The Hedge Guild Otherworld
Oracle Deck & Book
Flora, Fauna, & Instrumental Animist Archetypes
by Jesse Wolf Hardin & Kiva Rosethorn
Artwork by Jesse Wolf Hardin
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
...in her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn’d the language of another world.
–Lord Byron
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle (deck & PDF book)
60 Cards, full color, boxed, with full color Oracle Companion Book download – $57
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion (book)
288 pages, 8.5x11”
Full Color Softbound – $39 Now shipping
The Hedge Guild Otherworld Oracle Companion (book)
288 pages, 8.5x11”
B&W Softbound – $29 Now shipping
Welcome to the liminal Hedge, and into its Seeker’s Guild. The curtain parts, revealing myriad secretive hedgeways leading to that enchanted forest where you yourself play a central role. In periods of great challenge & unpredictable change, the tales herein can contribute to an understanding of our true selves and the myriad options on our paths.
The Hedge Guild Oracle deck and book are an inspiring animist augur and myth hearted tool conceived and created by the founders of Plant Healer Quarterly and Good Medicine Confluence events.
The Hedge Guild Oracle Deck features 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 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. Here she enchants us as she recounts the usable as well as mythic dimensions of each perception-bending creature, iconic tree and healing herb.
The 3 Arcana are:
Hedge Guild Arcana (animist archetypes)
Fauna Arcana (animals)
Flora Arcana (herbs and trees)
The Seeker, The Seer, The Shire Folk, The Dancer, The Wildling. The Fox, The Hummingbird, The Stag, The Honey Bee. The Yarrow, The Bramble, 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 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 features the descriptions, animal folklore, medicinal plant uses, & archetypal mythology of each of the animist archetypes of the 60 Hedge cards, along with sections suggesting how to read, interpret, and apply them to your current situation, quandaries and options.
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 our own currently epic times.
Join us now in peering through the hedge foliage not just to fresh new adventures, meanings and implications, but to a revealing of our true forms. Magical beings, and magical new ways of being. Wildly inspiring new visions and manifestations, deep satisfaction & unbridled revelry!
Hedge Guild Arcana
1 The Innocent
2 The Seeker
3 The Seer
4 The Hedge Guide
5 The Ancestors
6 The Changeling
7 Our Lady of the Hedge
8 The Hedgewise
9 The Queen of Elfhame
10 The Hearth Keeper
11 The Hedge Witch
12 The Shire Folk
13 The Hedge Counsel
14 The Enchanter
15 The Trickster
16 The Selkie
17 The Misfit
18 The Creator
19 The Hedge Dancer
20 The Rhythmist
21 The Woods Bard
22 The Lover
23 The Bone Mother
24 The Plant Healer
25 The Slumber
26 The Awaking
27 The Alchemist
28 The Portent
29 The Woods Guardian
30 The Wildling
31 The Reveler
Hedge Fauna Arcana
32 The Hedge Fox
33 The Hedge Hare
34 The Crow
35 The Medicine Bear
36 The Woods Mouse
37 The Snake
38 The Lynx
39 The Honey Bee
40 The Marten
41 The Hedge Toad
42 The Stag
43 The Hummingbird
44 The Wild Boar
45 The Woods Wolf
Hedge Flora Arcana
46 The Blackthorn
47 The Bramble
48 The Sweet Flag
49 The Stingin’ Nettle
50 The Cayenne Pepper
51 The Datura
52 The BloodRoot
53 The Yarrow
54 The High John Root
55 The Violet
56 The Vervain
57 The Elder
58 The Rowan Tree
59 The Magic Mushrooms
60 The Oak
First Responses to The Hedge Guild Oracle
This morning was my first chance to sit with the book and cards, and I am wowed by their beauty and soulfulness. I let the book fall open and found the Changeling entry by Wolf. I felt so unimaginably seen and soothed by this essay. It left me with an ahh-now-I-understand-myself-a-bit-more feeling. As one who passes for all kinds of normal on the outside, I struggle with my own willingness to yield to erasure of some of the truth-y things about myself, perhaps as an out-dated survival tactic.
And then I read the preface you wrote about the Hedge, and felt myself even more deeply exhaling. I love metaphor, and find it some days to be more my mother tongue than what I speak daily to others. I have not done any deep study of the hedge as mystical reality or metaphoric key, but felt something pinging or echoing with an excited, whispering yes as I read your words. I know the territory by other names, and not nearly deeply enough. I am looking forward to your companionship as I go deeper and still-er, in wonder and wander.
It seems good this morning to share this with you so that you can sense from the material realm the power of the good ripples flowing out from your work. I appreciate that you stay close to your Guide and that you are given so much to share out.
–Jennie Isbell Shinn
The Hedge Guild Oracle deck and book are AMAZING! The energy, wisdom, love, time, talent, and inspiration that went into it blow my mind. This is such a gift you both have given us and I’m very grateful!
–Susan Meeker Lowry
The Hedge Oracle Companion book is absolutely wonderful!. It is beautiful and the information is incredibly detailed and thorough, I absolutely LOVE it! A perfect addition to my growing personal library! I could hardly open the book without getting walloped even before i turned to the cards. and the cards are also very well done, I love them! The art is gorgeous and the cards move together like silk. It’s amazing, I was pleasantly surprised to find it pre shuffled, the top/shadow card was a message i needed to hear very much right now, thank you so much. I look forward to working with this deck in my studies, Thank you for creating this, it is incredible.
–Zerik Vishnil
First shuffle, first card ever drawn – The Violet – and wow, this section feels like it was pretty much written for me, so much that I've been deeply reflecting on and feeling lately. And when I was first looking at the cards, one by one, I had a feeling when I came to the Bone Mother that this card was reaching out to me in some way. Bone Mother and Violet make a powerful pair speaking to what some of my deepest points of resistance/fear, calling, and transformation are at this time in my life. What you and Wolf have created here, channeled, however you describe it, this is absolutely wondrous!
–Lauren Stauber