Goddess Tarot app review

Thanks to Willa, who blogs at Beautiful iPhone Apps, for her lovely (and timely) review of the updated Goddess Tarot iPhone app:

“I have Kris Waldherr’s “Goddess Tarot” cards, so I was excited when she came out with an iPhone app. The original app was great, but one thing I would have liked to have was a journal to keep track of notes and thoughts on readings. With a recent update, a journal has been added, so the app is, in my opinion, pretty much perfect. And also beautiful!”

“Pretty much perfect” is high praise indeed.

Haven’t downloaded the app yet? You can here.

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The above illustration is of Isis, who is featured in The Goddess Tarot on the Magic (The Magician) card.

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By popular demand…

…The Goddess Tarot and Love Tarot iPhone apps now include an integrated tarot journal!

This major update was just approved by Apple and is now available (or will be available shortly) on the iTunes App store. The journal feature allows users to record their favorite readings and inspirations. It also automatically saves a screenshot of any multi-card reading into an entry. Plus you can have unlimited entries, which can be revisted, edited, and deleted as desired.

If you’ve already purchased these apps, this is a free download. And if you haven’t purchased them, hopefully this will give you a good reason to do so!

Also underway here: the Goddess Inspiration Oracle iPhone app. It should be ready-to-go by the end of the month. I have the beta version here and am having a lot of fun playing with it.

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Goddess Tarot app blog tour – the finale!

Last week, the final three stops on The Goddess Tarot app went live:

~ On Joanna Powell Colbert’s beautiful Gaian Tarot blog, I was interviewed about translating the Goddess Tarot into the digital age. Read it here.

~ Tarotist Beth Owl’s Daughter asked me to write a post about The Artist’s Way and goddesses which garnered some interesting comments. Read it here.

~ Finally, fellow Brooklynite, tarotist, and author Elizabeth Genco (aka the Marketing Goddess) interviewed me about the business end of making art. Read it here.

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Just reading over this list makes me realize how ridiculously and dizzyingly busy August was. Besides launching The Goddess Tarot app, I’ve also been traveling, working, dealing with home renovations, sold several decks, and even held a tarot salon. No wonder I’ve been quiet here on this blog!

But now it’s September, and you might be wondering what this new month holds for me. While work isn’t slowing down for me, it is easing up in terms of must-get-this-down-now-or-else pressure — always a welcome development. So I plan to be back to a more consistent posting schedule on this blog.

I also have two wonderful blog guests scheduled for September, to make up for skipping August’s. Lisa Hunt will be interviewed by me about her newest publication, The Fairy Tale Tarot. I have a copy here and it’s a real beauty! Urban shaman Mama Donna Henes will also be stopping by to discuss her inspiring book, The Queen of My Self.

As for my own creative efforts, I’m back to revising my long-aborning New Book and finalizing the Doomed Queens-themed card decks for publication. Plus there are new iPhone apps in the works, including one featuring the Lover’s Path Tarot.

Info on these — and more! — to come soon.

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The Art of the App

My latest Goddess Tarot app blog tour post is up! It’s all about creating art for an iPhone app:

Unless you’re versed in the programming languages C+ and Cocoa, creating an iPhone app is a mysterious process. Unlike websites, there are no Dreamweaver-like editors out there to construct your app with a click and drag of the mouse. That written, the popularity of the App Store has led to ample resources for those determined to code-or-bust — there’s even an iPhone Application Development for Dummies book available.

But what about creating art for an app?

Read the rest of this post here.

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Deck-a-palooza! and more

First things first: The next stop on The Goddess Tarot app tour has gone live over at Lunaea Weatherstone’s blogue, At Brigid’s Forge. I’ve known Lunaea through various goddess-y endeavors for some years now. We’ve worked together on several Amber Lotus calenders; she’s featured my work on her sumptuous artisan rosaries. So it’s especially a pleasure to be her guest on her inspiring, beautiful blogue.

(You might be wondering why “blogue” instead of the standardly spelled “blog”. Lunaea explains, “It’s just an old-fashioned touch that harkens back to less-hurried (and harried) times. . . . When you visit my blogue, I invite you to take a nice deep breath, absorb things a little at a time, wander in a serendipitous fashion, and generally remember that even in the ultra-speedy world of the Internet, you control the pace of your life.” Lovely, wonderful advice.)

On this stop, Lunaea interviews me about using a tarot app for readings and much more. I hope you’ll take a moment to visit.

In other news, I’m pleased to formally announce that U.S. Games Systems will be publishing four new card decks by me. U.S Games is also the publisher of The Goddess Tarot and The Lover’s Path Tarot.

Two of these new projects are related to Doomed Queens — Doomed Queens playing cards and Ask the Queens advice cards — which will be most likely published in early 2010. The other two are The Sacred World Oracle and a deck which will tie into my new book underway. (Still too early to reveal the details about this, though I’ve posted hints on this blog. One thing I can safely admit is that it’s also royally-themed, like Doomed Queens.)

After so many years in publishing, I don’t count a deal as done until everyone’s John Hancock is on the page. But this week, I signed the contracts for all four decks. Now I’m awaiting countersignature and my copies in the mail and all that.

I look forward to sharing more about these new projects as they develop!

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