a big update about my oracle deck, numinous spiral
This love letter is dedicated to lots of info on the upcoming Kickstarter campaign for Numinous Spiral, my oracle deck.
Along the way, I have some storytelling, as usual.
So let's start with that.
Just around this time 7 years ago, in The Before Times, I got a massive hit of divine inspiration. In about a week, I had the full concept for an oracle deck: the cards, the structure, the meanings.
I like to follow those numinous nudges. So, I got to work writing and conceptualizing and outlining. I made a rough test deck out of playing cards that my grandparents gave me when I was a child. I gave dozens of free readings, with lots of positive feedback and interest.
After a couple months, I was convinced that the deck had potential, that it could be a meaningful spiritual tool for people.
At that point, the artwork wasn't even started. I knew I needed some time to find an artist and bring the deck from something I understood, to something other people could use.
I was completely surrendered to the process. I I thought I could produce the deck in a couple of years.
LOLOLOLOL, autumn 2019 thinking.
This is the love letter I thought I'd send in 2022. It's been long awaited, spent a long time in my mental drafts. I'm beyond delighted to share some details about the crowdfunding:
The campaign starts in September. I'll send a couple reminders, but I'm not going to bombard your inbox with daily countdowns.
There are some rewards specifically for people who back the campaign on the first day. The more early momentum the deck has, the more likely it is to succeed.
There are some additional items in the campaign, including stickers, an altar cloth, and a 2-part class with me. The first part of the class is about art-driven readings; the second is an introduction to Numinous Spiral.
It's been a long, 7-year surrender to the process, with loads of interruptions. If you have been reading these love letters for years, hopefully you have some sense of the deck. If not, here's an excerpt from the campaign:
Numinous Spiral is an oracle deck of 49 vibrant cards, interweaving weaving science, math, philosophy, & language witchery.
Over time and across cultures, science and math have been ways to express the language of the universe and of creation. Math and science have been intrinsic to many schools and traditions of philosophy. I have long been fascinated with these connections. And as a writer, I find further layers of meaning when language is interwoven with science, math, and philosophy.
This deck is a tool for you to refine nuance, embrace paradox, relish the lush mystery of existence. It acts as a compass, for the fierce wayfinding so deeply necessary in the world.
As a longtime tarot practitioner, I have been inspired by the structure and elemental correspondences of tarot. Equally, I've created alternatives to what I find limiting in tarot—namely, the gender binary and the human-centric focus.
Numinous Spiral centers the more-than-human world as the center of the compass. I hope you enjoy the journey.
Back in The Before Times, nearly all the concepts were known. They've had plenty of refinements over the years, but substantively, very little has changed.
For example, this card has been in the deck since June 2017:
From the guidebook:
The choices after the surrender are what matter. Whether the waterfall be a gentle bump, an adventurous drop, or an inspiring-yet-also-terrifying cataract, the surrender is not just to that experience, but to welcoming what you encounter after it. What do you do next?
Indeed. Stay tuned for what's next!
Spiraling towards September,
S.
she/they
https://siderealchemy.co/
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