The Steampunk Tarot: Wisdom from the Gods of the Machine
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle | Free | Oceanhouse Media, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
*** Limited Time Sale! ***
The Steampunk Tarot: Wisdom from the Gods of the Machine is now available on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. This beautifully illustrated app includes 78 Tarot Cards, providing life guidance from an alternative reality.
Imagine a world in which steam is the main locomotive power driving submersibles, rockets and ships across the world. The major archetypes are the Gods of the Machine, and the four suits are Airships, Engines, Submersibles and Leviathans. This Tarot Card app will show you how the interaction of energies offers wisdom and direction from an alternative reality that's still relevant to us today.
With this Tarot Cards app you can:
- Give readings anywhere, anytime on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
- Choose between 10 different reading types
- Save and load your readings for review at any time
- E-mail readings to friends
- Flip cards over to read the full meaning of each card and message
- Review the entire deck of cards in Browse mode
- See beautiful artwork on each card, optimized for retina displays
* After your 7-day FREE TRIAL, a one-time in-app purchase will unlock the "All Card Readings" premium feature *
About the Authors
John Matthews is an internationally acclaimed expert on the Celtic tradition, an area he has studied for over 30 years. He also teaches and gives seminars and workshops all over the world. He has been involved in a number of media projects, as both an advisor and contributor. In 2003 he was the historical advisor to the film King Arthur, and shared a BAFTA award for his work on the accompanying educational DVD.
Caitlin Matthews is the author of many successful tarots and oracles including The Arthurian Tarot, The Da Vinci Enigma Tarot, The Celtic Wisdom Tarot, The Celtic Book of the Dead and The Celtic Wisdom Oracle. With John Matthews, Caitlin is the creator of the Storyworld Cards series, enabling families to return to the art of storytelling around the hearth. She is acknowledged worldwide as a leading teacher in the Western esoteric traditions.
Wil Kinghan is a writer, artist and explorer of the Hermetic and Celtic traditions. He studied Archeology at University College Dublin, and Environmental Design at NCAD in the 1980s. He won advertising awards in the 1990s, and later formed his own company to develop his art and writing.
Official Eddison Sadd licensed iPad/iPhone/iPod touch app: http://www.eddisonsadd.com
Reviews
Brilliant!
nancyhendrickson
This app is a Tarotist's dream. The spreads allow delving deep into life issues and the card descriptions go far beyond what you'll find in other Tarot apps. On top of its high level of usability is artwork that's among the most stunning I've seen in years. (In love with Navigator of Submersibles!) Even though I'm not particularly a steampunk fan, this beautifully designed deck truly did transport me - and my imagination - to a world I want to explore.
Great oracle app!
tonispywriter
I love this app. Great images on the cards. They give you a lot of stuff to work with when giving a reading. I also have the actual deck! The only reason I didn't give it five stars was that I couldn't do a one card reading. And I'd like to see a three-card past, present, future reading as well. Love that you have so many interesting spreads. Kudos to John and Caitlin Matthews!
Fantastic Steampunk Tarot App!
dramaqueen2b
Captivating Steampunk art full of descriptive detail and meaningful interpretations fully explore the realm of tarot and bring an accurate readings and an uplifting message to help guide your way through matters of daily life.
Disappointing
Random-Encounter
Pros: Pretty artwork. Cons: Everything else. Seriously, this is fairly useless as a tarot app. The cards cannot be studied to become familiar with them in any order or by suit, although the names are changed for the majors as are the suits for the minors. Browsing the cards is only possible with a shuffled deck. If you do a reading, you have to use spreads peculiar to the app with silly names like "control panel" or "steam goggles." None of this would be too bad if the references to the spreads or suits were a tap away, but they are not. Cards have their 'steampunk' meanings and names at hand, which is something, but that is it. References are away down a menu tree that can't be accessed without leaving the spread. If you guess that you should just read the manuals first, guess again. There are no pictures in the references, so there is no chance to make visual or intuitive connections between the card faces and the reference material. Also, the writing is more juvenile than fun, like a comic book or video game guide that is taking itself too seriously. Simple attention to usability from the viewpoint of a user could fix this app. For now, it's flash over form and form over substance. Too bad, really. The artwork really is very well done. For that, and the somewhat useful steampunk card explanations on the backs of the cards, I rate this two stars.
Taking tarot to a different world
Brytpoet
Taking steampunk to the tarot, creating the world of steampunk, not just giving the cards steampunk faces. Really detailed artwork and symbology.
Amazing , accurate and deep, exquisite art in a well-developed app.
dariusarcher
I've been a Tarot enthusiast for something like 40 years, and acquired my first pair of Steampunk goggles about 4 years ago. Already have the earlier Steampunk Tarot deck by Moore and Fell, so was delighted to discover this iPad app from distinctively different creators. After being charmed by the game-like mechanics of the app itself, my first 3-card mini-reading was powerful and straight to the point. In this reading I gained insight into some aspect of card meanings which had never occured to be before, and which was due to the artistic representation itself rather than the also well conceived text. Bravo!
Steampunk wisdom cards
I am 707
Bad bad bad. Wisdom? Joke! Negative, confusing, not at all helpful but contradicting. Hate it
there are better choices imo
Blue Pine
I love steampunk imagery, but these images seemed poorly conceived. The best image is the one that serves as the icon for the app. The rest of them don't really seem like steampunk to me, no matter what their subject matter is. I didn't like the them. They seemed contrived, empty and forced. I ended up deleting the app.
