The Gaian Tarot celebrates the living Earth and those who seek to live in harmony with Her.

It is an evocative and powerful tool for accessing inner guidance. The imagery of the deck combines multicultural Goddesses and other numinous beings with the mysteries of the natural world. Each image features birds, animals, plants, trees, rocks, constellations and other aspects of nature that amplify the meaning of the card.

With its structure rooted in Tarot tradition, the Gaian Tarot is the perfect deck for those who honor Gaia, the earth, as a living, sentient being and who practice an earth-centered spirituality. (from GaianTarot.com)

My guest is Pacific North West artist and author Joanna Powell Colbert. Her art has appeared in print publications for 20 years. She has published essays on mythology and nature spirituality. Joanna also has a web design business called JPC Web Design.

• Gaian Tarot Artist’s Journal
• 3 Card Reading with the Gaian Tarot
• The Creative Process - How the Cards Are Created

Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet: Gaian Tarot Review

The Gaian Tarot is an earth-honoring deck in progress. It was created for pagans and others who honor Gaia, the earth, as a living being and who practice an earth-centered spirituality.Available as a majors-only set while the minors are being completed.

• Deck Review at Aeclectic
• Interview with Joanna by Bonnie
• Comparative Tarot Site
  

The Tarot Court: Be Thou a Knight by Ginny Hunt

Part three of a five part series exploring the tarot court.

… Knights, like all court cards, are not necessarily literally young 20-something men. They can be male or female, young or old. It is this exuberant, youthful, get-there-or-die-trying characteristic that is found in all of us, given the right circumstances, that the knights are portraying. Though their energy is admirable, they tend to have that egocentric tendency that younger men have, complete with a distinct sense of invincibility. This makes them short sighted and impulsive, and a bit too sure that they are right. They also possess, with the exception of the Knight of Pentacles, a distinct lack of “sticktoitiveness.” (The Knight of Pentacles has a bit too much of that, he’s not easily swayed from anything he sets his mind to, which can be a problem at times, too.) You can depend on the Knights for the short term, but rarely for the long term. Their immaturity is displayed by their bravado and rash tempers, their lack of thinking things through, and an inability to pace themselves in a realistic fashion… (more …) Individual Posts: Knight of Swords, Knight of Cups, Knight of Wands, Knight of Pentacles.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.
• 78 Notes to Self: Steamy River by Rhonda Lorence from the album Winter Moon (Magnatune)
• Hermit’s Journey: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from the album Enchanted Wind (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: Gaia by Justin Bianco from the album Forge (Magnatune)

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