I’m very pleased to be visiting Rowan Pendragon today at One Witch’s Way. Rowan has a lot of enthusiasm for the Gaian, and has been following its progress for many years. She asked great questions, too!
Here’s a brief excerpt from the interview:
RP: You’ve done such an amazing job of being able to take some of the traditional cards and bring them into a earth spirituality incarnation. Were there any cards in the deck that you found particularly challenging to do this with?
JPC: Not really. There is only one card in the entire deck that is set completely inside, and that is the 3 of Air. (The 3 of Earth is set in a kitchen, but there is an open window to the outdoors.) There are no obvious references to the natural world in the 3 of Air, except for the feather in the jar and the stylized birds on the man’s shirt. When I created the minors, I would meditate on the energy of the number and how it might be expressed through the qualities of the suit. Three means flow, abundance, harmony, manifestation to me; and Air is all about thought, communication, writing, the mind, meditation, clarity, decision-making etc. I thought about the act of writing, and how thoughts and ideas often rush through us and out onto the keyboard or through the pen when we write. So I decided to show a man writing in his journal, surrounded by shelves full of books. I didn’t realize until later that I hadn’t put in a window. I thought about doing the card over and adding a window, but decided to leave it as it is. The shadow side of the card (or the reversal) could emphasize the stuffiness of a room that gets no fresh air. Sometimes we get stuck in our own minds and there can be a lot of pain and frustration when that happens. So the card carries a continuum of meaning, from positive to negative, as every card does.
You can read the whole article here >>>
Thank you, Rowan!
Previous Virtual Deck & Book Tour stops:
- Exploring a New Pardigm, James Wells
- Tarot Myth-Busting at “Carry It Forward”, Christa Gallopoulos
- Patheos Pagan Portal, Star Foster
- Plants, Creativity & the Gaian Tarot in Plant Healer Magazine, Jesse Wolf Hardin
- The Gaian Tarot Visits the Church of the Old Mermaids, Kim Antieau
- Many Hands “Innerview,” Paris Finley & Carolyn Cushing
- Talkin’ Tarot with the Tarot Lady, Theresa Reed
- An interview with me at the Llewellyn Tarot Journal
- “Creating the Gaian Tarot” at the Llewellyn Tarot Journal
- The cover of the Llewellyn New Worlds Catalog
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