Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art and Tarot

Vicki Noble Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art and Tarot Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1984. Cover design: Nancy Benedict Book in English. Book in satisfactory condition: many use marks on the back and front cover + spine, many notes made with a pencil in the book. But it remains a very cool book, with wonderful illustrations and content, in a real San Francisco vibe. More books on spirituality on my page —————— WOMEN'S STUDIES/RELIGION To recover the positive, nurturing, peace-oriented values of prepatri-archal times, Motherpeace brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, science, astrology, and comparative religion with an informed spiritual/feminist perspective. Vicki Noble challenges us to accept, rather than ignore, our ancient peaceful heritage and to reclaim our right as a people to a life without war. With this as its goal, the book takes the form not of a polemic, but of a story of many strands woven around the striking pictorial structure of all seventy-eight original Motherpeace Tarot images. "The Goddess is buried in the depths of the collective and personal unconscious," Noble points out. "Any system of thought or practice that aims at unlocking the unconscious will eventually cause her to be seen." Using our expanding knowledge of ancient Goddess-worship, and visualization techniques embodied in the Tarot, the author brings to light suppressed dimensions of our Western religious and psychological heritage, showing how traditional myths and symbols can provide ideas and images for understanding the meaning and power of the Goddess for women and men today. "As more of us allow the Goddess to awaken in us and to help us 're-member our Selves,' " says the author, "we may be able collectively to change the course of planetary destruction now awaiting us, and actively to create a future dedicated to life."