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Liminal Tarot

A practice, not a prediction.

A private place for the questions that keep circling back — a job you can't decide on, a relationship that feels different this time, a season you can't name yet. You draw a card, write what you notice, and the app keeps it.

The cards don't decide anything. They give your attention a shape — something to look at instead of staring straight at the thing. What you notice is the reading.

One reading is a moment. Kept together, they become a record: which questions returned, which cards kept showing up, what changed between March and June. That record is the practice, and it's the part you can't get anywhere else.

SPECIMEN / HOMELiminal Tarot daily card screen
// VISUAL — the ritual, shown

A surface you return to, not a chatbot.

Drawing a card should feel deliberate, not like submitting a form. The craft is the point: the surfaces, the type, the motion. Step through the record.

// select record
Daily card screen

A daily card and a place to reflect.

Reading question input

Begin with what's on your mind.

Spread setup screen

Our cards, or the ones already on your table.

Reading detail screen

A reading you can sit with.

Chapter detail screen

Chapters hold the thread over time.

Daily reflections screen

Your cards, your words, accumulating.

Your cards frequency screen

The cards you keep drawing.

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The cards are a mirror, not a crystal ball.

MOTIF / SUITLOADER

Shuffling…

MOTIF / CARD BACKLiminal Tarot card back design
MOTIF / ILLUSTRATIONTarot reader illustration
// ARCHITECTURE — production shape

Built like a product, not a demo.

One codebase, three surfaces, real accounts and real data behind every screen. The shape is here; the internals stay the studio's.

ApplicationServer-rendered web app, typed and component-driven
NativePackaged for iOS from one codebase; App Store distribution
Data & AuthAccount-based, row-level isolation, passwordless sign-in
SynthesisServer-side synthesis across a reading and across a chapter
CommerceManaged subscriptions; native in-app purchase on iOS
SurfacesOne product across web, installable PWA, and native iOS
// THESIS

The product is the thread.

A single reading is a moment. A chapter is a period of life — readings gathered around one question until a pattern you couldn't see from inside it becomes visible.

People reach for tarot at thresholds: a decision, a loss, a drift, a fear that keeps returning. The card doesn't answer it. It gives the question a frame — something to examine instead of circle. What you write down is the real work.

Any single reading is easy to get anywhere. A private record of months of them is not. Synthesis reads across the thread and reflects it back — the cards that keep recurring, the question that quietly changed shape. That's the part that compounds, and the reason it's a practice and not a parlour trick.

It's the studio thesis too: one operator, one repeatable pipeline, each output built to compound into the next. Liminal is the proof of it.

Chapter

The Offer on the Table

3 readings · Feb 12 – Mar 15, 2026

Feb 12, 2026 · Past, Present, Future

Am I staying because it’s right, or because I’m afraid to leave?

The MoonTwo of SwordsThe Star

Feb 28, 2026 · Decision

What am I not seeing about the new offer?

Seven of CupsJustice

Mar 15, 2026 · Career Path

What’s really holding me back from deciding?

The DevilThree of WandsThe Moon

What has been emerging across 3 readings

The Moon keeps returning — you already know more than you’re admitting. The early readings circled around permission: whether you were allowed to want something different. By the third reading, the question had shifted. It wasn’t about the offer anymore. It was about what staying had started to cost.

This grows with each reading you add.

// UPDATES — running record

What's shipped, newest first.

Appended from source as the product evolves.

2026-06-08releaseVersion 1.0.2 — improved daily card persistence, added native StoreKit in-app review request flow, and refreshed Apple product-page metadata
2026-05-26releaseVersion 1.0.1 — maintenance and refinements.
2026-05-22releaseVersion 1.0 distributed on the App Store.
2026-05-20featureChapter synthesis — patterns across a thread of readings.
2026-05-12featureDaily card ritual with reflection history.
2026-05-04supportFAQ, crisis resources, and contact support added.
— plannedplatformiPad layout and Google Play — posted here when they land.