78 Tarot Elemental Cards
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78 Tarot Elemental Review: Orica’s Quick Take
78 Tarot Elemental: Tarot of the Natural is part of the 78 Tarot Project, a collaborative tarot series where a different artist creates each card around one shared theme. This edition turns the deck toward nature, elemental magic, and the five-part rhythm of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit.
My honest Orica take: this is a vivid collector-reader deck for people who like tarot to feel wild, varied, and alive. It is not the neatest first deck for memorizing symbols, because the art voice changes from card to card. But if you already know the bones of tarot, or you enjoy reading intuitively from image, mood, color, and elemental energy, 78 Tarot Elemental can be a beautiful reading companion.
The deck feels best when you treat it like a walk through a living landscape. Some cards are rooted and earthy. Some feel windswept, fiery, emotional, or spiritual. A skilled reader does not fight that variety. We ask, which element is speaking loudest, and what does it need?
What Makes 78 Tarot Elemental Different?
The heart of this deck is collaboration. Instead of one illustrator building one controlled world, the 78 Tarot Project gathers many artists and gives each one a single card to interpret. That makes the deck feel like an exhibition: every card has its own texture, but the elemental theme gives the whole deck a shared pulse.
In practice, this means the deck can surprise you. A familiar card may feel softer, stranger, more intense, or more nature-based than expected. Earth can speak through body, money, roots, food, and patience. Air can show thought, language, distance, and decision. Fire brings will, anger, desire, and creative heat. Water carries memory, grief, love, and intuition. Spirit asks what the whole reading is trying to teach.
This is why I would not read 78 Tarot Elemental in a rushed way. It wants a reader who can pause, notice the card’s atmosphere, and let the element become part of the interpretation.
Art Style: Nature, Gilding, and Many Artist Voices
78 Tarot Elemental has a lush indie-deck feeling. The old product copy highlights gilded edges, gold foil details, and a nature-based theme, and that suits the mood: this is a deck that wants to feel special in the hand, not plain or clinical.
Because the cards are made by different artists, the visual style is not perfectly uniform. For some readers, that is the magic. It can make a spread feel like a council of different spirits. For others, it may feel uneven. If you love highly consistent decks where every card looks like it came from the same dream, you may prefer a single-artist deck. If you love contrast and discovery, this deck gives you a lot to read.
Deck-specific reading note
Reading the element before the keyword
With this deck, I like to name the element before I name the lesson. If a card feels earthy, I ask where the situation needs grounding, time, body care, or practical proof. If it feels airy, I look for words, plans, doubts, or overthinking. This keeps the reading tied to the deck’s own language instead of flattening every image into a memorized sentence.
That is especially useful when a card’s artwork is more symbolic than traditional. The element becomes the bridge between intuition and structure.
How 78 Tarot Elemental Reads in Practice
This deck reads best for reflective, intuitive questions. It is strong when the question has mood, conflict, timing, or inner movement. Instead of asking only, “What will happen?” I would ask, “Which element is out of balance?” or “What kind of energy would help me respond wisely?”
For love readings, the elemental layer can show whether a connection needs warmth, honesty, emotional safety, or practical commitment. For career readings, it can separate inspiration from action: Fire may be the idea, Earth may be the work, Air may be the plan, and Water may be the emotional cost. For spiritual readings, Spirit can remind you that a situation is not only about winning. It may be about integration.
The main challenge is that beginners may need extra patience. Because the artwork changes across the deck, you cannot rely on one repeated visual system. You need to know basic tarot meanings, then let each image add its own weather.
Easy, Medium, and Hard Reading Examples
Easy question: “What energy should I bring into today?”
If a fiery card appears, I would keep the message simple: act, create, move, speak with courage. If an earthy card appears, the advice may be to slow down, finish one real task, or care for your body. A beginner can get a clear answer by matching the card’s element to one practical action.
Medium question: “Why does this situation feel stuck?”
Here, a skilled reader looks for imbalance. Too much Air can mean analysis without movement. Too much Water can mean feelings flooding the decision. Too much Earth can become fear of change. Too much Fire can burn trust before it has time to grow. The deck is helpful because it makes energy patterns feel visible.
Hard question: “What part of myself am I not listening to?”
This is where 78 Tarot Elemental becomes more than pretty art. Spirit may point to the larger lesson. Water may reveal an old feeling. Fire may show a desire you judged too quickly. Earth may ask for safety. Air may ask for truth. The best answer is not dramatic. It is honest, balanced, and useful.
Orica’s close-reading method
Use the five elements as a spread lens
A simple way to read with this deck is to pull five cards: Earth for the practical reality, Air for the thought pattern, Fire for action and desire, Water for the feeling underneath, and Spirit for the lesson. This fits the deck better than forcing it into a generic three-card spread every time.
When the same suit or mood repeats, pay attention. Repetition is the deck tapping the same bell twice. It may be saying, “This is not a random card. This is the part of the system that needs care.”
Who Will Love This Deck?
78 Tarot Elemental is a strong fit for collectors of collaborative tarot, nature-magic readers, artists, intuitive readers, and people who enjoy decks with many visual personalities. It can also suit readers who work with elemental correspondences, seasonal rituals, moon work, spell planning, or creative journaling.
It may not be ideal if you want a very traditional Rider-Waite-Smith training deck, a perfectly uniform art style, or a tiny pocket deck for quick public readings. The beauty here is the range. The trade-off is that range asks for more attention.
What to Know Before Buying
The original listing language around this deck mentions indie tarot, the 78 Tarot collaboration, gilded edges, gold foil details, and the natural elements. Availability may vary because project decks and special editions can move in and out of easy retail stock. If you are buying secondhand or through a marketplace, check the photos, card count, box condition, and whether any guidebook or companion material is included.
I would also check whether the listing is for the exact 78 Tarot Elemental / Tarot of the Natural edition, because the 78 Tarot Project has multiple themed decks. Similar names can be confusing when sellers reuse generic tarot keywords.
Reader fit note
The deck rewards symbolic patience
Some decks answer like a clear signpost. This one often answers like weather. You may feel a card before you fully explain it. Is it dry, hot, heavy, flowing, bright, stormy, fertile, or still? That first felt sense is not separate from the meaning. In an elemental deck, it is part of the meaning.
My favorite way to use it is to let the card’s mood speak first, then translate that mood into grounded advice the querent can actually use.
Beginner Friendliness
I would call 78 Tarot Elemental beginner-friendly for curious art readers, but not the easiest beginner deck for memorization. If you are brand new, keep a simple tarot meanings book nearby and make your own elemental notes. Write one line for each card: “What is the element doing here?” That practice will teach you faster than trying to memorize every detail at once.
If you already know tarot basics, this deck can stretch your readings in a good way. It asks you to move beyond keywords and notice tone, direction, texture, and energetic balance.
Orica’s Golden Rule
Read the element as advice, not as a sentence. Fire is not always “go.” Sometimes it is “do not burn the bridge.” Water is not always “feel more.” Sometimes it is “stop drowning in someone else’s mood.” Earth is not always “wait.” Sometimes it is “make the promise real.” Air is not always “think.” Sometimes it is “say the honest thing.” Spirit is not always mystical. Sometimes it is the quiet pattern that holds the whole reading together.
Card moment
Fire cards: desire becomes action
The fire cards are where 78 Tarot Elemental feels most active. Look for heat, movement, courage, and pressure. These cards often describe the place where desire becomes action.
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Water cards: the feeling under the question
The water cards soften the reading. They are useful for emotional honesty, healing, friendship, grief, intuition, and the feelings that move under the surface of a practical question.
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Earth and air: grounding the message
Earth cards help you ground the message into money, body, work, and routine. Air cards ask what needs naming clearly. Together they keep the deck from becoming too vague or too heavy.
Final Thoughts
78 Tarot Elemental is a beautiful example of what collaborative tarot can do when the theme is strong enough to hold many artist voices together. It may feel a little wild beside a single-artist deck, but that wildness is also its gift. It invites you to read with the natural world, the body, the breath, the flame, the feeling, and the unseen thread between them.
If you want a polished, predictable study deck, this may not be your first choice. If you want a deck that feels alive, elemental, and full of different creative fingerprints, it is worth exploring.
For more TarotFans deck reviews, you may also like the 78 Tarot Carnival review, the 78 Tarot Ecological review, and the 78 Tarot Mythical review.
78 Tarot Elemental FAQ
Who created 78 Tarot Elemental?
78 Tarot Elemental was created through the 78 Tarot Project, a collaborative tarot art project where many artists each contribute one card to a shared themed deck.
What is the theme of 78 Tarot Elemental?
The theme is elemental nature. The deck works with Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit, so readings often feel connected to energy balance, the natural world, and inner weather.
Is 78 Tarot Elemental good for beginners?
It can work for beginners who love art and intuition, but it is not the simplest memorization deck. Because many artists are involved, the visual style changes from card to card. New readers may want a basic tarot guide beside them.
Does 78 Tarot Elemental have gilded or foil details?
Older product descriptions mention gilded edges and gold foil details. If you are buying a specific copy, check the seller photos and edition notes, because packaging and availability can vary across listings.
How should I read with an elemental tarot deck?
Start with the traditional card meaning, then ask what the element adds. Earth may ask for grounding, Air for clarity, Fire for action, Water for emotional truth, and Spirit for the wider lesson.
