Shop Goddess

Shop Goddess, as some of you may know, is Art and Words’ “official” online catalog. It features all of my publications and more: goddess prints, clothing, household decorations and so on.

I’ve just spruced it up to include some of my new books as well as the soon-to-be-published Goddess Inspiration Oracle. I’ve also added the Goddess Tarot deck and book set, which Amazon now offers.

I hope you will take a moment to visit!

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the Goddess Inspiration Oracle . . .

. . . is now available for preorder at Amazon.com! As a further enticement, the GIO is discounted 32% to $14.93 from its regular price of $21.95.

Preorder the Goddess Inspiration Oracle now.

The Goddess Inspiration Oracle will be shipped in September 2007 from Amazon.com. Which, as this year progresses, doesn’t feel very far away. I heard from my art director at Llewellyn this week, who reported that the GIO is currently on press and looks great. I can’t wait to see the final printed version myself!

To learn more about the GIO, visit www.goddessinspiration.net. You can also receive a free excerpt of it by signing up for my informal bimonthly newsletter. This excerpt includes 12 of the goddess oracle cards with their descriptions — a wonderful way to enjoy an amusé bouche for my newest tool for mythic living.

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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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Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt

I’m pleased to announce that Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt, the latest book I’ve illustrated, has been published by Inner Traditions/Bear & Company.

Shamanic Mysteries was co-authored by Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf. I created eight large watercolor paintings for the book, one of which you can see on the book cover. This piece presents Nut, the goddess of the night, and Geb, the god of the earth; on the side is Thoth, the Architect of Higher Learning; the central figure is Anubis, the Opener of the Way.

Though I immersed myself in Egyptian art to work on this book, Nicki and Star Wolf’s descriptions for the art were so precise that all I had to do was hew to their words as closely as possible. In a sense, what you’re seeing are their visions brought to life by my paintbrush — I’m only the hired hand, so to speak! This is an unusual situation because these days I seem to spend more time illustrating my projects than I do for other authors. (It’s not that I don’t like illustrating for authors. I think it’s more that I have so many book ideas that it’s rare for me to come up for air.)

On Nicki Scully’s website, signed copies are also available. She’s also posted several excerpts from the book for your reading pleasure.

Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt is a powerful book bearing an inspiring message of hope — one much needed these days. I’m pleased to be a small part of it.

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