The Furious Spinner

By the way, have I mentioned the Gaian Tarot to you? I collect tarot cards. I have for years. I see them as lovely art pieces. I use them as meditation tools to get myself moving or thinking or feeling or wondering. I'm very fussy about what cards I use. They need to reflect a world view that is similar to mine if I'm going to actually use the book that comes with them. If they're just beautiful, then I forget about the book. I've been studying tarot long enough that I can read the cards without a guide. The Motherpeace deck was my favorite for years and years, and I still know it better than any of the other decks. Some decks I just like because they're pretty. I love the Halloween tarot deck because it's just so clever. I get a kick out of the Tarot of Baseball, too. (There are actually two baseball tarot sets.)

My favorite tarot card set is one that isn't quite completed yet: the Gaian Tarot created by Joanna Powell Colbert. She has the major arcana available now, and it is beautiful. I love the art, and I love the booklet that comes with it. The writing is so compassionate and loving; all of it seems to spring from the Earth. The Gaian Tarot was the only divination/meditation tool I took with me to Santa Fe recently.

Joanna let me look over the first chapter of the book she is writing to go along with the entire tarot deck she is creating, and it was just as lovely and contemplative as her booklet—only so much more! Sometimes I just read the booklet and look at the cards to relax me. I'm looking forward to the book and cards getting published! Joanna was one of the artists for the magazine Mario and I created and published many years ago: Daughters of Nyx. She's a wonderful artist and writer. I keep using the word compassionate to describe her work, and that is a great compliment. (I want her to finish her deck so she and I can conspire together about Old Mermaid things.)

Okay, now I'm going to help Mario get out those invites!

May You Divine in Beauty!

P.S. I'm a little slow. I just went wandering around Joanna's website again, and I found for the first time her gallery of mermaids! I am in love all over again. 3 comments

3 Comments:

I've enjoyed her deck, too - or the online link you posted a while back, anyhow. Beautifully done, and very peaceful -

I like Rachel Pollack's Shining Tribe deck, too. Trees, Rivers, Birds, Stones.

The one I've had the longest relationship with is The Mythic Tarot. Greek myth. Fits my psyche's symbolic landscape perfectly.

By  Theriomorph, at 8:01 AM  

Dear Sister Mermaid Kim,
This is so lovely to wake up to. Thank you! I have a terrible cold and it was coloring my mood until I read your post. I did most of the mermaid images in the Mermaid Gallery years and years and years ago, back to 1986! I look at them now and see that I need more mermaids of color and more mermaids of age. Hmm m m. . . I'm looking forward to finishing the deck too so the Old Mermaids can come through. Who knows though? One may just show up in the deck . . .

By  Joanna, at 8:51 AM  

Theriomorph: I haven't seen the Mythic Deck. I'll have to check it out.

Joanna: Ohhh, an Old Mermaid in your deck. Very tantalizing.

By  Kim Antieau, at 9:16 PM  

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