Empowering the Divine Feminine with Lucia Dami

In the west, we grow up with an abundance of myths, legends, poems, and novels about male characters — stories that express the experience of, and provide a path for becoming a man. But what about becoming a woman? Where are the adventures, the footprints to follow through a feminine life — where are our guides? Your hosts Victoria and Gwen have found one. In episode 25 of TABI's Tarot World, we talk to artist, deck creator, tarot reader, and mystic Lucia Dami about the quest to recover what has been historically pushed aside but was never lost: the Divine Feminine. We explore the path of the Feminine first through Lucia's decks and her artwork. She tells us about her lifelong affinity for the Greek myths and how they informed her first deck — the black, white, and gold Elysian Tarot — and how her work with Tarot, Art, and the Divine Feminine comes full circle in her new deck, The Light in the Dark Oracle. For a more embodied, guided approach, Lucia offers 'Sacred Avatars' (on her website) and also 'The Archetypal Year' (on Patreon), in which we learn to witness and recognise the divine feminine in all her myriad forms. "You are so much more than you think you are," Lucia says, "you don't have to choose a certain [single] identity as a woman." We are large; we contain multitudes. Victoria and Gwen discuss which of the twelve sacred archetypes we feel comfortable with and which we don't, and how they change as we age and grow, and we then dive deeply into the darkness — following the Sumerian goddess Inanna on her Descent into the Underworld to understand why a myth that is 5,000 years old is so important for us today. We finish with news of Lucia's most recent projects, her new podcast, The Mystic Feminine, and an art exhibition in Hampstead. Details on all her work below.

Lucia's website is http://www.luciadami.com and you can find her on Instagram as @lucia.dami For her Patreon course on the Feminine Archetypes, look for The Mystic Feminine https://www.patreon.com/cw/LuciaDami which is also the name of her new podcast. Lucia's new exhibition, 'Tarot and the Unseen' opens on June 24th for three weeks at Burgh House in Hampstead. https://www.burghhouse.org.uk/whats-on/whats-on/exhibition/lucia-dami-tarot-the-unseen

Want to find out more about TABI? Visit our website at www.tabi.org.uk Membership is international and only £20 per year. If you'd like to get in touch with Victoria and Gwen, you can email us: podcast@tabi.org