Moonlite__Syren
12lovelikewinter21
Sanguina Cruenta
Oracle cards are usually less... developed. They're more likely to have a one-word meaning, for example. But sure, depending on the spread, you can use them for the same things. You'll find that different decks work better for different spreads, though.
i have a "fairy oracle deck" and it also comes with a book that gives the basics on readings and also has very long in dept meaning of each of the i think 65 cards. its has a list of meaning for the cards reversed too. but i also has a short list of one words for each card. like "the oak man" would have a list like wisdom, old age, time. that kind of thing.
My friend has the same deck. Oracle cards are really interesting. To me they give the big basic picture as a whole. Whereas the Tarot has specific meanings.
Where I feel the opposite; Tarot as a tradition has an established lore and shared gnosis, as well as its' own pool of ritual resonance; some decks in particular have a deep well to draw from. Whereas oracle decks do not often have this being newer, and more diverse.
Oracle decks still work, of course, and I own several, but they tend to work best when the images resonate deeply with the individual for an outside reason, not really because they themselves are attached to something greater.
Personally I find tarot decks to give readings with clarity and ease, since there is a more established lore to the cards. Oracle decks can give good readings, but they really only work well if you a) are well-versed in the history, meaning, and culture the cards come from, and b) are using them in a more intuitive and less literal fashion.
In that vein, I myself would never use a "F--ry" oracle, since a great many of them have a pretty strong antipathy towards humans, and have been greatly misrepresented as kind, cute little winged thing since the Victorian Era. So really...what you know about a culture or a subject may greatly influence how an oracle deck might or might not work for you.
