“A Conversation: Art, Archetypes, and Tarot”
with Vicki Noble and Lisa Levart
Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 3 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Our Scholar Salons usually feature the work of a single woman scholar. On this special occasion our Salon will be a conversation between two remarkable women who, in addition to their other work, have blended scholarship and arts to create beautiful and memorable divination decks. Vicki Noble is a feminist healer and wisdom teacher, co-creator of the Motherpeace tarot and author of numerous books including Motherpeace, Shakti Woman and The Double Goddess. Lisa Levart is a visual artist/photographer of women and goddess images, nicknamed the “Annie Leibovitz of Goddesses,” whose Goddess on Earth Oracle Deck features 45 portraits of real women portraying the Divine Feminine.
Lisa Levart is a visual artist/photographer whose interest lies at the intersection between fine arts and social engagement. Her subjects are women and how our stories connect us to one another. Her work blends several mediums, including collage, film, multi media, dance and photography In addition to many galleries, Lisa’s work has been mounted in unique environments such as a 4-story installation of photo banners at the Palisades Center Mall, and as an immersive, multi-media installation at The Luna Stage Theater. Her book Goddess on Earth: Portraits of the Divine Feminine (2011), won a Gold Nautilus Book Award and was named one of the 100 Best New Women’s Spirituality Books in 2018. In that year, Lisa and Grandmother Clara Soaring Hawk, Ambassador of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, spoke at the Parliament of World Religions on the topic of using art to build bridges between cultures, and their ongoing collaborative series, “Women of Ramapough Lenape Nation.”
Vicki Noble is a feminist healer and wisdom teacher, co-creator of Motherpeace and author of numerous books including Motherpeace, Shakti Woman and The Double Goddess. She says of her inspiration, “The female lineage from which I draw is a holistic underground stream that runs from the most ancient times when women were unquestioned spiritual leaders and teachers at the center of our human communities.” For decades she has traveled and taught internationally, and her books are translated and published in various languages. Retired from teaching as a graduate professor in two Women’s Spirituality Masters Programs in California, Vicki teaches workshops and speaks in public venues in the U.S. and Europe. At home in Santa Cruz, California, she facilitates private intensive tutorials with women from around the world who come to study Motherpeace Tarot or to learn the Tibetan Buddhist Dakini practices she adapts and creates especially for them. In 2017, Christian Dior licensed the round feminist Motherpeace images for a special “cruise line” of clothing.
Save the dates for upcoming ASWM Salons this summer:
June 30 2022 3PM Eastern Daylight Time
“Three Mesoamerican Feminine Deities Balancing the Universe”
Verónica Iglesias
July 15 2022 3PM Eastern Daylight Time
“Sacred Midwifery: Woman as the First Home”
Katsi Cook
The Salon recording will also be available to members after the event.
In 2018 I attended the Gatekeepers Conference on sacred sites & pilgrimage and made a personal pilgrimage to Avebury, Silbury Hill, Glastonbury, and other sites. EARTHSPEAK explores a mythic, historical, poetic and subjective response to these geomantically potent sites, in particular Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric monument in Europe, with research that suggests it was at one time a representation of the body of the Earth Mother. EARTHSPEAK also suggests that Geomantic reciprocity occurs as human beings bring intentionality to a particular place, making it a holy or sacred place. Numinous communion with “spirit of place” can become increasingly active as it accrues mythic power in the memory of the people, and in the land. Sacred places have both an innate and a developed capacity to bring about altered states of consciousness, especially if people come prepared within the liminal state of pilgrimage. 
Yoga Nidrā Śakti is a South Asian Goddess of sleep, rest, and liminal spaces between dreaming and waking. A key figure in The Greatness of the Goddess (Devī Mahātmyam, c600BC), her Sanskrit name literally means ‘power of sleep’. She features in many images and indigenous story rituals, all describing her power to send every being (including gods) to sleep; she restores right relationship to cyclical rhythms of rest that hold life in balance. Wherever she appears, Nidrā Śakti counters transgressions of those who refuse to sleep, returning all beings to right relationship with natural cycles. Yoganidrā is also a state of yogic rest that supports healing for out-of-balance human experiences such as insomnia, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Sadly, the presence of Nidrā Śakti has been marginalised and eradicated from commercial and traditional yoga schools profiting from methods of the popular practice bearing her name: yoga nidrā. Through stories and exquisite images, we explore the liminality of Nidrā Śakti as goddess of thresholds between sleep and dream. 
Cristina’s video explores the intimate connection between the most prevalent
“When the Goddess calls, she’s fierce, and real. And you better pick up the phone. The goddess who wants you is the one who finds you, and sometimes she arrives with more questions than answers. The goddess who found me was Austeja, bee goddess of Lithuania. And she didn’t make it easy. In fact, she swarmed me with bees, repeatedly, until I wrote a novel about her.
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