Welcome to the web site for The Numerical Tarot. The Numerical Tarot is a very unique kind of tarot deck that looks at the subject of tarot a whole new way. In looking at tarot a whole new way, this deck stands as an alternative to the more traditional forms of tarot out there today. Not everyone will want to go a different way in their study or use of tarot. But for those adventurous few who are looking for an alternative form of tarot, this site might have something to offer. In going a different way with its approach to tarot, the decks on this site do not follow the popular path of occult mystery that has been built up around tarot over the years. It also does not make any attempt to be faithful to the known history of tarot. In this way, it is a completely new and unique approach, that yields a completely new and unique outcome.

Put as briefly as possible, this system looks for archetypal sources for tarot symbolism among the elemental patterns of nature. The patterns that are uncovered by this approach, are seen as a signature of nature that influences all of humanity and everything around us. Macroscopically or microscopically, a signature of nature is an inescapable pattern of universal influence, that can be seen being expressed in one of many different ways, in every culture of humanity, throughout all days and ages of human history. When reduced to the most fundamental, elemental, abstract, archetypal essence, I believe that every manifest entity, and every manifest event, can be seen as expressions of these universal lines of force. As patterns of universal influence, these ideas are what humans end up illustrating on little pieces of paper as tarot symbols and icons. By illustrating a signature of nature across cards in a deck, The Numerical Tarot becomes a visual documentation of a vast spectrum of human experience.

Additionally, universal patterns of nature are also used in the organization of the deck itself. What results is an underlying structure that organizes everything into a grid matrix of cross-referencing ideas, where balance, symmetry, contrast and consistency reign supreme. The resulting system of cross-referenced ideas then leads to intended meanings for each card that are derived from an understanding of archetypal patterns in nature and how they connect through a theoretical path of etymology to fundamental, elemental roots and a universal signature of nature. Like an axial system of archetypal crystallography, The Numerical Tarot deck becomes a tool for calculating universal influences.

If you are new to this site, you should begin with...

From there you can navigate to The Nickel Tour, and
read several essays that describe the unique approach taken by The Numerical Tarot.