Dreams of Gaia Tarot: A Tarot For a New Era, 81 full colour cards & 308 page guidebook.

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Feel– delve into the watery realms of emotion, and begin to understand why you feel and react as you do. The tarot will help you shine a light on your emotions. It will allow you to explore their depths, and embrace the beautiful and powerful awareness that your responses and reactions are a natural part of who you are, but also within your power to control and change. The Dreams of Gaia Tarot has a 56-card minor arcana – the same number as traditional tarots, but the suits are named after the elements:

Seek– reveal the answers to the questions within. Learn who you were, who you are, and who you wish to become. The tarot will help you communicate with the Divine, and your inner self; know your conscious mind, and explore the unconscious forces – the hard-wired beliefs and patterns that influence your behaviour and choices. Knowledge is power. Self-knowledge and awareness are the keys to empowerment. The images feature both an idealised Pagan world, the worlds of myth and legend, the Faerie realm of mystical beings, and of course Ravynne’s famous and extraordinarily powerful dragons. Ravynne Phelan has a distinctive and unique art style – it is highly stylised and very detailed. When she depicts the natural environment she uses a 'realistic’ pallette, however when she depicts otherworldly beings she ventures into spectacularly imaginative colour schemes. Ravynne’s artworks, as noted before, absolutely glow – her Minor Arcana is colour-coded with Earth featuring rich greens, Air delivery by icy pastels, Fire with glowing oranges and yellows, and Water by deep indigo and pale blue. Now onto the Minor Arcana. It’s presented in a similar fashion to the Majors. The cards are grouped in their suits with keywords, key phrases and meanings for both the upright and reversed positions. The only difference is that there’s only one set of meanings provided rather than the past, present, future groupings found for the Majors. Spreads For example, if you are looking to gain insight into your creative side, you might choose the Temperance card in the Major Arcana. This card suggests slowing down and taking time for yourself – something that can be difficult to do when we’re constantly bombarded with demands from the outside world.Feel – delve into the watery realms of emotion, and begin to understand why you feel and react as you do. The tarot will help you shine a light on your emotions. It will allow you to explore their depths, and embrace the beautiful and powerful awareness that your responses and reactions are a natural part of who you are, but also within your power to control and change. Influence – The cards here are used to explain why we make the decisions that we do. These represent the major impacts that may influence your decision-making and may help clarify why you do certain things. The print quality is outstanding, the images are clear with crisp lines and the gorgeous colours positively glow. Dreams can be a window into your subconscious and can provide clues to understanding yourself and your motivations. To read a dream, first determine its meaning based on your waking thoughts and experiences. Once you have an understanding of the dream’s context, use the Tarot cards to unveil its hidden meanings. If you are a supporter of the arts, and of Ravynne's art, know that a few dollars a month - less than what you would spend on a cup of coffee - can go a long, long way to bringing more beauty and magic into the world.

These are archetypes that we all are in some way, whether we are male, female or gender-neutral. They are aspects of our nature that we possess or have moved through or are influenced by.

The Minor Arcana

I think this section can be used as you see fit. There is some really good stuff to be found under this heading that might be missed if you ignore this section because you don’t read reversals. As you may have guessed, I don’t read with them. If you do I respect that and I would encourage everyone to read however works for you. That should be a given.

By offering structure in the form of a major and minor arcana like that of past tarots, but combining them with bold new archetypes, symbology, and meanings more suited to the present, the Dreams of Gaia Tarot allows for a more personal, intimate, and effective system for using cards as a roadmap to navigate your life path. Embark on this extraordinary journey of undoing, of being, and becoming, and be inspired by the knowledge that all that manifests in your future is born of choices you make today. These cards relate to why we are here and what we are here to achieve – whether it be just the individual or humanity as a whole. 9. Knowledge, 10. Wisdom, 11. Healing, 12. Love, 13. Union, 14. Self, 15. Abundance, 16. Destiny The minor arcana represents the temporary things that you may be experiencing in your life at any given time.

Interpretation of Dreams

Would you like to play a key role in helping Ravynne to step into the flow and create? You can do so by becoming one of her beloved Patrons. What is a patron? It is someone who holds the arts in the highest regard, who understands how important art and writing are to humanity, and who chooses to show their support and help artists and authors to create by offering financial assistance and support. Heal– there are experiences in your past that can do harm in your present because you have bound them to you by holding on to the emotions and beliefs they have fostered. These bonds are the foundation of all that limits and restricts you in the present, and prevents you from moving forward with confidence and trust. Awareness will help you heal and let go. The Dreams of Gaia Tarot is designed to help readers connect with their intuition and divine guidance. The 78 cards are divided into four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Each suit has 14 cards, making it easy to read tarot readings for yourself or others.

Many people believe that dreams are a way to communicate with the subconscious mind. Dreams can be interpreted by a tarot reader as a way to gain insight into your personal life and the future. The Dreams of Gaia Tarot has been created to help the Seeker connect with their higher self as well as locate and begin the process of integration and healing past experiences which may be preventing one from achieving their fullest potential. It is guided by four principles – To Seek, To Feel, To Grow, To Heal. The Dreams of Gaia Tarot is for those who desire unity within themselves, their relationships, and with heaven and earth. It is for those who wish to explore, and develop a keener understanding of “self,” as well as those who seek to commune with the spirit realms and the Divine. As you can see, it makes for an interesting approach and one that becomes easier to understand once you see the groupings. Heal – there are experiences in your past that can do harm in your present because you have bound them to you by holding on to the emotions and beliefs they have fostered. These bonds are the foundation of all that limits and restricts you in the present, and prevents you from moving forward with confidence and trust. Awareness will help you heal and let go.Seek – reveal the answers to the questions within. Learn who you were, who you are, and who you wish to become. The tarot will help you communicate with the Divine, and your inner self; know your conscious mind, and explore the unconscious forces – the hard-wired beliefs and patterns that influence your behavior and choices. Knowledge is power. Self-knowledge and awareness are the keys to empowerment. On The Tarot’ gives some thorough information on how to use the cards, which includes; using the cards regularly, how to phrase a question, taking time to do a reading, tarot journalling, and tarot as the mirror of your life. Grow– you are in a constant, cyclic state of growth and change. Growth and evolution are both inevitable and unavoidable, yet so many fear them, despite the fact that life itself is both a transformative and transmutative process. The tarot will help you to recognise and respond when a time of growth and change approaches, and to face it with increased confidence. You are here to live and experience life; to fear less and meet your fullest potential.