Presenting The Hedge Guild Oracle
Flora, Fauna, & Instrumental Animist Archetypes
In periods of great challenge and unpredictable change, the tales of the Hedge Guild’s 60 cards prove both insightful and empowering. The card readings and interpretations can make more clear for you the elements, factors, lessons and practical aids, potential consequences and outcomes to be found in any context or situation you find yourself in – equipping you with what you may personally need in these current epic and momentous times.
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Deck & Companion Book feature explorative tales, the magical and medicinal uses of plants, animal icons, and archetypal mythology. Together they serve as an animist augur and myth-hearted tool, conceived and created especially for you by the founders of Plant Healer Quarterly and the Good Medicine Confluence gatherings.
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle (Deck & Ebook PDF)
60 Cards, full color, boxed, with full color Oracle Companion Book download – $57
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion (Book)
Softbound, B&W – 288 pages, 8.5x11” – $29
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion (Deluxe Hardback Book)
Deluxe Linen Hardback, full color – 288 pages, 8.5x11” – $49
Arcana & Embarkment
In the old tales it’s the one that bends their head to the Otherly, or the strange,
or the outcast that gets led to the water of life and so proves redemptive to culture.
–Martin Shaw
The Hedge Guild Oracle Deck is nest to 60 images drawn by Jesse Wolf Hardin, the author of over 25 books about animism, nature, and the art of herbalism, as well as the author of the card readings sections and many of the folkloric entrees in the Oracle’s Companion book. The Oracle was conceived by his wife and partner Kiva Rose Hardin, author of The Weedwife’s Remedy. Herein she utterly enchants us as she tells of the usable as well as mythic dimensions of each perception-bending creature, iconic tree and healing herb.
The Hedge Oracle’s 3 Arcana are:
Hedge Guild Arcana (animist archetypes)
Fauna Arcana (animal spirits)
Flora Arcana (herbs and trees)
The Seeker, The Seer, The Shire Folk, The Misfit, The Dancer, The Wildling. The Fox, The Hummingbird, The Stag, The Hedge Hare, The Honey Bee. The Yarrow, The Bramble, The Rowan, The Magic Mushroom, The Oak – these are just a very few of the guides you will find on these cards, glad to assist you on your journey, and to teach you many things from connection to protection. Depending on what you are going through when you draw from the cards, they will have different meanings to imply and different suggestions to make.
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Deck may be aesthetically attractive to you, but you’ll see it is much more than a fanciful and intriguing imaginarium. There is power in something that casts bright moonlight on the ways in which we are able, magical and called, in a volume that helps us further define our roles and missions, that insists we can be the conscious coauthors of the saga and faery tale that is our potentially miraculous lives.
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion book brings to life the descriptions, tales, folklore, magical and medicinal plant uses, and evolving mythology of each of the 60 Hedge cards, along with sections suggesting how to read, interpret, and apply them to your current situation, quandaries and options.
A 288 page FREE color Companion Book Download comes with every Hedge Guild Otherworld Deck purchase, and the physical book can be purchased separately either in black & white softbound, color softbound, or deluxe linen hardback.
These inspired tales of the Hedge can help clarify the elements, factors, lessons and practical aids, potential consequences & outcomes to be found in any context or situation that we might encounter. They help equip us with what we personally need in order to make those choices that serve us best, empowering us to move forward with awareness & in wholeness through our personal purpose and story, in this unfolding mythic age
We are pleased you’ve joined us in peering through the hedge foliage – not just to fresh new adventures, meanings and implications, but to a revealing of our true and empowered forms. Magical beings, and magical new ways of being. Wildly inspiring new visions and manifestations, deep satisfaction and unbridled revelry!
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle (Deck & Ebook PDF)
60 Cards, full color, boxed, with full color Oracle Companion Book download – $57
Click here to order
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion (Book)
Softbound, B&W – 288 pages, 8.5x11” – $29
Click here to order
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion (Deluxe Hardback Book)
Deluxe Linen Hardback, full color – 288 pages, 8.5x11” – $49
Click here to order
Aims & Benefits
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
–Julia Cameron
The Hedge Guild Oracle can help us to: Increase sense of presence and enjoy increased mindfulness. Better explore personal direction and our own unique path. Deepen awareness and understanding of natural authentic self. Awaken bodily senses, learning to better sense the world we are an integral part of, see more patterns and beauty, hear more exquisitely, taste every nuance of our food, savor even the mundane details of our mortal lives. Explore the so called “sixth sense,” including resonant empathy and innate intuition. Tap into bodily knowing and primal instinct. Grow our sense of place... of family, home, land, ecosystem and bioregion. Further our awareness of and active relationship to the natural, revelatory world. Recognize the intrinsic nature of and animating force in everything, and every thing’s intrinsic value apart from human use. Increase our sense of self worth and confidence, based on our true abilities rather than imposed or imagined characteristics and gifts. Come to better understand our fears, and how to use them as markers for what needs our attention, as fuel to act, to change what needs changing. Realize that we are a co-creators of not only our reality but our world, and commit to acting accordingly. Discover how to give back to the earth that provides and inspires. Learn how to grow from every mistake or misdirection. Get beyond victimhood and the attachment to escape or distress. Extricate ourselves from unhealthy habits, expectations, judgments and ways of thinking. Develop healthy attachments to life, spirit, values and missions. Make every moment a decisive moment, and take responsibility for what we both do and don’t do. Reawaken a childlike sense of wonder and connection. Learn how to best utilize our gifts and skills for the good of the greater whole. Discover how to actively fulfill our most meaningful purpose. Positively affect, even in small ways, everyone we meet. Make our environs more healthy, beautiful and natural, as we heal, express and manifest our natural selves. Learn to better celebrate and greater savor. Become enlightened – about what matters most to us and to our deeply walked missions.
Such enlightenment is casting a light, not only on outward form, but on the inner recesses of a truth or being. It is the intense experience of conscious interconnectedness, the wordless timeless thrill of being propelled into realization, relationship and responsibility, challenge and delight …even in the face of the darkest of nights. It isn’t meant to spare us any lesson or assignment. Instead it thrusts us into the pulsing fabric of a rhythmic, patterned universe.... and in this way, back into the fullest living of our purposed and manifest, spiritual and magical lives.
–Wolf
The Creators
Kiva Rose & Jesse Wolf Hardin created this Oracle at their sanctuary in the wilderness of southwestern New Mexico, a wildlife and botanical sanctuary seven river crossings from the nearest pavement and a hundred miles of uninhabited forest from the closest little city. They have been sharing their enchantment and passions through their plethora of books, along with their periodicals Plant Healer Quarterly and the free Herbaria Monthly available at the Plant Healer website.
Kiva & Wolf each wrote sections of The Hedge Guild Otherworld Deck, and Wolf is the designer and creator of all of its illustrations.
Kiva Hardin is a writer, herbalist, myth-maker, folklorist, botanical perfumer, wife and devoted mother, and homestead-tender. She is the much loved author of hundreds of articles about plants, medicinal herbs, and the mythos of nature and the fae. Her series of deeply moving books begins with the acclaimed Weedwife’s Remedy: Folk Herbalism For The Hedgewise.
Wolf Hardin is a mind-stirring ecosopher, enraptured father and husband, artist and writer, counsel, musician, activist, historian, presenter and storyteller – the author of over 1,000 published articles and more than 25 books including Wonderments, Kindred Spirits, The Practice of Herbalism, The Healing Terrain, The Medicine Bear and The Plant Healer’s Path, available through the online Plant Healer Bookstore and from distributors including Amazon.
Together they have long served the rewilded Anima Sanctuary’s riparian ecosystem, encouraging the reintroduction of native herbs, providing a refuge for the myriad wildlife, raising their Aelfyn Wolfson Thorn and Inga Winter, enchanted by the magic revealed through a life of purpose in the bosom of the tale-telling natural world.
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Aims & Benefits
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
–Julia Cameron
The Hedge Guild Oracle can help us to: Increase sense of presence and enjoy increased mindfulness. Better explore personal direction and our own unique path. Deepen awareness and understanding of natural authentic self. Awaken bodily senses, learning to better sense the world we are an integral part of, see more patterns and beauty, hear more exquisitely, taste every nuance of our food, savor even the mundane details of our mortal lives. Explore the so called “sixth sense,” including resonant empathy and innate intuition. Tap into bodily knowing and primal instinct. Grow our sense of place... of family, home, land, ecosystem and bioregion. Further our awareness of and active relationship to the natural, revelatory world. Recognize the intrinsic nature of and animating force in everything, and every thing’s intrinsic value apart from human use. Increase our sense of self worth and confidence, based on our true abilities rather than imposed or imagined characteristics and gifts. Come to better understand our fears, and how to use them as markers for what needs our attention, as fuel to act, to change what needs changing. Realize that we are a co-creators of not only our reality but our world, and commit to acting accordingly. Discover how to give back to the earth that provides and inspires. Learn how to grow from every mistake or misdirection. Get beyond victimhood and the attachment to escape or distress. Extricate ourselves from unhealthy habits, expectations, judgments and ways of thinking. Develop healthy attachments to life, spirit, values and missions. Make every moment a decisive moment, and take responsibility for what we both do and don’t do. Reawaken a childlike sense of wonder and connection. Learn how to best utilize our gifts and skills for the good of the greater whole. Discover how to actively fulfill our most meaningful purpose. Positively affect, even in small ways, everyone we meet. Make our environs more healthy, beautiful and natural, as we heal, express and manifest our natural selves. Learn to better celebrate and greater savor. Become enlightened – about what matters most to us and to our deeply walked missions.
Such enlightenment is casting a light, not only on outward form, but on the inner recesses of a truth or being. It is the intense experience of conscious interconnectedness, the wordless timeless thrill of being propelled into realization, relationship and responsibility, challenge and delight …even in the face of the darkest of nights. It isn’t meant to spare us any lesson or assignment. Instead it thrusts us into the pulsing fabric of a rhythmic, patterned universe.... and in this way, back into the fullest living of our purposed and manifest, spiritual and magical lives.
–Wolf