Mama Says Om - Family

There was a wealth of images here which I could have chosen for this week's theme at Mama Says Om, and for the the last few days, my mind has been dancing off in all sorts of directions, rather like the woman warrior who mounted her horse with great aplomb and rode off in all directions at once. Last evening though, something beckoned me toward the tarot deck which resides in a carved wooden box in my study, and I heeded the compelling tug.

The Greenwood Tarot has been out of print and circulation for years, and solitary copies have been going for astonishing prices on EBAY, so I consider myself fortunate in possessing a copy of the deck, one gifted to me shortly after publication by a dear friend who knew that I had always admired Chesca Potter's work - Chesca set her remarkable creation free some time ago, and I am trusting that copyright is not an issue as I post this.

I also admire the Druidcraft Tarot, by Stephanie and Philip Carr-Gomm and Will Worthington, and one of these days, I shall have and cherish deeply a copy of Joanna Powell Colbert's incandescent Gaian Tarot. All three decks are rooted in Mother Earth and Her magnificent creation, so there are probably no surprises here.

Last evening, I decided to ask the cards what they thought about family and pull nine cards at random. The deck yielded the six images above (from top left to bottom right): Home, Hearth, Tradition, Harvest, Celebration and Joy, and the concluding cards were: Generosity, Fulfillment and the World Tree - a card which has always been synonymous (for me anyway) with "oneness", connection, community, and the great cosmic family of which we are but a minute and trifling part. I'm not sure what led me to do all this, but the reading was right on, and I was delighted.

Written for Mama Says Om.