Hi ER… I’m loving your videos. I’m surprised you don’t have more followers. You should. I recently moved to TdM, and your materials are really helping!
A.E. Waite knew what he was doing. He deliberately included every possible meaning for each card, including some of the Etteila meanings. Waite wanted to obfuscate the meanings so as to not give all the secrets of the Golden Dawn.
I bought your Marseille book. I really like it. I worked with the Golden Dawn deck for 15 years I just switched to TDM and the Sola Busca deck. Keep on doing what you are doing I love your channels
Why don't you make a video sharing with us EXPANDING & EXPLAINING YOUR FINDINGS because It found your point of view VERY INTERESTING . LOVE YOUR INDEPENDENT & UNIQUE WAY OF THINKING.
I love this video. You make such good points. I love RWS and have tried Marseille and can't get on with it. But I think this video brings hope to people who can't seem to gel with RWS. Your channel is so good because you are a no bull shit person with a strong mind. x
I don’t like the Waite deck either. The Crowley deck is far worse with added bluntness and perverse imagery. Traditionally speaking, the marseille and Italiano decks are superior on the conservative side of the argument. Though when looking at various tarot decks i’m searching for specific imagery that calls attention. And i would purchase a deck or download images for individual cards. The rest of the deck is as good has landfill buffer. I tend to ignore the minor arcana completely, and/for as i don’t divinate with the cards. Along with the numbering of the “major” arcana. Instead strive to achieve a sense of union with the effects of pictorial sequences. Adding in new trumps working over old trumps and searching for the correct sequences. Though for times when the cards do come out as preludes of the eventual. And ive come to some understanding of why, there’s an error signal to cognition. Though i’m attentive to cues and hints from various “tarot” informations. Like the magic of a letter. And the number being open to impression. Devoid of all Meaning until meaning is attached. And so far all tarot systems err on this account. Thank you for your like minded approach. And for your Cyrillic accent. Which is something hinted on my current pursuits of language, letter and magic.
Your explanations of your process makes so much sense and I resonate completely. Excited to continue studying the Marseilles deck. Have recently come back to this deck and was already excited; thank you for your passion and for sharing it.
The Anglo-Saxon take on Tarot, with its superimposed Hebrew letters etc. was heavily inspired by French occultists like Eliphas Levi, Paul Christian, Oswald Wirth. That said I find Waite's book on Tarot a valuable work.
The symbols with a Christian or Abrahamic or any religious system is true for the time it was practiced by it's followers, and created into card images. BUT all of those symbols have an archetypal background that is not confined to any one religion. The Hierophant or Pope for instance is an advisor in the collective consciousness (universal values and traditions) and the Papess or High Priestess is an advisor of the Collective Unconscious, (unseen mysteries). I prefer the Tarot De Marseille because it is the oldest system and feels more authentic. And it doesn't have Pip illustrations which confine one to a specific interpretation. I love to look at the illustrated pip decks for their imagery and artwork and historical referents but I read with the T de M.
so true. I prefer the rider-waite, but YES, I always see the hierophant as a village shaman, and so on. Im pagan so I have to make it fit to "my world", im norse so hierophant=gaudi, galdr, even odin archetype, etc.
Oh my, I'm currently feeling the same thing. RWS doesn't really work for me anymore, I even dout if it did before. I've been reading with RWS inspired alternative decks and I think it helps a bit. I gave a try to Thoth and, although I like the occult, I found the same feeling of rejection towards some concepts. Now I want to give Marseille a go. Funny thing, my first deck was a Marseille deck, but because everybody said that RWS is better (or at least easier for beginners), I totally ignored it. However, even after all these years I can't integrate the "abrahamic vision" no matter how edgy or modern the deck is. So glad I found your video about it.
I do that with any new deck I have :) i do not follow the books i just follow my intuition. I have never read the books describing decks so I have never felt that anything is in my way to create my own meanings )
Did you see Paul Huson's "Mystical Origins of the Tarot"? I love how he compares different (decks and) interpretations across some centuries, and offers flexible interpretations for the general reader. (Though it does worry me that he could be anti-Semitic, from how he touches upon Judaism..) I'm an Abrahamic religious person who doesn't follow the "many gods and goddesses" and dislikes the spiritual new agers' avoidance of the concepts of sin, heavenly judgment, heaven/hell... But I do see Tarot as a useful tool to access our subconscious mind. I started reading Gypsy cards, playing cards, and Tarot over 30 years ago, worked as a professional clairvoyant reader (using only playing cards) in the late 90s, had a break when I became super religious, and have been once again looking out into the world through the Internet after the first wave of Covid in my area 🧐 Thank you for your videos! I'll go visit your Instagram 😀
Hi ER… I’m loving your videos. I’m surprised you don’t have more followers. You should. I recently moved to TdM, and your materials are really helping!
A.E. Waite knew what he was doing. He deliberately included every possible meaning for each card, including some of the Etteila meanings. Waite wanted to obfuscate the meanings so as to not give all the secrets of the Golden Dawn.
I bought your Marseille book. I really like it. I worked with the Golden Dawn deck for 15 years I just switched to TDM and the Sola Busca deck. Keep on doing what you are doing I love your channels
Thank you so much 🙏🏻glad you liked it 💜
Why don't you make a video sharing with us EXPANDING & EXPLAINING YOUR FINDINGS because It found your point of view VERY INTERESTING .
LOVE YOUR INDEPENDENT & UNIQUE WAY OF THINKING.
I love this video. You make such good points. I love RWS and have tried Marseille and can't get on with it. But I think this video brings hope to people who can't seem to gel with RWS. Your channel is so good because you are a no bull shit person with a strong mind. x
I don’t like the Waite deck either. The Crowley deck is far worse with added bluntness and perverse imagery. Traditionally speaking, the marseille and Italiano decks are superior on the conservative side of the argument. Though when looking at various tarot decks i’m searching for specific imagery that calls attention. And i would purchase a deck or download images for individual cards. The rest of the deck is as good has landfill buffer.
I tend to ignore the minor arcana completely, and/for as i don’t divinate with the cards. Along with the numbering of the “major” arcana. Instead strive to achieve a sense of union with the effects of pictorial sequences. Adding in new trumps working over old trumps and searching for the correct sequences. Though for times when the cards do come out as preludes of the eventual.
And ive come to some understanding of why, there’s an error signal to cognition.
Though i’m attentive to cues and hints from various “tarot” informations. Like the magic of a letter. And the number being open to impression. Devoid of all
Meaning until meaning is attached. And so far all tarot systems err on this account.
Thank you for your like minded approach. And for your Cyrillic accent. Which is something hinted on my current pursuits of language, letter and magic.
Your explanations of your process makes so much sense and I resonate completely. Excited to continue studying the Marseilles deck. Have recently come back to this deck and was already excited; thank you for your passion and for sharing it.
The Anglo-Saxon take on Tarot, with its superimposed Hebrew letters etc. was heavily inspired by French occultists like Eliphas Levi, Paul Christian, Oswald Wirth.
That said I find Waite's book on Tarot a valuable work.
Totally agree! Thank you!
The symbols with a Christian or Abrahamic or any religious system is true for the time it was practiced by it's followers, and created into card images. BUT all of those symbols have an archetypal background that is not confined to any one religion. The Hierophant or Pope for instance is an advisor in the collective consciousness (universal values and traditions) and the Papess or High Priestess is an advisor of the Collective Unconscious, (unseen mysteries).
I prefer the Tarot De Marseille because it is the oldest system and feels more authentic. And it doesn't have Pip illustrations which confine one to a specific interpretation. I love to look at the illustrated pip decks for their imagery and artwork and historical referents but I read with the T de M.
so true. I prefer the rider-waite, but YES, I always see the hierophant as a village shaman, and so on. Im pagan so I have to make it fit to "my world", im norse so hierophant=gaudi, galdr, even odin archetype, etc.
Oh my, I'm currently feeling the same thing. RWS doesn't really work for me anymore, I even dout if it did before. I've been reading with RWS inspired alternative decks and I think it helps a bit. I gave a try to Thoth and, although I like the occult, I found the same feeling of rejection towards some concepts. Now I want to give Marseille a go. Funny thing, my first deck was a Marseille deck, but because everybody said that RWS is better (or at least easier for beginners), I totally ignored it. However, even after all these years I can't integrate the "abrahamic vision" no matter how edgy or modern the deck is. So glad I found your video about it.
I do that with any new deck I have :) i do not follow the books i just follow my intuition. I have never read the books describing decks so I have never felt that anything is in my way to create my own meanings )
Waite's book is aweful. Possibly the worst book written on his and Pixie's RWS deck. I don't know anyone who likes it.
Did you see Paul Huson's "Mystical Origins of the Tarot"? I love how he compares different (decks and) interpretations across some centuries, and offers flexible interpretations for the general reader. (Though it does worry me that he could be anti-Semitic, from how he touches upon Judaism..) I'm an Abrahamic religious person who doesn't follow the "many gods and goddesses" and dislikes the spiritual new agers' avoidance of the concepts of sin, heavenly judgment, heaven/hell... But I do see Tarot as a useful tool to access our subconscious mind.
I started reading Gypsy cards, playing cards, and Tarot over 30 years ago, worked as a professional clairvoyant reader (using only playing cards) in the late 90s, had a break when I became super religious, and have been once again looking out into the world through the Internet after the first wave of Covid in my area 🧐
Thank you for your videos!
I'll go visit your Instagram 😀
I have a mental block against pip decks.
That’s unfortunate. 😅