The Lilith Bible Tarot Deck illuminates the polytheistic pagan roots of Judeo-Christian religious scripture and ideas. Through Lilith’s eyes we take a fresh look at the Bible. Lilith’s lens is at once enlightening and liberating, forceful and kind. The deck uses the 78 card Rider-Waite-Smith protocol for tarot. It can be used by anyone familiar with this system. However the deck is in particular intended for use by those recovering from extreme fundamentalist monotheistic forms of Western religion. The deck helps the reader explore a new form of spiritual connection (i.e., tarot reading) working within a conceptual framework with which readers from this background would be familiar. As well as drawing on Judeo-Christian content the deck reimagines that content as part of a process of healing.
Most of the content of the Lilith Bible Tarot Deck comes from what Jews refer to as the Hebrew Bible and Christians call the Old Testament. Smaller amounts come from the New Testament, the Apocrypha and the Gnostic scriptures. Another small amount is sourced from Babylonian and Egyptian writings.
A key focus of the Lilith Bible Tarot Deck is the stories of the women in the Bible particularly through the lens of the central female character Lilith. Lilith represents the Defiant Goddess in all of us and her re-emergence in Western thought is a way of understanding and healing the injuries inflicted by organised religions such as the Jewish and Christian patriarchies and priesthoods.
The Lilith Bible Tarot Deck stands for a number of dangerous ideas: reclaiming the goddess lost to us in monotheistic Judeo-Christian tradition; a liberating humanism that values all people; a challenge to the Yahweh apologists as to why we should continue to choose this model of the ‘one true god’; embracing a polytheistic pagan spiritual connection to godhood; preserving the positive aspects of our Western Bible traditions; and healing for those damaged by fundamentalist monotheistic forms of religion.
Finally, I would like to say I wish those well who get joy from traditional religion, this is probably not a tarot deck for you, even if your church lets you use them. For those who seek more I invite you into the wonderful world of tarot. Let us awaken from our long sleep to laugh with a joyful heart together.
Most of the content of the Lilith Bible Tarot Deck comes from what Jews refer to as the Hebrew Bible and Christians call the Old Testament. Smaller amounts come from the New Testament, the Apocrypha and the Gnostic scriptures. Another small amount is sourced from Babylonian and Egyptian writings.
A key focus of the Lilith Bible Tarot Deck is the stories of the women in the Bible particularly through the lens of the central female character Lilith. Lilith represents the Defiant Goddess in all of us and her re-emergence in Western thought is a way of understanding and healing the injuries inflicted by organised religions such as the Jewish and Christian patriarchies and priesthoods.
The Lilith Bible Tarot Deck stands for a number of dangerous ideas: reclaiming the goddess lost to us in monotheistic Judeo-Christian tradition; a liberating humanism that values all people; a challenge to the Yahweh apologists as to why we should continue to choose this model of the ‘one true god’; embracing a polytheistic pagan spiritual connection to godhood; preserving the positive aspects of our Western Bible traditions; and healing for those damaged by fundamentalist monotheistic forms of religion.
Finally, I would like to say I wish those well who get joy from traditional religion, this is probably not a tarot deck for you, even if your church lets you use them. For those who seek more I invite you into the wonderful world of tarot. Let us awaken from our long sleep to laugh with a joyful heart together.