Working with the Dark Mother and her Decks

[@oysterbay9]

Love your voice. No nonsense, not-precious, let’s-go. SO HELPFUL. Thank you for your generosity.

[@oysterbay9]

A mature voice in the field! Love you.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you so much, I am so glad you enjoy my channel! :)

[@jessreadscards]

Thank you Dawn, I really love this video! The Mary El was a deck that made me realize that the dark mother and Mary Magdalene is present in my life and has been for a really long time. Thanks for all the resources you shared; it was so helpful as I am just starting this journey.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you found it helpful! It's a wonderful journey and a practice to engage with. I do hope you enjoy it.

[@juliambada]

Really appreciate your explanations of how you view - and work with - dark goddess energy.

[@ZeminaMeghji]

Thank you so much for creating this video. Super super helpful and very informative. I'm so happy you added the sacred rebels oracle at the end. Really resonated!

[@szilviavolak602]

Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames (The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness) - excellent book. I highly, highly recommend it. Thank you fir your video, it was very informative! 🙏

[@the_buddhist_witch]

Love the Mysteries of the Black Madonna. I've been trying to get my hands on it for quite a while now.!

[@nicolanickolls3347]

This was great, esp the hit and miss book section at the end. Appreciate all hard work with the tarot videos.

[@AnnieDusk]

I think picking decks for specific reasons or purposes is very subjective indeed, but that's one of the beauties of the variety of decks and tarot itself! Thanks for sharing 💛

[@oyoyoyo7624]

🐚LILY🦪LANTERN🩸CRONE🫨 thanks for bringing forth this aspect of your practice 🙏🏾

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching. 💚

[@itslauramorrison]

I have never been drawn to the Mary El tarot, until just right now. Seeing it in this energy, has peaked my interest in it. Never seen the The Pythonic Tarot or the Black Mirror Oracle definitely adding to my wishlist

[@Kris_-yq9xv]

hello Dawn Michelle. I am wandering if you ever felt like trimming Lantern oracle. I am playing with the idea, but they are quite thick of a card stock. ❤️

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I haven’t but I bet it would be stunning. This is one of those decks that I don’t mind the borders on, but I’d be curious to see it trimmed. 😊

[@greylady1958]

You also might enjoy reading "Journey to the Dark Goddess" by Jane Meredith

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you, I’ll check it out! 😀

[@thesummerland6165]

great video! subbed ty so much, love how you explain the Dark Mother energy as a guide during the dark times...and totally feel the same that there is the All, with both aspects, beautifully explained...would Dark Wood be useful as well, to work with Hecate..I love the Hierophant in that deck, with Keys and Snake , and she's tree form )O( loved the Pythonic and Black Mirror! Black Mirror is sold out :( such a helpful and insightful video, thank you

[@hollymolly4036]

amazing choices and reviews, many thanks!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I’m so glad you enjoyed it. 😀

[@jennathewitch9061]

Book for the Black Madonna: Longing for Darkness by China Galland: story of her travels and experiences with dark Tara, Chestohowa's Black Madonna. Very readable, very good.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you so much for the suggestion, I’ll check it out! 😀

[@NYCHFAN]

Thank you for this video. It came right on time. I use the Archeon Tarot for those lost times in my life, but these focus more on feminine divine energy, which I have been learning more about. ✌️❤️🃏🙋‍♀️

[@pagan_suburbia]

I love the Archeon…I think it’s so underrated. I have an older copy and the card stock is great, but unfortunately the newest print has terrible card stock.

[@NYCHFAN]

@@pagan_suburbia I actually love the card stock, lol! I like thin, easy to shuffle cards as my hands don't work like they used to, and the thicker cards always catch on each other and then the edges peel. Just shows how different we all are, lol! I do love the deck. 😊✌️❤️🃏🙋‍♀️

[@rickigill5206]

I use the somnia tarot and mary el as well

[@hannahlouise8036]

Have you read Clark Strands other book, the way of the rose? I’d really recommend it, and it might put waking up to the dark into more perspective too.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Yes, I believe I read the Way of the Rose a few years ago, it was an excellent read. :)

[@Steffi_Kiyoshi]

Thanks for the video! Do you think any of the oracle decks would work for the Goddess Nyx? 🖤

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Because of the way I work with the goddesses, for me, any of them would well for just about any personification. But I’d say these would probably be really well suited too! 😊

[@Steffi_Kiyoshi]

@@DawnMichelleTarot thank you! I've got The Lantern Oracle but that feels like a deck for when you're having a hard time in life. It's very hard to find daily draw decks for darker Deity for day to day life.

[@papermoontarot4219]

I appreciate you trying to find various ways to express this. I don't do gods or goddesses, but I guess we all have dark times and dark aspects to ourselves. (Ever use dark father energy? What would that be like?) I wonder, why would somebody even worship/create a god or goddess who is dark or vengeful?. Interesting that crone is defined as disagreeable or malicious with supernatural aspects--now that I'm an older woman I've realized I don't understand what people mean when they talk about crone energy. But I'm open to learning! Thanks for sharing your decks and thoughts.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

It’s such a hard thing to try to define for sure and it’s different for everyone! I haven’t ever worked with dark father energy, that’s an interesting idea. 😀

[@papermoontarot4219]

@@DawnMichelleTarot Actually, I think Somnia is a bit more of dark father than mother!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I could totally see that!

[@NYCHFAN]

The world depicts crone as the "wicked witch" archetype, but crone actually/originally refers to an older, wise woman. 😉

[@papermoontarot4219]

@@NYCHFAN Certainly as an archetype a wise woman but in folklore a bit more negative/hag. What I read was that it was neopaganism (so new, not original thought) that cast her as the dark goddess. But given the way women have been treated throughout history, it's hard to know what influences imbued the term over time.

[@ellenmariedrummondscurtis]

I've been working with The Magdalene more recently and was reading about her to a friend yesterday. I see her energy as connected directly to and expressed by the Dark Madonna, descendant from Solomon's bride in the Song of Songs in the Old Testament... "I am dark but I am lovely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem..." The Dark Goddess, to me, is a figure of LILITH, Adam's first wife who left him to marry angelic Lucifer himself...

[@valeriehilton5536]

Excellent recommendations on working with the dark goddesses. I’m fairly new to working with my dark but have dipped my toes in so that I can learn. Thank you dear soul ❤

[@dmytrom297]

I agree that Hekate has a light side to Her, but I do not see Her as a saviour. She is a torch, but a torch you have to be brave enough to find inside the woods, a torch that's ment to guide you further in when the streetlights are too far, it won't lead you back out, if you've got lost.

[@venusrosem]

Your tarot bags are lovely! Where do you buy your fabric? Thank you, great video!🧵🪡

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you! Usually I just get my fabric at my local JoAnns. 😀

[@venusrosem]

@@DawnMichelleTarot Thank you!

[@seabedpebbles]

Hail Hekate ❤❤❤

[@xanderpromeo]

The Stunning tarot and Barbra Walker look to be out of print, or they are just very $$. Drat!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Stunning Tarot goes in and out of print, the creator does smaller runs I think. The Barbara Walker was still available in the tin version (which is what I have.) I think it’s the standard edition that’s been long out of print. Hope that helps! 💚

[@lavenderjewelsessences2251]

Thank You, for your generosity. Great video! 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@mschell8022]

You're way too apologetic and compromising for everything you want to say. Makes me sad.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I get better as time goes on I think. I tend to say what I think now and don’t worry about it as much now. Working on breaking those old patterns and conditioning for sure. 🥰

[@phyllissantuchadelafuente]

With regard to the Black Madonna books, try "Breaking Chains: the evolution of the Black Madonna" This is leaving the European traditions behind and going deeper into where she came from and what she means for us now...🙏🏾🤎 The book goes further then Spiritual meanings and even taps into political ones, which I find very fasinating...

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Ooh that is interesting, I’ll definitely check that one out. Thank you! 😀

[@NYCHFAN]

I'll be getting this one for sure, thank you! 😊

[@phyllissantuchadelafuente]

@@DawnMichelleTarot you're very welcome 🙏🏾🤎

[@phyllissantuchadelafuente]

@@NYCHFAN hope you enjoy😉🙏🏾🤎

[@LetteMoonlitPath]

Thank you for this recommendation ❤