Wise Woman's
Feminist, multicultural tarot celebrating global feminine lineage and women's spirituality.
by Barbara Vogel, Flash Silvermoon · Moonfox · 2002
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The record
A new female-focused, multicultural and independently published tarot set, the Wise Woman's Tarot was created by Flash Silvermoon, a Dianic Wiccan and activist in the women's movement since the 1970s. Silvermoon's vision for her tarot was to 'illustrate the global nature of the Feminine Lineage while providing and exceedingly useful tool for divination and empowerment'. This is a matriarchal deck, in that sense that its social, political and religious systems have a cyclical perspective, and value life and nature over the patriarchal values of power, possessions and property. But men are by no means excluded from this deck as they are from other feminist tarots, though the emphasis is very definitely on women. Men appear infrequently in the minors (Orpheus as the Seeker of Cups, King Minos as the Four of Pentacles, Attis as the Shaman of Pentacles) and do not appear in the majors at all. Research for the Wise Woman's cards took her into the cultural myths and feminine heritage of more than one hundred cultures throughout the world, and the cards feature a diverse array of deities. Representatives from the better-known Greek, Roman and Celtic pantheons, as well as lesser-known godde
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