Daughters of the Moon
Feminist circular-card tarot with lunar and goddess-centered themes.
creator unknown · 1976
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The record
The most noticeable feature of this deck is that instead of having the conventional rectangular card shape, it has circular cards. This certainly gives away quite quickly the theme of the deck to those who are familiar with the first round Tarot deck, the Motherpeace. This deck is a feminist deck. It is aimed at women, mainly women within 'alternative' religions such as Wicca and its offshoot, Dianism, and thus includes the names and images of Goddesses from different cultures in the cards. It is also apparant from looking through the deck that there are very few men pictured in the cards, with the only two men being found in one of the Lovers cards and in the Pan card. (Explained later!) The women in this deck are all shapes, sizes, and colour, and it is certainly refreshing to see women's bodies portrayed so openly and honestly. Often in Tarot decks, we find that the only nudity is that of beautiful, young, lithe bodies, which, although is often pleasing to the eye, does not give an accurate view of the human body at all. The nudity in this deck is frank and very present: there are very few cards without nudity. The Daughters of the Moon changes many conventions of a traditional
The cards
