
Frame this Oracle: A Tool to Deepen Your Card Readings and Reframe Your Perspective, by Juno Lucina and illustrated by Dan Goodfellow
REDFeather, 9780764368271, 144 pages, 25 cards, December 2024
With Frame this Oracle, Juno Lucina and Dan Goodfellow have created a unique divinatory tool that takes the reader deep into the realms of imagination, artistry, and magic. From the moment you open the box, you are drawn into a world of layered meanings, evocative visuals, and profound themes.
Juno Lucina is the pen name of a talented tarot master, who has created two tarot decks and written a definitive book on tarot. Her articles appear in numerous online journals, and she is a popular speaker at tarot and divination seminars around the US. She also writes fiction under the pen name Rose Guildenstern. Lucina lives in Connecticut, and you can learn more about her on this website.
Dan Goodfellow is an artist with a wide range of skills, from pen and ink to digital art. As a professional artist, he also considers himself a “Druid Shaman, Storyteller and Healer.”1 He has illustrated several tarot decks and lives in Bath, England. Connect with him on his website.

The primary strength of Frame this Oracle lies in its concept. It invites the reader to interpret and re-interpret its layers, much like an oracle delivering cryptic wisdom. This title alone is a clever play on words, suggesting a duality: the act of framing as a literal boundary and the broader act of understanding. This oracle evokes mystery, prophecy, and insight, setting the stage for an exploration of more than a tarot or oracle card alone can divine.
The cards themselves are deceptively simple: a frame that features artwork along a certain concept. These concepts are grouped together in collections of five cards that fall under a specific theme, such as Living, Inspiration, or Mysteries. Within twenty-five cards, Lucina and Goodfellow have created twenty-five jewels of art and wisdom. When you place one of the frames on top of a tarot or oracle card, you add another layer of insight and a new type of divination tool:
“This Oracle is full of pointed edges – boundaries that point the way. Each card is a threshold to focus you, direct you to see what you’re missing, to understand what’s vital. These edges will poke you… bother you… wake you up in the wee small hours of the morning and wriggle around in your mind, heart, and soul to infiltrate all those heart crevices, cracking wide open those walls to let in… not what you think you want … but what you know you need.”2
The guidebook is a masterpiece! After her extensive introduction, Lucina explains how to best use the card frames, including how to combine them with other objects, such as crystals or meditation. Next, she explains why she makes use of questions as part of the guidance:
“Questioning makes you open. It forms new patterns in the brain instead of reverting to old patterns of bias.”3

In addition to suggesting that you select a card at random, she also says that you might look through the frames and choose a frame that calls to you. Or you may use the lists of frames to select a topic that may pertain to your query. Lucina also shares ideas for spreads and how to use the frames for maximum results.
To test this deck, I took it to my Friday Coffee & Cards group and my friends utilized various decks in tandem with Frame This Oracle. One friend paired #6 Start with her 2 of Pentacles from Thoth Tarot. From the guidance and her own intuition, my friend came up with this affirmation: I am starting something new, and I am adaptable and flexible. The question from Lucina’s guidance that spoke to her was “What is starting around me that I may be missing?”4
Another friend pulled the 10 of Cups from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck and then selected #20 Divinity from Frame this Oracle. She almost began to cry as she read the guidance from Lucina and spoke briefly about letting go of shame and embracing the happiness of her beautiful family. She also shared that she will be journaling daily to listen more to the Divine and allow a more compassionate Goddess to guide her life.
Frame this Oracle trusts the reader’s intellect and emotional depth, allowing each person to derive their own understanding. This approach not only makes it highly engaging but also ensures its lasting impact, as different viewers uncover new meanings with each encounter.
I really enjoyed the ease of using these frames. Not only does it add a layer to your usual tarot or oracle reading, but it also invites you to be creative and daring in using your intuition. My favorite frame in the deck is #8 Stop. This card features lots of visuals that are jarring and somewhat frightening. Yet, as I sat with the frame and the guidance from Lucina, I began to see what needs to STOP in my life. And this knowledge provides direction and healing.
Lucina also includes a blank frame, which she calls Void and poses amazing questions and exercises to expand your vision and open your mind. Finally, she invites you to turn over the frame and use the back of the frame, which looks like a wooden window, with side panes of glass. She calls this the Open Window and asks you to:

“Contemplate the contents of the open window to see the focal points of your own personal frame reflected. What frames that you’re creating for yourself are revealed within your open window?”5
I plan to keep Frame This Oracle on hand to enhance client readings and share Lucina’s insightful questions for journal exercises. The novel approach of this divinatory tool makes it fun to use and brilliant to bring into readings for others and myself. As Lucina says in the conclusion:
“Frame This Oracle will refocus the almighty power of your attention away from what generally engrosses you, whether mindlessly or obsessively – away from virtual media, what other people think, what you’ve been taught to believe, what you’ve decided must be so (or mustn’t be), what seems to matter – and allow you to perceive what you’ve been missing.”6

PJ Spur is an author, intuitive, spiritual mentor, astrologer, and hypnotist. She does tarot & oracle card readings, natal chart readings, grief coaching, and relationship healing. She also has hosted a weekly “Coffee & Cards” event with her Soul Compass Community for the past four years. Her book Navigating Grief with Grace is available on Amazon. Learn more at www.dearpj.com