Why The Greenwood Tarot was not Reprinted

I am unsure of where in the world it would be best to post the following, or who to have this conversation with safely to ensure its moral honesty and integrity. While I have recently read the comments posted during December of 2018 in this community forum relating to the issue of The Greenwood Tarot, and appreciate that the topic had been closed to further replies by the monitor at the time, I cannot conscientiously hold the story of The Greenwood in silence while there is renewed threat of printing and continued confusion.

My hope is that the heart of The Greenwood is released, and if Chesca sees the following, her heart is warmed, and all threads of light be blessed!

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I last saw Chesca in the garden of a home we'd been staying at outside London after burning an unopened publication of the Greenwood Tarot in a small firepit.

The purpose of burning the deck was to release it from the primordial repression and contemporary curse that had bound the original non-gendered Lovers of the Greenwood, whose imagery embodies deep cultural and spiritual significance rooted in primal symbolism.

Three years had passed since the 1996 publication of The Greenwood Tarot to that night in the garden. During that time, the primordial nature inherent in Chesca's original image of the androgynous Lovers blessing the land with their life-giving energy of love through tender hearts had never been discarded or overlooked by her. The Greenwood's deep connection to its primal and spiritual roots reflected Chesca's unwavering dedication.

The card of the Two Deer-Headed Lovers was pivotal in awakening the Greenwood's true essence, serving as a catalyst for its spiritual liberation from oppression.

Only through tenacity, integrity, and formidable devotion to the underlying mysteries and ethics of The Greenwood were the dormant elements and implicit truth of the cards able to reveal their hidden, profound symbolism, systematically through an extremely significant sequence.

Unearthing the fundamental primitive message of The Greenwood began with the card of The Lovers. It ended when Endurance, the final card of The Greenwood to change, became The Gateway some three years after the initial printing and publication of The Greenwood Tarot Pre-Celtic Shamanism of The Mythic Forest.

The Ancestor, a reindeer-headed figure and embodiment of gentle wisdom and ancestral memory, appeared,

as The Shaman on the back of the cards stood up to take her place on the front of the cards, beating her drum to the soft cosmic rhythm of a heart that exists beyond the limits of persecution, fear, violation, or oppression.

The rhythm of The Ancestors' drum lifted the mists from primal trackways, revealing a tangible passage to The Heart of the Greenwood and recognition of a more significant story for humanity.

I know this because I walked beside Chesca through those years and witnessed the ancient curse of bondage breaking, as each card in turn revealed its true essence through the profoundly changing story of The Greenwood Tarot.

Given how the cards had profoundly shifted in form, reprinting The Greenwood Tarot would have been to misrepresent The Greenwood with distorted imagery and embolden the primordial repression and curse that had bound them. Perpetuating The Greenwood Tarot as it had been published in 1996, after such a significant transformation, would have been irresponsible and misleading, and would have contributed further to the insidious dark tangled threads of ignorance and elusive control that surrounded them.

CTao