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​The Mystic's Tarot & Oracle Cards™
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The Eight Sacred Families of the MTOC

The Eight families are emotional connections between the cards. The Interlacements are numerical relationships between the cards.
Families and Interlacements are similar to the Suits of the Minor Arcana. What's different is that Families are somewhat more about the emotional connections between the cards and the Interlacements are somewhat more about the intellectual connections. I say "somewhat" because the web of these many connections interweaves, rather than compartmentalizes.

Working with the families

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The two sections of the MTOC--the Trumps and the Oracle Cards--are woven together by the Eight Sacred Families that, similar to the suits of the Minor Arcana, are about various dimensions, or aspects of life, feelings, and intellectual constructs.
The Families are:
Love • Ouroboros • Torchlight • Star • 
​Flower of Life • Openings • Tree • and Rose.
These families lend the cards an array of secondary characteristics. ​
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Family of Love -- The Heart symbol. The characteristics the symbol conveys to each card in its family are love, community, unity, connection, compassions, interbeing within the divine web of life. 
​These are outward & inward  facing cards.
Characteristics Chart
​Here are the characteristics the symbols convey to each card in their families
Love Family - Heart Symbol
6~Love, 24~Enchantment, 29~Kinship, 30~Divine Love, 32~Agape
Love, community, unity, connection, compassions, interbeing within the divine web of life
Ouroboros Family - Snake & Chrystal symbol
​4~Governance, 7~Will, 15~Limiting belief, 16~Ployrhythmic Universe, 25~Fear  
Dominance, mind, change, chaos, paradox
Torchlight Family - Torch symbol
1~Magic, 8, Agency, 10, Seasons, 18~Moonlight, 27~Imaginalis
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avigation, creating, shaping, discerning your path
Star Family - Star symbol
2~Divine Mystery, 3~Abundance, 12~Gestations, 35~ Līmina, 36~Divine Presence
Guidance, insight, wisdom, working with liminal states and spaces
Flower of Life Family - Seed of Life symbol
​11~Balance, 13~Transmutation, 22~Wild Cosmos, 31~Natura​
Knowledge of the divine aspect of the self, and that everything is contained within everything
Openings Family - Key symbol 
5~Portal, 14~Peace, 20~Expansion, 33~Freedom
Achieving, freedom, self-actualization, success, essential guidance
Tree Family - Tree symbol
0~Child, 9~Repose, 23~Sacred Protection, 26~Earth Grounding
Knowledge of the nature aspect of the self, insight, rooting, grounding, flow, the divine that you are
Rose Family - Rose symbol
17~Blessings, 19~Happiness, 21~Rose of Life, 28~Play, 34~Eco-Magic
Love for Mama Gaia, kinship, connection, caring, oneness, all that is good, unity, transformation, emanation from the divine web of life
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Infinite - Infinity symbol
Encompasses all, and belongs in, every family.
​It harmonizes the paradox of the uniqueness of all things and the oneness of all things.

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