A two part virtual immersion with Karen Vogel, co-creator of the famed Motherpeace Tarot Deck. Created in the 70’s, the cards in this extraordinary round tarot deck include images of potent symbols celebrating women’s power from 40,000 years of pre-patriarchal cultures throughout the world.

Karen is a rogue scholar, known for her innovative thinking in the field of anthropology and natural history. The immersion with Karen contains both theory and practice. You’ll learn how to use the tarot as a tool for enhancing intuition, insight and the art of divination. Karen’s spiritual perspective is goddess oriented and includes the belief that everything is alive including plants, animals, rocks and weather. They all have spirits that can be explored in altered states which can be accessed through a variety of techniques including tarot. She’ll teach us how to use the tarot as a tool for gaining insight and information useful in healing and transformation.

The Motherpeace Tarot Deck was co-created by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble from their deep scholarship, healing work, and psychic training. In addition, Karen’s spirituality was deeply informed by the time she spent in the southwest desert. When Karen and Vicki traveled to Chaco Canyon in the 1970’s the ruins, spirits, energy and ancestors of the land had a profound effect on them that influenced the creation of the deck. The cards were further informed and inspired by Karen’s research into anthropology and prehistory, and Vicki’s foundation in women’s studies. The deck draws on imagery from the worldwide flowering of artistic expression beginning over 40,000 years ago. The Motherpeace images and ideas draw on a variety of cultures real and imagined, and a spirituality based on shamanism, which is often considered the original world religion of humans.

The first class is about revealing the underlying structure of the tarot. Karen explains the Major Arcana and how it differs from the four suits or Minor Arcana. The four suits of the Minor Arcana relate to the elements of fire, water, air, and earth and is divided into the people (shaman, priestess, son, daughter) and numerical cards. The Major Arcana can seem very mysterious and incredibly potent. In addition to explaining the Major Arcana Karen show’s you how to figure out your life cards which relate to one or two Major Arcana. She discusses the different life cards and shares deeper insights into her explanations of the meanings and symbology.

The second class is more focused on using the tarot cards for readings. The cards can be used to see what’s going on in a particular situation or for a more general overview. Karen will share how to tune into the cards to receive their suggestions or ways of looking at the question that can help to orient or prescribe possible directions to go to improve, heal, and gain deeper insight in a particular situation.

Session 1:

• Introductions

• Background of the Motherpeace deck, Goddess and human evolution

• Tarot structure and uses

• How to find your life card in the Major Arcana

• Major Arcana—Meanings and symbols

• People cards in the 4 suits

• How to find the card that corresponds to sun sign

• Questions and closing

Session 2:

• Introductions

• Creation of the Motherpeace

• How to use the cards

• The ritual of doing a reading

• Motherpeace tarot spread tutorial and reading

• Questions, discussion and closing

If you have any questions please email us at info@mercado-sagrado.com