We always call suits clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts. They're symbols. But what happens if we change the symbol for the real thing? And Jacks for butlers, and Kings and Queens for... Well, Kings and Queens. Here you have the answer!

- F.J.Campos

For whatever the reason, this deck was stuck at my atelier, until some last moment inspiration helped to make it out. Majors-only Tarot deck with a light medical theme, always remember those people who take care of us.

- F.J.Campos

The naivety of vintage advertising has an appeal very difficult to negate. Took it as a base, added genuine digital cardboard and... got it! Standard Tarot layout with 78 cards.

- F.J.Campos

You'll never see a deck so trustful with the concept of "luck". "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune is the empress of the wolrd) is the second chant of famous classical composition "Carmina Burana", and also the personal motto of the author. Spanish layout deck without figures, standard suits with cards 1-13

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Cabinets of curiosities (also known in German loanwords as Kunstkabinett, Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer; also Cabinets of Wonder, and wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. "The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction." Standard grunged poker deck with 2 jokers.

- F.J.Campos

A much needed remake from one of my favourite oracle decks. New design and orientation, and plenty of new Ouija boards: their design fascines me, and I know I am not the only one. Remember always to say "goodbye" when closing the deck. Nobody knows...

- F.J.Campos

A nice vintage Tarot made from classic (and modern) opera posters. Once again, their iconography is surprsingly rich, and it can be easily adapted to Tarot archetypes. Standard 78 cards Tarot deck.

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Is there life beyond death? We can't tell for sure, but Spiritism was a frenzy among society a couple centuries ago. Truth or not, here's a shocking collection of seances, materializations, ghosts and dancing tables, in the form of a standard Poker deck.

- F.J.Campos

A winner deck! All Jokers! A funny collection of jokers: minstrels, clowns, merchants, players... Also a homage to one of the most charismatic Tarot cards: The Fool. Standar 52 cards deck: for obvious reasons, there's no jokers added.

- F.J.Campos

A metal deck devoted a strange theme: vintage robots and girls. Another staple on Sci-Fi... Standard poker deck with jokers and usual complements.

- F.J.Campos

Theda Bara, born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp. Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired from acting in 1926 having never appeared in a sound film. She died of stomach cancer on April 7, 1955, at the age of 69.

Another deck into that has been used for years, hence its poor state, but antique power. Modelled after a Muller classical Marseille.

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My humble tribute to one of the screen legends I admire the most: Bela Lugosi. While alwaya typecasted as Count Dracula, he was an accomplished stage actor, yet never had the luck to leave Poverty Row. He was able to showcase plenty of roles, as these 22 major arcana demonstrate.

- F.J.Campos

A vintage style Poker deck, featuring one of the most famous killers in history: Jack The Ripper, the terror of Whitechapel. Cards shows documents and facsimiles from 1888, and all the fascination by a case that is still unresolved.

- F.J.Campos

Another example of bibliomancy deck, this time dealing with famous Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus) much discussed prophecies. Deck includes random numbers over the numerals that can be useful on numerology tasks.

- F.J.Campos

This deck was a special comission from long-time friend Miguel Aceytuno, author and navigator, as a special gift for his colleagues and crew. Original cards were designed to be printed professionally in a vert limited edition.Hence the seafaring theme, and the custom suits: anchors, regatta cups, sailor knives and nautical coins. Standard Spanish Poker pattern with two jokers. We are glad to share this very special deck with all Orphalese users.

- F.J.Campos

Those who know me are aware of my passion about flight sims. Been playing and collecting them since I was a young lad with an XT IBM PC. While sorting my collection, noticed I had plenty of related graphic stuff, so I gave this a try. Very aggressive and great art on those software covers. Standar poker deck with 2 jokers, custom suits and air roundels for decoration.

- F.J.Campos

Once again Mr Campos pushes back the frontiers of what a Tarot deck might look like with this playful experiment combining an image of an empty oil can, a standard Marseille Tarot deck and the transparency feature of the Orphalese Taort program.

I learned by sheer chance that vintage matchboxes collection is a pocket universe on its own. After investigating a little, I discovered a very naive world, so full of powerful symbolism and plenty of fun. Some art is laughable, I concede, but another can stand on its own against traditional Tarot illustrations. It was a very complex work to assemble this, so all I hope is all of you to enjoy the concept.

- F.J.Campos

I visited once an occult fair, and I saw a card reader who was using a really tattered Tarot. That deck should be very powerful, so I tried to emulate this in Orphalese. Standard Rider-Waite deck that has been used and abused heavily: hence its power.

- F.J.Campos

A custom 78 card Tarot deck with an old world flavour designed by the artist as a tribute to a much loved friend. The deck features the suits Cups, Coins, Needles and Hands.

Quite a strange deck if you're not a lover of Japanese cuisine, and its world so full of maki, sashimi, uramaki, kapamaki, mirin, wasabi and much more. Hatadakimasu!

- F.J.Campos

Classic Spanish deck layout (Ace to Seven, 3 Royals per suit), with careful design and the great monuments of Spain as a main theme. How many will you recognize?

Especially for Haloween, here is a fifty-two card poker deck featuring depictions of sexy she devils. Suddenly the pit of Hell doesn't seem such a terrible place after all...

Don't be fooled into thinking this is a standard tarot deck when you see it has seventy-eight cards. This deck features portraits of women from European art, from the Renaissance to more recent times, organised into six standard 13 playing card suits, the extra suits being cresent moons and stars. In an extra twist, instead of having just black and red, each one is associated with its own color.

A collection of North Korean propaganda images features hard working yet well fed peasants, fearless, well fed combat soldiers, victorious well fed sportsmen and handsome, sage and particularly well fed leaders. It even celebrates the famous occasion that North Korea won the soccer world cup.

Hanafuda or "Game of the Flowers" is the traditional deck of playing cards in Japan. It is divided in 12 suits of 4 cards each, equivalent to the months of year, and each devoted to a kind of flower. The art on the cards depicts traditional Chinese and Japanese themes.

This is a really beautiful deck with intriguing possibilities for divination.

The Vintage Clairvoyant features clairvoyants and crystal ball gazers from movies and old photographs along with a few specially doctored images from more recent times.

Deal with the future like fortune tellers did for decades. Guide yourself through the concepts stated on the cards, or try to make a sentence using the words. You'll be surprised more than once.

This deck captures classic moments from the movies and TV shows of the iconic Monty Python comedy team. A team that was never afraid to make fun of life's more serious aspects and for whom no subject was taboo. The meaning of love, life, death, religion and the importance of avoiding after dinner mints (even the wafer thin ones), is all present in these cards.

This is a fun deck in a dark kind of way. It uses images from Victorian era advertising and original poison bottle labels, mostly real but some mischievously invented. At the same time the faded colours used in the deck give it a pleasing antique feeling.

This is something I owed to the Community since I put the James Bond Tarot on the Exchange. That was a joke based on "Live And Let Die" movie: Roger Moore tricks Solitaire using a Tarot of the Witches where all the cards are the same: The Lovers. So here's a true 007 Tarot, shaken, not stirred. with all cards and plenty of glorious Bond moments.

- F.J.Campos

Coins, Chalices, Crosses and Candles. From the Pope to the Apocalypse, through Angels, Martydom, Temperance and Justice, The Devil and the House of God, the iconography of medieval Christianity is perfectly at home in the Tarot arcana. Our master deck creator takes the theme which he started in "The Very Holy Deck" and expands it into a full Tarot, complete with a sumptuous background.

"In Manibus Fortuna"

Our resident deck creator has explored many divinatory systems, several of which can be found on this page, but until now Chiromancy or Palmistry has not been one of them.

This deck comes to fill that gap, while at the same time illustrating the program's adapatibility to non-rectangular cards. The illustration shows the cards against a white background but these cards are crafted as simple hand shapes that will display correctly against any background.

The deck that nobody expected - the Spanish Inquistion Tarot is here!

Our resident deck creator delves into one of the dark corners of history with this latest deck, bringing together some graphic images of human suffering and resilience in the face of oppression, and featuring a range of the key players of the period, from the pious monarchs who set it in motion to the Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada himself.

This full Tarot deck comes with an extra courtesy card and a special background designed to accompany the deck.

This deck is another special landmark as it is the fiftieth deck created by F.J.Campos for this collection. The decks on this page are arranged chronologically with new ones always added at the top, and the earliest ones date back almost to the program's first release in 2002. It doesn't make the collection quite as long lived as The Doctor but as a traveller through time who contiually reinvents himself his appearence now is strangely appropriate!

Here we see him in all his various incarnations to date, accompanied by friends and foes alike. This is a nostalgic treat for anyone who remembers hiding behind the sofa from Daleks and Cybermen back before color TV came along, and will also be an enjoyable reference for any of his more recent followers.

This deck draws together a rich sample of religous iconography to inspire and console the user through life's spiritual journey. And as the deck's creator says, inspiration can sometimes take you in unexpected directions...

F.J.Campos returns with his first deck for Orphalese in several years, and how perfect that it is a special edition to commemorate version 10.0 of the Orphalese Tarot! In this deck he reprises some of his favorite themes in a sepia tinted vision of mystery, magic and mortality. The deck comes with its own special background designed for the program and includes a joker and a deck information card.

This deck will have you digging around in the back of your "useful things" drawer for those 3-D glasses you got when you went to see that Friday the 13th marathon some time towards the end of the last century. Unfortunately I can't find mine so the definitive review of this deck will have to be from the first person who can... we know it will be chillingly good!

This is an oracle deck based on the five elements of Chinese astrology (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth), and their associations. The fectching paintings that comprise the deck each capture some aspect of their associated element. This deck is sure to steal your heart!

By the power of Greyskull we bring you...a new deck from Dominatrix, full of dark shadows and strange illusions. There is plenty of skullduggery going on in this deck, but can you spot where? Don't be a bonehead, open your eye sockets!

Well here it is, merry Christmas, everybody's having fun...you know that time has come when you see the official Orphalese Tarot release for the season ;-)

The Magus otherwise known as Dominatrix has taken the four principle themes of Santas, Gifts, Mistletoe and Christmas trees for the houses in this deck, but he has also blended some other more general holiday motifs...Can you spot them?

This subtly blended deck is drawn from the kind of beautiful illustrations that used to fill books about nature before the camera put an end to this tradition. Here we can see how the diversity of forms and colours in the avian order can offer a rich vocabulary for illustrating many human thoughts and feelings.

The Alchemical Emblems Tarot is a collaborative venture between our resident artist F.J.Campos (Dominatrix) and Orphalese user Adam McLean. The full size pieces that Adam has created over recent years, based on the coloring of original medieval plates, have already been the subject of one deck by Dominatrix, but this time he has used graphically rich scans of the original works to produce a luxury high resolution deck, now published in England in a special limited edition run. This Orphalese-friendly set of images is a great addition to this page and a wonderful gift for Orphalese users.

I hadn't come across the expression "retrofuturism" before, but I agree with the deck's creator that it is the perfect word to describe this deck, a result of crossing a traditional Lenormand deck with a collection of 50's Sci-Fi covers.

Could it be the end of civilisation as we know it?

For all you lovers of animal decks out there (and we know there are a lot of you!) our art department brings you the Apocalipse des Animaux. A classic Etteila layout for a lovely Tarot, based on nature engravings of the past century. A true feast for eyes and spirit.

It is impossible to choose a representative card for this deck. What the artist has done is to give each of these 78 cards its own unique identity. These cards are like letters in a visual alphabet which, when set along side each other, form words and speak. It is a fantastic achievement.

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...Well, just one: that of our deck creator extraordinaire as he laboured long into the night, preparing the special seasonal treat which we can now reveal...

The deck takes a unique approach, having a classical Major Arcana, plus 30 oracle type cards, ideal for creating seasonal greeting cards via the program's Screen Capture feature. So find yourself a comfortable corner and chase away the winter blues with a glass of your favourite tipple, and a leisurely browse through this heart-warming collection.

This new tarot deck offers us a trip back in time to the era of Vaudeville theatre in the United States and Europe. Roll up, roll up and enjoy a short series of theatrical advertisements which includes many minor masterworks of the time. The appeal of these works lies in the way that their creators managed to imbue them with both intentional humour and real artistic quality, and the collection has been sealed with our deck compositor's habitually deft touch.

Cinematographic horror blends with traditional halloween imagery in this fiendish halloween special.

Was that a face at the window? Were those the gate hinges creaking in the wind? Nah. Stop being silly and get back to the card table. You only need the ace of skulls to make a heeeeeeeeeell of a good hand...

Once again Dominatrix has thought outside the box to brings this aptly-named deck which combines wisdom, folly, humour and perplexity in a new collection of fifty-two cards, guaranteed to bring something to any situation. But what?

What better introduction to the Novelty Tarot than the author's own comment in the PackInfo file: "A totally unneeded sequel to the Joke Tarot, full of stupid cards with obscure meanings... A good example of what a twisted mind can do using Orphalese".

Unneeded? We don't agree! We all need a bit of laughter therapy from time to time, and this deck is the perfect prescription.

Dominatrix has been secretly working on this deck since a few weeks ago when someone casually mentioned in the forum that there was a big deck-shaped black hole where this tarot deck ought to be (thank you, Marvin!).

At long last some of the choicest moments from the entire show have been collected together in this deck. Lister (the last human) and his non-human companions boldly go where no man, cat, android, hologram or blob have gone before...

The Tarot of the Magicians is a feast for the eyes. Based on the rich imagery of old stage magic and theatrical conjuring, the deck is well researched and features many famous magicians from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The sepia court cards are decorated with poker-style pips and are clearly differentiated from the Majors and the "people" cards which appear in full colour. The deck was a long term project and the time and care taken to put the collection together is obvious.

The deck also includes such treats as the astonishing feat of self decapitation and head levitation that illustrates the Fool: do not attempt this at home.

Whatever problem you wish to bring before the simple oracle, you will always receive an answer. Outperforms the fortune telling fish AND the magic 8 ball in eight out of ten bench tests.

These rune cards which have been available for download from the main Orphalese website use the program's transparency feature to good effect.

Each card in this strange and eclectic little deck will surprise you and make you laugh: Plastic Guru, the Potato Man, The Hand of Fate, the Dolce Vita and many more. Nothing is what you expect.

An Orphalese version of the deck by Mademoiselle Le Normand, the famous French mystic. This deck is used with the Lenormand Spread and the cards themselves include divinatory meanings written in English.

An Orphalese version of the deck by Mademoiselle Le Normand, the famous French mystic. This deck is used with the Lenormand Spread and the cards themselves include divinatory meanings written in Spanish.

This is the latest deck in the I Ching "mini series", and was inspired by our friend Aurora. As well as receiving a fresh background design, this time the cards are labelled in Spanish.

This is a tarot deck based on the masterworks of Gustave Doré (1832-1883), among the most famous book illustrators of the XIX Century. This deck has a special place in this collection because as well as paying homage to the Quixote anniversary, it also doubles as a commemorative deck for the release of version six of the program.

Possibly the best tarot deck in the world...

Here are seventy-eight cards that will amuse and delight every lover of the hop. Although this deck does not take itself seriously, it shows the artist's habitual care and attentiveness in choosing the right image for the occasion. Cheers!

A tribute to the premier fantasy illustrator of recent years, the deck brings together a small sample of Michael Whelan's work seen on the covers of books, magazines and record albums. Even those not familiar with the science fantasy genre will recognise some of the illustrations in this deck, which have been carefully selected to represent the themes of the tarot.

This is a complete reworking of the first I Ching deck by Dominatrix, which can be found on the main website. This version has the look and feel of traditional oriental hand-printing techniques, and each card includes simple description of the card's meaning in English and Chinese.

Doh - that ain't Chinese.

This deck celebrates the classic forties style pin-ups created by masters like Elvgreen, Driben, Vargas and others.

If you are not too distracted, you might also notice that the deck unusually combines American style poker suits with the European playing card tradition of a Major Arcana.