Secret Oracle of the Green Witch by Lattari & Greco — Botanical Wisdom Cards

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Secret Oracle of the Green Witch by Lattari and Greco is a botanical oracle deck that channels the wisdom of the green witch tradition — the practice of working with plants, seasonal cycles, and the living magic of the natural world. Lush, detailed illustrations of herbs, flowers, and sacred plants accompany guidance rooted in folk healing and earth-based witchcraft. A beautiful deck for herbalists, kitchen witches, and anyone who feels most at home among growing things.

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• Title: The Secret Oracle of the Green Witch
• Authors: Cecilia Lattari (author) and Betti Greco (illustrator)
• Publisher: U.S. Games Systems
• Contents: 50 oracle cards and 65-page illustrated guidebook
• Best for: Plant spirit work, green witch practice, botanical divination

Green Witch Oracle Deck for Plant Spirit Communication

The Secret Oracle of the Green Witch, written by Cecilia Lattari and illustrated by Betti Greco, draws its entire symbolic vocabulary from the natural world: plants, herbs, trees, fungi, animals, and the elemental forces that govern an enchanted garden. This is not a lunar deck, not a shamanic Otherworld deck, and not a domestic hearth-centered deck. It is specifically rooted in what is called the animist green witch tradition, the practice of recognizing sentient intelligence in botanical life and learning to receive guidance from plant spirits directly. Lattari, who holds a degree in Herbalist Techniques and has written extensively on plant magic, brings genuine herbalist knowledge to the card meanings rather than decorative botanical imagery.

The 50-card deck covers the herbs, tools, creatures, and narrative symbols that form the core working vocabulary of green and hedge witchcraft: the plants used for charms and talismans, the animals whose behavior signals messages, and the natural elements that frame a practitioner's seasonal and elemental work. Betti Greco's illustrations, drawn from her base in the southern Salento region of Lecce, Italy, carry an earthy Mediterranean botanical sensibility that grounds the deck visually in real landscape rather than fantasy. The 65-page illustrated guidebook provides card meanings, spread suggestions, and context for practitioners new to plant spirit communication. Browse my oracle decks collection for the full range of divination systems.

Botanical Animism and the Green Witch Tradition

The green witch tradition is distinct from kitchen witchcraft, which centers on hearth and home, and from hedge witchery, which focuses on the boundary between worlds and spirit contact. The green witch's primary relationship is with living plant intelligence: learning which plants are allies, which conditions they respond to, and how their presence in a reading signals specific messages. This deck's 50 cards are structured to support that animist practice, using botanical symbolism not as metaphor but as direct communication from the plant kingdom. For practitioners already working with herbalism, this deck adds a divination layer to a plant-based practice they may already have established.

The deck was published by U.S. Games Systems, ensuring professional card stock, coating, and box construction. At 50 cards, the deck is lean enough to learn quickly but rich enough to sustain years of use as a practitioner's primary oracle system. It works as a standalone reading deck and as a companion to herbal study, where the card pulled for a given plant can deepen the practitioner's relationship with that plant in a physical garden or medicine cabinet.

How to Use Secret Oracle of the Green Witch

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I stock this deck because it occupies a specific and under-served niche in the oracle market: a divination system built on genuine herbalist knowledge, not just botanical imagery. Cecilia Lattari's background in Herbalist Techniques gives the card meanings real roots, and Betti Greco's illustrations carry the visual weight of a working tool rather than a coffee-table collectible. It occupies the animist green witch space that no other deck in my range covers. If plant magic and herbalism are already part of your practice, explore my herbs and accessories to bring the physical plants into the same work the cards illuminate.

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