A Dandelion in Your Oracle Deck

Maison Séjour has given a dandelion a place in a 53-card oracle. In its French-language app Borago, a question and a draw lead to an AI-composed reading that connects the plants, their positions and their meanings. The illustrations and underlying card texts were created for this deck.

The plants supply a vocabulary for the reading. Borago arranges 49 cards into seven groups, including Seed, Flowering, Pollination, Harvest, Wound and Root. Three master cards sit across those groups, while borage has a separate place as the deck’s signature card. The cycle names make room for injury and recovery as well as growth.

Card 12 shows a dandelion releasing its seeds. Named L’Envol, or taking flight, it connects that movement with leaving a place, a job or an old way of defining yourself. Its work-related interpretation asks where the urge to move comes from and whether it has a direction. Card 42, the beech, takes a slower approach. It belongs to Harvest and counsels a considered response, with withdrawal, coldness and passivity among its caution words.

The app gives the question some attention before the cards are drawn. An official screenshot shows a relationship prompt about experiencing distance and wanting to understand the other person. Underlined phrases can be changed. Suggested alternatives include rebuilding trust, easing the situation and moving closer. Someone facing a blank question box can start by adjusting that sentence.

For a three-card spread, the positions are past, present and future. The developer’s sample reading connects L’Envol, La Plénitude and La Parure, linking departure with fullness and a renewed harmony in exchanges. A section on the movement of the spread explicitly traces one card into the next. The app’s description identifies Google Gemini as the model composing readings and says permission is requested before a question is first sent. The pictured question and reading are developer-supplied examples of the mobile workflow.

There is a smaller version to try on the website without signing in. In our visit, turning over the past, present and future cards revealed La Plénitude, La Clarté and L’Éclosion, numbered 45, 20 and 04. Once all three were face up, separate short meanings appeared below them with links to the full card pages. That public draw ends there. The mobile app adds the composed interpretation that connects the whole draw.

The mobile app also keeps the plants available after a reading. Its herbarium collects their illustrations, groups, botanical information and supporting words. The journal offers chronological, seasonal and calendar views with room for notes. An August update added a record of when a plant first appeared, how often it returned and the positions it occupied. A dandelion drawn again can become a recurring entry in that personal herbarium.