Fantastic Being Manifestation Cards
Fifty-seven cards printed on uncoated felt-weave paper, chosen to match the watercolor stock the original art was painted on. That single production decision shapes everything about how this deck handles. The cards are matte and slightly soft, they take fingerprints, and they will show the record of being used. The artist made that choice deliberately and says so.
What you get
- 57 full-color cards, 4.5 x 2.75 inches
- A full-color creature or being on the front of each card, with a titled keyword
- A written reflection on the back of every card
- Sturdy two-piece lift-off box, 4.75 x 3.25 inches
- Watercolor and words by Rebecca Lefebvre; illustrations by Phoebe Hunt
- ISBN 978-0-9972560-3-1
- Ships at 0.4 lb
About the cards
The artwork uses a combined pen-and-ink and watercolor technique, with fine linework carrying the anatomy and loose washes running past the outlines. Subjects range across animals, plants, and celestial and mythic figures. The Anemone card, keyed to letting go, is representative: a real marine animal, painted ethereally, with a back-of-card reflection connecting the creature's actual behavior to the human question it raises.
Card stock note worth knowing before it arrives: these are uncoated. No plastic laminate, no gloss, no slick finish. Uncoated stock reads beautifully and takes a pen mark if you want to annotate, and it also picks up oil from hands and won't wipe clean. Shuffle dry, keep them away from candle work and anointing oil, and they'll hold up. The box is a lift-off lid rather than a friction tuck, so a band around it is worth adding if the deck travels in a bag.
Provenance and tradition
Avec La Vie is the imprint of Rebecca Lefebvre, working out of Broomfield, Colorado, and founded in 2014. The name translates roughly as with life. Fantastic Being is the third and final deck in her nature-inspired series, following Fauna Inspiration and Flora Healing, and all three feed a larger project she has been developing called Finding Essentia.
The deck belongs to the contemporary inspiration-card lineage rather than to divinatory tarot. There is no suit structure, no numbered arcana, no reversals, and no fixed spread positions to learn. Each card is a self-contained image and reflection. That makes it usable in two directions: as an intuitive draw, where you shuffle and take what comes, and as a written resource, where you go looking for the creature whose keyword names what you're sitting with.
Working practitioners tend to use it as a closer. Pull one at the end of a reading or a session as the thing to take home. It also layers cleanly over a tarot practice, since it carries no correspondence system of its own to argue with yours.
Who this is for
Daily-pull people. Journalers who want a prompt with an image attached. Readers who want a gentle deck for clients that won't land heavy. Anyone drawn to natural-world imagery, art-forward decks, or single-artist small-press work. It's a strong gift for a beginner, because there's nothing to memorize before it becomes useful, and equally at home with someone who already owns forty decks and wants the art.
