Alex de VriesThe Samsara Compass is a Buddhist oracle deck of 48 cards mapping the full range of human experience across six realms of existence and six directions of a compass.
Each reading transports you to a new vantage point, a specific location on the samsara compass from which things become visible that cannot be seen from anywhere else. The deck includes 36 realm cards, 7 factors of awakening as travelling companions, 4 cardinal Buddha wisdom cards, and Vairocana: the Cosmic Buddha, as the ever-present ground of every reading.
The cards were created through a slow and deliberate collaboration between human vision, AI image generation, and a hand-drawn card back designed by an artist in Central Java, Indonesia.
This is a deck for those willing to arrive somewhere genuinely new, not to be told how to feel, but to discover what can be seen from coordinates they have never stood at before.