What is ALTARS?
ALTARS is more than a game -- it's a tool for self-reflection, storytelling, and building community.
There is no win condition, only Integration. Through symbolic language and ritual gameplay, ALTARS helps you explore your psyche - your power, your shadows, and the archetypes that live within you.
For Oracles + Tarot Readers
ALTARS is both a card game AND a divination tool — part deck, part mirror, part invocation. Work with ALTARS for readings, workshops, collective spaces, personal ritual, or channeling archetypal messages. Training is available for weaving ALTARS into your existing divination practice.
For Therapists + Counselors
Unleash the power of the ALTARS framework, inspired by post-Jungian play therapy, to help your clients embark on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Dive into the realms of identity, IFS, self-constellation work, and trauma healing with the therapeutic deckbuilding process.
Explore to enhance your practice and guide your clients towards profound insights about themselves. Recommended for clients living with anxiety, social anxiety, depression, cPTSD, bipolar disorder and DID, as well as neurodivergent clients.
About
You can call me Alice and/or Alex.
Welcome to my world! I am a proud Black, disabled, neuroqueer creative polymath—serving as a counselor, philosopher, artist, somatic educator, oracle, musician, etc. I love mixing the silly with the sacred, and I'm excited to get to know each other better. Here, we celebrate the beauty of diversity and the power of creativity and intelligence in all its forms, especially the somatic intelligence--the wisdom of the body.
Inspiration
This work was born out of trauma healing and resilience.
Reflecting on my childhood, I remember a time when my parents sold my Pokemon cards at a garage sale because they thought they were 'evil', which made me feel like I had to hide anything that brought me joy. Having to be invisible to protect myself, while a helpful coping mechanism in childhood, obviously took a toll on my mental health.
After years of falling down the rabbit hole of self-discovery and therapy, and after becoming a counselor myself, I'm ready to reclaim those cards on my terms. Join me as I pick up where 8-year-old Alice/Alex left off, building community through games and creating spaces focused on sharing joy and play.
Ready to Play?
Reserve your custom deck and schedule digital playtesting with your friends here!
ALTARS Custom Deck (Poker-Sized)
Your custom deck of 43 poker-sized cards! Alex and your artist will work together to help create your custom deck based off of your written descriptions.
ALTARS Custom Deck (Tarot-Sized/Recommended)
Your custom deck of 43 large tarot-sized cards, the way the game was originally intended to be played! Experience what it's like to play a card game that can also be used as a oracle deck.
Alex and the artists will make you a custom deck based off of your written descriptions.
ALTARS Custom Deck & 1:1 Deckbuilding Sesh
Work with Alex to learn the process of building a custom deck, which includes how to build a personal mythology. The deckbuilding process itself facilitates healing and self-discovery. Discover your Powers, your Triggers, your Shadows, your Rituals, and what your Integration might look like.
Best for non-therapists and folks who aren't very familiar with post-Jungian inner work and building a personal mythology.
Digital Group Playtest & Oracle Reading
My culture is an oral tradition. Make an offering and I will pass down the ALTARS tradition to you and your friends :)
NOTE: If you ordered your custom deck already and bring friends to play, your playtest ticket is free.
Want to Play Before Having a Deck? Suggested Donation $20-50
ALTARS Oracle Training
After training, you'll know exactly how to teach the ALTARS framework to infuse higher engagement, sustainability, connection and community into your oracle practice.
Folks who benefit from this training are often healers of some kind - often therapists, social workers, counselors or intuitives/tarot readers.