Welcome to Empyrean
A new kind of Deck
for a new kind of Culture.
Empyrean: An Integration Deck
The Empyrean Deck is a tool for helping us pay attention to the experience of the sacred. Whether you are committed to a specific religious tradition or not, we all interpret certain experiences or moments as having intrinsic value, a transcendent meaning. In our secular society, we may not think of these things as religious, but they do speak to what makes us human, and what makes human life worthwhile.
These unique oracle cards are based on an archetypal approach to the world’s wisdom traditions. Each card represents a possible mode of experiencing the transcendent dimension of human life.
The Great Houses
The cards are organized into eight Houses. These Houses correspond roughly to Personality factors, Enneagram types, the Gods of the ancient pantheons, and so on. They can be understood as the Attributes or Faces of Divinity, which are fully manifested in and as the orders of creation, the Celestial Spheres. For practical purposes, they are often best understood as the basic dimensions of practical spirituality: our desires, capacities, pleasures and limitations as these categories intersect with the experience of the sacred.
Dominions and Thrones
Each House has eight cards. One card in each House is the Throne card, akin to a court card or the Major Arcana in the Tarot. The other seven are called Dominion cards, since they represent the distinctive powers, dimensions or activities of the Thrones.
Introducing the Deck
This link brings you to a sister site which contains the Grid, as well as images and descriptions of each card.
Talks on the Cards
This Link brings you to a YouTube Channel with talks on individual cards, sample readings, and the Cosmology of the Cards.
This is the first version of the Empyrean Deck to be widely available. 65 unique cards, based on the Archetypes. Original artwork produced using AI.
