Anima Mundi Tarot Deck by Megan Wyreweden

Today, I’m sharing a deck that feels like a deep exhale: The Anima Mundi Tarot. This deck came home with me from Salem, Massachusetts, during a witchy retreat with my coven in 2022, and it’s been a steady presence in my readings ever since.

My Story with This Deck

I found the Anima Mundi Tarot on a trip to Salem with my coven—the Dirty Hoe Coven, to be exact—during our very first retreat together. I was determined to bring home a deck that felt like a true souvenir of the trip.

After wandering through several metaphysical shops and running my hands across more decks than I could reasonably justify, this was the one that spoke to me. The colors, the animals, the moodiness—it felt like a quiet, grounded invitation. At the time, it became my third-ever tarot deck, and it opened up an entirely new way of reading for myself and others.

This deck holds the memory of that trip—walking cobblestone streets with my coven, sharing meals, doing spells together, and laughing until my stomach hurt. Whenever I pick it up, I feel that same warmth and belonging.

There’s a softness to the artwork of this deck that makes it approachable even for people who are totally new to tarot. It’s intuitive, friendly, and gentle while still carrying depth.

Style:

The Anima Mundi Tarot has a moody, earthy aesthetic that feels like stepping into a dusk-lit forest. The palette is subdued—blacks, browns, charcoals, muted blues—and the card backs feature a delicate floral design overlaid with the triple moon. It feels witchy without being theatrical, and natural without losing its enchantment.

Structure:

This is a traditional 78-card Rider–Waite–Smith deck, structured exactly as a beginner would expect. The major arcana keep their standard names, and the suits follow the usual associations. The guidebook is small but incredibly usable, with upright and reversed meanings for every card, plus a note about the specific plant or animal featured. It also includes simple spreads, which makes it beginner-friendly.

Imagery:

The imagery is entirely flora and fauna—no humans anywhere in the deck. Each card features an animal or plant chosen intentionally for its symbolism. Some of the major arcana include iconic PNW symbols. The art is painted in acrylics, which gives it a warm, organic feel.

What I use it for:

I reach for the Anima Mundi Tarot when I want something approachable, intuitive, and nurturing—especially for querents who are brand new to tarot. The animal symbolism gives people something to connect to immediately, even if they’ve never seen a tarot card in their life.

This deck feels steady, calm, and welcoming. It reads beautifully for personal reflection or for people who might feel intimidated by more intense imagery.

What I don’t use it for:

Because this deck doesn’t include human figures, I don’t usually use it for relationship-specific questions or readings where interpersonal dynamics need more literal representation.

I also tend to avoid it when:

• someone wants dramatic symbolism or a highly visual RWS clone

• the reading calls for shadow work with sharper edges a querent needs a strong visual anchor for archetypes like The Emperor, The Lovers, or The Fool

But overall, the deck is versatile and reliable—one of the most adaptable decks in my collection.
💭 Today's Tarot Pull:

From Anima Mundi Tarot Deck by Megan Wyreweden, I pulled the Knight of Wands (Upright).

This card carries fiery momentum. It invites you to move boldly toward something new, to trust your instincts, and to let excitement be the spark that moves you forward.

Reflective prompts on this card:

• Where am I being asked to take action instead of waiting?

• What excites me right now, even if it scares me?

• How can I channel my energy into something purposeful today?

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Episode Transcript

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divine wisdom of the tarot. I'm your host Camille, A
Saunders healer, intuitive tarotreader, and professional wedge.
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All right, well, welcome to season 19.
I am talking about different decks and how to use them.
If you haven't listened to my other seasons yet, you can check

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those out. I recently wrapped up season 18
all about color magic. So if you want to learn about
color magic and days of the weekcorrespondences or candle magic,
that's a great season to check out.
So like I said, now we are on toseason 19 where I'm talking all
about different decks and how touse them.
And today I'm talking about the Anima Mundi Tarot, a 78 card

(02:34):
deck and guide book by Megan WeiRwandan.
All right, so let's get into it.All right, so I will go through
the style of the deck, where I got it and when any changes from
the writer? Wait, Smith traditional tarot
structure, some of the imagery, what I like to use it for and
anything that maybe I wouldn't use it for.

(02:55):
All right, so the style of the deck, it is a tarot deck, has
the traditional 78 cards and a small guide book.
Where did I get the deck? I got it in Salem, MA in 2022
when I was there with The Dirty Hoe Coven for our first annual

(03:21):
retreat. So it was me and a bunch of
other witches. I was very determined to find a
tarot deck there that I liked. Course, we were going in, we
were staying in Salem, which is a fairly small town actually and
beautiful on the water outside of Boston.
And, and I was very determined to get a duck there sort of as

(03:41):
like a souvenir I had at that point, right?
I had the first duck I got and then I had the duck.
The second one I got that I was like about.
So I was sort of determined to find one in person that I
connected with and that I get could sort of like remind me of
the trip. And I was looking to expand my
tarot collection because at thatpoint I only had two ducks and

(04:03):
I've been working with that one for a couple of years at that
point. So yeah, that's where I got it.
I'll go into the imagery first and then we'll talk changes.
So the imagery on the back of the cards we sort of have like a
fairly dark and along with the box as well, we sort of have
like a black band around it. The Anima Mundi is stamped in

(04:27):
sort of like gold, like gold leaf on the box.
The backs of the cards are brownwith black sort of like perhaps
hand or digital drawn like flowers and vines.
And so they're pretty like, it'shard to see actually, I like, I
don't even know if I'd noticed that there were flowers and

(04:49):
vines on the back of it before. And then it's sort of like
that's the border. And then we see kind of like a
tarot card, almost like superimposed on top of it.
And it has the triple moon. So it has like the, you know,
waxing moon on one side, the waning moon on the other, and
the full moon in the middle. And it's sort of done
vertically. And then we have like a border

(05:11):
again of kind of like gold. And then inside, almost as if it
were inside the tarot card or the back of the tarot card, as
it's superimposed, we see like ablue, sort of Gray night sky
with stars on it. So it's a very like moon.
I would say sort of like darker Jack.

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You can tell, I guess, that I like the imagery of darker ducks
because I guess I have a lot of them.
I've gotten a little bit more colorful as I went on.
So on the front of the cards, they are a white background with
a black border that kind of has like an indent on each of the
four corners. It's like a double, I guess.

(05:55):
It has a singular line border. The Major Arcana cards are in
Roman numerals and then they have the name at the bottom on
top of the white border. A lot of the imagery is like
black, Gray, brown, but all fairly dark colors.

(06:16):
We have some that have a bit more of a white background or a
lighter Gray, some that have blue, but I would say it's sort
of like fairly Moody in color and pretty much all matches the
colors on the back of the card, like brown, like a dark brown,
gold, blue, like Navy to light blue.

(06:37):
And then we sort of have a bit of color on that.
I don't think there's really anychanges from the Rider Waite
Smith structure, I guess, exceptthat our imagery is flora and
fauna. So Anima Mundi being as part of
the name. Let me see if it says anything

(06:59):
in the front cover here. So it means the world's soul in
Latin. Anima Mundi, it says this nature
inspired duck is based off of the Rider Waite deck from 19 10
has 70 individual cards which were originally painted in 2017
with acrylic paint. It's divided into two sections,
Major Arcana, Minor Arcana and it talks about those there.

(07:22):
Then it sort of goes into just how to do a reading in general.
And then it has some spreads, SO3 card spreads, A Celtic
cross, A7 card, Ellipsee and a calendar or 12 month spread,
which is kind of cool. I think that's basically what we
get. So each card has a gun, sort of

(07:43):
a flora or fauna on it. So there's a lot of animals and
then also some flowers. And occasionally there's like a
like I know the tower is depicted as Mount Saint Helens
and the emperor is depicted as aDouglas fir tree, I believe.

(08:07):
But other than that, like a lot of the minor Arcana.
So I guess this is kind of cool.So the imagery.
So let me pull some here. For cups, we get all water
animals since they are the watersign.
For swords, because they are theair sign, we get all kinds of

(08:29):
birds or flying creatures for, let's see here, swords, swords,
cups, swords. There's the emperors, the
Douglas fir tree. I love that card.
And the tower is Mount Saint Helens.
It's very cool. OK, wands, I would say it's

(08:52):
somewhat traditional, sort of the like nature branches with
flowers on it kind of thing. A bit more like natural I guess
than some wands are depicted as more of just like a stick.
These look like they could be alive a lot of the time.
I'm still looking here for some of the other suits.
Wands here, Pentacles are so here, the Queen of Pentacles is

(09:17):
like a dough, like a deer. Let me find one more Pentacles
and see if I understand the theme there.
Pentacles, come on, the devil onthis one is like a human, which
is very striking. Like I don't like it.
I mean, I guess like I look at the image and I'm like, because
it's like a human curled up there naked.

(09:38):
And they're like bound and change sort of.
We sort of just see chains attached to them.
Yeah, I guess the pentacles are sort of like land based
creatures. So we have here like we had a
deer here, we have a raccoon. And then like I said, yeah, the
cups are all water creatures. So like the seven has jellyfish,
the King of Pentacles is a grizzly bear.

(10:01):
It's a kind of like the king of right, the land animals.
The King of Cups is an orca whale.
So again, kind of like the king of the ocean.
So we have like a fairly good, you know, a cohesive theme
there. But again, I don't think any of
the Major Arcana cards are like the names are swapped or

(10:22):
anything It does I do like in here.
So it gives you the common name of the animal or like the floor
and fauna that it depicts. So like the chariot, it says Ram
and then it also says it in Latin.
So Ovis Aries, which for some things, you know, is slightly
more important than others to beable to sort of like sauce it

(10:43):
out. So it's I like that.
Like it tells you what it is like the hangman here, it says
it's a Black Widow spider, a male one, because the males
sacrifice himself to the female during mating, allowing her to
cannibalize him in order to assure successful copulation.
Sometimes surrender is the best option.

(11:05):
So right, it kind of goes into that.
It has a snake as the death cardas sort of the skin shedding
aspect of it. So yeah, I really like it.
So what I like to use it for, and then I guess I'll go through
anything I don't like to use it for.
Wouldn't I like to use it for anyone that doesn't really know
tarot? It's a very, I would say, like

(11:26):
friendly deck because even if folks don't know anything about
tarot, most people have sort of like general associations with
animals as like their energy or like spirit about them.
And so I do like that there's that aspect of like, Oh yeah.

(11:46):
Like the orca being the king of the water.
Like that makes sense to me. It's a very large animal.
They hunt where I live. They are like the predominant,
right? They are like the top of the
food chain in the, in the ocean,in the Pacific Northwest.
We get to see them here, which is very cool.
And so I'm like, yeah, like I think for a lot of people, we

(12:08):
already have associations with animals a lot of the time,
whether that's, yeah, having seen them in the wild or kind of
knowing them. Like we learn about a lot of
animals as kids, farm animals and lions, like safari animal
things all around the world. And so I think we already have
some like associations with it, which I think is helpful when it

(12:30):
comes to folks who don't have any have any like, experience or
knowledge about tarot at all. It's pretty approachable in that
way. I would also say like for a new
tarot reader, this is also pretty approachable.
Like it gives you some spreads in the beginning.
The guidebook is good. It gives you upright and
reversals. It tells you what animal is on

(12:50):
the card. Like those are all things that I
would like. There isn't anything about the
artist on here inside the box that says may the spirit of the
earth guide your way. I like that.
So I will leave a link for you to check out the artist and
their work. But yeah, we don't like, so we

(13:14):
don't really have anything aboutthe artist.
We get sort of a short note fromthem in the beginning about just
the what the deck was loosely inspired about.
We get some spreads, it goes in a major arcana and then through
the suits and that's pretty muchit.
But like I said, it has upright,it has reversals, and it has
sort of like keywords for them, which is helpful.

(13:35):
It does that for all the cards, which I like to see at the
beginning of each suit. So like for wands, it says suit
of wands, fire, creativity, spirituality, inspiration,
energy and ambition. So you get like a, you know, a
short description, which I think, again, is super
approachable. So, yeah, like when I read for
my dad, he had just retired and I was like, hanging out with the

(13:59):
family at our family cabin. My dad asked for a reading,
which I was sort of like, oh, OK, like, didn't know you were
interested. And this is a dock I used with
him 'cause it felt very approachable.
I don't think there's anything too like, super, like witchy or
like, scary about this dock. I don't know, like for some
people that might be important, either positive or negatively.

(14:23):
I have other docks that again, Isort of maybe I have an
intuition about like who would be a good fit or what they're
asking about to use them for. But this one just feels very
approachable. So I guess anything I wouldn't
use it for, I guess like it doesn't really have people in
it. So if there was someone that was

(14:45):
wanting either was asking a question about like specific
things having to do with people or kind of like wanted imagery
that maybe reflected them or that kind of thing, like, you
know, it wouldn't necessarily begood for that.
But I think this is a pretty versatile deck.
It's not maybe like the first, my usual first choice, but I

(15:10):
really like it. And again, it was my third deck.
It was a nice addition to my collection.
So I had the kind of Writer 8, Smith 1 I had with a Sasser Vito
Taro. I had one that was sort of
botanical, and then this one hadlike a lot of animals on it.
So it felt like, OK, those are all very different.
And this is like a well used duck as well for me.

(15:32):
Like it's very well broken in, but everything's holding up.
The box is still good. The cards look great.
They're gold gilded. The booklet is still, you know,
holding up. Everything looks good there.
It's like very readable. I don't, I don't remember what
store I bought it in in Salem, but I looked at a lot of ducks

(15:54):
there and this was the one that spoke to me then.
So yeah, I think there's not anything in particular I
wouldn't use it for. Like I said, maybe just if
someone was asking any questionsspecifically or like there was
some reason that they maybe theywanted to see themselves in the
deck or like they didn't really maybe associate as much with
animals. That would be kind of my one

(16:15):
caveat, I guess. Yeah, I think that's it.
We're keeping it kind of like short and sweet on this one.
But yeah, I really like the imagery.
It's despite the fact that's notvery like brightly colored, it
is very evocative skill. Still, it's very pretty.

(16:38):
I like the acrylic style of it. The animals are all very like
clearly depicted and it's like not too busy, I guess to me,
like the traditional rider WaiteSmith duck has so much going on.
Some of these cards really like this one of the star, like it
depicts like a bird of some kind.
Sorry, I don't know. I'd have to look in the guide

(16:59):
book about which one, a white bird with an orange bill.
And then it kind of just has like a starry background and we
have like it's sitting on the water.
Like that's really all that's inthe card.
So it is more simple and it's imagery, which again, might be a
positive or a negative dependingon what you want to use it for.

(17:20):
OK, let's see here. So yeah, let's see what message
this deck has for us today before we wrap up.
Like I said, I will link to Megan why Rwandan's website
where you can see their art, where you can buy the deck and

(17:42):
figure out or like buy they haveother sort of like art and
imagery available and like merch.
I think they have an Oracle deckand then they have some like
stationary and stickers and kindof other stuff that a lot of
digital or like artists do not digital art.
But I haven't seen their Oracle deck.

(18:04):
It's called Nocturnal Oracle. It's very pretty cover and I
feel like it would go well with this tarot deck there.
But yeah, OK, let's go ahead. So what message does this deck
have for us today? OK, I pulled the Knight of

(18:24):
Wands, which looks like a a hare, like a Bunny rabbit of
wands. Jack rabbit Lepus Californicus
is the Latin name. The charming Knight of Wands
makes things happen. He is passionate, ambitious and

(18:45):
action oriented and is not afraid to try new things.
Be enthusiastic about your new projects and enterprises, but be
sure not to act too impulsively.So upright.
It's about action, energy, passion, charm, fearlessness and
adventure. So we are inventing today, we
are taking action, we are putting energy behind things and

(19:06):
we're trying new things, right, that that's sort of what this
card is calling us to here. All right, well, thanks for
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