{"product_id":"woodland-fairy-tale-tarot-magic-folklore-plants-78-card-deck-by-lattari-varetto","title":"Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot: Magic, Folklore \u0026 Plants — 78-Card Deck by Lattari \u0026 Varetto","description":"Short description:\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWoodland Fairy Tale Tarot.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cecilia Lattari and Giulia Varetto weave 78 cards through enchanted fields and forests, and the 128-page guidebook decodes each image with plant lore, folklore, and self-reflection prompts for slow, seasonal readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n\r\nDescription: \r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-quick-specs\"\u003eQuick Specs\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:html --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tarot deck with guidebook\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCards:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78 illustrated cards\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eGuidebook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128 pages, full color\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCard Size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 by 5 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. Games Systems, Inc.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1-64671-192-5\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cecilia Lattari\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Giulia Varetto\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:html --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-deck-where-folk-tales-meet-plant-magic\"\u003eA Deck Where Folk Tales Meet Plant Magic\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFairy tales carry more than bedtime comfort. They carry the map of how a culture makes sense of grief, courage, appetite, and change, and the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot pulls that map straight into the reading room. Cecilia Lattari, a theater educator whose work traces oral storytelling back to its roots, wrote a deck built for the way people actually think, in fragments and images that only cohere once you say them out loud. Giulia Varetto's illustrations do the visual half of that job, drawing on Italian folk aesthetics and childhood forests to render 78 scenes that feel more like painted stills from a stage production than the tidy allegory of a classic Rider Waite Smith card. When the cards come out, the Major Arcana appear as familiar figures wearing new masks, the Wands root themselves in real branches and bark, and the Cups hold water gathered from ponds a fox might drink from. That specificity is the deck's quiet gift. It refuses the flat symbolism of tarot as pure abstraction and instead insists that every card sits in a landscape, with weather, with a season, with something growing at the edge of the frame. If you want your divination to feel earthed rather than airy, this deck answers the ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe 128-page guidebook is the piece that separates this from a pretty picture set. Lattari does not treat card meanings as a fixed dictionary but as story seeds, and for each of the 78 cards she offers a short retelling, a plant association drawn from European folk botany, a brief reflection question, and a note on the season or mood the card carries. The plant references are the layer that gives the deck real practice depth. Each card names a species with its Latin binomial and a paragraph on the traditional magical role that species played in cottage and forest witchcraft, which means a Six of Wands might carry rowan, a Three of Cups might carry elderflower, and a Nine of Swords might carry mugwort. None of this is presented as medicine. It is presented as symbolic correspondence, the way older grimoires paired plants with planetary hours or elemental affinities, and it gives the deck a working vocabulary that fits alongside an altar, a garden, or a shelf of dried herbs. The reflection questions at the end of each entry are equally useful. They do not ask the standard prompt about what a card means for you in the abstract, but instead ask about specific gestures, thresholds, and decisions, which nudges the reading toward something you can actually do this week. That structure is why I stock the deck alongside my other tarot learning sets, and why I recommend it if you feel most modern decks skip the folkloric middle ground between polished art and plain interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-practical-ritual-applications\"\u003ePractical Ritual Applications\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI stock the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot for readers who want slow, seasonal readings that follow the wheel of the year. In early spring you can use it for a three-card check-in on what you are ready to plant, tend, and prune, and the plant associations in the guidebook give you a physical altar cue, since a card about elder in April is also a reminder to leave a pinch of dried elderflower under the candle. For grief and transition, the deck's fairy-tale framing invites you to name yourself as the character in the story, which softens hard truths without hiding them, and makes the reading feel less like a verdict and more like a chapter break. The deck also pairs well with folkloric working spreads for guidance on relationships with land, ancestors, or non-human kin, and it belongs on the same shelf as the botanical journals and folk-magic guides in my \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tarotfellow.com\/collections\/celtic-druidry-nature\/\"\u003eCeltic, Druidry and Nature collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-read-with-the-woodland-fairy-tale-tarot\"\u003eHow to Read with the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot\u003c\/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:yoast\/how-to-block {\"steps\":[{\"id\":\"step-1\",\"name\":\"Prepare the Space and Cleanse the Deck\",\"text\":\"Before your first reading, unbox the deck and shuffle it face up so you meet each of the 78 cards and note which ones draw your eye. Wipe your reading surface with a damp cloth and let it dry, then pass the stack through the smoke of a rosemary or juniper bundle if that is part of your practice, or set it on a windowsill overnight in moonlight. Read Lattari's short introduction and skim the plant list at the back of the guidebook so the botanical vocabulary is already in your ear when you start pulling cards for a real question.\"},{\"id\":\"step-2\",\"name\":\"Choose a Spread and Shuffle with Intention\",\"text\":\"Start with a single-card daily pull for the first week, then move to a three-card past-present-future or wheel-of-the-year spread once the fairy-tale voice feels familiar. Shuffle for as long as it takes to settle your breathing, hold the question in the present tense in your mind, and cut the deck into three stacks with your non-dominant hand before drawing from the top of the reassembled pile. If a card jumps from the stack while shuffling, keep it separate and read it as an early message on top of whatever else you draw.\"},{\"id\":\"step-3\",\"name\":\"Read the Cards with the Guidebook and the Plant Notes\",\"text\":\"For each card, look at the image first and note the season, the weather, the creature in the frame, and the plant if one is present. Then open the guidebook to that card, read the short fairy-tale retelling out loud, and only after that turn to the plant association and the reflection question. Write the plant name and one line from the reflection into a reading journal so the botanical thread carries through the week. Return to the same card entry after seven days to see whether the season, the mood, or the question has shifted the meaning.\"}],\"defaultDurationText\":\"Time needed:\"} --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-how-to wp-block-yoast-how-to-block\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-how-to-description\"\u003eThe deck rewards a slow, story-first approach that treats each card as a scene rather than a fixed keyword.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003col class=\"schema-how-to-steps\"\u003e\r\n\u003cli class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"step-1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\"\u003ePrepare the Space and Cleanse the Deck\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"\u003eBefore your first reading, unbox the deck and shuffle it face up so you meet each of the 78 cards and note which ones draw your eye. Wipe your reading surface with a damp cloth and let it dry, then pass the stack through the smoke of a rosemary or juniper bundle if that is part of your practice, or set it on a windowsill overnight in moonlight. Read Lattari's short introduction and skim the plant list at the back of the guidebook so the botanical vocabulary is already in your ear when you start pulling cards for a real question.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"step-2\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\"\u003eChoose a Spread and Shuffle with Intention\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"\u003eStart with a single-card daily pull for the first week, then move to a three-card past-present-future or wheel-of-the-year spread once the fairy-tale voice feels familiar. Shuffle for as long as it takes to settle your breathing, hold the question in the present tense in your mind, and cut the deck into three stacks with your non-dominant hand before drawing from the top of the reassembled pile. If a card jumps from the stack while shuffling, keep it separate and read it as an early message on top of whatever else you draw.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"step-3\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\"\u003eRead the Cards with the Guidebook and the Plant Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"\u003eFor each card, look at the image first and note the season, the weather, the creature in the frame, and the plant if one is present. Then open the guidebook to that card, read the short fairy-tale retelling out loud, and only after that turn to the plant association and the reflection question. Write the plant name and one line from the reflection into a reading journal so the botanical thread carries through the week. Return to the same card entry after seven days to see whether the season, the mood, or the question has shifted the meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:yoast\/how-to-block --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-tarot-fellow-standard\"\u003eThe Tarot Fellow Standard\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI brought the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot into the shop for two reasons that hold up whether you are new to tarot or five years in. First, U.S. Games Systems has been publishing tarot since 1968, including the Rider Waite Smith editions many readers grew up on, and their production values are consistent from box to box. The card stock is glossy and smooth enough to shuffle without clumping, and the print carries no bleed or misregistration. Second, the deck genuinely differs from the standard tarot library. The Minor Arcana are structured as continuous stories rather than isolated scenes, and the 128-page guidebook grounds each card in European folk botany with a Latin binomial and a reflection question. If your reading table looks mossy, papered with dried leaves, lit by a single beeswax candle, this deck is made for you. Browse my \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tarotfellow.com\/collections\/tarot-decks\/\"\u003eTarot Decks collection\u003c\/a\u003e for more in the same tier.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-frequently-asked-questions\"\u003eFrequently Asked Questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:heading --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:yoast\/faq-block {\"questions\":[{\"id\":\"faq-1\",\"question\":\"Is the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot a good deck for a beginner?\",\"answer\":\"Yes, with one qualifier. The 128-page guidebook is written to support first-time readers with a fairy-tale retelling and a reflection question for each card, so the barrier to a first reading is low. What makes it different from a strict beginner deck is that the imagery leans on folk symbolism rather than the standard Rider Waite Smith visual keys. If you are using this as your only deck, you may want a second reference to see how a familiar card renders in the more traditional style. If you love plant lore, story, and forest aesthetics, you will take to this deck quickly, and the narrative style of the guidebook is easier to absorb than a pure keyword dictionary.\"},{\"id\":\"faq-2\",\"question\":\"Can I read reversals with the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot?\",\"answer\":\"Yes, and the card back is built to support it. Giulia Varetto printed the back as a dense turquoise leaf pattern that reads identical upright and reversed, which means shuffling can genuinely randomize orientation without you seeing which way a card sits before you turn it over. That symmetry is the mark of a deck meant to be read with reversals. Reversal meanings are part of the whole tarot story, and I recommend reading them here the same way you would with a Rider Waite Smith deck: when a reversed card lands, treat it as a companion voice to the upright reading, and let Lattari retelling for the reversed side deepen the moment rather than negate it.\"},{\"id\":\"faq-3\",\"question\":\"Is the guidebook available in English?\",\"answer\":\"Yes, this is the English edition. Cecilia Lattari and Giulia Varetto are Italian creators and other-language editions circulate elsewhere in the market, but the copy I stock has a fully English 128-page guidebook, and every card retelling, plant association with its Latin binomial, and reflection question reads in English throughout. No translator needed, and no imported-edition surprises when the box arrives on your doorstep.\"},{\"id\":\"faq-4\",\"question\":\"How should I use the plant references in the guidebook?\",\"answer\":\"Treat them as symbolic correspondences, not instructions for handling or ingesting anything. Each entry names a species with its Latin binomial and a short note on the role that species has played in European folk magic, and the useful move is to let the plant deepen your reading of the card by associating a mood or a virtue with it. You might light a candle scented with that plant if you have one on hand, or write the plant name into a reading journal, or leave a dried leaf on your altar for the week. The guidebook does not recommend medicinal use, and neither do I.\"},{\"id\":\"faq-5\",\"question\":\"What makes the Minor Arcana in this deck different from a traditional deck?\",\"answer\":\"Each of the four suits reads as one continuous story rather than 14 unrelated scenes. Instead of drawing Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles as separate stand-alone images the way a Rider Waite Smith minor might, Cecilia Lattari built each suit around a fairy-tale arc so the Ace through Ten of a single suit flow like chapters. That structure makes the minors easier to remember for beginners, and it gives more experienced readers an additional narrative layer to work with, since a spread that pulls three cards from the same suit tells a small internal story before you even factor in the majors.\"}]} --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-faq-question\"\u003eIs the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot a good deck for a beginner?\u003c\/strong\u003e \r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-faq-answer\"\u003eYes, with one qualifier. The 128-page guidebook is written to support first-time readers with a fairy-tale retelling and a reflection question for each card, so the barrier to a first reading is low. What makes it different from a strict beginner deck is that the imagery leans on folk symbolism rather than the standard Rider Waite Smith visual keys. If you are using this as your only deck, you may want a second reference to see how a familiar card renders in the more traditional style. If you love plant lore, story, and forest aesthetics, you will take to this deck quickly, and the narrative style of the guidebook is easier to absorb than a pure keyword dictionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-2\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-faq-question\"\u003eCan I read reversals with the Woodland Fairy Tale Tarot?\u003c\/strong\u003e \r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-faq-answer\"\u003eYes, and the card back is built to support it. Giulia Varetto printed the back as a dense turquoise leaf pattern that reads identical upright and reversed, which means shuffling can genuinely randomize orientation without you seeing which way a card sits before you turn it over. That symmetry is the mark of a deck meant to be read with reversals. Reversal meanings are part of the whole tarot story, and I recommend reading them here the same way you would with a Rider Waite Smith deck: when a reversed card lands, treat it as a companion voice to the upright reading, and let Lattari retelling for the reversed side deepen the moment rather than negate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-3\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-faq-question\"\u003eIs the guidebook available in English?\u003c\/strong\u003e \r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-faq-answer\"\u003eYes, this is the English edition. Cecilia Lattari and Giulia Varetto are Italian creators and other-language editions circulate elsewhere in the market, but the copy I stock has a fully English 128-page guidebook, and every card retelling, plant association with its Latin binomial, and reflection question reads in English throughout. No translator needed, and no imported-edition surprises when the box arrives on your doorstep.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-4\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-faq-question\"\u003eHow should I use the plant references in the guidebook?\u003c\/strong\u003e \r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-faq-answer\"\u003eTreat them as symbolic correspondences, not instructions for handling or ingesting anything. Each entry names a species with its Latin binomial and a short note on the role that species has played in European folk magic, and the useful move is to let the plant deepen your reading of the card by associating a mood or a virtue with it. You might light a candle scented with that plant if you have one on hand, or write the plant name into a reading journal, or leave a dried leaf on your altar for the week. The guidebook does not recommend medicinal use, and neither do I.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-5\"\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong class=\"schema-faq-question\"\u003eWhat makes the Minor Arcana in this deck different from a traditional deck?\u003c\/strong\u003e \r\n\u003cp class=\"schema-faq-answer\"\u003eEach of the four suits reads as one continuous story rather than 14 unrelated scenes. Instead of drawing Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles as separate stand-alone images the way a Rider Waite Smith minor might, Cecilia Lattari built each suit around a fairy-tale arc so the Ace through Ten of a single suit flow like chapters. That structure makes the minors easier to remember for beginners, and it gives more experienced readers an additional narrative layer to work with, since a spread that pulls three cards from the same suit tells a small internal story before you even factor in the majors.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:yoast\/faq-block --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tarot Fellow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49684659929338,"sku":"DWOOFAI","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/7030\/0410\/files\/Woodland-Fairy-Tale-by-Lattari-Varetto-DWOOFAI.jpg?v=1783705117","url":"https:\/\/www.witchsey.com\/products\/woodland-fairy-tale-tarot-magic-folklore-plants-78-card-deck-by-lattari-varetto","provider":"Witchsey Marketplace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}