As ancient and rich in stories as the symbolism of the Tarot may be, goddess myths are even more so-for these myths are the original women’s stories. When we feel overwhelmed by life’s demands, stories allow us a more detached perspective of events when we stand too close to the trees to see the forest path, they shed light so we can find our way home. The stories told by these soul pictures speak to our condition today they address our common experiences as humans attempting to make sense of our lives and the world around us.įrom the earliest times, stories and myths have been used to impart wisdom and heal the spirit. Through my own personal experiences with Tarot cards over the past fifteen years, I’ve come to think of the Tarot as a potent archive of what I call “soul pictures”-pictures revealing what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious, those subconscious rivers of archetypal experiences held deep within our psyches. Drawing inspiration from the many goddesses honored throughout history and around the globe, The Goddess Tarot uses goddess myths and imagery to update traditional Tarot symbolism it acknowledges women’s contemporary needs as well as her mythic past. The Goddess Tarot is a celebration of the Divine Feminine.
