Today I’m reviewing the Creatures of the Moon Deck by Rebecca Schoenecker aka Laughing Eye Weeping. Eye. “This double-sided deck brings alive Creature totems, Moon phase divination, storytelling, and ritual. An expansive and varied Oracle deck and book unlike any other!”
To begin I love the FEEL of these cards - velvety firm, thick stock, as they glide through my hands, and the perfect size!
Oracle Card Reading
Card 1: Representing Me in the Reading:
As per usual I look at the cards AFTER the reading to see if they confirm what I get psychically.
This first card helps me orient myself in space and attune with the direction I’m facing which is North representing EARTH.
Earth Power: Feeling of the Earth flowing through me; practical, feelings of making oneself useful, skills, calming.
Question: How Can I Help People?
Answer: Help yourself. So I lie back and relax, letting go of worries.
Question: What does this deck have for me especially?
Answer: Cosmic Rebalancing.
Big Question: What’s next for us regarding Covid?
Answer:
We are dreaming
our reality
right now
- Dream Time
- Be aware, pass it on. 3rd eye to 3rd eye chakra.
Now A Look At The Card: New Moon Metamorphosis - The Butterfly
First Impressions:
Colors bright and symbology alive - I see eyes in wings and New Moon Circle tree limbs and water - 3rd eyes Chakras eveywhere!
Guidebook Time!
I love the juicy, thick Guidebook in full, beautiful, detailed color!
And some wise words from Butterfly: “Because Butterfly symbolizes life’s cycles, you may have an interest in death, mediumship, past lives, reincarnation, birth, or the Akashic records. Butterfly may also signify that a relative on the other side is attempting to contact you.”
I remember! My birth mother told me that after she passed away she would come to me as a blue butterfly. And so she has.
I also loved the Questions that came with the Reflection part of the Guidebook for this card. They really helped me focus and clarify things in my life. Questions such as, “What disappointed me in this previous cycle?” and “What am I happy about?” and I especially loved “What needs my focus in the next Cycle?”
After that came More Goodies, a Story and a Ritual!
This deck and guidebook are so poetic, it feeds my soul and refreshes the deep well of my imagination.
“‘Where do we end?’
’Where do we begin?’
…
Stop thinking.
Feel deeply.”
Plus there is a beautiful full color hand painted Chart in the Guidebook symbolizing The Moon’s Phases - this helps us creative, right brain types to understand HER Cycles.
This is a great deck to help one see the BIG PICTURE and to prophesize as well as helping us see the smaller picture as it relates to our understanding of the world and our place in it. ‘As above, so below’.
Deck Details:
This deck combines Creature totems with Moon divination. For the first time, a concrete system of divination based on the lunar cycle has been created by Rebecca Schoenecker.
Both Creatures and Moon work together to answer any questions that you present to them!
Original paintings, stories, rituals, and questions for self-reflection bring this deck and book beyond the realm of divination; Creatures and Moon follow a lunar cycle of rising energy and release, which one may incorporate into their own daily, spiritual path. Corresponding lunar rituals for Moon-side cards allow one to fully tap into the lunar cycle and harness its power.
The Creatures of the Moon: A Storytelling Oracle, includes the following:
32 double-sided cards, 64 images and card-sides total
One card-side features Creature/totem guidance
The other card-side features Moons’ guidance for each day of the Moon’s cycle, plus Triple Moon and Lunar Eclipse cards
A 308 page companion book, which includes:
Original, fairy-tale like stories for each Creature and Moon day
Practical information for interpreting Creature and Moon
Associated myths and ideas from different cultures for Creature and Moon
Moon-based rituals and questions for reflection
Goddess information as it correlates to Moon
Full-color artwork, graphs, and illustrations. Moon-charts are provided to help you match the correct card to the current Moon phase.
A whole lotta love. Seriously, it’s bursting with it.
About Rebecca Schoenecker aka Laughing Eye Weeping Eye
I am captivated by all things metaphysical; the transcendent experience that defies logic, the omen, the prophetic dream, and realms unknown. I explore the esoteric through tarot card readings, meditation, channeling, spirit work, various healing modalities, art, and music.
My background is that of a creator and teacher. I received my MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 2008; I spent the years following working at colleges, touring with my band, reading tarot, and creating art. In 2011, I self-published my first tarot deck, the Laughing Eye Weeping Eye Tarot. It was more successful than I anticipated, as were my tarot readings. People shared that my tarot readings were life-altering and encouraged me to continue. With a ton of support from loved ones as well as faith in the Universe, I left my full time job in 2013 so that I could pursue these passions full-time.
My creative practices also feeds my divination and spiritual work. As an artist and musician, I create works that explore archetypes within the collective unconscious. For example, I am interested in how ancient cave paintings of horned men (or gods) and a wall calendar of deer in one’s home may evoke, unknowingly, a connection to something similar across time and space. It is the timeless that I seek to explore, sometimes in a playful way.
Tarot was my first hook into the metaphysical. I had unusual experiences in my youth (channeling, automatic writing, astral travel) but did not understand or start using these gifts until I created my first deck and began reading from it in 2011. I found that the process of reading unlocked something for me. I am still trying to understand it; This mystery keeps me enthralled.
