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Gaian
Explores Gaia as living organism with humanity as integral interconnected ecosystem cells.
creator unknown · 2016
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The Canon's read
Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.
The Gaian Tarot states its philosophy at its cleanest in the archive's carried review: Gaia as living organism, all creatures cells of one body, practitioners striving to live as harmonious parts of the whole. That is the deck's actual theology, and it is the reason its readers hold it closer than most decks get held.
Joanna Powell Colbert's work began self-published and reached wider reprints without changing its nature, which is the mark of a deck that found its people before it found its distribution. The Gaian reads as green catechism rather than fortune-telling: draws locate you within the web instead of ahead of it, which is a genuinely different question from what happens next. It suits ecological and earth-centered practitioners, readers who want their spirituality continuous with their politics, and anyone whose practice starts outdoors. Readers wanting the arcana as personal drama will find themselves decentered here, which is rather the point.
From the archive
An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.
The Gaia philosophy views our planet as a living organism, and that all living creatures are part of a complex web, the cells of the body, that make up Earth. Practitioners of Gaian philosophy typically strive to live as harmoniously...
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