Ashe Alma

Every tradition that survived the Middle Passage survived because the people who carried it refused to let it die. They prayed to the Orishas in the names of Catholic saints. They buried their conjure roots under church foundations. They kept Ifa in their hands and the rosary around their necks at the same time.

They did this not because they were confused, but because they understood something the institutions on both sides of the Atlantic could not — that truth does not belong to any one tradition, and that the Divine does not require our permission to speak through any vessel it chooses.

Ashe Alma was built from that refusal.

Seventy-eight cards. Twenty-two Major Arcana mapped to Orishas, Lwa, Catholic mystics, and historical Black ancestors. Fifty-six Minor Arcana spoken through the language of rootwork, cowrie shells, calabashes, machetes, and staffs.

This is not a deck inspired by the tradition. This is a deck built of the tradition. By a Black woman, for the people the ancestors called out by name.