Oracle Beirut

Oracle Beirut is a beautifully crafted oracle deck created by Lara Alameddine van der Vliet and Monique Bejjani, a tool to offer intuitive guidance, reflection and well-being. Conceived as a companion to their Tarot Beirut, the deck draws inspiration from the Oracle Belline¹ and reimagines its structure in a Middle Eastern and Levantine visual language. The ornate and elegant artwork blends classical Middle Eastern manuscript imagery, astrology, geometric ornamentation and symbolic architectural forms. The result bridges East and West: a deck that feels both timeless and contemporary, immediately accessible. See the box

Firstly the deck contains four Supreme Cards, without numbers, which embody timeless forces associated with Man, Woman and the path of Destiny:

The fourth Supreme Card, with no name and no number, represents the Celestial Sphere that is supposed to include all celestial bodies - this is why it is the strongest of all.

Secondly, the Oracle Beirut deck contains a further 49 numbered omen cards, both good and bad, with titles in five languages, including Arabic. As will be seen, they are structured into seven groups of 7 cards each, differentiated by border designs, colours and astrological glyphs in the artwork:

The 7 astrological groups are: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn cards. Each group contains seven cards. The planets/Celestial bodies are represented by their symbols on the corners of the cards. Also, each of them has its own colour so people can recognise them visually (yellow for the sun, grey for the moon, green for mercury, pink for Venus, red for Mars, blue for Jupiter, and purple for Saturn). The scope of the Beirut Oracle is deepened by these additional esoteric and alchemical significators.

Below are six of the 7 Mercury cards in the deck, identified in this case by a predominance of green in the artwork, along with astrological glyphs for Mercury in the corners. These cards symbolize the opportunities associated with change, communication and practical intelligence. Note: in the «Intelligence» card, no.17 (green), Monique and Lara have signed the book to mark Oracle Beirut for eternity. They are hidden in the Arabic text on the left.

Below are 3 of the Sun cards: Elevation, Friendship and Gift. Peep inside the booklet

Above: Oracle Beirut, 2025. Created and produced by Lara Alameddine van der Vliet and graphic designer and illustrator Monique Bejjani. The deck’s artwork features intricate ornamental geometry informed by Middle Eastern visual traditions. Published by Vision Editions, Lebanon. 53 cards with a 125-page multilingual booklet, boxed.

Profoundly evocative and intuitively legible, Oracle Beirut leads the reader into a contemplative and uplifting divinatory experience. The deck opens a space where meaning unfolds gradually, encouraging quiet expansion of the creative imagination. Change your awareness and you live in a different world.

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Footnote

1. Oracle Belline, the inspiration for Oracle Beirut, is a 53-card French divination deck whose imagery originated with the 19th-century seer Edmond Billaudot (known as Mage Edmond) around 1845. Its symbolism draws on French cartomantic traditions — notably the Tarot de Marseille and the early jeu d’Etteilla — and is structured around the seven classical planetary correspondences of traditional astrology. The deck remained largely unknown until the 1960s, when it was rediscovered, reinterpreted and published by the clairvoyant Marcel Belline, after whom it is named. Oracle Beirut, first published in 2025 by Lara Alameddine van der Vliet, reinterprets this legacy through a contemporary Levantine aesthetic.