Guide to Cosma
AN INTRODUCTION
COSMA VISIONS ORACLE
For a long time I made art that existed in the realm of magical realism, unsure of why, other than an overwhelming sense of fascination for the spiritual. I followed my intuition and my love of the way that light can play tricks on the eye, and created a world to call my own that I continued to fill with places I’d never seen.
One day my mother gave me a book that she had once read called Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss. As I began to read it I felt as if I was being reminded of something I used to know. It spoke of past lives and connections greater than ourselves. I couldn’t put the book down. It filled my thoughts, I started to look at things differently. Why did this all seem so familiar?
The idea of past lives opened up creative avenues and ideas that I had never had access to before. I created series after series of art trying to explore the images that came to me during these meditations, and drawing my way back to life, and what happens after.
There are many theories on what happens when we die.
I like to believe that we live again and again, it makes it all seem more worth something. Different lives give us a full understanding and perspective on what it means to really be alive. What pain and love can mean to people in different bodies, what success and failure can feel like, what it means to be alone and how it feels to be loved. There is a spectrum to living, sometimes it’s fantastic and other times it’s unfathomably hard. It’s impossible to experience it all in one lifetime. You can say that you do, but you never really do. And so you live again, and again, and again. Until you start to really understand.
I created this oracle to tell one story of what may happen in the space between lives...
The first 22 cards of the deck, the bordered major arcana cards, explore this journey with death at the beginning of it all. The oracle starts with the five alchemical birds, inspired by my father and his research on mysticism. These birds are thought to be representative of the few moments after death and the journey of the soul reconnecting to itself. After the five birds, we are taken to the Spirit Plane and are reminded of things once forgotten. It is after time in the Spirit Plane that we choose a new life and a new vessel to experience Life on Earth yet again.
After the journey of the soul through the Major Arcana, we are met with the Minor Arcana - 56 cards that all come together to tackle living a human life on earth. Once you get to know Cosma Visions you will start to pick up the various ways it mirrors the traditional tarot cards. Much like a reflection of Prisma Visions,
these cards play off of what you already know.
The Fool becomes Death, The Magician becomes the Crow, The High Priestess becomes the Swan and so on. On each card’s page in this book you will see the mirror card listed that reflects similar or overlapping ideas. I want this deck to be used just as if it were a tarot deck. I want weight to be held in the gravity of the Major Arcana and I want themes to unfold throughout the minors. There is just something systematically beautiful about the way Tarot is constructed.
If you have a Prisma Visions deck you will want to use both decks congruently for expanded readings at certain points. There is a very specific duality with the two decks that can be used to balance each other out in any kind of reading.
In Conducting a Reading, you’ll find a spread that uses both Prisma Visions and Cosma Visions decks togethe, The Mirror Arc.
Like Prisma, Cosma Visions includes elaborate panoramas that form when lining up the five suits.
What’s more is that in Cosma Visions the panoramas connect back to where they started. For example, the tenth card in a suit loops back to the first card, creating an endless panorama. Because, at the end, is always the beginning.
Guide to COSMA VISIONS
