Fantasy Cats Oracle by Paolo Barbieri

Paolo Barbieri's artwork. The renowned Italian fantasy artist's feline paintings, elegant realism with an otherworldly shimmer.

23-card oracle format. Lo Scarabeo's compact oracle spec with instruction booklet included.

Travel-friendly box. 4" x 5¼", the deck and booklet stored together for the bag and the bedside.

• Contents: 23-card oracle deck with instruction booklet
• Artist: Paolo Barbieri
• Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
• Box: 4" x 5¼"
• SKU: DFANCAT

The cat's mystical portfolio is genuinely ancient and remarkably consistent: Egypt gave the animal divinity outright in Bastet, European folk tradition assigned it the threshold between worlds (with the witch's cat as the most famous appointment), and cultures from Japan's beckoning maneki-neko to the ship's cats of every port agreed the creature carried luck and saw what people could not. Barbieri paints from inside that consensus, his cats posed in luminous fantasy scenes that read as the folklore made visible, and the oracle format turns each painting into a message.

The 23-card compact deck is Lo Scarabeo's specialty, and it suits this subject's natural rhythm: cat wisdom arrives in brief, self-assured visitations rather than lectures, and a small deck of rich images makes the daily one-card draw its own complete practice. It belongs to cat-keeping readers first, obviously, and to collectors of Barbieri's art, whose decks double as portable galleries; as a gift for the household where the cat is transparently in charge, it has few rivals at the price.

1. Draw one card daily and take the feline counsel in the spirit it arrives: brief and certain.
2. Use the booklet's guidance for fuller spreads when questions grow.
3. Meditate with single cards; Barbieri's detail rewards the long look.
4. Read with the household cat present when possible; the tradition approves.
5. Travel with it; the compact box was designed for exactly that.

Cats consult no calendar and neither need the deck: any hour the cat would choose is correct.

• Faery Forest Oracle by Lucy Cavendish: the other otherworld court for the oracle shelf.
• Flower Folklore Oracle by Catherine Caprinoi: folklore's gentler kingdom in the same daily-draw format.
• Egyptian Tarot by Lo Scarabeo: the publisher's homage to the cat's first divine posting.
• Ethereal Visions Tarot by Matt Hughes: the ornamental art-deck companion.
• Earth Goddess Altar Cloth, 24 x 24 Inches: the reading surface, subject to feline occupation.

Is this a tarot deck?

No: a 23-card freeform oracle with booklet, readable with no tarot background, in Lo Scarabeo's compact format.

Who is Paolo Barbieri?

One of Italy's most celebrated fantasy artists and a longtime Lo Scarabeo collaborator; his decks are collected as portable galleries of his work.

What is the reading style?

Intuitive and image-led: single daily draws shine, with the booklet guiding fuller spreads.

Who is it for?

Cat-keeping readers, Barbieri collectors, and anyone whose practice already includes a supervisory animal.

What size is it?

A 4" x 5¼" box holding deck and booklet, sized for bags and bedsides.