All 78 Herbcrafters Tarot Cards
Herbcrafters Tarot Cards
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Herbcrafters Tarot Review: Quick Take
The Herbcrafters Tarot is a gentle, earth-rich deck for readers who love herbs, kitchen magic, gardening, folk wisdom, and slow intuitive practice. Created by Latisha Guthrie with artwork by Joanna Powell Colbert, it keeps the bones of tarot but renames the suits as Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, with court cards called Hija, Adelita, Madre, and Curandera.
My quick take: this is a beautiful choice if you want tarot to feel less like fortune-telling and more like a living conversation with plants, seasons, healing, and everyday ritual. It reads best when you are willing to pause, notice details, and ask, “What is this card asking me to tend?”
What Makes This Deck Different?
Herbcrafters Tarot pairs every card with a plant ally. The images are not dramatic fantasy scenes or classic Rider-Waite-Smith copies. They are tables, gardens, jars, bowls, roots, flowers, tools, hands, smoke, water, and sunlight. That makes the deck feel practical and intimate, like a wise friend opening a cupboard of remedies.
The renamed suits are easy to understand once you sit with them. Fire brings creativity, courage, passion, and action. Water brings feeling, softness, trust, and emotional healing. Air brings thought, breath, language, and perspective. Earth brings body, resources, home, labor, and care.
First look: the living garden of the deck
These opening cards show the deck’s main language: plants, tools, natural cycles, and quiet attention. It is mystical, but it stays close to the body and the garden.
Art Style and First Impressions
The art is soft, detailed, and earthy. Many cards look like a moment in a real herbalist’s day: drying plants, brewing tea, gathering fruit, arranging candles, or preparing a remedy. The colors are natural rather than flashy, with greens, yellows, violets, browns, and warm kitchen light.
This style is calming, but it also asks more from the reader. If you prefer cards with obvious people acting out a scene, some images may feel quiet at first. The reward is depth. A bowl, a root, a kettle, or a hand can carry a full message when you slow down and let the symbol speak.
How the Herbcrafters Tarot Reads
This deck reads like practical plant wisdom. It does not shout. It suggests. It asks you to notice patterns, care for what is alive, and work with small daily choices. In a reading, the cards often point toward tending, nourishing, clearing, brewing, resting, composting, speaking, or preparing.
For emotional questions, the deck is kind and grounding. For creative questions, it is excellent because the Fire suit feels like actual making: cooking, crafting, warming, and transforming. For spiritual questions, it feels devotional without being heavy. It can turn a reading into a simple ritual.
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Justice: choosing the clean remedy
Justice in this deck feels less like a courtroom and more like a careful preparation. It asks: what needs to be measured honestly? In a relationship reading, this card can point to fair boundaries, truthful words, and choices that restore balance without punishment.
For a practical reading, Justice may say, “Do not guess. Check the facts. Use the right amount. Keep your promise.” That is very Herbcrafters: spiritual wisdom with dirt under its fingernails.
Beginner Friendliness
Herbcrafters Tarot can work for beginners, especially beginners who already love plants, herbal symbolism, nature spirituality, or slow journaling. The guidebook is important because the plant choices add a second layer beyond standard tarot meanings.
If you are brand new to tarot and want instant Rider-Waite-Smith visual clues, this may feel medium difficulty at first. But if you enjoy learning through stories and daily practice, it can become very friendly. Pull one card, read the plant note, then ask how that plant’s behavior mirrors your situation.
Easy, Medium, and Hard Reading Examples
Easy example: “What do I need today?”
If you pull Temperance, the message is simple: blend gently. Do not force a big transformation. Make tea, take a breath, mix rest with action, and choose the middle path that helps your nervous system settle.
Medium example: “How do I move a creative project forward?”
If Eight of Fire appears, the deck may be saying that the energy is already hot enough. Keep the work moving, but do not scatter it. Use the momentum like a cooking flame: steady, watched, and useful.
Hard example: “Why do I keep repeating this pattern?”
If The Devil appears, Herbcrafters does not need to scare you. It asks where an old attachment, craving, or habit has become too tangled. The practical advice is to name the bind, reduce shame, and create one small ritual of release that you can repeat.
Fire: craft, courage, and transformation
The Fire cards are full of heat, hands, tools, and making. They are wonderful for questions about motivation, creative courage, and what needs to be transformed through action.
Best Uses for This Deck
- Daily card pulls: especially when you want one grounded action or reflection.
- Healing and self-care spreads: the plant language makes the deck naturally supportive.
- Kitchen witch or green witch practice: it pairs beautifully with tea, candles, garden work, and seasonal rituals.
- Creative blocks: the deck often gives practical symbolic prompts instead of vague advice.
- Journaling: each card can become a small study of a plant, element, and life pattern.
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The Hermit: quiet medicine and inner listening
The Hermit is one of the deck’s sweetest teachers. It does not ask you to disappear forever. It asks for a protected pause. In a busy-life reading, this card can mean your wisdom is being drowned out by noise, notifications, or other people’s urgency.
A practical Herbcrafters reading might be: step back, simplify your inputs, and let one small ritual mark your return to yourself. The card’s medicine is quiet, but it is not weak.
What to Know Before Buying
This is not the best deck if you want bold, high-contrast human scenes on every card. It is also not the fastest deck for memorized meanings because the plant layer matters. The card titles and suit names may require a little adjustment if you are used to Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles.
That said, the learning curve is part of the beauty. Herbcrafters Tarot rewards patience. It feels like a deck you grow with over seasons, not a deck you fully understand in one weekend.
Water: feeling, softness, and emotional tending
The Water suit reads like emotional care in motion. It is about soothing, sharing, receiving, and learning when feelings need to be held gently rather than rushed.
Orica’s Golden Rule for the Herbcrafters Tarot
My golden rule: read the action in the image before you rush to the keyword. Is something being gathered, brewed, planted, strained, warmed, tied, poured, pruned, or offered? That action is often the bridge between the traditional tarot meaning and the message you can actually use today.
For example, a card may not only say “change is coming.” It may show you how to meet the change: dry the herb first, let the tea steep, clean the jar, tend the flame, or share the harvest.
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Curandera of Earth: mature care without over-giving
The Curandera of Earth is generous, skilled, and deeply practical. She knows care is not only a feeling; it is a practice. In readings, she can point to someone who knows how to feed, repair, organize, and protect what matters.
Her shadow is doing too much for everyone else. If this card appears when you are exhausted, the message may be: your medicine is precious, so do not pour it out without refilling your own bowl.
Who Will Love This Deck?
You may love Herbcrafters Tarot if you are drawn to herbalism, nature-based spirituality, gentle shadow work, folk magic, gardening, and tarot that feels like a practice rather than a performance. It is especially good for readers who want grounded advice and emotional steadiness.
You may want a different deck if you need very literal scenes, modern fashion, strong drama, or quick predictive hits. Herbcrafters is more reflective than flashy. It gives you roots before it gives you fireworks.
Air and Earth: breath, thought, body, and home
These cards show the deck’s grounded intelligence. Air clears the mind and names the truth; Earth brings the message back to the body, the home, and the work that sustains life.
Final Thoughts
The Herbcrafters Tarot is a tender, intelligent, and deeply practical deck. It invites you to treat tarot like a garden: observe what is growing, remove what is choking the roots, feed what needs care, and trust that small rituals can create real change.
For the right reader, this deck becomes more than a set of cards. It becomes a seasonal companion, a journaling tool, and a gentle teacher in the art of paying attention.
Herbcrafters Tarot FAQ
Who created the Herbcrafters Tarot?
The Herbcrafters Tarot was created by Latisha Guthrie with artwork by Joanna Powell Colbert. It is a plant-centered tarot deck that blends herbal wisdom, elemental symbolism, and tarot archetypes.
Does the Herbcrafters Tarot follow the Rider-Waite-Smith system?
It keeps a recognizable tarot structure, but it changes the language. The suits are Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, and the court cards are Hija, Adelita, Madre, and Curandera. The meanings are familiar, but the plant allies give them a fresh herbal layer.
Is Herbcrafters Tarot good for beginners?
Yes, if the beginner enjoys nature, herbs, and reflective reading. It may feel a little harder than a classic Rider-Waite-Smith clone because the images are subtle and plant-based, so the guidebook is worth using closely.
What are the Herbcrafters Tarot court card names?
The court cards are renamed Hija, Adelita, Madre, and Curandera. They can be read as growing levels of relationship with the element: learning it, acting with it, nurturing it, and mastering its medicine.
What kinds of readings suit this deck best?
It is excellent for daily guidance, self-care spreads, healing questions, creative practice, seasonal rituals, and green witch or kitchen witch readings. It is less ideal when you want fast, dramatic, highly literal scenes.
Does the deck include all 78 tarot cards?
Yes. Herbcrafters Tarot is a full 78-card tarot deck, with majors plus the elemental suits of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.
