Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Video 9 of the Learn Tarot with Holistic Tarot video lecture series. Videos in this lecture series are Closed Captioned for our Deaf, H/H, ESL, and EAL colleagues. Note: Made this video in chunks while really exhausted and overworked, and I apologize if it shows a bit in my voice.
The PowerPoint slides content from this video are an excerpt from an all-day course I taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, “Accessing the Practical and Profound Wisdom of Tarot.”
SERIES PLAYLIST
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0x6BzLuplwYyaMvo3ablcJ4urTn-q7s1
I’m making an effort to complete the Holistic Tarot companion course video series. Here’s the ninth installment, on tarot history, or more specifically, theories of origin.
While there’s 33 pages of citations for the content of this video, I hope it’s clear that we’re still talking about speculation– hence theories of origins. I started this focused level of research back in 2014, even before Holistic Tarot was published, for a work of historical fantasy. Yes, a novel. That novel I’ve been struggling with, which I hope I can dedicate 2022 to. [See: youtu.be/-5zNV2DMoAo]
I also thought it’d be fun to flash SKT Revelation cards across the screen at the exact moments certain points were being made. =)
SPIRIT KEEPER’S TAROT: REVELATION EDITION
Order Your Copy: benebellwen.com/skt/pre-order
About SKT Revelation: benebellwen.com/skt/introduction
Video Trailer Showing the Majors: youtu.be/VntJ_lScE7o
Video Trailer Showing the Minors: youtu.be/_AQa1NwCpuk
REFERENCED IN VIDEO
“An ‘Ancient’ Mode of Tarot Reading (Mathers, 1888),” from the Sightsee the Tarot series: youtu.be/iyvlMEbJ80g
Western Witchcraft I: The Fundamentals and Doctrinal Basis (Eliphas Levi): benebellwen.com/2020/01/05/western-witchcraft-i-the-fundamentals
CARDS PICTURED: “Pam B” Rider-Waite-Smith; Arcanes du Tarot Kabbalistique (1889); Cary-Yale Visconti Tarocchi (15th c.); Egyptian Tarot (1980) by Naipes La Banca; Jean Noblet Tarot (1650); La Grand Etteilla (1783); Le Grand Tarot Belline (1881); Minchiate Tarot (1850); Sola Busca Tarot (1491); Soprafino Tarot (1835); Tarocchi di Mantegna (1465); Tarot of Paul Christian (1863); Tarot of Tourcaty (1734); The Etteilla Tarot via Orsini (1850); Thoth Tarot deck (1944); Visconti-Sforza Tarot (15th c. Italy); Mamluk playing cards (1500s) [https://cards.old.no/1500-mamluk]
Video 9 of the Learn Tarot with Holistic Tarot video lecture series. Videos in this lecture series are Closed Captioned for our Deaf, H/H, ESL, and EAL colleagues. Note: Made this video in chunks while really exhausted and overworked, and I apologize if it shows a bit in my voice.
The PowerPoint slides content from this video are an excerpt from an all-day course I taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, “Accessing the Practical and Profound Wisdom of Tarot.”
SERIES PLAYLIST
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0x6BzLuplwYyaMvo3ablcJ4urTn-q7s1
I’m making an effort to complete the Holistic Tarot companion course video series. Here’s the ninth installment, on tarot history, or more specifically, theories of origin.
While there’s 33 pages of citations for the content of this video, I hope it’s clear that we’re still talking about speculation– hence theories of origins. I started this focused level of research back in 2014, even before Holistic Tarot was published, for a work of historical fantasy. Yes, a novel. That novel I’ve been struggling with, which I hope I can dedicate 2022 to. [See: youtu.be/-5zNV2DMoAo]
I also thought it’d be fun to flash SKT Revelation cards across the screen at the exact moments certain points were being made. =)
SPIRIT KEEPER’S TAROT: REVELATION EDITION
Order Your Copy: benebellwen.com/skt/pre-order
About SKT Revelation: benebellwen.com/skt/introduction
Video Trailer Showing the Majors: youtu.be/VntJ_lScE7o
Video Trailer Showing the Minors: youtu.be/_AQa1NwCpuk
REFERENCED IN VIDEO
“An ‘Ancient’ Mode of Tarot Reading (Mathers, 1888),” from the Sightsee the Tarot series: youtu.be/iyvlMEbJ80g
Western Witchcraft I: The Fundamentals and Doctrinal Basis (Eliphas Levi): benebellwen.com/2020/01/05/western-witchcraft-i-the-fundamentals
CARDS PICTURED: “Pam B” Rider-Waite-Smith; Arcanes du Tarot Kabbalistique (1889); Cary-Yale Visconti Tarocchi (15th c.); Egyptian Tarot (1980) by Naipes La Banca; Jean Noblet Tarot (1650); La Grand Etteilla (1783); Le Grand Tarot Belline (1881); Minchiate Tarot (1850); Sola Busca Tarot (1491); Soprafino Tarot (1835); Tarocchi di Mantegna (1465); Tarot of Paul Christian (1863); Tarot of Tourcaty (1734); The Etteilla Tarot via Orsini (1850); Thoth Tarot deck (1944); Visconti-Sforza Tarot (15th c. Italy); Mamluk playing cards (1500s) [https://cards.old.no/1500-mamluk]
![Tarot Divination with Papus [Part 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rbc1-PwL0SA/mqdefault.jpg "Tarot Divination with Papus [Part 2]
AUDIO WARNING: The sound quality is even worse than my usual amateur level. =) I have no idea what happened. Apologies. Do not listen with headphones.
In Part 1 of our tour of Papus, I lectured at you and you may or may not have listened to me summarizing the Tarot of the Bohemians in all its arcane glory.
If you missed it, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/FRXyKEmg03M
In Part 2 we’ll walk through a divination approach found in Tarot of the Bohemians (1889). You’ll be separating out the Minors into the four suits, choosing a suit based on the subject matter of the inquiry, casting cards from the suit only, then casting cards from the Majors, all working within a 7-card spread that calls upon the Holy Trinity and the quarternary ROTA.
There is an optional expansion of the basic method where you augment the 7 cards with a 12-card astrological house reading.
If youre an astrology beginner but still want to try out the third-tier 12-card reading operation, work off this supplemental PDF download and reference: https://benebellwen.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/sightsee-the-tarot-papus-handout-twelve-houses-reading-spread.pdf
There are several free supplemental downloads that accompany our Papus tour:
- The Three Septenaries
- Meanings of the Cards (per Papus, as found in Tarot of the Bohemians)
- Twelve Astrological Houses Reading Spread (guides the total astrology beginner through the third tier of Papuss three-operation reading method)
- Reading with Significators
Download all supplemental handouts here: https://wp.me/p32or0-3XN
Pre-order the Spirit Keepers Tarot, the deck featured in this video: https://benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/pre-order-the-deck/
Free 200-page tarot book download: https://benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/free-tarot-book-download/
SIGHTSEE THE TAROT
About the Series
“Sightsee the Tarot” is a series on my channel through which I take you on a tour of tarot books, spreads, techniques and tips, different decks, and more.
Check out the Series Page for all episodes: http://www.tinyurl.com/sightseethetarot
Decks Pictured in the Opening: Tarot de Marseille; Rider-Waite-Smith 1911; Thoth Tarot; Pagan Otherworlds Tarot by Uusi; The Incidental Tarot by Holly DeFount; Golden Universal Tarot; Ostara Tarot; Spirit Keeper’s Tarot
Main Deck Featured in this Video: Oswald Wirth Tarot (reproduced by U.S. Games, 1997); Ancient Italian Tarot (2000 edition by Lo Scarabeo); Spirit Keepers Tarot (First Edition, 2018; Vitruvian Edition, 2019)")
