Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot [B1855]

1994 PB in nice clean condition. A guide to Motherpeace tarot cards, a tarot deck created in the 1970s inspired by the Goddess movement and second-wave feminism. For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with an informed spiritual and feminist perspective. Vicki Noble challenges us to celebrate our ancient peaceful heritage and to reclaim our right as a people to a life without war. The book is a vision of hope and transformation, made even more powerful by the vibrant pictorial images of the seventy-eight Motherpeace tarot cards. Motherpeace shows how traditional myths and symbols can provide ideas and images for understanding the meaning and power of the Goddess for women and men today. "The Motherpeace tarot has been a wise and loving oracle. A clear mirror, also, that always shows the truest face." -Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Color Purple.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is a classic and as good now as when it was first published. It is the Motherpeace book that has been my main reference for decades and it works for me."; "I love this deck. These tarot cards are supportive of a compassionate understanding of life. They are full of female images, and are based on the wisdom of the feminine."; "This was the second tarot deck I ever purchased (Medicine Woman Tarot the first) and has been my ally for over 20 years. I took a course by Vicki Noble and since it had been awhile since I'd worked with it I decided to dance with this deck for a year and a day, and in the process re-read this beloved book. In my 40s I appreciate it in a different way than I did in my 20s. This was groundbreaking and cutting edge for its time, and represents an era when women were crafting spiritual traditions anew including a Goddess that looked like us. The deck is still brilliant, as is this book. A truly divinely inspired deck and book."