March 4th Kicks Things Off!
Join us at Kickstarter to help bring the Climbing Spirit Deck & Guidebook to the world!
How it works: Supporters can make contributions to help raise capital for the deck & guidebook's first print run. Backers will earn rewards ranging from a bookmark and sticker to multiple deck & guidebook sets to premium items. Open until April 4th.
Adventure Awaits: Meet the Climbing Spirit Deck & Guidebook
Query. Reflect. Soar. A 52-card and guidebook set for climbers!
This unique resource combines vivid art with written reflections. It's designed for rock climbers, ice climbers, and mountaineers seeking more than grades.
1) Shuffle and draw a card. 2) Let the art wash over you. 3) Consult the guidebook.
"...Parts of us crave jumping into the unknown, and when such risk is absent from our lives, dysfunction follows. These animal bodies and minds need to regularly meet mystery, not just in TV shows, novels, or video games. At times, our lived experience has to be entwined with the question and its unavoidable answers. The stakes must be real. This card may be a cue to set our sights on something outside easy reach. To which specific, bold move do you need to commit? ..." (From The Dyno)
Why?
Fun
Community
Insight
"...Ascent is moving away from — a leaving of the mundane, the usual, the failure, the pain, the old. At the same time, ascent is moving toward — a reaching for the sacred, the transformative, the hopeful, the good, the fresh. You may not feel it, think it, or even fathom it the next time you move upward, but climbing is transcendence in its truest form..." (from The Ascent)
Insight
Community
Insight
"...knots are merely tools that serve and save us, right? Actually, where’s the line between tying and being tied? Are we given this practice in the material world so as to recognize such patterns on the climb of the soul? Could it be these too-tight-to-untie knots symbolize snarls twisted up inside us, like anxiety, dissatisfaction, or shame?..." (from The Knot)
Community
Community
Community
"...Climbing is a verb. But behind the many intoxicating movements and moments stands the relationship between beings. Someone taught us, caught us, and stood beside us at the summit. In few other pursuits do you so often hold a person’s life in your hands. ..." (from The Partnership)
Who We Are
IT'S ALL ABOUT SPIRIT
This is no ordinary tarot deck. Daniel McNeil and Peggy Flavin have created the Climbing Spirit Deck & Guidebook to celebrate people, place, and climbing.
Let's explore rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering through the beauty of art and oracle.