Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This is Video 8 out of 17 in an educational series on the tarot cards. Closed captioning is provided for all videos in this series.
**AUDIO NOTE** I'm very sorry for shoddy audio quality. Not sure what happened here. If it's that unbearable, you can mute it and just read the closed captioning. Full transcript also provided as a PDF download in the companion blog post.
Companion blog post on the Sixes: wp.me/p32or0-5sC
**SCHEDULING NOTE** This video was produced and scheduled for posting many weeks ago, prior to the current social unrest. Otherwise I've paused my content creation during this time to clear space for more important voices who are speaking right now.
Four different systems of the tarot will be showcased: the Tarot de Marseilles (TdM), the Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS), the Thoth, 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); 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; Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, Third Edition (Weiser Books, 2019) by Rachel Pollack; Tarot for Yourself, 35th Anniversary Edition (Weiser Books, 2019) by Mary K. Greer; Medium White Book for the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot; Book of Maps (companion guidebook for the SKT).
Books Referenced for the Qabalah and the Kabbalah: Qabalah Paths of Light: The Occult Qabalah Reclaimed (2018) by Gary M. Jaron; The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order (1937; Llewellyn, 2016) by Israel Regardie, John Michael Greer (Ed.); Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) by David S. Ariel; The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism (Penguin Books, 2008) by Alan Unterman (Ed.).
BENEBELL WEN
Website. benebellwen.com
Twitter. twitter.com/tarotanalysis
Instagram. instagram.com/bellwen
This is Video 8 out of 17 in an educational series on the tarot cards. Closed captioning is provided for all videos in this series.
**AUDIO NOTE** I'm very sorry for shoddy audio quality. Not sure what happened here. If it's that unbearable, you can mute it and just read the closed captioning. Full transcript also provided as a PDF download in the companion blog post.
Companion blog post on the Sixes: wp.me/p32or0-5sC
**SCHEDULING NOTE** This video was produced and scheduled for posting many weeks ago, prior to the current social unrest. Otherwise I've paused my content creation during this time to clear space for more important voices who are speaking right now.
Four different systems of the tarot will be showcased: the Tarot de Marseilles (TdM), the Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS), the Thoth, 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); 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; Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, Third Edition (Weiser Books, 2019) by Rachel Pollack; Tarot for Yourself, 35th Anniversary Edition (Weiser Books, 2019) by Mary K. Greer; Medium White Book for the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot; Book of Maps (companion guidebook for the SKT).
Books Referenced for the Qabalah and the Kabbalah: Qabalah Paths of Light: The Occult Qabalah Reclaimed (2018) by Gary M. Jaron; The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order (1937; Llewellyn, 2016) by Israel Regardie, John Michael Greer (Ed.); Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) by David S. Ariel; The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism (Penguin Books, 2008) by Alan Unterman (Ed.).
BENEBELL WEN
Website. benebellwen.com
Twitter. twitter.com/tarotanalysis
Instagram. instagram.com/bellwen
![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)")
