The Goddess Tarot Workbook . . .

. . . is back in print. Copies are now available for purchase at Amazon.com.

The Goddess Tarot Workbook is an invitation for you to personalize The Goddess Tarot for yourself. It accompanies my Goddess Tarot deck. It includes information about each and every card in the deck, information to help you become a more intuitive Goddess Tarot reader, and tarot spreads created expressly to be used with The Goddess Tarot.

Goddesses aren’t the only women with myths of their own. All women’s lives bear a story unlike anyone else’s, as rich and individual as any deity. The Goddess Tarot Workbook was created to help you reveal your personal myth — think of this book as the ultimate private workshop where you are granted the space to explore your past, present and future.

To learn more about The Goddess Tarot Workbook or purchase it from Amazon.com, click here.

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Women’s Spirituality Tele-Festival

I will be participating in this, which is a fundraiser for The Beltane Papers, a women’s spirituality magazine that I sometimes write for. To register or for more information, e-mail Diane Saarinen at diane at thebeltanepapers dot net.

Here’s the official press release:

The Wonder, The Wisdom, The Power of Women: The Premiere Women’s Spirituality Tele-Festival

Women all over the world may now experience “The Wonder, The Wisdom, The Power of Women” featuring leaders of the women’s spirituality movement right in their own homes! The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Women’s Mysteries, a leading magazine of women’s spirituality for over 20 years, is presenting the first ever Women’s Spirituality Tele-Festival May 14 through the 18th, 2007. Women may register to participate in five programs to be presented by telephone at a cost of $47 for the series or $12 per individual session.

Participants may join these exciting, entertaining, and enlightening sessions:

Monday, May 14, 7 PST/10 EST: The Herbal Medicine of Trees with Robin Rose Bennett. Discover the healing powers of herbs with green witch, an herbalist, a wisewoman, and author of Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook.

Tuesday, May 15, 7 pm PST/10 pm EST: Goddess Advocates and Sacred Sites with
Karen Tate. Join the author of Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations as she discusses reclaiming and redefining sacred sites of the Goddess.

Wednesday, May 16, 7 pm PST/10 pm EST: Oracles of the Goddess with Kris Waldherr. The creatrix of the bestselling Goddess Tarot and The Lover’s Path Tarot, and author/illustrator of numerous books, including The Book of Goddesses, shares her insights on tarot divination, mythic art and mystic oracles of the Goddess.

Thursday, May 17, 7 pm PST/10 pm EST: Animal Communication with Flash Silvermoon. Learn about reincarnation and pets, how animals are our first line of defense, facilitating the return of the spirit of a favorite pet, and much more from the author, musician, astrologer, Tarot reader and creatrix of the Wise Woman’s Tarot.

Friday, May 18, 7 pm PST/10 pm EST: The Queen in Midlife with Mama Donna.
Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman and award-winning author of The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife, introduces us to the Queen, her original concept for an inspirational new archetype for women in charge.

“The women presenting at this Tele-Festival transform lives with the insights, the wisdom, and the vision of their work. Now anyone with a telephone can learn from their expertise and experience and ask questions as if they were chatting over the dinner table,” says Diane Saarinen, the Tele-Festival’s organizer.

Participants may register by May 10 by contacting Diane Saarinen at diane at thebeltanepapers dot net or 718-422-9199. Registered participants will receive a telephone number to call to join the tele-seminar. The sessions will also be available on CDs for purchase. All proceeds from the tele-festival will benefit The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Women’s Mysteries. Five Marione Thompson-Helland Memorial Scholarships will available for those demonstrating hardship.

The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Women’s Mysteries publishes articles, fiction, artwork, and poetry which explore and express the sacred in women’s lives. Its pages have included some of the most well-known writers and practitioners of women’s spirituality over the past two decades. Women may learn more about The Beltane Papers or subscribe by visiting www.TheBeltanePapers.net or writing to 11506 NE 113th Pl, Kirkland, WA 98033.

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publishing 101: an editor talks

My new book proposal went out yesterday to a bunch o’ publishers. The proposals should be resting on the targetted editors’ desks as I type this.

(Behold the power of agents — they can do simultaneous submissions. And they use overnight mail.)

Right now, I feel as though I’ve traveled through several time zones and have finally arrived. Where, I don’t know. Hopefully someplace good. One thing I do know: I feel almost jetlagged with exhaustion.

As I’m waiting for news — hopefully good — I thought that this Youtube video seemed appropriate. In it, an editor talks about what she does.

As you watch, check out the tall pile of submitted manuscripts sent to her. Scary but true: our piles were taller when I worked at Dial Books reading “slush” ( as we unceremoniously called all the unsolicited manuscripts that were sent to us). And of the hundreds of manuscripts I read, only about 5% went onto consideration by an acquiring editor.

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getting ready to finish

This next week and a half is going to be a humdinger for me. Here’s my breakdown:

1. Hand in book proposals to agent. By this Wednesday.

2. Ship frames to Omaha for exhibition. By Thursday the latest.

3. Finish up drawings for Goddess Alive for Llewellyn. By May 1st.

4. Finish matting paintings for Omaha exhibition. Pack and prepare art for travel. By May 3rd.

5. In between all of this, take care of other stuff, like mothering a toddler, eating, sleeping, showering, and so on. Life with a capital ‘L’.

I’ll be traveling to Omaha for the exhibition the first week in May. Omaha, according to the NY Times and NPR’s Studio 360 is apparently the Williamsburg of the Midwest, complete with indy rockers and black-clad hipsters. I will report back to you on this and other miscellany upon my return to Chez Art and Words. Until then, I probably won’t be posting as regularly on this blog. But I think you can understand why.

The irony is that after I reach these deadlines, I don’t have anything other work scheduled. But with several book proposals out on the market, hopefully something will sell soon. In the meantime, I’ll enjoy catching my breath!

ETA: I thought this post had gone “live” Monday. Shows you how busy I’ve been that I never noticed it wasn’t posted!

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goddess painting of the day: Iduna

This painting of Iduna was originally created for a book that has yet to come to fruition — maybe one day. But I liked it so much that I decided to include it in the new edition of The Book of Goddesses.

Here’s some information about this lovely goddess. The Norse honored Iduna as the goddess responsible for growing apples, which were eaten by the gods and goddesses to retain their youth and beauty. Iduna grew the golden apples of immortality in her enchanted western garden named Appleland; in the stories of King Arthur, Appleland was called Avalon—the idyllic country of immortal life. Iduna was renowned for her youthful beauty, and was married to Bragi, the handsome god of poetry.

This painting was created with watercolors, gouache, powdered pigments, and even a bit of oil paint — it was a complicated and experimental effort, in other words. Basically, I was trying to see how far I could push my technique. BTW, the runic alphabet at the top of the border spells out phonetically “Iduna Goddess.”

 

It also graced the cover of the catalog  for my recent exhibition at the New York Open Center. If you’re interested, copies of the book are available for purchase; e-mail me your receipt and I’ll even send you an autographed bookplate.

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