Introducing: Ad Astra, The Deck.
Ad Astra is about EMBODIMENT. Each archetype asks something of us. These images show us how to integrate that invitation, how to bring into our bodies, our choices and our lives. This is about Synthesis
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Major Arcana
Cups
Swords
Pentacles
Wands
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The companion book
The Architecture of Tarot:
Ex Umbris Ad Astra
The complete body of work in one place: the teaching, imagery, workbook, spreads, and detailed guidance, in a book you can hold and return to.
The book and Ad Astra grew together. The companion deck is optional; the teaching welcomes any tarot deck you connect with.
Karma Steele
The deck I spent my life trying to find.
Tarot became part of my life when I was a single mother looking for a way to support my family. A friend was reading for a tarot hotline, and I decided to try. The Egyptian imagery in my first deck spoke to me like a second language. Other decks left me translating. That difference became a question I would follow for decades: what makes an image speak?
I collected decks, studied their imagery, compared interpretations, and kept notes. Astrology, archetypes, teaching, and journals reaching back to 1989 became part of that investigation. When I began gathering the material into a study guide, I found an entire body of work waiting to be brought together.
I had wanted to create a deck for twenty years. When I saw that the cards could carry what I had been trying to express, I cried. A long-held passion was becoming something I could put on the table and teach from.
Learn tarot with Karma.
Bring any tarot deck you connect with. Ad Astra is my deck; it is not required for class.
Architecture of Tarot
An introduction to reading through image, archetype, and context.
Workshop details →Tarot Learning Lab
Four weeks of guided practice, questions, demonstrations, and live coaching.
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Begin with the free study guide
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