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This Might Help Oracle

A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook

Contributors

By Isabella Rotman

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Apr 21, 2026
Page Count
112 pages
Publisher
Union Square Gift
ISBN-13
9781454958208

Price

$26.99

Price

$35.99 CAD

Format

Cards

Format:

Cards $26.99 $35.99 CAD

The This Might Hurt Oracle is a divination deck envisioned through a joyful, queer lens, emphasizing a variety of bodies and modern symbols, yet staying true to the ethos of classic divination decks. Each of its 78 cards offers nuanced and open-ended readings that emphasize hope and individual agency. The oracle can be used independently or with the This Might Hurt Tarot. Rotman’s brand, This Might Hurt, is an apt description for divination: the readings these decks produce will be beautiful, but the truths they uncover may also hurt. As she writes, “This deck is going to tell you what you need to hear, and it doesn’t care if it feels good, so long as it’s good for you. It’s a deck of cards, not a person, so it’s not afraid to tell you that you need to take a real good hard look at yourself and your choices. That the future might not be bright–it might be HARD. But that’s okay. Most things worth doing might be hard, most things worth doing might hurt.”

Isabella Rotman

About the Author

Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator from Maine. Her art is usually about the ocean, women, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. 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 Artist in Residence at Scarleteen.com. Isabella was nominated for the Promising New Talent Ignatz award in 2017, and her comic Like the Tide was nominated for Outstanding Online Comic in 2020. 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.

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