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The Twos is the second of seventeen videos in this series, “Tarot Card Meanings with Benebell” (formerly titled “Learn the Tarot Card by Card”).

Are These the Only Way to Interpret the Cards?

If you’ve read more than three books on tarot card meanings, especially contemporary publications, you quickly realize how fluid the interpretation of card meanings can be. When you start to work with different decks with varying imagery and symbolism, the differences grow even more apparent.

The card meanings covered in this video series are narrow in scope: for the Marseille, we’re working exclusively from Mathers and Papus; for the RWS, Waite’s Pictorial Key and my 2015 book Holistic Tarot; for the Thoth, Crowley’s Book of Thoth. For the SKT, since I designed the deck, anything I say goes, right? =)

This series is a primer, which means it’s nothing more than a starting point. It’s about offering historical, cultural, and philosophical context for these keys of the tarot from four different deck styles.

As you progress in your studies of the tarot, you will take the cumbersome block of all facets of card meanings that you’re learning and whittle away at what doesn’t work for you and further expand upon what does, to eventually formulate your own analytical and intuitive methods for interpreting the cards.

Book Recommendations

To deepen your exploration of card meanings, here are a few book recommendations:

Tarot de Marseilles

• Jodorowsky’s The Way of the Tarot
• The Marseille Tarot Revealed by Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov

Rider-Waite-Smith

• My book, Holistic Tarot published by North Atlantic Books
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A. E. Waite (Dover Occult, 2005 edition)

The Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot

• The Crowley Tarot: The Handbook to the Cards by Hajo Banzhaf
• The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley (Weiser Books, 1974 edition)

Spirit Keeper’s Tarot

• Little White Book (Vitruvian, 2019) [download the PDF]
• Medium White Book (Vitruvian, 2019) [free PDF or $9.24 paperback]
• The Book of Maps

Oops! Too Long…

Running at almost 35 minutes, I lost control over content direction here. My initial self-imposed restriction was to keep every video at a digestible size, capped at around 20 minutes per video, so this one definitely got away from me.

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