Wildwood Tarot Deck

The Wildwood Tarot will take you on a journey for answers. Look to the heart of a primeval forest where deep ancestral wisdom lies to help make sense of your world today. Based on seasonal rhythms and ancient festivals, this gift set draws inspiration from pre-Celtic mythology and shamanic mysteries. The deck introduces classic forest archetypes, including the Green Man and Woman, the Archer, and the Blasted Oak, and explains how to use them as a meditation system, a divinatory oracle, or a reference. Will Worthington's pagan images connect us with a long-lost world that can help us make sense of our own. Cards deck; 6 x 8.25 inches; 160 pages.

Why We Carry It

Most decks map the Major Arcana onto a human life. Wildwood maps it onto the year. The wheel turns through the eight festivals, and the court cards become animals rather than kings and queens, which does something useful to your reading: it takes the ego out of the spread. You stop asking who is in charge and start asking what season you are standing in.

By Mark Ryan and John Matthews, illustrated by Will Worthington. 78 cards with a full guidebook.

Who It Is For

This one belongs to the readers who feel more at home under trees than in a temple. If you already track the sabbats, if your practice is seasonal, or if the standard Rider-Waite imagery has always felt a little too civilized for you, Wildwood will click immediately. It is readable for a beginner, but the depth is real enough that experienced readers keep coming back to it. It is a genuinely good autumn deck.

Try It With

Lay it out on the Moon Phase Gold Altar Cloth and keep The Weiser Tarot Journal beside it, since this is a deck that generates writing. Follow the wheel it is built on with our Wheel of the Year guide, and browse more in tarot and oracle decks.