✦ Physical cards · Read in context · Socratic dialogue

Making the Unconscious
Conscious

Khora is not a fortune-telling novelty. Lay your own cards on a real table, photograph them, and get a structured reading built on what you actually dealt — how the cards relate, where the figures are looking, and what you are avoiding.

Khora showing a three-card spread it has just read: the detected cards, elemental balance, and the sightlines between the figures
“Khôra is that which receives all things, the eternal and indestructible seat, providing a position for everything that comes to be.”

Plato — Timaeus

The Five Alchemical Engines

A precision instrument, not a parlour trick

Khora reads the geometry of real cards on a real table, then refuses to tell you what to do. Every engine exists to hand the interpretation back to you.

01 · VISION

Tabletop Computer Vision

Photograph real tarot cards laid out on any table. Khora isolates each card, its position, and whether it fell upright or reversed — Marseille, Rider-Waite-Smith, or whatever deck you already own. A three-card spread reads in one shot; the full ten-card Celtic Cross is captured in three guided stages, each one locked in before the next.

Khora scanning three tarot cards on a candlelit table, guide boxes locked onto each card All ten Celtic Cross cards named and mapped after a three-stage capture
02 · SIGHTLINES

Sightlines & Elemental Balance

The figures on the cards look somewhere. Khora works out who is looking at whom — where two cards confront each other, where one turns away, and which element is carrying or missing from the spread (Batons, Swords, Cups, Coins).

03 · DIALECTIC

Socratic Dialectic & Rectification

No fatalistic predictions. Unhurried, probing questions that take apart the story you arrived with and leave the answer where it belongs.

A Socratic dialogue about the spread, with the reading above it
04 · THE INNER CHAMBER

The Inner Chamber — Active Imagination

Carl Jung’s active imagination, as a conversation. Speak directly with the figures in your spread (The Hermit, The High Priestess, The Hanged Man) — each in its own voice.

05 · SANCTUARY

Your Private Vault

No advertising. No tracking cookies on this site. Dream voice notes are recorded to your device, transcribed, then deleted — including a sweep for anything left behind. Your readings and journals stay in a private vault on your phone.

The private vault listing saved readings and dreams

The Tetramorph

The Four Elemental Torches

The four suits of the Marseille deck map the primordial quadrants of human cognition and embodied action. Khora weighs their balance in every spread.

Fire · Volition

Bâtons / Batons

Creative drive, animal vitality, and somatic impulse. Governs what moves you before thought intervenes.

Axis: Willpower
Air · Intellect

Épées / Swords

Discernment, dialectical tension, and the crisis of the mind. The blade that severs illusion from reality.

Axis: Clarity
Water · Affect

Coupes / Cups

Affective receptivity, relational depth, and psychological resonance. The chalice that holds emotional truth.

Axis: Empathy
Earth · Embodiment

Deniers / Coins

Somatic grounding, the discipline of craft, matter and the body. Manifestation etched into tangible existence.

Axis: Substance

Downloads & Technical Specifications

Enter the holding space

Khora keeps your readings on your device. Bring a deck you already own, any table, and a question you have been avoiding.

Platforms
iOS 17.0+ (iPhone, iPad) · Android 14+Universal APK / AAB
Languages
English · Română · Español · Français · Deutsch
Architecture
On-device SQLite vaultApple App Attest / Google Play Integrity · Cloudflare transit gateway with zero data persistence
Deck
Any physical deckTuned for Tarot de Marseille and Rider-Waite-Smith