2013 Oracle looks beyond 2012 with a powerful divination system, including two card decks, a colorful printed cloth to contain and focus the oracular energies, and a four-color book to explain and interpret the guidance of the ancients. A colorful 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 box opens to reveal a cloth, a deck of cards, and a book. The 14-x-14-inch cloth is printed in vivid colors with the faces of four jaguars and a ring containing three astral symbols. Laid out, this cloth becomes a cenote, a sacred space into which cards are laid and from which the oracle is drawn. The 1 1/2-x-3 1/2 -inch cards are printed with pictures and symbolic art, and the patterns in which they are laid out are all explained eloquently in Carson's 208-page book. A user would lay out the cloth, then draw and place the cards inside its cenote circle, then read the interpretations of the cards from the book.