Folding and Unfolding… the Orbifoldic Nature of Origami

Not exactly an Orbifold, but this incredible documentary was a huge inspiration to me a few years ago, and it still is… Watch this, and then consider the video “What is and Orbifold?” How can these approaches to origami influence the ways in which you approach Tarot? The film was originally produced by PBS and is also…

Circle-casting with the Orbifold Tarot

Continuing with the magick and meditation theme, we delve a little more deeply into elemental magick and the ritual of circle-casting. Although this example shows the circle on the table or altar, it can by all means be cast around you as an actual circle on the floor. Even if you do not cast circles…

Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 4: Sabotage and Subversion

Continuing from structure and randomness… E.E: The first metaphor in tarot happens when we shuffle the tarot. There is a carnivalesque stance in this debasement of hierarchies. I associate this with sabotaging reality. Shuffling the deck sabotages the order of the cards just as we, by shuffling the cards, hope to alter our understanding of…

Using the Orbifold in Meditation and Magick

Tarot practice extends far beyond the divinatory. These principles can unlock aspects of our own consciousness and working with them, we can effect significant changes both in our interior landscape and our exterior world. The abstract geometry of the Orbifold Tarot is the perfect aid to this: they can serve as focus points for meditation,…

So, what is an Orbifold, anyway?

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Short Musings on the Orbifold #13

Outward calm hides an inner flame. This this ember glows with an intense, but subtle heat. Cultivate that inner creativity through solitude, but beware that emotional pragmatism and isolation do not snuff the flame. Stoke the flame of inner wisdom. Let this flame radiate, contained within the barriers of emotional stability. #SMOTO #13 #OrbifoldTarot Reserve your…

Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 3: Structure and Randomness

E.E: recently I saw my heart in an ECG. It seemed like lightning falling on the same tree, over and over. The way I see it, systole and diastole, understood as expansion and contraction, are the two grammar rules of the symbolic world.  There is a tendency among tarot readers to understand the tarot in…

Short Musings on the Orbifold #12

Interior reflection leads to an emotionally intelligent realization of true purpose. #OrbifoldTarot Reserve your Orbifold, now in crowdfunding

Short Musings on the Orbifold #11

Balance is struck in the ground of being. You are personally and individually whole. Sharing that wholeness with a burning passion breaks the stagnancy of an overpowering stillness. Reconcile interior satisfaction with exterior pursuits. P.S. How cool is it that the 11th #SMOTO starts with Justice and ends with 2 Pages (sometimes seen as 11’s)? Reserve your Orbifold,…

Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 2: Symmetry, Rhythm, and Abstraction

Continuing our conversation from Part 1, Enrique probes into why I chose abstraction in an environment that seems to favour scenic depictions for tarot. E.E: Tarot-aesthetics tend to swing between the vintage and the kitsch. On the one hand there is the allure of the old, expressed through classic decks and occultist practices. On the…

Enrique Enriquez and I discuss the Orbifold, Part 1: Is Geometry the Soul of Things?

This week I’ve had the great pleasure to discuss The Orbifold Tarot with a Tarot Revolutionary: Enrique Enriquez. His questions are insightful and challenging, helping me understand my own work better from an outside mirror. He is doing what I think we should all do as readers: he’s mentoring me through myself — and at…

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