Save the date - and a review

I know October is not so close, but just in case any of you are in the NYC area and want to plan ahead . . .

What: Goddess Inspiration Oracle signing

When: Wednesday, October 24, 7 pm

Where: East West Living
(formerly East West Books)
78 Fifth Avenue @ 14th Street
New York, New York 10011
Phone: 212-243-5994.
Email: bookpos@eastwestnyc.com

Also, a very nice review of the Goddess Inspiration Oracle is up on Julie Cuccia-Watts’ blog; Julie is the creator of the Maat Tarot and The Ancestral Path Tarot as well as a co-sponsor of WATTS (Wisconsin Area TriState Tarot Symposium), which recently took place and was very successful. Her succinct verdict:

“I give the Goddess Inspiration Oracle a thumbs up for content, multicultural, the feminine divine and art.”

Read the entire review here.

Learn more about the Goddess Inspiration Oracle 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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SageWoman reviews the Lover’s Path Tarot

I guess the title of this post says it all.

 Many thanks to Diane Saarinen for passing this on to me.
Usually Fridays I try to feature a goddess painting here. But I’m so very tired — there’s so much going on, though it’s all good. And I’m still recovering from my cold. To make amends, I’m going to aim to do my Friday goddess post on Saturday. (Does that make sense? Hope so!)

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National Museum of Women in the Arts review

Here it is at last!

And it was published on page eight of the magazine, right across from a review of Diana Krall’s latest. Nice company!

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Museum of Love article

More press is coming in, much of it related to the Lover’s Path. I’ve yet to power up my scanner for the NMoWA review. But in the meantime, here’s an interesting article about my Museum of Love website. It was recently published in Brooklyn’s Courier-Life newspaper’s art section, 24/7.

Don’t log off without checking into the Museum of Love
By Michèle De Meglio

	Visit www.museumoflove.org and learn all about the ins and outs of amore

Need a little help in the romance department?

Then check out a new Web site designed to bring undying love to the masses.

At www.museumoflove.org, visitors can enter the enchanting world of the fictitious Museo di Palazzo Filomela and learn all about the ins and outs of amore.

“I wanted the Museum of Love to be the most romantic site on the Web,” explained its creator, Brooklyn-based author and illustrator Kris Waldherr.

It was her latest bestselling book that inspired her to create the Web site.

“My illustrated novel ‘The Lover’s Path’ features a museum in it, the Museo di Palazzo Filomela or the museum of the palace of the nightingale,” she explained. “As I worked on ‘The Lover’s Path,’ the museum took on a life of its own. I began to imagine an entire backstory for it, which originates in a 16th century Venetian love affair. This expanded to beyond what I could feature in my book. Eventually I thought it would be fun to create a Web site for the museum, featuring my paintings and writing and my publications.”

Posted on the Web site is an illustrated tour of the museum’s interior, which Waldherr created from her home in Brooklyn’s Kensington neighborhood. Doing so was just another way for the talented illustrator to express her creative side.

“I thought it would be fun,” she said of why she opened the site. “And it was – you have no idea how much fun it was to create the artifacts, to think up the museum backstory…I like the idea of a Web site being an alternative medium for creating a story.”

The content on the site is also largely based on famous couples throughout history.

“There’s paintings of famous lovers, retellings of love stories, animated artifacts that present the Museum of Love’s imaginary history and biographies of its original inhabitants,” Waldherr said.

Once on the site, hopeless romantics can send love letters to the special people in their lives. The electronic messages are adorned with images of well-known couples, such as Tristan and Isolde, Cupid and Psyche, and Isis and Osiris.

“The myth of Cupid and Psyche speaks about how love changes and challenges us,” Waldherr said. “The story of Dante and Beatrice is comforting to anyone who has suffered unrequited love. It basically tells us to let love inspire us to great deeds, instead of sitting in a room sad and rejected.”

There’s a special page on the site for people who have had their hearts broken.

As Waldherr explained, “It was something a friend suggested. She felt that I needed to address people who maybe aren’t so happy in love to make my work and the Museum accessible to them on this level. After all, art is often a search for catharsis.”

The site even includes typical museum features.

“Like all museums, there’s also a gift shop which features my publications,” Waldherr said.

Moving from the literary world to the World Wide Web was not a stretch for Waldherr, a true romantic who met the love of her life while traveling on a Brooklyn subway.

Waldherr hopes Web crawlers will tour www.museumoflove.org and be inspired to rekindle the flame in their own love lives, especially since Brooklyn is a wildly romantic borough.

“Like my Museum of Love, which is set in an imaginary Venice, Brooklyn is also set on water. And water lends itself beautifully to romantic activities – twilight walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, visits to the [Brooklyn Heights] Promenade, caviar and blinis overlooking the ocean on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, boat rides in Prospect Park, or a stroll around the koi pond in the Japanese garden of the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.”

“Ultimately, I hope the Museum of Love is a beautiful place to visit – I love the idea of a museum that only exists in the imagination,” she said. “But more importantly, I hope the site will help to inspire people to think about love in a deeper, more mythic way.”

©Courier-Life Publications 2007

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