Prairie Divination
Prairie Divination: oracle deck + book of essays
Prairie Divination turns to the plants, animals, and geological features of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem as a source for knowledge and inspiration as to how to live in the world (and to re-align thinking towards kinship and reciprocity). How might thinking with plants and animals guide us in navigating an uncertain present--and help to imagine futures? Filled with information for each corresponding card, the illustrated guidebook of essays offers personal guidance and affirmations based on the specific lessons that each plant, animal, and element can teach us.
40 hand-drawn cards with an accompanying 100 page, full-color collection of illustrated essays
Prairie Divination is a gorgeous and collaborative invitation into radical kinship and the realignment of being, and therefore, becoming. The cards and essays are full of poetic insights and educational facts on the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, and invite a coming-together of magical encounters, multi-species vantage points, and alternate sources of wisdom. “Everything is collaboration,” the book tells us, and indeed, the invitation here is to recognize the inter-being of not just humans and animals and plants, but also of land, sky, breath, action, feeling, direction, and desire. This deck will open you up in the most beautiful way, and bring you back to your own innate wisdom and intuition as well. — Janice Lee
Prairie Divination sets down roots and calls you in. Come and grow attached, connect with the land, rest in your backbody, and allow yourself to be nourished. Divination necessitates a careful dance of control and release, of openness and improvisatory decision-making. Megan Kaminski and L. Ann Wheeler offer you contemporary tools to do so, grounded in the tall grass prairie but applicable to anybody who longs to find a deeper sense of place. From Prickly Pear to Pussytoes: flora, fauna, images, and words all invite you into new joyful relations. — Petra Kuppers
Prairie Divination casts the diviner into the vibrant ecosystem of the Kansas tallgrass. We meet the monarch, the box turtle, the kestrel, the coreopsis among many other intelligent, energetic beings. Each card is an “opening for encounter,” an invitation to commune, a concentrated channel that weaves us into biotic interdependence. Kaminski and Wheeler offer us an oracle deck that helps us reattune our attention toward embodied acts of kinship, conservation, and collective care. A visually stunning and reaching collaboration. — Danielle Vogel
