A Nature-Led Approach to Divination with Tarot, Runes & Pendulums

Step beyond memorised meanings and learn to experience divination as a living conversation between intuition, symbolism, nature and the world around you.

There are hundreds of books that can teach you what a tarot card means.

Or how to swing a pendulum.

Or interpret a rune.

The Diviner's Path by JoAnna Farrer asks a much more interesting question:

How do you become a diviner?

Drawing upon decades of experience as a witch, seer and teacher, JoAnna Farrer explores divination not simply as a collection of techniques, but as a relationship.

A relationship with intuition.

With symbols.

With spirits.

With landscape.

And with the subtle patterns constantly unfolding around us.

Rather than choosing one divination system and remaining within its boundaries, The Diviner's Path explores tarot and cartomancy, runes, pendulums, augury, dreams and seer work, showing how each can become another language through which we learn to listen.

🌿 Divination as a Conversation with Nature

At the heart of this book is an animist approach to divination.

Instead of treating the natural world as scenery surrounding our spiritual practice, JoAnna invites us to recognise ourselves as participants within it.

What changes when we begin noticing the birds?

The landscape?

The weather?

The symbols appearing repeatedly around us?

How do we distinguish intuition from wishful thinking?

And how do we build a divination practice that feels grounded rather than dependent upon constantly reaching for answers?

The Diviner's Path explores those questions through practical exercises, reflection and ritual, helping readers develop something far more valuable than another collection of keywords:

Discernment.

✨ What You'll Explore

The book is divided into three broad stages: Reflection, Divination and Integration.

Along the way you'll explore:

🌿 Animism & the Diviner's Path
Discover a nature-led approach to divination and explore your relationship with the living world around you.

🔮 Unveiling Your Inner Diviner
Develop greater trust in your intuitive abilities while learning the importance of discernment.

🗺️ Mapping Your Sacred Landscape
Explore place, environment and the spiritual relationships that shape your practice.

🕯️ Offerings & Spiritual Hygiene
Learn how reciprocity, boundaries and spiritual care can support responsible divination.

✨ Symbols & Language
Explore how symbolism works and why the way we phrase a question can profoundly change the guidance we receive.

🔮 More Than One Way to Divine

One of the things we particularly love about this book is its breadth.

JoAnna explores multiple forms of divination, including:

• Pendulum work
• Runes
• Stones
• Sortilege
• Tarot
• Cartomancy
• Image-based divination
• Augury
• Dreams
• Seer work

Rather than presenting them as completely separate practices, she explores the skills that connect them.

Observation.

Symbolism.

Interpretation.

Intuition.

Discernment.

The result is particularly useful for anyone who has learned one form of divination and is ready to explore what lies beyond it.

🌙 From Technique to Trust

Learning a divination system is one thing.

Learning when to trust what you're receiving is another.

The final section of The Diviner's Path explores integration and interpretation, including common questions diviners encounter and the role divination can play in both personal and collective transformation.

It encourages readers to move beyond mechanically following instructions towards developing a practice that feels personal, grounded and alive.

Eventually, the goal isn't simply to become better at reading cards, stones or signs.

It's to become better at listening.

Why You'll Love This Book

🌿 Takes a distinctive nature-led and animist approach to divination

🔮 Explores numerous systems rather than concentrating on only one

🃏 Includes tarot and image-based cartomancy

ᚱ Explores runes, stones and sortilege

✨ Includes practical pendulum work

🐦 Introduces augury and reading signs within the natural world

🌙 Explores dreams and seer work

🕯️ Discusses offerings and spiritual hygiene

🧭 Helps develop intuition alongside healthy discernment

📖 Suitable for beginners while offering substantial material for experienced practitioners

At a Glance

• Title: The Diviner's Path
• Subtitle: A Nature-Led Approach to Divination with Tarot, Runes & Pendulums
• Author: JoAnna Farrer
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• ISBN: 9780738782430
• Publication Year: 2026
• Language: English
• Subject: Divination, Tarot, Runes, Pendulums, Animism & Nature Spirituality

About JoAnna Farrer

JoAnna Farrer brings an unusually rich background to her exploration of divination.

A longtime witch, seer and divination teacher, she is co-high priestess of the North Wyldewood Coven and co-founder of the North Wyldewood Tradition.

Since 2010, she has taught beginner through advanced classes in divination alongside her co-high priestess Denise Cruci.

JoAnna is also the host of the Coffee & Divination podcast, where she speaks with authors and practitioners from across the occult, Pagan and divinatory communities.

Intriguingly, her other professional life is music.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, JoAnna is a professional violinist and concertmaster, a background that brings another dimension to her sensitivity towards patterns, symbols, interpretation and nuance.

Perfect For

• Tarot readers ready to broaden their practice
• Rune readers
• Pendulum users
• Witches and Pagan practitioners
• Animists
• Nature-based spiritual practice
• Beginner diviners
• Experienced readers seeking greater depth
• Anyone developing their intuition
• Readers interested in augury and signs
• Students of multiple divination systems

Why We Love It at Oneness Emporium

We particularly like books that don't simply give you another list of meanings to memorise.

The Diviner's Path teaches something much more useful.

How to think like a diviner.

Tarot, runes and pendulums may look completely different on the surface, but beneath them are many of the same skills: observation, symbolism, intuition, interpretation and discernment.

JoAnna Farrer brings those threads together beautifully.

We also love the emphasis on the natural world.

You don't necessarily need another tool to practise divination.

Sometimes you need to put the cards down, step outside and start paying attention.

And perhaps the most valuable lesson any diviner can learn is knowing the difference between desperately searching for a sign...

and recognising one when it genuinely appears.