Benebell Wen | The Twos: Tarot Card Meanings @BenebellWen | Uploaded August 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This is Video 2 out of 17 in an educational series on the tarot cards. I had intended on calling the series “Learn the Tarot Card by Card,” but a tarot colleague did not like how similar it was to her own card meanings project, “Tarot Card by Card.” Out of respect for her, I’ve changed the series title to “Tarot Card Meanings with Benebell.”
Closed captioning is provided for all videos in this series.
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
Companion blog post on the Twos: wp.me/p32or0-4nX
For a tarot primer keyed to the Rider-Waite-Smith, consider Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using the Tarot for Personal Growth (North Atlantic Books, 2015) by Benebell Wen, amzn.to/2LHDYT4
Support my work by purchasing one of the online course packs I offer. Check out all course offerings at: benebellwen.com/online-courses/independent-study
BUY THE SKT DECK: Order your copy of the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot, Vitruvian Edition, benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/order-the-deck
Interested in a video course series on the SKT?
Video Course Series II covers the architecture of the deck: benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/video-course-series-ii
Video Course Series I, keyed to the black-and-white First Edition SKT, shares deck creator's intentions and the esoteric study based constructs that the Keys of the SKT are founded upon: benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/video-course-series
Free download of the 200-page Medium White Book, a companion card meanings guidebook for the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot: benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/free-tarot-book-download
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; 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).
This is Video 2 out of 17 in an educational series on the tarot cards. I had intended on calling the series “Learn the Tarot Card by Card,” but a tarot colleague did not like how similar it was to her own card meanings project, “Tarot Card by Card.” Out of respect for her, I’ve changed the series title to “Tarot Card Meanings with Benebell.”
Closed captioning is provided for all videos in this series.
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
Companion blog post on the Twos: wp.me/p32or0-4nX
For a tarot primer keyed to the Rider-Waite-Smith, consider Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using the Tarot for Personal Growth (North Atlantic Books, 2015) by Benebell Wen, amzn.to/2LHDYT4
Support my work by purchasing one of the online course packs I offer. Check out all course offerings at: benebellwen.com/online-courses/independent-study
BUY THE SKT DECK: Order your copy of the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot, Vitruvian Edition, benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/order-the-deck
Interested in a video course series on the SKT?
Video Course Series II covers the architecture of the deck: benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/video-course-series-ii
Video Course Series I, keyed to the black-and-white First Edition SKT, shares deck creator's intentions and the esoteric study based constructs that the Keys of the SKT are founded upon: benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/video-course-series
Free download of the 200-page Medium White Book, a companion card meanings guidebook for the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot: benebellwen.com/spirit-keepers-tarot/free-tarot-book-download
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; 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).
![Occult Content Creators, Negativity, Community: Joey and Bell Chat [Part 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xz2JolFQxiE/hqdefault.jpg "Occult Content Creators, Negativity, Community: Joey and Bell Chat [Part 2]
What do occult content creators do when they’re in quarantine? We get online and chat with each other by video, of course. This is Part 2 of a conversation that I had with Celtic priestess, creatrix, and daughter of The Morrigan, Joey Morris.
If you haven’t seen Part 1 yet, then you’re going to want to hop over to her channel to watch that first.
Watch Part 1 on Joey’s channel at: https://youtu.be/WuVB69Pwpa0
Joey Morris: https://www.youtube.com/user/starryeyedlillady
TIMESTAMPS
00:21 Backlash when an occultist shares their personal gnosis with the public; The irony of telling others their experience with deity is “wrong” (sharing a Chinese cultural standpoint)
02:54 Joey adding to that rationale by sharing about the spread and evolution of Celtic beliefs
05:51 The irony of marginalized witches looking at history, which is written by those who suppress them, to verify their own modern practices
06:60 Balancing history of religious practice with how those practices and beliefs evolve
07:30 Why occult content creators aren’t sharing videos about their personal experiences with spirit
10:15 Joey sharing the emotional toll of putting out raw, vulnerable content and getting trolled for it; the fallacy of assuming your negative comment doesn’t bother popular content creators; why Benebell doesn’t like it when people say you just need to grow thicker skin
16:48 The spiritual ramifications of occult content creators dealing with negativity online
19:20 Fallacy of the “shared personal gnosis”
21:15 The entanglement between “shared personal gnosis” and savvy branding/marketing; the occultists who become prominent and those who don’t gain popular traction all reduce down to branding and marketing; when content creators go “off brand”
22:40 The branding and marketing that mold public perception of what witchcraft is; witchcraft aesthetics
24:57 The internally generated tension between “dark” witchcraft and “light” witchcraft (using those as terms of convenience only); arguments of morality, good vs. evil in the witchcraft community
26:01 The “real witch” argument; community shaming of pagans and witches who charge money; Bell’s observation that those judgments are very Christian influenced and are not as prevalent in cultures where Abrahamic morality doesn’t dominate
28:01 The irony of witches rejecting any physical trace of Christian belief in witchcraft but judge each other with Christian ideologies
29:38 When witch wars happen and their negativity cycles
31:00 All the great occult content creators leaving YouTube
34:59 Self-censorship and filtering driven by the fear element of not wanting to invite negativity, resulting in less creativity; when people downplay the emotional harm of trolling and ask content creators, “Why do you care so much about what people think of you?”
38:55 Acknowledging the power other people may have over you is not weakness; how the current covid-19 pandemic shows that; contrasting that with the self-fulfilling prophecy of where we believe power resides is where power resides")
