The Oracle of Place is born from Scottish folklore — the true history of the 1692 massacre of the Macdonalds in the Highlands of Scotland, and the story of Corrag, a tiny woman, healer, and witch who risked herself to warn the Macdonalds that the soldiers they had sheltered meant to rise and slaughter them, as told in Susan Fletcher's The Highland Witch (also published as Corrag and Witch Light). Hunted her whole life for the word witch, she could have stayed out of the affairs of men, but she chose to act — and because of that choice, many were saved.
The deck carries the book's themes: the understanding of self, the power of words and of story, the longing to find a place to freely be who we are, the power of choice and of love. It holds light and shadow together — that we create monsters with the words we use, that we can let others define us or choose to define ourselves, and that we must all face the shadow so we can fully realize the light. It is dedicated to Corrag: to her commitment to seeing beauty however hard life became, to her power to choose who she would be, and to her desire to be seen and heard.
Find your place, choose who you will be, and see the beauty even here.