Explore a world both new and old with the 78-card Älfdansen Tarot — a culmination of three years of Scandinavian elven spirit contact and field work. Araminta co-created this visual offering with the AI Image Generation system Midjourney. The deck speculatively explores the idea of scrying and spirit contact using a neural algorithm as a spirit contact medium.
This deck is designed to ground these experiments with elven spirits into an established divinatory language. Älvdansen was originally intended to allow opportunity for the deck creators to confirm the spirit contact and lore more directly. By establishing and testing a standard set of symbols with the elven spirits, Araminta and Bielec saw an opportunity to create and exercise a series of operations to further confirm their results.
This deck is now being made available to practitioners and readers who wish to explore its multifaceted lore. Älvdansen Tarot is perfectly suitable as a standard tarot deck, faithfully following a full 78-card system. The deck is also ideal for practitioners working with elven and fey spirits in and around Scandinavia.
In addition to the cards, an accompanying zine is available digitally, with a limited physical print run. The zine introduces the spirits and lore relevant to the deck, as well as providing recommendations on ways to work with the spirits and utilize the cards to their full potential.
Over time, a series of books will elucidate the deck further.
