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Forest of Enchantment Tarot Deck & Book by Weatherstone & Allwood — Llewellyn RWS
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The Forest of Enchantment Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone and Meraylah Allwood — a Llewellyn 78-card deck with a 240-page companion book in a fitted magnetic-closure box. Allwood’s luminous nature-spirit paintings and Weatherstone’s fairy-tale narrative structure create an RWS-compatible deck beloved by green witches, nature-based practitioners, and readers who love immersive, story-driven card art. A standout gift for any reader drawn to Celtic and forest magic aesthetics.
Description:Quick Specs
- Author: Lunaea Weatherstone
- Artist: Meraylah Allwood
- Publisher: Llewellyn, 2020
- Format: 78-card deck plus 240-page companion book, magnetic-closure fitted box
- Best for: Nature-spirit readers, green witches, fairy-tale enthusiasts, RWS-compatible decks
Lunaea Weatherstone, Meraylah Allwood, and the Animistic Tarot Tradition
Lunaea Weatherstone is a Llewellyn author and practicing witch whose writing has consistently centered animistic, Celtic-adjacent, and green-witch spirituality. Her companion book for Forest of Enchantment Tarot is not a generic keyword guide. Each entry is written in dialogue with Meraylah Allwood's original paintings, treating the deck as an integrated creative work rather than a card set with an attached manual. Weatherstone's interpretations favor psychological depth and nature-spirit symbolism over the ceremonial magic attributions found in more traditional tarot guidebooks.
Meraylah Allwood painted the original artwork at slightly larger than card size, a detail that speaks to the care taken with the visual language throughout. The imagery draws from British Isles mythology, continental fairy-tale tradition, and animistic worldviews in which trees, animals, water, and stones carry intelligence and agency. The deck's aesthetic sits clearly outside the Thoth and Marseille traditions and equally outside the soft-pastel aesthetic of many contemporary nature-themed decks. It's more visually grounded, more morally complex, and more willing to include shadow imagery alongside light. Explore the full range of tarot decks and divination tools for pairing ideas or alternative styles.
The Deck-and-Book Kit Format and Why It Matters
Forest of Enchantment Tarot is RWS-compatible, which means practitioners already working with Rider-Waite-Smith, Universal Waite, or any of the hundreds of RWS-derivative decks will find the card structure immediately recognizable. The Major Arcana titles and sequence are standard, the suits are traditional (Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles), and the court card hierarchy follows the common Page, Knight, Queen, King pattern. This compatibility makes it a practical choice for readers who want to explore a distinct visual world without abandoning the interpretive framework they've built.
The 240-page companion book is more than a justification for the higher price point of the kit format. At that length, Weatherstone covers reversed meanings, multiple interpretive angles for each card, and guidance on working intuitively with the animistic symbolism that gives the deck its identity. The magnetic-closure box is practical for storage and for keeping the deck and book together as a single working unit. If you're comparing this to standalone decks with only a small included booklet, the book alone represents a meaningful addition to your practice. Browse complementary titles in tarot and divination books to deepen your practice further.
How to Use Forest of Enchantment Tarot
A practical approach to getting started with this deck-and-book kit.
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Start with the Book
Familiarize yourself with the companion book before reading the cards. Weatherstone wrote each entry with the animistic symbolism of Allwood's art in mind, so the book unpacks visual details that enrich the reading beyond basic card meanings.
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Draw and Read Intuitively
Shuffle while visualizing your question and draw using whatever spread fits your situation. The deck is RWS-compatible, so any standard Celtic Cross or three-card spread works directly. The imagery guides intuitively even without memorized meanings.
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Observe the Visual Details
After each reading, note how the forest creatures and landscape elements reflect your question. Allwood's painted originals contain subtle narrative cues in the foliage, light, and creature behavior that reward close observation over repeated use.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I carry this kit because the combination of Allwood's original paintings and Weatherstone's 240-page text produces something that earns its shelf space in a way that a deck-only purchase often doesn't. It's one of the few Llewellyn kits where the book is substantive enough to serve as a standalone reference for the deck's symbolic system. If your practice centers on nature-spirit traditions, green witchcraft, or fairy-tale symbolism, it fits naturally into my altar supplies collection where it can anchor the seasonal and animistic themes of your space.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Forest of Enchantment Tarot is RWS-compatible, meaning its card sequence and suit structure follow the Rider-Waite-Smith framework. Readers familiar with any RWS-based deck will recognize the structure and can begin reading without relearning.
Lunaea Weatherstone wrote the companion book and Meraylah Allwood created the original paintings. Published by Llewellyn in 2020, the kit includes 78 tarot cards and a 240-page book in a fitted magnetic-closure box, sold as one complete set.
The deck draws from Celtic-adjacent nature mythology, fairy-tale archetypes, and animistic traditions. It centers forest creatures, witches, faeries, and enchanted landscapes rather than the classical European court imagery of traditional tarot.
The set includes 78 tarot cards and a 240-page companion book packaged in a fitted box with a magnetic closure. Everything needed to start reading is included. No separate guidebook or supplementary material is required to use the deck effectively.
