A Voice from the Earth by Judith Pintar

[Fulgour]

A Voice from the Earth:
The Cards of Winds and Changes
by Judith Pintar

I recently found a copy of this deck-book set
and I am very impressed with the thoughtful
way in which it was developed by the artist~
she also plays the Celtic harp and is a writer.

49 Cards and 185 page Book
(ask seller to be sure)
USGames
December 1990
ISBN 0806972882

49 Cards in Box
(ask seller to be sure)
HarperCollins Publishers
November 1990
ISBN 0044406754

49 Cards in Box
(ask seller to be sure)
USGames
January 1996
ISBN 0880794674

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The Halved Soul
by Judith Pintar
Book: 240 pages
HarperCollins
October 1992
ISBN 0044408684

From the Publisher:
An ingenious critical re-evaluation of the myths of romantic love,
offering men and women perspectives on love and relationships.

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At Last The Wind
by Judith Pintar
Record Label: Narada
Originally released: 1989
1. Hunting of the Unicorn
2. Wild Mountain Iris
3. Twinkling of the Tea
4. At Last the Wind
5. Dream
6. Leaving/The Tasks of Psyche
7. Persephone/Cerberus
8. Wedding of Psyche and Eros

Review: This is an ambitious new album from Judith Pintar, in which she fuses music and mythology. The album consists of three song cycles: "The Hunting of the Unicorn," "At Last the Wind," and "The Kitchen Myth of Psyche and Eros." Each of these receives lengthy liner notes from Pintar, written in engaging prose poetry as a way to draw the listener into her world of magic and myth. Her lively Celtic harp is rounded out by fiddle, guitar, cello, bass and touches of percussion to produce this elegant and evocative music. This seems to be a sincere and successful attempt to take Celtic harp out of the easy-listening mode and to re-invest it with the power and magic it once held in its native land.
~ Backroads Music/Heartbeats, All Music Guide


Changes Like the Moon
bu Judith Pintar
Record Label: Sona Gaia
Originally released: 1997
1. Old Man
2. Blue Rose
3. In the Garden
4. Beast
5. Beauty
6. Joy and Sorrow
7. Changes Like the Moon
8. Hiding
9. Nothing So Fair
10. Between Worlds
11. Holding On
12. Longing for the Sea
13. Flight

Secrets From The Stone
(Celtic Harp) by Judith Pintar
Record Label: Sona Gaia
Record Label: Narada
Originally released: 1984, CD 1997

[catlin]

This sounds a bell, I think I have one copy in my book case.

[Fulgour]

Excerpts from "A Voice From The Earth"
by Judith Pintar

The quartered circle has represented the four winds, the four directions and the four quarters of the world since humankind first scratched on to bark or placed a standing stone. The symbol is not an arbitrary one. It is keyed into our most basic human understandings of space and time.

If we could stay away from calendars long enough to forget what day of the week it might be, our short-term, visual orientation of time would fade and the moon would become our guide, corroborated over time by the sun's relative position in the sky and the dancing reactions of the seasonal world around us. This time sense is cyclical, not linear; our world moving in a circle, not a line.

The place where the sun came from was named and also the place where it later disappeared, East and West. By observing the place where the sun rose and fell against distant mountains, we drew our symbol as a circle with a cross in it. This image revealed an amazing truth. It placed us at the center of the circle. The four directions spread out and away from us to the unknown lands farther than we could see.

I hungered, not for something new to believe in, but for something that would simply allow me to comprehend what I had seen. When I became acquainted with Native American spirituality, I was drawn immediately to the open-ended nature of a symbol system which offered no dogma to take on faith, required no rejection of other beliefs, but encouraged a personal relationship and communication with the earth.

The Medicine Wheel is a tool that leads its user to the discovery of the Inner Self, and to knowledge of the purpose of one's life. It assists one in tuning in to the unseen forces of Nature, as it assists in uncovering the meaning behind some of the deepest mysteries of life, as well as the deepest mysteries of self.

For me, this symbol serves as a reference point that I use to help me understand, as well as solve the particular challenges I find myself facing. It offers me a structure to help find my purpose in my life. It is the most powerful symbol I can use, for it allows me the greatest freedom to explore my own individual identity. And in so doing affords me the opportunity to change and move and grow in whatever fashion I require.

In this way, I not only honor my own story and my own path, but I also acknowledge and honor the One who has placed me on this path and who walks with me every step of the way.

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Cards of Winds and Changes
by Judith Pintar

Click on to view: images (http://www.wicce.com/wndsnchngs.jpg).

"Based on Native American teachings from the Ojibwa
in the Great Lakes region..."

http://www.wicce.com/wndsnchngs.html

by Gina M. Pace