Vicki Noble (born 1947) is a feminist shamanic healer, author, scholar and wisdom teacher. Originally from Iowa, she arrived in Berkeley, California in 1976. In the 1970s she created, graduated with honors from, and subsequently taught in, the first women's interdisciplinary studies program at Colorado College. Noble worked for many years with archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, and has lectured and taught at the graduate level, both in the United States and abroad, on female shamanism and the healing arts. She has written several books, developed a ritual healing process, and led tours of women on pilgrimage to sacred Goddess sites around the world, including to Peru, Ireland, England, Bali, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the Aegean Islands.
She has been appointed to a halftime position as Scholar in Residence in the Women’s Spirituality graduate program at New College of California in San Francisco. She also currently teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her most recent research project has taken her into Russia to work with archaeologist, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, director of the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads and founder of the Kazakh/American Research Project.
Noble has two daughters, Robyn and Brooke, and a son named Aaron Eagle, who was the subject of her book, Down Is Up for Aaron Eagle.
With artist Karen Vogel, Noble co-authored the Motherpeace Tarot Deck based upon the documented history and ethnography of female esoteric practices. Noble authored several highly respected books on female shamanism, such as Shakti Woman, and Uncoiling the Snake, and she is also publisher of the quarterly journal, Snakepower, which received an Utne Reader nomination as Best First Publication.
The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power by Vicki Noble (June 19, 2003) Bear & Company ISBN 1591430119, ISBN 978-1591430117
Down Is Up for Aaron Eagle: A Mother's Spiritual Journey With Down Syndrome by Vicki Noble (October 1993) Harpercollins ISBN 0062507370, ISBN 978-0062507372
The Four Elements of Change by Heather Ash and Vicki Noble (June 1, 2004) Council Oak Books ISBN 1571781234, ISBN 978-1571781239
Mini-Motherpeace Tarot Deck by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble (June 1991) U.S. Games Systems (Mini Cards edition) ISBN 0880795131, ISBN 978-0880795135
Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot by Vicki Noble (Sept. 17, 1994) HarperOne ISBN 0062510851, ISBN 978-0062510853
Motherpeace Round Tarot Deck by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble (Cards - Dec 1988) U.S. Games Systems ISBN 0880790636, ISBN 978-0880790635
Motherpeace Tarot: Deck & Book Set by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble (July 1997) U.S. Games Systems (Cards edition) ISBN 1572810319, ISBN 978-1572810310
Motherpeace Tarot Playbook by Vicki Noble and Jonathon Tenney (June 1986) Wingbow Press ISBN 0914728539, ISBN 978-0914728535
Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot by Vicki Noble (February 10, 2003) Bear & Company ISBN 1591430089, ISBN 978-1591430087
Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World by Vicki Noble (July 19, 1991) HarperOne ISBN 0062506676, ISBN 978-0062506672
The Triple Goddess Tarot: The Power of the Major Arcana, Chakra Healing, and the Divine Feminine by Isha Lerner, Vicki Noble, and Mara Friedman (September 1, 2002) Bear & Company (Pap/Cards edition) ISBN 1879181940, ISBN 978-1879181946; Noble wrote the introduction
Uncoiling the Snake: Ancient Patterns in Contemporary Women's Lives (A Snakepower Reader) by Vicki Noble (April 1993) Harpercollins ISBN 0062505491, ISBN 978-0062505491