The Herbal Tarot

Gifted this and it was much appreciated

I love the information and the cards themselves are beautiful. Easy to understand and decipher, and they are not afraid to tell me the truth.

I love this deck! I am big on herbal medicine and the Chinese ayurvedic tradition. These cards help me to apply that knowledge to Tarot in a way that allows for natural healing. I would still love this deck even if I didn't have a HUGE cabinet full of herbs. The companion book (sold separately) tells how to tap into the energetics of each specific herb by actually experiencing the herb or if I don't have access to the herb I can still meditate on the herb's picture (on the card) while receiving some very useful plant medicine.If you have little to no prior knowledge of herbs or their usage I would recommend purchasing the companion book "The Spirit of Herbs: A Guide to the Herbal Tarot", which is a fantastic resource for these Tarot cards. The little white book that comes with the deck just doesn't give enough info about each herb or any potentially harmful interactions or preparations that someone working with herbs should always be aware of.I will forever keep a copy of the Herbal Tarot in my collection. They are not just Tarot cards but a teacher of plant medicine and my life has changed drastically by introducing these cards into my everyday life.These cards are thick, glossy and can be somewhat difficult to shuffle at first but that is not a big issue for me. They are the same size as a standard Rider-Waite-Smith deck and come packaged in a cardboard box similar to most Tarot decks. If you don't care to learn about each herb these cards can still be used for regular readings since they're based off of the same system as the Rider-Waite-Smith deck with a few variations. The included little white book is useful for traveling or as a quick reference but is lacking in detail. I really recommend picking up a copy of the companion guidebook "The Spirit of Herbs: A Guide to the Herbal Tarot". It's not expensive... I paid about $11 for my copy and I have never regretted it.All in all. I am proud owner of the Herbal Tarot.

The media could not be loaded. I love the marriage of herbalism and tarot being brought together! Useful in many readings. Paired with the guidebook it makes the story of the readings come to life. Absolutely love this deck and the quality of the cards!

Please let me tell you about this deck, because I have fallen in love with it. I've never connected with Rider Waite before, but with the addition of the plants, every card becomes so beautiful, compelling, and sweet-hearted. Moreover, there is a distinct balance of feminine* characters contained here, which I have not found in every deck. This is refreshing.The LWB contains a remarkable amount of information on the herbs and cards for being a normal sized LWB, but I am in love with the actual guide (sold separately.) The Herbal Tarot guide (The Spirit of Herbs) is the most balanced and healing I've ever seen. Nothing judges. Nothing condemns. Everything orients toward great, ignorant, leafy ways. "Beloved, gaze in thine own heart," said Yeats in "The Two Trees". "Gaze no more in the bitter glass." The guide understands this intimately.These two items form a wonderful new friend for a medical student. I'm very grateful for such a healing tool.*I should note though that the deck remains fairly normative in the Rider-Waite tradition: love appears heterosexual, most characters appear to be white, and gender veers heavy cis. But I would say that I have been delighted at how often the Guide seems to press gently past older limitations of thought.

This is a really nice herbal card deck. The cards are nice sized, easy to shuffle, and the illustrations are original enough to be interesting, yet influenced enough by the Waite-Smith tarot that the tarot meanings are easy to divine. The book that comes with the deck is the typical, tiny-sized U.S. Games style black-and-white print. To people familiar with herbs and with the tarot, this manual is probably sufficient. For people who want to learn tarot or herbs, consider purchasing the companion book separately.On the plus side: the drawings are lovely, the herbs selected for each card are meaningful, and the interpretations for the cards is consistent and enhanced by the herbs.On the negative side: the author included marijuana as the chosen herb for the ten of cups, which I felt was inappropriate. For those people who associate herbs with marijuana, there is a comments section below. My feeling, as a person who was introduced to herbal medicine through melaleuca (tea tree oil), I wonder why an illegal herb was included with all the legally available herbs. And, in a card as important as the ten of cups, I was left to wonder if the creator of this deck imagined that "getting high" is the ultimate emotional goal in the mundane life of an herbal tarot deck customer? Are there not other emotional goals that are ultimately more satisfying, and more appropriate for the ten of cups? Anyway, I found the one card to be distracting from the rest of the deck, so I made a change. For people who disagree, there is a comments section below.For my deck, I searched for another herb that had a similar leaf structure, and then covered the name of the herb with white tape, tinted with colored pencil to match the card background, and changed the herb association to cinquefoil, which is an herb used in love magic, and is closely related to the rose; a flower considered sacred in many cultures. Of course, the drawing does not look exactly like cinquefoil, because the plant itself would be oversized, but I felt it was a decent substitution for the 10 of cups, and also the herb was missing from the deck. After I made this change, I also put a sticky note over the interpretation in the booklet, and changed the meaning to love and love magic.For my purposes, and also for the purposes of my clients (because I occasionally do intuitive consultations using various oracles and tarots), love is a stronger goal in life than "getting high". To be perfectly honest, I have never consulted with a client who wanted to know how to get high.