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Secret Dakini Oracle      1978 Nick Douglas, Penny Slinger and Meryl White      USA                                                   Art Medium: Collaged photographs. Description: Apparently the authors drew upon an extensive study of the 64 Dakinis of the Ranipur-Jharial Temple in Odisha, India. There is no division of the 65 cards into Majors and Minors, however, the first 22 clearly correspond to the conventional Major arcana though renamed:- 0 Fool - Joker; 1 Magician - Mercury; 2 Isis/The High Priestess; 3 Empress - Scarlet Woman; 4 Emperor - Hot Seat; 5 Hierophant - Ganesh/Lord Of Obstacles; 6 Lovers - Wish-fulfilling gem; 7 Chariot - Cremation Ground/Meditation; 8 Strength - Living Goddess; 9 Hermit - Way Through; 10 Wheel of Great Time; 11 Justice - Self-Created; 12 Hanged Man - Slay The Ego; 13 Death/ Transfiguration; 14 Temperance - Puja/Purification; 15 The Devil - Ally; 16 Tower - Holocaust; 17 Star - Island of Jewels; 18 The Moon - Soma; 19 The Sun - Phoenix; 20 Judgement - Transformation; 21 The World - Earth Bound.