15. Looking through a Portal with Karen Vogel of The Motherpeace Tarot

This episode is a Wild Soul Interview with Karen Vogel, the co-creator of The Motherpeace Tarot! Karen is an intuitive artist, healer, teacher, writer, Tarot Reader, and the co-creator (with Vicki Noble) of the amazing and beautiful Motherpeace Tarot deck. She is a true living legend, and it was an honor of a lifetime to get to speak to her. In this conversation, Karen and I dive into: • How Karen and Vicki feel about their collaboration with Dior (6:47) • How the Motherpeace Tarot came to be and how Karen and Vicki published the first 5000 copies themselves (15:59) • The decision to make the Motherpeace Tarot a round, circular deck (20:42) • Other contributors to the Motherpeace Tarot deck: Lily Hillwomyn and Cassandra Light (26:11) • How she got introduced to Tarot (in NYC in the 1960s!) and her journey into healership and her artistry (30:34) • How Karen Vogel and Vicki Nobel met and how they decided to make a Tarot deck together (34:36) • Where the inspiration for the images arose from for the Motherpeace Tarot (41:20) • The Justice card of the Motherpeace Tarot (54:39) • The decision to order Justice as 8 and Strength as 11 (1:00:41) • The Tarot cards that Karen most loved drawing: the Wheel of Fortune and the Emperor (1:04:42) • The Five of Pentacles card of the Motherpeace Tarot and reworking the fives and the sevens of the Tarot (1:09:40) • Creating the Motherpeace Tarot Spread (1:17:08) • How the success of the Motherpeace Tarot has felt (1:23:00) _________ ABOUT THE PODCAST  Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking. Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives. ABOUT LINDSAY Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast. Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world. As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them. Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe. WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner