Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This is Video 5 out of 17 in an educational series on the tarot cards. Closed captioning is provided for all videos in this series. Please note there are a few timing mishaps. I was also having some audio issues. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Download of the illustrated transcript for this video lecture: wp.me/p32or0-4pC
Four different systems of the tarot will be showcased: Tarot de Marseilles (TdM), Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS), Thoth Tarot, and my own self-published deck, the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot (SKT).
Course description page: wp.me/p32or0-4n4
Decks Pictured: Tarot de Nicolas Conver (Marseilles 1760, France) derivative based on public domain images of the Conver deck; Scans of the “Pam A” Rider Tarot Deck (1910), the original Rider-Waite-Smith; Thoth Tarot Deck (or “The Book of Thoth”) by Aleister Crowley (U.S. Games Systems, Premier Edition, 2005; first published by Ordo Templi Orientis, 1969); B.O.T.A Tarot Deck, illustrated by Jessie Burns Parke under the direction of Paul Foster Case; Spirit Keeper’s Tarot (Vitruvian Edition, 2019) created and illustrated by Benebell Wen.
Books Referenced for the Card Meanings: The Tarot (1888) by MacGregor Mathers; The Tarot of the Bohemians (1892) by Papus; The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911) by A. E. Waite; Tarot of the Magicians (1927) by Oswald Wirth; The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (1947) by Paul Foster Case; Mastering the Tarot (Penguin Group, 1971) by Eden Gray; Holistic Tarot (North Atlantic Books, 2015) by Benebell Wen; Medium White Book for the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot; Book of Maps (companion guidebook for the SKT).
SKT: Learn more about the Empyrean Courts, youtu.be/CckP-TziDZE
BENEBELL WEN
Website. benebellwen.com
Twitter. twitter.com/tarotanalysis
Instagram. instagram.com/bellwen
This is Video 5 out of 17 in an educational series on the tarot cards. Closed captioning is provided for all videos in this series. Please note there are a few timing mishaps. I was also having some audio issues. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Download of the illustrated transcript for this video lecture: wp.me/p32or0-4pC
Four different systems of the tarot will be showcased: Tarot de Marseilles (TdM), Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS), Thoth Tarot, and my own self-published deck, the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot (SKT).
Course description page: wp.me/p32or0-4n4
Decks Pictured: Tarot de Nicolas Conver (Marseilles 1760, France) derivative based on public domain images of the Conver deck; Scans of the “Pam A” Rider Tarot Deck (1910), the original Rider-Waite-Smith; Thoth Tarot Deck (or “The Book of Thoth”) by Aleister Crowley (U.S. Games Systems, Premier Edition, 2005; first published by Ordo Templi Orientis, 1969); B.O.T.A Tarot Deck, illustrated by Jessie Burns Parke under the direction of Paul Foster Case; Spirit Keeper’s Tarot (Vitruvian Edition, 2019) created and illustrated by Benebell Wen.
Books Referenced for the Card Meanings: The Tarot (1888) by MacGregor Mathers; The Tarot of the Bohemians (1892) by Papus; The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911) by A. E. Waite; Tarot of the Magicians (1927) by Oswald Wirth; The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (1947) by Paul Foster Case; Mastering the Tarot (Penguin Group, 1971) by Eden Gray; Holistic Tarot (North Atlantic Books, 2015) by Benebell Wen; Medium White Book for the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot; Book of Maps (companion guidebook for the SKT).
SKT: Learn more about the Empyrean Courts, youtu.be/CckP-TziDZE
BENEBELL WEN
Website. benebellwen.com
Twitter. twitter.com/tarotanalysis
Instagram. instagram.com/bellwen



![On Esoteric or Tantric Buddhism
An introductory discussion on what’s often referred to as esoteric Buddhism, covering the distinctions between sutra-based Buddhism and tantric Buddhism.
Practicum “Homework Assignments,” [*] https://wp.me/p32or0-9vV
[*] Practica. Not homework assignments. Dont know why that was my first go-to descriptive late last night, other than an indicator that Im a total nerd.
Mantra recitation audio recording at the closing of this video: Namo Da Bei Guan Shi Yin pusa (Hail, the Great Compassionate bodhisattva Kuan Yin).
Word List for Reference:
apsara 飛天
ashura 阿修羅
Bhadrakalpika Sūtra 賢劫經
Bön (Tibetan folk magic/shamanism) 苯教
Buddhist sects 佛教派別
Chinese esoteric Buddhism (Tang dynasty) 唐密
dharani 陀羅尼
Diamond Sutra 金剛經
Elder Mysteries (or Elder Arcana) 老密
Great Compassion Mantra 大悲呪
mandala 曼荼羅
mantra 咒
mara 天魔
New Mysteries (or New Arcana) 新密
Smoke Offering Ritual 煙供儀軌
Sutra (Buddhist sacred texts) 佛經
Sutra-based exoteric (Buddhism) 顯宗
Tantra-based esoteric (Buddhism) 密宗
Tibetan tantric Buddhism 西藏密宗
Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra 大日經
Vairocanā Blessed Sand 金剛沙 or 金光明沙
Vajrasekhara Sūtra 金剛頂経 On Esoteric or Tantric Buddhism](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v3vyx6yhwAM/mqdefault.jpg)




