Blood and Rust: The Misery Tarot

Funded at the end of 2024, The Misery Tarot is a shadow work divination tool made to explore grief, pain, trauma, and the healing journey. Read on its own, it focuses solely on these topics, but read with its Overlay Spreads on top of other tarot readings it can help inform how pain, suffering, or healing is affecting the rest of your typical reading. This is very helpful when you’re engaging in readings where the querent is nervous about how difficult topics are affecting their lives.

First featured through the Bogeyman card in the Alleyman’s Tarot, this deck is a 100-card abnormal tarot deck from Seven Dane Asmund. Inspired by survival horror genre titan, Silent Hill, the Misery Tarot focuses on the traversal through grief, trauma, and suffering as a kindness to ourselves using imagery of the horror genre.