Triple Goddess Tarot Reviews
Sue Teaford
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The Triple Goddess deck includes twenty-two major arcana representing archetypes of life experience, four triple Goddess alchemy cards, and seven chakra cards for work with the energies of healing. The creators designed this set of cards for a divinatory tool, with the essence and emphasis toward divine femininity.
Artist, Mara Friedman, shares her feelings and conception of a rainbow bridge spanning Heaven and Earth, with representations of the chakra energies displayed in colorful expressions; healing energies of the feminine potential. Author Isha Lerner's work provides us with encouragement to free ourselves from unconsciously self-defeating patterns and to more fully acknowledge our personal inner worth by embracing the divine feminine higher self. She sees the Triple Goddess throughout the mythology, legends, and fairy tales of human time and history. This concept came about through discovering and enjoying the stories of women that represent the many, different sides of life's pursuits, dreams, defeats, and accomplishments. Tara McKinney added support for this deck and book with her skills in editing the ideas into smooth-flowing understandable language.
In relating to twenty-one major arcana cards of this deck, the author connects the first seven cards with the physical level of experience. The second seven cards correspond with the life of the human soul. The third set of seven cards present experience of the spirit. This book's theme relates to the traditional concept of the three stages of the progress of feminine life; the maiden, the mother, and the crone. Major arcana key #3 is the Empress and represents bodily existence. Key # 12, the Hanged Man card, is conveyed to us as representing a hanging in the birth canal, and representing the soul. Key #21, the World, symbolizes the world fully infused with spirit, fulfilling destiny on earth.
Relating information and stories about the Goddesses of legends and great women in the history of our world, this book is enlightening, educational, as well as entertaining. Isha Lerner provides vision and encouragement with this insight in the section of Demeter, "Each woman is unique within herself. The path to liberation entails an honest look at how willing each woman is to walk into the threshold of her darkness and find the treasure of her light therein." This especially seemed to talk to me of working on the self inside me, and strengthening what I am and what I have, so to be of more worthwhile assistance to myself and others. Author Lerner calls it, "Awakened Wholeness", and that describes it well.
The Death card is always of interest to me in a deck. How it's illustrated, how it's interpreted by the creator of the deck. Key #13 in this deck is called, "Passage". Instead of a skeleton, as found in many decks, this card illustrates what is felt as a "flowering portal", the "Womb of Life", for souls to ferry from one level to the next. A woman on each side of the opening gateway, called the Sisters of Fate, and represent life and death in the journey we're experiencing. There's a dove suspended between and slightly above the women. The bird with out-stretched wings is symbolizing freedom of the soul. The large orb of the full moon, behind this scene, looms as a reminder of the ebb and flow of life, as well as the fullness of being. In relating this card with the Black Madonna, the pre-Christian Western ritual is described. This is the burning or blackening of her image in the fall of the year, and storing it in an underground area of the cathedral. In the spring, when the Madonna is brought back up into the cathedral, it's the demonstration of the symbolic renewal and rebirth for all humans on the journey through this and other lifetimes.
Other cards included into this deck are of the seven chakra designations. They can be used along with all, or as a set on it's own, to speak with the reader of the energies of the human body. The chakra cards draw the reader to connect with color, music, animals, as well as flowers, food and gemstones. As tools for healing, the chakra cards direct the reader to parts of the body and karmic influences and powers of energies.
This deck is beautifully done, with drawings and colors that speak out well to the reader, assisting in the purpose of having an oracle deck to provide divination. The book is educational along with its entertaining stories and interesting dialogue. A worthwhile addition to the tarot reader's library and deck collection.
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