The Motherpeace Tarot Deck

MotherPeace Tarot: Listening to Women’s Wisdom from the Inside Out

If you’ve ever held the MotherPeace Tarot in your hands, you’ll know there’s something immediately different about it. The cards are round—soft at the edges, welcoming—and the images pulse with colour and ritual. Created in the late 1970s by Vicki Noble and Karen Vogel, the deck grew out of the heartbeat of the women’s movement. It wasn’t just another Tarot— and decks weren’t as prolific then - it was a call to come home to intuition, to creativity, to the sacred rhythm that lives inside all women.

The deck arrived at a time when women across the world were finding their voices again. The 1970s and 80s were vibrant with activism, protest, and radical imagination. Second Wave feminism was reshaping laws, workplaces, and family life—but just as importantly, it was reshaping inner lives. Women began asking—Who am I, beyond what the world expects me to be? What does freedom look like for me, with my body, in love, in regards my spirit?

That’s exactly what the MotherPeace deck speaks to. Every card invites the reader to listen from the inside—to trust the deep intuition that’s been passed down quietly through generations, beneath the noise of systems that told us to stay small.

A Deck Born from Change

When Noble and Vogel created MotherPeace, they reimagined Tarot through a goddess lens—one that reclaimed joy, community, and balance where the old hierarchies had favoured power and isolation. The circular cards break hierarchy even in form: there’s no “top” or “bottom,” no rigid linear structure. Instead, there’s flow. The circle reminds us that everything is connected, that growth doesn’t have to march forward—it can spiral, return, and begin again.

In that spirit, the MotherPeace Tarot has become a touchstone for readers interested in healing the link between personal spirituality and collective change. It reminds us that the Tarot isn’t necessarily about prediction so much as participation—how we show up for life, how we nurture what’s possible.

A Tarot Spread for Reflection

Here’s a simple MotherPeace-inspired Tarot spread you can try:

• Card One – The Inner Voice: What truth am I being asked to listen to that I’ve been quieting down?

• Card Two – The Old Story: What part of my path feels rooted in outdated beliefs?

• Card Three – The Renewal: What’s ready to be born as I reclaim my full power?

It’s a gentle, circular reading—no judgment, no hierarchy, just a conversation with yourself.

July Workshop: Reclaiming the Circle

This July, I’ll be hosting a MotherPeace Tarot workshop in Melbourne—a dive in to this beautiful deck and the energies that birthed it. We’ll explore how the cards can support self-trust, creative ritual, and a more grounded spiritual practice. If you’ve been curious about how Tarot can move beyond it’s current form into something even more nourishing and empowering, this will be a beautiful space to come into. Registrations are now open and there is additional information on the workshop here.