Orbifold Announcement and Draw Winners!

Campaign closed! Thank you everyone!!

You all helped me raise enough to go ahead with production. It will be a smaller print run than I had hoped, but it will still help me get the deck out there — and of course all backers will get their Orbifold Tarot and accessories! Those of you who missed out on the campaign:…

Between doing and feeling lies true intuition… Enter it

Orbifold Basics Instructional Series

Some of you may already have watched several of the Orbifold basics videos, and others I’ve put out on the deck, and to make your viewing easier I have set all of the Basics series (so far, a few more to come) in a YouTube playlist: There is also a longer, more complete playlist on…

7 Days Left!

Thank you to all of you who have supported the campaign so far — through your contributions, likes, shares, discussions, feedback, kind words, and generally getting the deck out there… your help has been invaluable! Contributors are automatically entered in campaign-exclusive draws: One of 50 contributors will win this quartz orb! One of 100 will win…

Orbifold Basics — The Four Elements

Exploring the Four Elements of Tarot as a fundamental aspect and first step of reading with the Orbifold Tarot. Further discussion of the Orbifold’s Four Elements on Aeclectic Tarot, and extend the study further into seeing how the Elements are expressed in the Majors. Support the Orbifold

Reading the Orbifold’s Court Cards — Knights

From the Pages — the root of Earth within mastery of their Element — we continue on to the Knights, who are the drive and action within the mastery of their Element. Where the Pages ground their Element, finding practicality in the completion of their Element’s cycle, the Knights take their Element and put it into Action. In…

Touch the Earth and enter The Void

It is said that after studying with every spiritual master of his time, the Buddha, still unenlightened, sat down under the banyan tree and simply touched the ground. It was at that moment he saw the emptiness of all things and became enlightened. Some say this is only a metaphor, and that the ground he…

Reading with the Orbifold — Major Associations

In any standard tarot deck, there are a certain proportion of Minor Arcana, Court Cards, and Major Arcana, leading to a certain mathematical probability of cards coming up in any given reading. The ratio is 40:16:22 or 20:8:11 (reduced), or a percentage of just over 50% Minor Arcana, just over 20% Courts, and just under…

Reading the Orbifold’s Court Cards — Pages

The Pages: A couple of days ago, in a thread on two-ness, a couple of people asked if I would go through some descriptions/discussions of some cards from the Orbifold Tarot to help some people out who might feel lost in the “abstractness” of just number and element, without figurative depictions of characters doing things. These…

Short Musings on the Orbifold #18

  Harnessing Heaven and Earth, ride thought and being deep into the wellspring of your subconscious, emotional core. Find there an abundance of intellectual reasoning that stimulates the mind — just be careful not to overthink; remain grounded in the emotional being, so that the mind does not run away unhitched and undirected. Reserve your…

Short Musings on the Orbifold #17

  A harmonious balance of intent, direction, and implementation leads to pure personal joy, unobstructed and unhindered by confusion. Physically, this feeling of grounded ease gives you freedom to move forward pragmatically — there is no rush. Consider how to carry this state of joy and harmony forward as a seed within your creative being. The elemental relationship…