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…

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…

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…

Free online class using the Orbifold with Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin

Join Tali Goodwin and Marcus Katz for a very special class tomorrow using the Orbifold Tarot! The class is at 4 pm UK time, which is morning in North America — 8-11 depending where you are. Hope to see you there! Reserve your Orbifold, now in crowdfunding

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…

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?

Well, I’m glad you asked… or didn’t… Reserve your Orbifold, now in crowdfunding

Orbifold on Aeclectic

For any of you interested in discussing the Orbifold, including asking any questions or just learning more about the deck, I have started a new thread on Aclectic tarot specifically to do that. I welcome any contributions or topics of discussion. The thread can be found here I’ve also started a study group for a…