- Author/Artist/Creator: Lucia Dami
- Publisher: Hay House UK
- Date of publication: 7 April 2026
- RRP: £18.99
- ISBN: 978-1837823161
- Reviewed by: Louby Jelic
I have been sitting with The Light in the Dark Oracle for a couple of weeks now, and what keeps drawing me back to it is how clearly it knows what it is. There’s no uncertainty in this deck. From the box, in each card, through every page of the guidebook, it carries a kind of finished intention, the sense of something that was made from the heart and soul.
Lucia Dami is an artist and tarot reader with ten years experience working with women and feminine empowerment, and her tarot deck, The Elysian Tarot, draws on the night sky and Greek celestial mythology in much the same spirit. She also runs Feminine Archetypes workshops and takes sacred art commissions, so this oracle sits inside a much wider practice of hers, not as a standalone product but as one more expression of the same enquiry into the feminine and the unseen.
What I love is where it came from. Lucia built this deck out of her own practice of self-portraiture, and more specifically, out of going through an ovarian cyst diagnosis that brought her face to face with her body in a way she hadn’t experienced before. From there, she began painting portraits of hundreds of women, each one paired with a tarot card to bring to the surface what had been lying beneath. You can feel that in the cards. She calls them visual prayers, and that’s exactly what they are. Each one holds the residue of that collective portrait work, the spirit animals, the elemental bodies, the feminine power rendered visible rather than spoken about.
She describes the deck as a call back to rhythmic living and an invitation to stop performing and start belonging to yourself. That really resonated with me.
This is a standalone 44-card oracle deck, built around four suits that follow the arc of a single day: Dawn for beginnings, Day for action, Dusk for reflection, Night for mystery. It’s a beautiful structure and each card definitely carries the magic of the part of the cycle they belong to. As a hedge witch this calls to my soul, as I live cyclically, so if this is a path that calls to you, this deck will definitely resonate with you.
The guidebook itself is substantial, and it’s clearly been written from real observation rather than theory: watching the sky, the light, the breath, the quiet beneath the cycles of the mind. Out of that watching comes a simple philosophy. Morning light breaking open as hope, midday sun as clarity, evening colour softening into release, and the dark, when only the stars remain, as mystery, the universe’s secrets held quietly rather than withheld.
The guidebook also frames sky and earth as two presences in relationship: earth as the great mother, sky as the watching father, and the cards as the dance between them. The feminine, in this framing, isn’t separate from you. She’s the earth, the body, the knowing in the belly. The deck is a way of channelling that rather than defining it, a mirror if you like.
The guidance is really good. There’s a section on activation and attunement that walks you through tuning the deck to your own energy before you even begin, followed by proper guidance on intuitive reading and the understanding that the more time you give it, the more it becomes yours. The spreads are beautifully laid out, and the card-by-card chapters, one per suit, each get a full entry covering imagery, meaning, and guidance.
Physically, the cards sit beautifully in the hand and shuffle well. Thick, smooth card stock, which adds to the whole experience of using them. The colours are both luminous and shadowed across the suits, almost as though the cards are tracking the actual movement of light through a day.
One thing worth noting is this is an unapologetically feminine deck. That’s where its power comes from, and it’s also something to know before you buy it. If feminine spirituality isn’t a framework you work within or feel pulled toward, this probably isn’t your deck. It doesn’t sit neutrally, and it doesn’t try to.
I’d reach for this particularly in readings where embodiment, emotional cycling, or feminine power are already present. Paired with tarot it works beautifully as a second layer. Tarot for precision and structure, this oracle for bringing the reading back into the body and the lived moment.
In personal practice, it’s especially powerful during transition, when something is shifting and needs to be met with care rather than rushed toward resolution.
I’d recommend it to anyone drawn to cyclical, nature-rooted, or feminine spirituality, and to anyone who wants their oracle work to feel genuinely alive in the hand rather than just symbolic.
From where I stand, light and shadow aren’t opposites. They’re two expressions of the same undivided consciousness, Śiva and Śakti turning through each other rather than standing apart. This deck understands that instinctively. It doesn’t ask you to choose light over dark. It asks you to recognise yourself in both, and it doesn’t treat the dark as something to climb out of. It’s simply the other phase of the same turning, a place of rest and mystery, where you stop trying to see and let yourself be seen instead.
The Light in the Dark Oracle is genuinely beautiful and genuinely empowering. As a living relationship with cycle, body, and the single continuous turning of light into dark and back again. It isn’t a deck of answers. It’s a deck of returning to yourself and empowering the divine feminine within.
Creator Bio:
Lucia Dami is an artist and tarot creator who is passionate about the healing and transformative power of our inner worlds. Her work focuses on women and feminine empowerment, offering online tarot readings, as well as online and in-person workshops on connecting to the Feminine Archetypes. www.luciadami.com
The Light in the Dark Oracle is available for purchase here: https://www.hayhouse.co.uk/the-light-in-the-dark-oracle-card-deck and from all good bookstores.
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