Life After Everything: Astro Oceans 🌊 Tarot Tabletop RPG

Community Stretch Goal Unlocked + Rune Deck Add-On! 🌌✨
10 months ago – Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 11:35:00 PM

Our community stretch goal is officially unlocked!

Thanks to all your shares, comments, and cosmic hype, we’ve unlocked 20 mobile wallpapers featuring artwork from Life After Everything: Astro Oceans. 🌌

These will be delivered digitally to all backers after the campaign via a download link in a future update / pledge manager, so you’ll be able to carry little pieces of this universe around in your pocket.

And one more update:
The Rune Deck is now available as an add-on for all tiers, so no matter what level you’re at, you can now add it to your pledge if you’d like a second copy or didn’t qualify for the free one.

💫 Note:

• Backers with a $99+ pledge already receive one Rune Deck for free.
• This add-on is ideal if you’re below $99 and want the Rune Deck, or if you’d like extra copies for friends, your table, or your collection.

Thank you again for helping this universe grow. 

With Love
Gifted Ocean

💫 We Hit $100K – The Rune Deck Has Entered the Star-Sea!
10 months ago – Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 07:07:16 AM

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🔍 Anatomy of a Life After Everything Tarot Card (and Its Guidebook Twin)
10 months ago – Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 07:01:12 AM

Star-sailors, let’s zoom in for a second.

You’ve seen the spreads, the shimmer, the big cosmic vibes… but what actually lives on a single Life After Everything tarot card? And how does the guidebook turn that art into something you can really use in your readings?

Today we’re zooming in on the anatomy of a card and giving you a peek at how the guidebook is structured.

🪐 Four Suits, Four Energies

Life After Everything follows the familiar tarot structure (Majors + Minors), but each Minor suit has been reimagined as a different flavor of cosmic energy:

• Planets (Pentacles → Planets)
  Material Energy: work, health, home, body, and building something that lasts.
  Like planets formed over ages, this suit is all about stability, resources, and the slow magic of showing up.

• Nebulae (Wands → Nebulae)
  Creative Energy: inspiration, drive, frustration, and transformation.
  Like stars being born in cosmic clouds, this suit holds the spark, the ambition, and the messy part of becoming.

• Constellations (Swords → Constellations)
  Mental Energy: thoughts, communication, perception.
  Like stars connected into patterns, this suit is about mapping meaning across chaos and seeing the story inside the noise.

• Gravity Wells (Cups → Gravity Wells)
  Emotional Energy: feeling, memory, connection, intuition.
  Like gravity itself, invisible but inescapable, this suit is the heart’s pull, the force that gives your journey weight and direction.

So if you already read RWS, you can step right into this system, just with a more cosmic skin and a deeper lore layer humming underneath.

🧬 The Card Layout: A Tiny Cosmos in Your Hand

From top to bottom, each LAE card is built to tell a story at a glance:

1. Title & Rank

• Majors carry a Roman numeral at the top (like IV for The Emperor), plus the card title at the bottom.
• Minors show their suit and rank (e.g., Six of Planets, Ace of Nebulae).

Aside from the numerals, the anatomy is the same across Majors and Minors, so everything you learn from one card applies everywhere.

2. Central Illustration (The Story Moment)

In the center, you get a full scene pulled from the world of Life After Everything:

• The Emperor seated on an asteroid throne, holding the line as cosmic portals swirl around them.
• The Ace of Nebulae diving through starlit chaos, right at the moment of creative ignition.
• The Six of Planets patiently balancing cosmic scales, measuring what’s given and what’s received.

Each illustration is a frozen moment in a story, designed so even a single card draw feels like a frame from a movie.

3. Class & Subclass – The Card’s “Role”

Beneath the title, you’ll see a small line like:

GUARDIAN / ANCHOR
This is the card’s Cosmic Card Class and Subclass, its role in the grand pattern of the cosmos.

There are four main Classes:

• Catalyst – sparks change, breaks stagnation
• Navigator – guides, reveals, searches
• Weaver – connects, builds, harmonizes
• Guardian – protects, heals, stabilizes

Each has Subclasses (like Awakener, Igniter, Builder, Healer, Anchor, etc.) that give the card a particular “job.”

For example:

• The Emperor is a Guardian / Anchor
• The stabilizer. The one who holds the structure when everything else wants to fly apart.
• Ace of Nebulae might appear as a Catalyst / Igniter
• The spark that kicks everything off, the creative leap.

In readings, this gives you a fast shortcut to how the card behaves:

Is this energy trying to protect? To build? To disrupt? To guide?

4. The Three Stats – Resonance, Transformation, Stability

At the bottom of each card, you’ll find three small icons with numbers.

These are the card’s personality stats:

• Resonance (☀️ sun symbol)
  Cosmic awareness, intuition, spiritual sensitivity.
• High Resonance cards feel tuned-in, psychic, synchronistic.
• In a spread, they can point to moments of strong intuition and alignment.

• Transformation (⚡ lightning bolt)
  Adaptability, quick thinking, change mastery.
• High Transformation cards bring movement, shifts, and breakthroughs.
• They often show where something is ready to change or evolve.
• Stability (✋ hand symbol)
  Physicality, endurance, grounding, follow-through.
• High Stability cards are solid, reliable, steady.
• They highlight what’s durable, what can be trusted, and where you’re being asked to commit.

For tarot readers, you can think of these as a printed energy profile for each card, helpful when you want to compare cards in a spread or get a quick feel for how “volatile” or “steady” a situation is.

📖 Inside the Guidebook: How a Card Becomes Story

The cards are designed to be intuitive on their own, but the guidebook is where they really start talking.

Here’s how a typical entry is structured, using The Emperor as an example:

🪐 1. Keywords

A quick list like:
Structure and Order, Responsible Leadership, Stable Foundation, Protective Authority
Perfect for fast reads and riffing on combinations in a spread.

🪐 2. Imagery Description

A walkthrough of the scene:
A figure on a throne carved from a single asteroid, surrounded by organized cosmic architecture… nebulae channeled into structured, sustainable systems…
This helps you notice details you might otherwise miss—and gives you language to anchor your intuitive hits.

🪐 3. Story of This Moment

A short narrative about where you are in the arc:
After the fertile creativity of The Empress, you now encounter the need for structure, boundaries, and sustainable systems…
This roots the card in a bigger journey rather than isolating it as a one-off symbol.

🪐 4. Life After Everything Meaning (Upright)

The main interpretation, focused on rebuilding, growth, and real life:

• Where structure, discipline, and leadership are being invited
• How boundaries can support rather than suffocate your creativity
• The idea of becoming the benevolent ruler of your own inner world

🪐 5. Life After Everything Meaning (Reversed)

The shadow expression:

• Control issues, rigidity, or avoidance of responsibility
• Trouble with authority (internal or external)
• The tension between “no structure at all” and “too much control”

Rather than just saying “this is bad,” the reversed meaning explores how the energy can get distorted, and how to gently bring it back into balance.

🪐 6. A Question for Your Inner Cosmos

A reflective prompt like:
Where in my life do I need to step into more responsible leadership, and what structures would actually support rather than constrain my authentic expression?
Great for journaling, therapy work, or just evening reflection.

🪐 7. An Invitation to Explore

A small, concrete action:
Identify one area of your life that feels chaotic and create one loving structure or boundary that brings more order and peace…
Every card ends with something gentle and doable, so your reading doesn’t just land as “information,” but an actual path forward.

💛 Thank You for Going This Deep With Us

Designing the anatomy of each card, and the structure of the guidebook that supports it, has been one of the most obsessive, joyful parts of this project.

If you’re already a backer: thank you for believing in a deck that wants to be more than just pretty art.

If you’ve been watching from the sidelines and you love:

• Tarot with real depth and intentional worldbuilding
• A guidebook that actually walks with you through life, not just lists meanings
• And the chance to choose between Cosmic and Gold flavors of the same celestial story…

…this might be your sign to step through the portal and join us. 🌙✨

With love,
Gifted Ocean

Across Every Timeline, Thank You 🌌
10 months ago – Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 07:09:40 AM

Hey everyone,

In the U.S., today is Thanksgiving, but wherever you’re reading this from, whatever you do or don’t celebrate, I wanted to take a moment to send a little gratitude across the star-seas.

This campaign has pulled in people from all over the world: different time zones, cultures, and traditions, all orbiting the same strange little dream about tarot, stories, and rebuilding life after everything. That means a lot to me, and I don’t take it lightly.

Whether you:

• jumped in on Day 1,
• just discovered the project yesterday,
• are quietly watching from the sidelines deciding if it’s for you,
• or have been in the comments asking questions, sharing ideas, and hyping others up.

You’re part of why this world is coming to life.

A Moment to Breathe (and Appreciate)

I know this time of year can be intense. Some folks are surrounded by family. Some are working. Some are alone by choice, some not. Some are celebrating, others are just trying to make it through the week.

Wherever you fall on that spectrum, I hope you get at least one small pocket of peace, a cup of something warm, a deep breath, a quiet moment with a book, a game, a pet, or just your own thoughts.

From my side of the cosmos: I’m incredibly grateful that you’ve chosen to spend even a sliver of your time, attention, and resources on Life After Everything: Astro Oceans. Thanks to you, this isn’t just an idea in my head anymore, it’s a real deck, a real game, and a real community starting to form.

A Tiny Prompt for Today 🔮

In the spirit of reflection, here’s a little question you can sit with, journal on, or even pull a card for if you feel called:

“Where in my life am I already more supported than I realize, and what’s one small way I can honor that support today?”

No pressure, no homework. Just an invitation.

What’s Next for the Campaign

I’ll keep this part short and sweet:

• I’m continuing to refine art, layout, and content behind the scenes.
• More previews, lore, and peeks at both the tarot and TTRPG side are coming soon.
• We’re still pushing toward our next stretch goals, and every share, comment, and conversation genuinely helps.

If you feel like spreading the word today or this weekend, amazing. If all you have the energy for is existing and maybe glancing at a post or two, that’s valid too. You’re still part of this.

From my corner of the cosmos to yours: thank you for being here, in whatever way you’re able.

With love and starlight,
Samuel / Gifted Ocean 🌊✨

Cosmic vs. Gold – 3-Card Side-by-Side 🌌✨
10 months ago – Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 05:08:10 AM

Today we’re putting both editions on the table: the Cosmic Deck and the Gold Edition, using three cards as our comparison set, Six of Planets, Ace of Nebulae, and The Emperor.

The base artwork is the same across both decks; what changes is the world they live in:

• Cosmic Deck – Black-and-white linework with shimmering holographic foil that catches the light like starlight on deep space.
• Gold Edition – A soft, milky blue palette with rich gold foil accents that feel like illuminated manuscript meets star-myth. On some cards, the foil details shift, for example, the Ace of Nebulae (Gold Edition) features gold-foiled stars that glow against the softer colors.

You’ll see all three cards side by side in this update so you can get a feel for how each edition tells the same story in a different light.

👑 Next Stretch Goal – 75k: King of Nebulae STL

If we reach 75k, we’ll unlock the King of Nebulae as a 3D-printable STL file:

• A towering celestial entity born from drifting star-clouds and forgotten empires
• Designed as a dramatic centerpiece mini for your Astro Oceans sessions, altars, or display shelves
• Ideal for tabletop scale (think around 32mm heroic or larger as a boss)

🎁 Who gets it?
When we hit 75k, the King of Nebulae STL will be added as a digital reward for all backers.

You’ll be able to print your own King of Nebulae at home or through a local / online 3D print service, and bring this cosmic monarch to your table as an ally, patron, or terrifying force of nature.

We are almost at 100 shares!!

Alongside this campaign, we’re running a Community Mystery Stretch Goal on Instagram and Facebook. When our announcement post reaches 200 shares, we’ll unlock a secret reward for everyone. 🎁

To take part, just open the post, hit Share, and send it to someone who’d love Life After Everything: Astro Oceans. Every share moves the meter.

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