The Home Card
Medium: Printed Foiled Oracle Card
Date: 2022
Project/Body of Work: Mayura Oracle Deck
A card divided into three sections by color and symbol. At the top, gold roots descend from above into a field of forest green. At the bottom, a white section holds a deer with antlers and three feathers. Between them sits a tree trunk rendered in cross-section — concentric rings of growth, the point where the gold and white meet without fully merging.
The card addresses home not as a fixed location, but as the place where divided parts of yourself come into relationship. The roots suggest what you carry with you, the inheritance that moves as you move. The deer references family and belonging. The feathers speak to rootedness without limitation — the choice to stay grounded in what's immediately in front of you. And the tree rings, marked by time and growth, mark the center where integration happens.
Process Notes:
This card began as a marker sketch during a twelve-week vision card class, where participants were given weekly life themes as prompts. The assignment for this piece was "home." For all the cards in this series, I developed a symbolic framework built on the idea of internal division slowly coming into relationship with itself.
Each card in this series is structured around the same principle: two complementary forces (represented here by gold and white, masculine and feminine, sun and moon in alchemical terms) positioned on either side of a divided field, with a central symbol marking the space where they begin to touch and interact.
The sketch for this card was completed during the class but not developed into a full gouache painting at the time. Years later, while converting the vision card series into illustrations for printing and foiling, this card emerged as the first to receive a printed back. The tree rings — originally conceived as a basket/spiral — became their final form during this later part of the process.
On the back of the original sketch, I had written: roots, magic, family, basket, abundance. These notes point toward the layered symbolism the image carries, though the meaning continues to deepen with time and use.
Process Images:
The original marker sketch for the card.
