Ethony, I have great respect for you and I appreciate you and what you've been able to create as a professional within this community. It is from a place that I am coming with my comment, because I cannot look away and not say anything. There are many, many things about this deck and its creators that present incredibly serious issues of cultural appropriation that need further, more serious examination moving forward in this community if we're going to sincerely engage in anti-racism and attempt to address these issues. Non-harming is one of the foundations of so many practices within the witchy tarot community online, and there are many reasons that a deck like this creates great harm for Native American peoples. You seem to be a fair and compassionate person who values empathy, and I make the assumption that non-harming is also a foundational part of your own practice. Regarding the deck and its creators, neither of these women is Native American (they're both white), and Barbara Meiklejohn-Free is Scottish. Both are regarded with disdain in Native American circles throughout the US where they are sometimes referred to as "Plastic Shamans". Although I am white, I have close family and friends who are Cherokee (my godmother is one of them), and I have spent a many years engaged in researching and learning about the ways in which Native Americans continue to be used, discarded, and dehumanized by white culture. My godmother's career as an academic was in the field of communication, where she researched, wrote and presented on these issues and the way they pervade the language we use. My own approach to social justice issues is to be rational, reasonable and compassionate in approaching them; I have no interest in shaming anyone. That said, I sincerely ask that you research and reconsider your relationship to this deck and ones like it moving forward, and whether they really represent the kind of values that you personally hold, especially as a rather significant leader within our community.
@rifflinthemind.5793
4 жыл бұрын
I just checked out a youtube talk from Barbara at a bookshop and she really doesn't seem clear on what she means when she refers to shamanism vs witchcraft and why they might be distinct from each other. I am interested as to why she'd study with someone of her own Scottish culture, then travel around learning from various shamans only to find her own path was her own Scottish culture all along and then announce people should just do things their way. Surely the point of shamanism is that we have a rich oral history and transmission from living native practitioners to learn from? Why go learn from native practitioners and then tell students just discount it all? I can see why you'd raise these good points.
@IamHEALINGandsoareYOUpodcast
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this info! I was about to purchase it and I was definitely meant to read this. 🙏🏽❤️✨
@froodoftheforest
3 жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!
@traceel.8194
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful deck! I love the mix of everything...animals and people young and old. Love all the birds...and the tools are cool! The decks you pick ...I fall in love.
@kasslove111
4 жыл бұрын
i would love a deck
@thepowerofprosperity612
4 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous deck! I'm in the Okanagan as well! "The city surrounded by two lakes" (im not going to give the name and I'm sure you know where I'm referring to...lol)! I've been here for 3yrs now and my first summer, a friend took me up to Munson Mountain and that's where I heard my first rattler as well!
@Ethony
4 жыл бұрын
They are pretty amazing animals. I love the lakes there.
@gabriellecalzada3941
4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the deck🥺👉🏽👈🏽💖
@janstroud8948
4 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite oracles 😘🤗 💓
@josephineapn
2 жыл бұрын
Hello!! I need help. I buy the shamanic medicine oracle cards without the guidebook. I'd like to know if theres a way to find the book online. Please
@Ethony
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Josephine, I would reach out to the creator of the deck itself, as I do not know if they have a guidebook or not.
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