I am adoring the folklore and mystery of the hidden folk, and I love that there is just enough fantasy and adventure balanced with cozy moments. This deck is going to focus on what truly matters, those we love and helping foster those important lifelong connections. She grew up with her mother reading tarot for friends and family, but Stephanie’s own passion for tarot didn’t start until the passing of her father.

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Connections are key and I need to focus on building that connection with the deck to gain the most from my practice with it.Since becoming a parent I have been trying to nurture my inner child and access a long-forgotten part of myself that has faded away with the stress and challenges of being an adult in the modern world. Instead of providing a large guidebook, which does not align with the minimalist, eco-friendly approach the deck creators have embraced, there are two additional cards included with the deck. Hazels of wisdom grew at the heads of the seven chief rivers of Ireland, and nine grew over both Connla's Well and the Well of Segais, the legendary common source of the Boyne and the Shannon. We must learn how to live together, the wild creatures know this, but mortals are still learning the essential lessons of harmony.

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The fact that different countries have similar accounts of these creatures seem like proof that maybe my childhood imaginations weren’t crazy after all. A tale of the rich, wild world and all its wonder, By Ash, Oak and Thorn couldn’t be more relevant to the environmental concerns of today, brought to life by three tiny, funny, eternal beings – the Hidden Folk. B.'s "The Little Grey Men" hat mich regelrecht in seinen Bann gezogen, und ich sage das weder klischeehaft noch leichtfertig. If you like By Ash, Oak and Thorn by Melissa Harrison you might also like: The Marvellous Land of Snergs by Veronica Cossanteli, Darwin’s Dragons by Lindsay Galvin, Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly, The Time Traveller and the Tiger by Tania Unsworth, I Ate Sunshine For Breakfast by Michael Holland, and our list of recommended year 5 books.

However I’d recently started to wonder about this and in particular how the ash, which (in Irish folklore anyway) is usually a protection against fairies might be considered instead a sign of their presence and which thorn, exactly, was meant, so I decided to start looking into it. In By Ash, Oak and Thorn (May 2021) three Hidden Folk no bigger than your hand wake from their winter sleep in the hollow trunk of an old ash tree.

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The back of the cards are not reversible due to the medallion in the middle which includes the creatures from each suit. Oak, Ash and Thorn Tarot is printed sustainably on 400 GSM, FSC accredited, carbon balanced paper with veggie inks. Change, too, is coming to Edie, who at fourteen must soon face the unsettling pressures of adulthood. Some beliefs can be traced back to genuinely old roots; sometimes they have been formed within our own generation. It’s a journey filled with both danger and delight: golden leaves, shiny conkers and the brightest of berries, but also storms and the first frost of winter.Humanity’s baleful influence is constantly bemoaned but not really dramatised: it’s not human action that destroys the protagonists’ ash-tree home or imperils Moss at the end that, or really constitutes any of the obstacles. On 15 March 2020, JD did a solo livestream wherein he taught some guitar basics and two ways of playing the song on guitar, one simplified version in standard tuning, and one version in the original DADGAD tuning.