This Might Help Oracle Deck: A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook

by Isabella Rotman

Overview

Discover clarity, insight, and self-connection with the This Might Help Oracle deck, a beautifully designed set of 78 cards created for tarot lovers and seekers at every stage. Each card features a striking animal or object drawn from Rotman’s sister deck This Might Hurt Tarot, inviting you to explore deeper layers of meaning and symbolism with every reading. 

Use This Might Help Oracle as a standalone deck, or as clarifier cards alongside your favorite tarot deck to add nuance, clarity, and context to the messages within the cards. Let these cards guide you in analyzing situations, observing reactions, and uncovering the motivations behind your unconscious actions.

Wherever your journey leads, This Might Help Oracle will support your path to greater understanding.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454958208
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	04/21/2026
Series:	This Might Hurt Tarot
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	3.50(w) x 5.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator from Maine. She is the author of A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent, illustrator and co-author of Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up, and co-author of Abortion Pill Zine. Isabella is the creator of This Might Hurt Tarot, a modern and queer 78-card tarot deck based on the historic Rider-Waite-Smith deck. She is a founding organizer of Comic Arts Maine Portland.

Read an Excerpt

PARTIAL CARD LIST
The Majors
The Dog: advice, guidance, friendship, support
The Magicians Wand: tool of success, path to goal
The Veil: long journey, no shortcuts, patience
The 12-star Crown: repeating cycles, patterns, natural seasons
The Ram: harnessed power, domestication, control
Crossed Keys: revealed mysteries, solutions, vital information
Bow or Eros: changed feelings, falling in or out of love
The Steed: vehicle, tool, the way in which an action is achieved
The Garland: compassion, empathy, a gentle hand
The Lantern: inner voice, self-guidance
The Snake: knowledge of injustice, righteous resistance
The Battered Sword: social values, march toward progress, activism
The Rope: what slows you down, a pause
The Banner of Death: what is able to bloom after something else ends
The Middle Path: balance, middle choice, third unconsidered option
The Shackles: what holds you back, unhealthy behaviors, addiction
Lightning Bolt: catalyst, epiphany, destruction of false beliefs
Ibises: art, creativity, self-discovery, self-expression
The Mask: wildness, animal nature, primal instincts
The Sunflower: optimism, acceptance of joy, gratitude
The Feather of Truth: moral values and acting in accordance with them
Ouroboros: death and rebirth, cycles of destruction and creation