: in your readings and in daily observation of the natural world.
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Deeper connection: with plants, fungi, and other organisms as you interact with them symbolically.
Each card becomes a portal: for intuitive divination, for observing life, and for creating your own symbolic framework that grows with your practice.
Further uses of the decks
Working with the deck as is
Your decks are ready for use with tools you already have: herbals, botanical references, gardening manuals, or esoteric literature. Most importantly, trust your own intuition, experiences, and observations: the deck is meant to help you notice, relate, and communicate with each natural presence.
Choose familiar plants
Select a combination of plants and companion cards you already know from your practice, your local area, or personal experience to create a working deck. This leaves a second deck free for research, exploration, and cultivating new relationships with plants, fungi, and other organisms.
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Learn to recognize plants
Use your deck to observe, compare, and recognize species in the wild. Study common characteristics, patterns, or relationships within plant families, and develop a closer connection to your local environment. Over time, this practice will deepen your ability to notice natural patterns and distinctions.
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Mindful nature walks
Bring your deck on walks through local green spaces, gardens, or wild areas. Notice species diversity and patterns in growth. Even ordinary surroundings like sidewalks, parks, or neighborhood plants can reveal hidden details and familiar magical plants and animals.
Explore correspondences in your practice
Use the cards as tools for symbolic experimentation: ask the plant spirits which influences align with your intentions in rituals, spell bags, incense blends, or other practices. The decks provide inspiration, but the meaning is yours to interpret.
Integrate cards into rituals and workings
Display cards using stands or your own solutions to enhance focus and attention in ceremonies. Use the deck to observe, reflect, or commune during ritual work and let the cards guide your practice rather than dictate it.
