48 cards and a book for coaching, reflection, group work, therapy and intuitive reading.
For almost 15 years, I kept returning to the idea of creating my own cards.
I have worked with cards for more than 20 years. I started with Tarot, later moved into coaching, systemic work and phenomenological constellations — and somewhere along the way these worlds naturally began to meet.
Now they have become ŽIVA.
ŽIVA is a set of 48 illustrated phenomenological-systemic cards accompanied by a book. You can use them in one-to-one coaching, counselling and therapy, for individual or group reflection and evaluation, or simply for intuitive reading.
The cards are approximately the size of Dixit cards, leaving plenty of space for the images, symbols and stories to speak.
Why ŽIVA?
The name comes from Živa, the Slavic goddess associated with life and vitality.
And she has a rather fitting counterpart: Morena (Mora), associated with winter and death.
Life and death. Growth and endings. Belonging and separation. Love and anger. Courage and fear. Movement and standstill.
ŽIVA was never meant to show only the beautiful parts of life.
It is about life as it is.
That is why, after years of working on this project, I am now asking people to help me do something quite literal:
Bring ŽIVA to life.
Pre-order ŽIVA on Kickstarter →
Where Tarot meets phenomenological-systemic work
The original inspiration came from the Osho Zen Tarot, a deck that has accompanied me for many years.
But ŽIVA gradually became something of its own.
Its foundation comes from my work with phenomenological and systemic constellations, coaching, Life Integration Process and more than two decades of working with cards and symbols.
The 48 cards explore different dimensions of our experience — from belonging, identity and potential to resistance, boundaries, courage, fear, anger, love, gratitude and transformation.
They are not designed to give you ready-made answers.
They create a space in which something can become visible.
A client or a group can choose a card.
Cards can become positions in a systemic process.
A coach or therapist can use an image to open a conversation.
Or you can simply shuffle the deck, ask a question and see what life throws back at you.
A small warning for intuitive readers 🙂
ŽIVA can absolutely be used for intuitive reading.
But the cards are sharp and direct — just as I am.
No gentle fairies, dolphins or unicorns are going to tell you that everything will be fine.
But they might tell you how to get off your ass.
Some cards will support you. Some will challenge you. And some may point directly at the thing you would rather not look at.
That is part of the deal.
ŽIVA is now on Kickstarter
After around 15 years of returning to this project, writing, changing, testing and creating, the book is finished and ŽIVA is ready for its first edition.
The Kickstarter campaign is open until 21 November 2026.
You can support the project by getting ŽIVA for yourself, using it in your professional practice — or perhaps giving it to someone as a slightly unusual Christmas gift.
I will be grateful for every form of support: backing the project, sharing it with someone who might connect with it, or simply helping ŽIVA travel a little further into the world.
Let’s bring ŽIVA to life.
Aby ŽIVA bola živá.
Da bo ŽIVA živa.
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