Dark Wood Tarot

Shadow work built into the deck itself. It’s a Rider-Waite-Smith-style deck in which you take the role of a witch entering the dark wood to meet your shadow self — the secret desires and unexamined corners of the psyche — with Sasha Graham’s full-colour guidebook carrying that work into the readings. Abigail Larson, a Hugo Award-winning illustrator of dark fantasy, drew the forest, and it’s striking without being theatrical. There is something about having to pass through the trees to reach your answer that feels right.

This is the introspective deck, the one that asks the harder questions and refuses to let you skim past them. Published by Llewellyn in 2020.

Based on the publisher’s and retailer’s descriptions and the deck’s published artwork; we haven’t read with this deck ourselves. Price checked October 2026. Sources: The Psychic Tree, Abigail Larson, Llewellyn.