// The Arctic Landscape of the Strengths Deck //
The backside of the Northern Lights Strengths Deck is an arctic landscape under the northern lights, in a very specific style. Linneaus.
The cards are grouped strengths under the umbrella of virtues, in accordance with the classification of Character Strengths. The classification, as it was imagined by Dr Seligman, is styled after the Linneaus taxonomy of nature, a system for the natural world which standardized the naming of species and order them according to characteristics and relationships with one another.
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist in the 18th century, and the visuals of the Norther Lights Strengths Deck are inspired by his two publications, Systema Naturae (1735) and Species Plantarum (1753).
The landscape is the landscape of my soul, the edge of the Arctic, northern Scandinavia – the one I was always trying to get away from, to other places deemed better by my younger self. But I’ve landed with my feed planted, my soul rooted, and I sing the songs of this remote land with gratitude and humility.
With love / Johanna
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