Motherpeace

Motherpeace Round Tarot Deck
Karen Vogel & Vicki Noble (U.S. Games Systems, Inc, 1983)

The last post on these cards was exactly the reason why these cards exist.

To nurture complete security in the experiece of being a female, and cultivating the feminine aspect in males.

These are the most inspiring, cards I have ever used (22 years) and I have constantly received accurate and powerful readings.

They are a treasure.

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I'm almost certainly not the target audience for this deck.

I don't consider my boobs as sources of empowerment. Backache, yes, but not empowerment. Nor do I harbour any sneaky suspicion that history would have been idyllic if only men were sidelined and women all over the world could frolic topless all day. So traditionally masculine card now feature women in the roles, with men only acknowledged as part of the court cards. Even then, the court cards are now Daughter, Son, Priestess and Shaman. The art on Majors and Minors alike is deliberately primitive, sometimes almost referencing an Aztec codex or an Egyptian tomb painting, but never quite reaching the heights of the art it's thinking of.

The card themselves are surprisingly hard to handle, being perfectly round (was an upright rectangle too phallic?), and that does perhaps account for the packaging being one sturdy box inside another. On the other hand, it's a genuinely innovative shape that means you don't have to think in terms of just upright and reversed- suddenly, a myriad of angles present themselves for possible interpretation.

This deck would be good for suggesting interesting new avenues for a jaded reader to explore, but most people might find the deck's agenda a bit wearing.