Thee Jellice Oracle zine

In April 2021, I decided I wanted to make a zine of my spiritual response to Cats: the Musical.

When I was a child, Cats: the Musical had a special place in my heart because I interpreted it as a catalogue of semi-divine folk heroes or ancestral, inherited archetypes *for cats*. Of course it's nonsensical and overwrought to human audiences. It's *for cats*.

On the 6th of April, I streamed a live painted interpretation of the different Cats to the backing of "off-brand" Cats: the Musical songs. The lyrics remained unaltered, but the "music" was improvised atonal splunging on various instruments by my significantly unmusical, untrained partners. I worked on each Cat for the duration of their corresponding Hymn, with the intention of illustrating their individual energy as true to my "third eye"'s raw capture as possible. The result is 13 Cats, horribly illustrated, in pure ink wash with no construction, ready for YOU to use as a divinatory oracle. Instructions are enclosed.

My intention with this zine is to encourage you to approach oracles and divination in more playful, humourous ways. Creating emotional and magical connections through humour and play is very important, I think, in keeping magic accessible and fresh.

Contains a download code for a terrible surprise (the video of the stream and the Jellicle Name Generator).