I began to understand how cut off I had been from the Goddess in my own life, how personally wounded by patriarchy I have been (like all the women in my family), and how that denial was keeping me from the deep grief I held about it all. She wants to appear in her compassionate version rather than her traditional one with multiple arms and red tongue and skulls. I "channel" all my decks, which is like tuning into them creatively and receiving them rather than "making them" intellectually.

When we ask for help, we are asking for guidance from a Source greater than us—a great unknowable mystery. These inaccurate and damaging stories are so old and repeated so often that no one recognizes how pervasive their implications are. You can experience the world as a sensual, expressive, creative being if you allow yourself the freedom to explore what this means to you. Now is the time you can truly make your mark, as the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis, will help guide your arrow! When the goddess Maya chooses to help you, trust that everything you need arises from your world with ease.The Goddesses have assembled all their energies to guide you to your deepest truth, empower you to choose freedom from your old conditioning, and bring you awareness to co-create a life beyond your wildest dreams! No matter what question you’ve come to explore, the goddess Saraswati reminds you that the pursuit of mastery is never ending, so enjoy every minute of it. Channeling and dreaming this deck to life with my creative partner Jena profoundly changed us both forever. For example, my friend Ayesha Ophelia, herself a budding author, popular spiritual teacher, and deck creator, is our Aphrodite and a woman of color. Isis put the body back together to conceive their son, Horus, before Osiris left for the underworld.

You are standing in the liminal spaces between what was and what will be—who you have been and who you are becoming. The Greek goddess of crossroads and the in-between, Hecate, welcomes you to her domain and reminds you that neither place is your home.The Goddesses in this deck are meant to be represented by their dominant energy and personalities instead of showing them in their classical, cultural forms, so we created non-traditional artistic representations of them. You just need to be willing, respect others, and do no harm; miracles will arise as if out of nowhere. Yet I felt I should know more before fully committing to bring this deck into the world, so I took a deep dive into our prehistory.

The Greek goddess of romantic love, Aphrodite, represents a state of ecstatic being that she now invites you to cultivate within. It’s fun when things turn out exactly as you predicted, but remember that the essence of your intention means more than its form. The energy of the Greek goddess of romantic love, Aphrodite, comes forth with a state of ecstatic being that she now invites you to cultivate within. Right now, you are invited to see what is familiar and decide whether you need to improve on it or leave things as they are.

Maya is the goddess of illusion in Tibetan and Hindu cultures, the mother of chaos in Scandinavian mythology, and the mother of the Greco-Roman trickster god Hermes/Mercury. The name Isis means “throne,” and her role in protecting Osiris’s legacy makes her an enduring symbol of royalty as well as resurrection.

The Gnostic goddess Sophia, who brought the material world into being, arrives to show you how fate and destiny operate in relationship to synchronicity. If you aim true and your heart is open and pure, grateful for all the bounty that surrounds you, your deepest desires will manifest before you like magic. Jena and I made our choices with the hope that they will encourage reflection and start conversations.

Being true to who you are and placing integrity and humility equal to enthusiasm makes you a wise leader indeed—one that the goddess Epona is so proud of. When she went to hell, she continued to help others until the god of the underworld sent her back, threatened by her good deeds.