STRANGE COMPANIONS
FIELD GUIDE to uncertainty
An entry into a world built for the strange, contradictory and often uncooperative conditions of being alive.
Inside are Dreadlings and the things that surround them: Orders, Conditions, Unresolved States, recorded origins, observations, field notes and other evidence gathered from several years of watching uncertainty behave badly.
The Field Guide gives language and form to experiences that can be difficult to hold still long enough to examine. Grief. Change. Exhaustion. Memory. Noise. Indecision. The pressure to keep up. The suspicion that everyone else has somehow received clearer instructions.
Read from beginning to end, open somewhere at random, follow a Dreadling, or use it alongside the Oracle Deck to move deeper into the relationships between the cards.
It is a book for noticing what is already there.
an oracle deck for uncertain times
a 42-card way into the world of Strange Companions.
Dreadlings arrive as companions. Orders offer a way of understanding how they move through the world. Conditions introduce the pressures already acting on the situation. Unresolved States complicate whatever looked straightforward a moment ago.
Together, the cards create relationships rather than answers.
Perform a reading to reveal what is present, what is shaping it, what is interfering, or where something remains difficult to name. Sometimes a pattern emerges immediately. Sometimes the cards make an already complicated situation considerably more interesting.
Paired with the Field Guide, the cards open into the larger Strange Companions world: their histories, relationships, field notes and ways of being read.
Pull a card. See who showed up.