Bøger af Vicki Noble

WOMEN'S STUDIES / SPIRITUALITY Artistic representations depicting two women in intimate relations with each other, or as a single body with two heads, have been discovered in important centers of early civilization from locations as widespread as the Mediterranean and Aegean regions to Central Asia, India, Tibet, Mexico, and Peru. The archaeologists who first discovered these figures dubbed them Double Goddesses and linked them to ancient cults of the Great Mother. Vicki Noble validates this Great Goddess connection and asserts that the icon of the Double Goddess expands our understanding of ancient female autonomy and sovereignty. Illustrated with more than 150 representations of this ancient icon, The Double Goddess offers contemporary women an archetype for the sacred potential of female bonding--whether between mother and daughter, teacher and student, friends, or lovers. VICKI NOBLE is a healer, teacher, artist, and cocreator (with Karen Vogel) of the bestselling Motherpeace Tarot deck. Her other books include Shakti Woman; Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot; and Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot. She lives in the mountains near Santa Cruz, California.

For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with an informed spiritual and feminist perspective.

This is a guide to awakening women's shamanic powers for self healing and the healing of the planet.

TAROT / WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY "The Motherpeace Tarot has been a wise and loving oracle. A clear mirror that constantly shows the truest face." --Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple "I recommend Vicki Noble and Motherpeace to any person interested in healing the deep spiritual as well as ecological wounds of our time." --Marija Gimbutas, author of The Living Goddess "Vicki's voice is unique and authentic in the women's spirituality movement." --Olympia Dukakis, Academy Award-winning actress "We desperately need to hear more voices like Vicki Noble's, voices of women who not only hear but respond to the cries of the world. In Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot, she helps us to find the voice of our greater knowing, and our greater power to act." --John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot presents a unique system for spiritual development that taps into and manifests the divine feminine using the Motherpeace deck. Created during the crest of the woman's spiritual movement, the Mother- peace deck was the first multicultural tarot designed specifically for women. Depicting people of color, older women, children, animals, and balanced roles for men and women, the deck embraces images from ancient cultures and contemporary tribal peoples to convey the fundamental principles of cooperation, relatedness, egalitarianism, and ecstatic communion. In Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot Vicki Noble teaches how to use the diverse imagery of the Motherpeace deck to read the past, present, and future; invoke good health on all levels; nurture one's relationships; receive divine guidance during critical decision-making; and celebrate sacred holidays. She offers daily meditative practices, rights of passage, ritual readings, and seasonal celebrations appropriate for both beginners and those who have extensive knowledge of tarot. VICKI NOBLE is a feminist, healer, scholar, teacher, and cocreator (with Karen Vogel) of the original round Motherpeace deck that has found its way into over two hundred thousand homes around the world. She is the author of The Double Goddess, Shakti Woman, Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess, and The Motherpeace Tarot Playbook (with Jonathan Tenney). She lives in the mountains near Santa Cruz, California.