Creation · Being
Archetypes
24 cards · Maroon
The patterns, roles, and character-selves we embody at different times, each with their own energy — the Sage, the Child, the Trickster.
Ask: How is this archetype showing up in your life right now?
The Pathway Discovery Process
PathwayDiscovery Cards
You already carry the wisdom you need.
These cards help you recognize it.
A 72-card deck and guidebook for intuitive self-discovery — where symbol and structure meet. Not fortune-telling. A complete system for reading your own journey.
Let's see what wants to be seen.
There are dozens of ways to work with the deck. One of the simplest — a good place to begin — is the Prime Concerns pull: draw a card from each suit and read them as Being · Doing · Having. Here is what one pull can look like.
Archetype · Being
The Hero
Who am I being? The courage to face what matters.
Concept · Doing
Meditation
What am I doing? Stillness that brings things into focus.
Object · Having
The Compass
What do I carry? A sense of direction and true north.
Turn over all three.
Being the Hero, doing the quiet work of Meditation, you come to carry a Compass — the meaning always yours to make.
And that is just one reading, in one layout, of many.
The deck at a glance
Three suits, three energies
Seventy-two cards in three colors of twenty-four. Each suit maps to one universal energy and one way of moving through life.
Transformation · Doing
Concepts
24 cards · Blue
Abstract ideas you hold in mind and act from. Transformation comes from acting and behaving in accordance with the identity we hold.
Ask: What does this idea mean to me?
Completion · Having
Objects
24 cards · Green
Timeless symbols we carry and use — the Lantern, the Compass, the Hourglass. What you hold, and what it means.
Ask: What does this object represent in my life?
Now ask, from just these three cards: what is the message my unconscious mind wants me to know at this time?
Not one ritual — a whole practice
Dozens of ways to read
A quick daily pull, a deep facilitated session, a spread chosen by the roll of a die or your own birth date — the same 72 cards mean something new every time. A few of the ways people work with the deck:
Quick reading
Being · Doing · Having
The Prime Concerns pull — a card from each suit for a fast, whole-picture snapshot.
By energy
Prime Concerns
Begin with the energy you wrestle with — creation, transformation, or completion — and draw to bring it back into balance.
Across time
The Timeline
Past · Present · Future, one card each — where you've been and what's beginning to emerge.
Six cards
The Pyramid
Foundations at the base, challenges in the middle, your aspiration at the peak.
In pairs
The Duel
Cards read two at a time as relationships — tension is where the growth lives.
By birth date
The Zodiac Reading
Your birth date deals the whole deck into twelve houses. "You didn't choose this — this chose you."
…and many more — the Timeline Weave, shadow-card work, and the deck's own architecture, which divides into duets, octaves, wheels, and matrices. There is no single right way in.
This is not fortune-telling, tarot, or divination.
The cards are mirrors — because you already hold the meaning.
How a reading unfolds
Four movements
Whether you read alone, with a friend, or with a practitioner, every session follows the same gentle arc.
Selection
Sort the deck by color, shuffle, and draw. You pick the cards — there are seventy-two, and you chose these.
Arrangement
Lay them out — a triad, a timeline, a pyramid. Position gives each card a role in the story.
Interpretation
Ask what each image means to you, and notice the space between them: harmony, tension, repetition.
Integration
Name what you learned and one small step to take today. The insight was always already yours.
Hand-drawn, one for every turn of the path
Seventy-two doorways
Original artwork by Darika Wora-Apinyapon, printed on a premium linen-finish deck.
Tap a card to turn it over.
Own the deck
The Pathway Discovery Cards
Deck, guidebook & pouch
$54.99
$59.99
Launch price
- 72 illustrated cards in three suits, premium linen finish
- The 173-page Second-Edition Guidebook — every card, spread, and method
- A keepsake drawstring pouch — blue or purple — made to be carried
- Free access to the online Members area of tutorials
Secure checkout by Stripe — card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. Free shipping, and your deck ships within a few business days.
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The Guidebook
The full written companion — foundations, all 72 cards, spreads, and the practitioner's manual. Included with the deck, or available on its own.
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Members tutorials Free with deck
Video walkthroughs and deeper explanations that go beyond the printed guide — sign in to keep learning at your own pace.
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Read with Bradley
A session changes what you're willing to see
Being witnessed is different from reading alone. In a facilitated session, Bradley holds the space and asks the questions — a single sitting can surface what weeks of solo practice might not.
Single Session
A focused 30–40 minute reading, in person or by video.$99
Personal Growth Journey
Three sessions over time, with a journal and follow-up.$500
Group Discovery Workshop
A guided half-day for your circle or team, per person.$150
🔒 The Members Area
Go deeper than the guidebook
Everyone who owns the deck gets a free account. Inside, Bradley teaches the process on video and unpacks the cards and spreads far beyond what fits in print.
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Tutorial video library
Step-by-step walkthroughs — your first pull, the spreads, reading for others.
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Deeper card explanations
The light and shadow of every archetype, and how the suits speak to each other.
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Guided spreads
The Timeline Weave, the Pyramid, the Zodiac reading — walked through in full.
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Journaling prompts
Questions to carry a reading forward through the week.
Watch
See the cards in motion
A look at the deck and the process. The full tutorial library lives in the Members area.
Select a video
Choose one from the list to play it here.
About the author
Bradley S. Tompkins
MIS · MHt · MNLP · ClearPath Learning Systems
Bradley has used cards his whole life — to learn, to sort ideas, to find the relationships hiding between them. The Pathway Discovery Process grew out of that lifelong habit into a system that bridges the intuitive and the analytical: symbol and structure, mystery and method.
A certified hypnotherapist and master practitioner of NLP, he built the deck to give people a way to hear their own inner knowing — and runs the coaching practice Pathways to Creative Well-Being.
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