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PKD Tarot · Ted Hand & Christopher Wilkey

The Fool’s Journey
of Philip K. Dick

An 80-card tarot deck exploring Dick’s worlds, with games inspired by the I Ching.

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The Fool’s Journey of Philip K. Dick tarot artwork

The deck

PKD scholar Ted Hand and tarot artist Christopher Wilkey bring together tarot and the novels, characters, short fiction, and other writings of Philip K. Dick.

This 3.5 × 7.5 inch deck comes with four rule cards for two I Ching inspired games and an eight-sided folding booklet about tarot as Gnostic Allegory. It includes beginning exercises contrasting tarot with the I Ching, and the 2-3-74 Tarot Spread, all in a blank fold-and-tuck box.

For advanced tarot students and newcomers to the I Ching alike, the deck explores alternate realities and the nature of what it is to be human.

Two ways to play

Taking cues from Aleister Crowley and other Golden Dawn inspired traditions, the deck explores relationships between tarot and the hexagrams of the I Ching.

Maze of Death

A domino-type game that introduces the trigrams from which the I Ching hexagrams are composed.

Ubik

Eastern and Western House modes challenge players to avoid accumulating entropy or capture energy from the deck and other players to be the last standing.

A closer look at the cards

Ace of Wands
Ace of Wands
Galactic Pot-healer
Galactic Pot-healer
Penultimate Truth
Penultimate Truth
Worker-Drone of Disks
Worker-Drone of Disks
Dark-Haired Girl of Cups
Dark-Haired Girl of Cups
Six of Swords
Six of Swords
Game Rules
Game Rules
Back of cards
Back of cards

Readings & coaching

Designer Ted Hand offers a three-card PKD Tarot reading for $10, over email or Skype, payable via PayPal or Venmo. Inspired by his reading of PKD, Ted has researched esoteric traditions for two decades. He also offers coaching for those learning to read the cards and explore their historical and spiritual context.

Contact Ted Hand by email or find him on Twitter as @t3dy.

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