15 The Devil — Datura Art Print

The card of bondage, desire, and the chains we choose. The plant that opens white trumpets at midnight and has been driving people mad with wanting ever since.

The Devil is the most misunderstood card in the tarot. It is not evil — it is the mirror. It shows you what you are bound to, what seduces you, what you return to even knowing the cost. Datura understands this completely. It blooms only in darkness, its flowers so beautiful they have inspired poets and poisoners in equal measure. It causes hallucinations, delirium, a blurring of the line between desire and destruction. It has been used in love magic and in murder. Often by the same hands.

This art print places them together — two forces that were made frightening precisely because they tell the truth about human nature.

They stripped the complexity from the archetype and called it evil. They stripped the knowledge from the plant and called it dangerous. This print calls them both what they actually are — extraordinary.

About this print

• Original illustration by Herbarium Nocturne — fine artist, forager & trained embalmer
• Printed on 190gsm textured paper
• Available in A4 (£18) and A5 (£12)
• Printed to order — please allow 5–7 days
• Supplied unframed and unmounted, in protective packaging
• Not suitable for children

The Poison Tarot

The Poison Tarot pairs each major arcana with its poisonous botanical twin — the plant that carries the same energy, the same warning, the same hidden knowledge. This is not decoration. This is reclamation.

The dark knowledge was never lost. It was just waiting.