Motherpeace Round Tarot Deck

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McLeod, Aorewa (2013). Who was that woman, anyway?: snapshots of a lesbian life. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press. ISBN 9780864738783. The origin story most often told is that the wisdom keepers of ancient cultures were healers, shamans, storytellers and other artists, who chose between writing their wisdom into spiritual or philosophical text or putting their knowledge into a game. They decided that a game in the form of cards would last longer, be more accessible to everyone, as well as being easier to hide from the powers that be.

Farley, Helen (2009). A cultural history of tarot: from entertainment to esotericism (Online-Ausg.ed.). London: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 9781848850538. Some scholars speculate that cards and tarot came into Europe with the Gypsies, who are thought to descend from a Goddess worshiping people from India known as Dravidians. According to A Cultural History of Tarot, Motherpeace was designed to "fulfil a feminist agenda", with round cards to represent the Moon, "long associated with female energies and the Mother Goddess", and symbology was drawn from cultures across the world. [7] The round shape of the cards is unprecedented and symbolically significant. The departure from the usual rectangular shape is meant to represent the fertility of women. [4] This draws from classic feminist artwork which also uses many different symbols of fertility and femininity. [8] The cards are hard to shuffle because of their shape but skilled hands can handle them deftly. [9] Cultural legacy [ edit ]a b Tali, Didem (17 June 2018). "The tarot revival thanks to Brexit, Trump and Dior". BBC News . Retrieved 17 June 2018. Broude, Garrard, and Brodsky, power of feminist art: the American movement of the 1970s, history and impact (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994).

The character this card represents needs to move slowly and deliberately if change is required, as the consequences will affect more than just her or himself. Motherpeace was so influential in one strand of lesbian culture of the 1980s that it serves as a chapter title in the memoir of New Zealand academic Aorewa McLeod, [10] and a shorthand for the lesbian feminist experience in London. [11] But emotional displays are just not his medium, nor is he moved by appeals to sympathy or pity. With the philosophical overview that comes from long experience, he listens deeply, watches closely and speaks last. In the end, his even-handedness and objectivity earn him the respect he receives from his community, and those who cannot work out their problems come to him voluntarily for advice. Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-08 . Retrieved 2018-06-17. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)Traditionally, representing the energy of a Queen, this feminine guardian is endowed with enormous good sense and problem solving energy, but she is not particularly entrepreneurial. She loves to advise, encourage, and empower those she gets involved with, studying their problems with them and setting them up to solve them. Traditionally, she was pictured as the Sibyl or Oracle, perhaps a Tarot reader, who made herself available to people in need, no matter what their social class or situation. In modern times, she will be found educating, healing, managing disaster aid programs or a charitable drive of some sort. Zajko and Leonard, Laughing with Medusa: classical myth and feminist thought, Classical presences (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). Giles, Cynthia (1994). The tarot: history, mystery, and lore (1st Firesideed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-89101-4. OCLC 30319267.