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Weeds and Witches Oracle — 50-Card Botanical Witchcraft Deck by Belmonte & Lattari
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The Weeds and Witches Oracle — a 50-card botanical witchcraft deck by Belmonte and Lattari that bridges plant spirit medicine and oracle divination. Each card features richly illustrated wild plants and herbs alongside messages drawn from herbalist and folk magic traditions. Perfect for the green witch, herbalist, and plant-lover who wants an oracle deck that speaks in the language of roots, weeds, and the living world of botanical spirits.
Description:Quick Specs
- Publisher: U.S. Games Systems
- Author: Cecilia Lattari; Illustrations by Fabiana Belmonte
- Type: Oracle deck, 50 cards with 64-page guidebook
- Best for: Green witch practice, hedge witchcraft, wildcraft divination, nature-based guidance
Weeds and Witches Oracle: Wildcraft Divination for the Green and Hedge Witch
The Weeds and Witches Oracle by Cecilia Lattari and Fabiana Belmonte is a 50-card oracle deck built on the premise that the most powerful plant allies are the ones most often overlooked: the weeds. The deck draws on the folk botany of mugwort, mandrake, hemlock, belladonna, and other plants rooted deeply in European hedge witch and wildcraft tradition, the kind of plant knowledge passed through apothecary lineages, cunning folk practice, and green witchcraft rather than formal ceremonial systems.
The cards pair these weeds with six archetypes of witchery drawn from folklore: the crossroads witch, the country witch, the silvan witch, the shaman witch, the urban witch, and the siren witch. Each archetype maps to a distinct territory, both internal and external, giving the deck a structural depth that goes beyond simple plant-keyword divination. The 64-page guidebook, illustrated in full color, helps readers move between the card imagery, the guiding witch archetypes, and the written messages for each of the 50 cards. Fabiana Belmonte's lush collage-style art uses layered imagery that feels simultaneously contemporary and rooted in old tradition.
How This Deck Differs from Other Botanical Oracles and Tarot
Unlike decks that romanticize cultivated garden flowers, the Weeds and Witches Oracle specifically honors the plants that grow without permission, the ones at the margins of fields, along roadsides, and in abandoned lots. This is a deliberate philosophical stance: wildness, resilience, and boundary-crossing are the energetic themes the deck works with, which makes it a strong choice for practitioners drawn to hedge witch and wildcraft traditions that value the uncultivated and the liminal. This is an oracle deck with no numbered arcana structure; readings are guided by imagery, a poetic phrase, and the guidebook's prose rather than learned positional meanings.
The deck suits practitioners already working with botanical allies, folk herbalism, and plant spirit communication, though the imagery-driven approach also makes it accessible to those newer to oracle work. Browse my oracle deck collection to compare this with other nature-based and witch-themed divination systems.
How to Use the Weeds and Witches Oracle
Three approaches to getting the most from the Weeds and Witches Oracle's imagery, archetypes, and wildcraft depth.
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Read the Map Before You Walk It
The guidebook opens with a map of the witches and their territories. Spend time here before your first reading. Knowing which witch archetype governs each section helps you contextualize card draws and understand whose guidance is speaking to you.
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Draw and Sit With the Image
Pull a single card and spend two minutes with Belmonte's collage before reading the guidebook entry. The layered imagery is designed to shift perception gently, letting the poetic phrase on each card land before the prose meaning anchors it fully.
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Use the Deck for Dream and Memory Work
The guidebook notes that cards serve as prompts for remembering dreams and questioning waking experience. Keep the deck bedside and pull a card each morning before the rational mind fully engages, using plant imagery as a bridge between states.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I carry the Weeds and Witches Oracle because it takes the hedge witch tradition seriously rather than softening it for mass appeal. The plant choices are genuinely interesting from a folk botany standpoint, the witch archetypes give the deck a structural backbone that most oracle decks lack, and Belmonte's collage art holds up to the kind of extended visual attention that good card reading requires. It's a 50-card deck, a reasonable size for a working practitioner's toolkit without overwhelming a beginner. Explore my witchcraft and spellcraft books for reading that pairs naturally with this deck's hedge witch themes.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Weeds and Witches Oracle contains 50 cards and a 64-page full-color illustrated guidebook. The deck pairs wildcraft botanicals with six witch archetypes from European hedge witch and folk traditions, published by U.S. Games Systems.
No. It is an oracle deck with no numbered arcana structure. Readings are guided by the card's botanical imagery, a poetic phrase on each card, and the guidebook's prose, rather than learned positional meanings from a traditional tarot system.
Cecilia Lattari wrote the deck and guidebook. Fabiana Belmonte created the lush collage-style illustrations. The deck is published by U.S. Games Systems and combines contemporary art with plant lore from European hedge witch traditions.
The deck focuses on wildcraft plants including mugwort, mandrake, hemlock, and belladonna, plants central to European hedge witch tradition and folk apothecary practice, rather than cultivated garden flowers or modern herbal wellness imagery.
