Pandora
Tarot
Pandora Tarot was
inspired from my love for Greek myth and art, and my dedication to Goddess.
The stories I read of Bulfinch’s when I was nine, although male-centered, were
still the first I knew of goddesses, of immortal women with fantastic powers,
living as they chose.
An archetypal female being was chosen to represent
each Major Arcana of the Tarot. The selections were based upon ancient and
Classical sources for both text and images, as cited below. Known to people
millennia ago and to us today, these goddesses offer us, as they offered them, a
bridge to connect our present to our past, and our reason to our souls.
Like the Classical Greeks, we live at a crossroads of
time. Their myths speak of conflict between goddess and god, between immortal
and mortal, between nature and artifice. Today many of us seek to heal the
rifts, reverse the trend, and honor Goddess once again. In that spirit, I have
taken the ancient words and images, and not re-imagined them, but made them
my own.
I Hekate VIII Athena XV Gorgon
II Snake Goddess IX Graeae XVI Erinys
III Demeter X Tykhe XVII Astraea
IV Hera XI Artemis XVIII Selene
V Themis XII Daphne XIX Hestia
VI Aphrodite XIII White Goddess XX Persephone