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The Gaian Tarot emerged from the fertile ground of the archetypal imagery of the tarot combined with my deep love for a small island in the Pacific Northwest. This deck was a long time in the making. The seed for it was planted in the 1980s when I was working with the Motherpeace Tarot and comparing it to traditional decks like the Rider-Waite-Smith. I was drawing pen-and-ink Goddess portraits in those days, and was intrigued by the idea of creating a tarot deck. But the thought of making seventy-eight separate pieces of artwork was daunting. I worked consistently with the tarot as a teacher and reader until the late 1990s when I set it aside for several years. During that time I moved ...
My book Tarot Diva teaches you to ignite your intuition, glamorize your life, and unleash your fabulosity using the tarot. Nothing helps a girl glow with happiness and contentment more than a deep connection with her soul sisters and female friends. In Tarot Diva I help you embody the ecstasy of the Three of Cups tarot card by explaining how to create a secret society with your closest girlfriends. Secret societies, while subversively fun and super powerful, require long-term commitment. For a quick jolt of gal power, return to the glory of your younger days with a sleepover. Nothing beats the good fun of a pajama party. Remember how great they were? Donning your coziest jammies with a ...
One of the joys of tarot is that there are so many ways to look at, think about, and compare the cards. This is also one of the reasons so many people stay interested in tarot for so long. Every way of organizing and dividing the deck leads to deeper and broader understanding of the cards. This complex web also helps us build our own personal philosophy of life. Separating the deck into suits is a common way of examining the deck. The Major Arcana are looked at as a linear spiritual journey, sometimes called the Fool’s Journey and loosely based on Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. The four suits are read as a starting, beginning with the Aces and ending with the Tens. ...
Significators play a powerful role in Tarot readings. Not only do they identify a certain person, place, or object, they can heighten the focus of the reader as well as the client when addressing the question at hand. Choosing the best card to signify the main subject of one's question can be challenging. The following are some guidelines to identify which images of the Tarot will bring the greatest amount of focus to your readings. People SignificatorsThe most common reason a reader chooses a Significator is to identify a particular person. Typically, these cards are selected based on a person's birth or astrological sign. In a traditional Tarot deck, Rods/Wands indicate someone born ...
