Astraea
Elias refers a couple of times to her Middle European ancestors in the same breath that she's talking about the "cunning folk" approach to cards, so she might have been attempting to describe a generic order of natural wisdom, but - considering the sophisticated tone of the rest of the book - it struck a dull note for me. That said, in her long-ago website (now consigned to the Wayback Machine), Dawn Jackson also used the word "cunning" to refer to innate ways of knowing (especially in relation to herbalism), so perhaps the suggested association between Elias' "cunning folk" method and Hedgewytchery are not far off the mark. I was glad to see that Elias credits Jackson for being a formative influence on her own methods, though (for me) that section of her book was not its high point.
For those who wish to read Jackson's work directly, it is still available as a three-part tutorial here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080210083822/http://www.hedgewytchery.com/cartomancy.html.
For those who wish to read Jackson's work directly, it is still available as a three-part tutorial here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080210083822/http://www.hedgewytchery.com/cartomancy.html.