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I love Tarot...the imagery, the meaning....but it's just a pack of cards with your own interpretation of what the cards mean...or don't mean. I have several packs and love how so many artists breathe new life and meaning into these little soul pictures....or at least that's my take.
"For the ancient sciences, transmitted under the veil of various emblems, are answerable to the science of Diplomatics and are presented with a double meaning, one apparent and understandable by everyone (exoteric), the other, hidden, accessible only to initiates (esoteric)."
So basically it was just a card game and then people later on turned it into something totally different? Like people in the year 2300 taking uno cards and putting spiritual super natural meanings to it?
Uno is already mystified, there is a memetic agent around the reverse card, and one around the +4 (or in current adaptations +20) Doesn't take much more to become an artifact
From this short lecture I think Tarot was born as a sort of individual game. Initially, some who possessed such decks; they were pretty bored one day, and decided to play cards with themselves. Just like the modern Solitary game. Then, they realized that the images in each card were of unique perspective in which such a meaning could be inferred. They began shuffling the decks until such a full house hand appeared, and then they started to create such a symbolism for such a hand. Afterwards, each deck's card appeared to have a mystical significance in which a hermetic study was required to read every full hand throw. Nowadays, the Tarot has become a game that we bet on ourselves. Each card represents choices and possibilities as well as doubts and obstacles we either enhance or overcome in order to reach our final evolution stage which is finding God in ourselves.
Leonardo da Vinci said "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions " Plato shared with us wisdom he learnt from Egypt, wisdom that was a death sentence in Greece, Rome (Christianity) ..Pythagoras, Socrates and later Hypatia of Alexandria. Plato in his dialogue "The Republic " tells the parable of " The Cave " Plato starts by telling us of prisoners being held in a underground den, let us examine this den via the geometry of Bernhard Riemann and Felix Klein..Klein bottle..3rd and 4th dimensions. Plato tells us that the prisoners are bound up unable to move their heads, let us examine this bondage via the psychology of Erich Fromm..socialisation of consciousness..aware-unaware. Plato tells us that the prisoners mistake shadows for substance, let us examine this mistake via the philosophy of Thales, Hume and Kant..synthetic a priori judgement..not thing in itself. Plato tells us that one of the prisoners is released, let us examine this release via the wisdom of T Lobsang Rampa..stilling the mind and conscious astral travel..leaving the cave/body. Plato tells us that the prisoners will reject this release, let us examine this rejection via the psychology of Stockholm Syndrome..Plato quotes Homer..forgive them for they know not what they say. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Mathew 23 13 31.
That's because nobody is able to see the same tree as the wise do. A mediocre mind rather remains following the same-old routine than looking for other chances to be happy. Just like once somebody said; "Many who tried to bring up the light; they were hung from a light pole"
The images of the major arcana came from already existing symbols, which have different histories, most from Greco-Roman sources, some Biblical, the largest sub-group is the virtues, of which all seven are present. Temperance = Temperance Love= Love/Charity Justice = Justice Strength = Fortitude Popess = Faith Hermit = Prudence/Wisdom The Star/s = Hope
@@Chujasworld Don't know honestly, you could do something related to Yule, Saturnalia or Christianity in general Personally I'd like something on Christianity but do what you want to do :D!!!
@@Chujasworld Winter solstice around the ancient world. 1. Saturnalia 2. St. Lucia's Day 3. Dong Zhi 4. Shab-e Yalda 5. Inti Raymi 6. Shalako 7. Soyal 8. Toji 9. Ancient Egyptian Winter Solstice
I Hate When People come on here just to leave critiques it really shows how happy you are with yourself smh people make mistakes and learn as they go ✨it’s called growth
Man, I love your straightforward unbiased skeptical approach. Would you consider doing a video on the origins and history of the Ouija Board, or a quasi Timeline/Family Tree of 18th-20th Century Occultism (with figures such as Levi, Waite, Hall, Pike, Cayce, Crowley, Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Alice Bailey, etc…) 👍🏽💡
You've definitely done good research. Might I Add, there are Ancient & more recent Work that include further identification in the Arabian, Egyptian & Mesopotamian Cultures for those wanting to expound a bit further. Great Job Thank you 🕳️
Another really good video! You know Tarot, in a way, is an example of a self fulfilling prophecy! Originally it wasn't related to Kabbalah at all but as the video goes on you can see how Occultists forced it to be Kabbalistic, the most extreme case is Case who claims that Kabbalah originates from the Tarot lmao Also I didn't expect JoJo getting mentioned but that was pretty cool! And hey since you mentioned the Rosicrucians in this you could do a video on that topic during December :)
The major arcana represent the sun on its quest during a solar year. The Fool, or O (the symbol for the sun) is about to take his first step on his journey. The Magician - I, displays the infinity symbol, or rather the analemma of the sun above his head or hidden within the shape of his hat. This infinity symbol is also the way in which the cards should be arranged with The World - XXI being the central point or crossroads
The lemniscate wasn't used to represent infinity until 1655, although the Magician card was also known as the juggler, the basic pattern of juggling being the cascade pattern which is of the same form, people could have used the symbol to represent "dual/ non-dual" as the pattern shows two from the side , but a circle from above or below.
People have always been superstitious about 'Luck', so your assertion that in early days there were no "occult associations" is rather unlikely. I don't think many people would ever have drawn a card depicting 'Death' or 'the Devil' without concern. The pictures used are of course not arbitrary if drawn from well known allegorical (or actual) stories of the day. While the tarot as an occult tool has been formalised and added to over the years, it does not mean that it was not predated by similar hybrid divinatory/gambling traditions - notably to the 'Lots' that were much used inearlier centuries in places like Egypt and the Holy Land. Roman soldiers memorably played 'Lots' at the foot of Christ's Cross with the winners claiming his clothing and belongings. It's also worth mentioning that paper/card was not widely available in medieval Europe but papyrus was available in Egypt.
Is "Samech" represented by the 'dog'? "The dog" classically being "man's best friend"? Respectfully asked. If you can inform me, I'd be grateful to learn. Happy days of Celebration to you and your family. Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis
Mostly right, but you cannot say that 70 cards were in the original Visconti-Sforza Decks from 1440 - 1460, because a complete deck has never been discovered/confirmed. The Fool was in the original VS Decks from the 1440s, so much earlier than 1500. Court de Gébelin said that the word Tarot meant “Royal Road” not royal wisdom. He just made that up though. The Fool card in French is Le Mat not La Mat as you seem to be saying. Soldiers and Merchants (no evidence of Gypsies) didn’t bring the TAROT DECK from the Middle-East to Europe, they brought playing card decks. These were 52-card decks similar to modern playing card decks. As you say the Tarot Deck was created in 1440 in Italy, so originated in Europe not brought to Europe. The TH sound in the word Thoth is pronounced the same at the beginning and the end of the word. So it’s not Hoth, but Thoth, as written. There’s no real evidence of any link with Tarot and Gypsies, Tarot and Ancient Egypt, Tarot and the Rosicrucians etc. despite numerous claims from occultists over the last 230 years. Arthur Waite’s Tarot Deck was published by the Rider Company in 1909, not by Waite himself. Hence the common name for deck - Rider Waite. You mentioned Bram Stoker’s book Dracula. That book was also published by Rider in 1897.
The Egyptian way of pronouncing Thoth would be Tay (Th) Who (o) Tay (th) or Tehuti is often used as a Phonetic guide. The lisping sound of the Anglicization of the deities name does not do the Ibis headed god of Magick service.
@@magickaeon9701 Yes, that is how the Egyptians pronounce the name for their god - Djehuti, pronounced Ja-HOOT-ee. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the word Thoth is pronounced that same way too. Thoth is the name the Greeks gave to that god. So the issue is how the Greeks pronounce their own word, and they pronounce it with a soft “Th” at the beginning and end, and rhyming with Goth or Goethe. Similar to how the Greeks call Yeshua - his actual name, Jesus. But Jesus is still pronounced as Jeez-As, not Yeshua.
I knew the voice was gonna be american and sendationalistic...the minute I saw the "it's" in the title...I can't. I'll just learn from a different source.
Very interesting! Now I don't believe in the meaning of numbers of the cards because it was such a crazy hypothesis without logical bases. But I do believe in the philosophical interpretation of card and its power to discover what's happening on mind and soul
It's a good video, but if you either re-recorded or edited your speech to cut out all the mistakes I guarantee you'd get a lot more success. Nothing is perfect the first time round.
I don't know how the cards are getting informations. I am thinking is it spirits? is it connecting to the brain, is it getting informations in our head. I don't know how it can say anything, because it is getting something somewhere. A long time ago a fortune teller says I will attend baptismal. I did not attend but I had been asked to be a god mother after a week. So how on earth did the card know about it?
@@Concreteowl It’s not a title in this instance, it’s someone’s last name - Filippo Maria Visconti; same as how Stephen King isn’t really a king, that’s just his surname. Filippo Visconti is the person who commissioned the first Tarot Deck in 1440. His son in law - Francesco Sforza, then commissioned later decks. Collectively these decks have become known as the Visconti-Sforza Tarot Decks, which is what was correctly said in this video.
