Karen Vogel is widely known as co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot deck and as a tarot reader, teacher and writer as well as an extraordinary artist.

Karen is the author of The Motherpeace Tarot Guidebook (1995), a novel Coyote Tails (2007), and a chapter Love of the Goddess which was published in the anthology Foremothers of the Womens Spirituality Movement edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Vicki Noble (2015). Her article Female Shamanism, Goddess Cultures, and Psychedellics appeared in the journal ReVision in the winter 2003 can be accessed here.

The worldwide success of the Motherpeace Deck (currently over 400,000 in print) afforded her the time to develop as an artist and sculptor of wood and stone as well as continue her exploration of the intermountain and far west. Karen’s creative voice expresses her deep sense of animation and spirit in nature.

Karen is a rogue scholar — known for her innovative thinking in the field of anthropology and natural history. She has a degree in anthropology and a background in women’s studies, art and shamanism. She grew up in New York City but fell in love with the wild places of the western North America as a teenager. She’s lived there ever since and explored many places in the intermountain and far west. She lives in rural west Sonoma County, California.