In an effort to curate the publicly visible videos on the Benebell Wen YouTube channel, many past videos are now unlisted but still publicly available via the Playlists tab.
For a ballpark sense of how many videos are now unlisted, as of this posting only 129 of 405 total videos are publicly visible in the general Videos tab and thus only those 129 videos are searchable on the YouTube platform.
Continue reading “Changes to the YouTube Channel and Access to Past Videos”
First off, I apologize for the convoluted, loopity-doop link after link organization (or lack thereof) to these web pages. I had initially put the pre-order information page here, but it doesn’t make sense as a blog post, so I moved it here:
And now I’m going to re-write this page into an informal chat to give you some of the behind-the-scenes.
Continue reading “Pre-order the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot, Revelation Ed. (second print run)”
For those who are new to the Metaphysician’s Day Planner (MDP), this is a product description and walk-through.
My dedicated use of the MDP year to year has been essential to my success and also personal wellbeing. The organizer-planner is structured in such a way to inspire a holistic and comprehensive approach to the health of your mind, body, and spirit.
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It’s that time of the year again, for the Metaphysician’s Day Planner. The 2023 Day Planner will be substantially the same as it was this year, 2022.
New to the MDP? CLICK HERE for a walk-through of its contents.
In short summary, it’s customized with your birth chart, 2023 solar returns chart (though I calibrate to the day, rather than to the sun’s degree), and the text you’d like on the interior first page. (Most people will customize their name here, a power word for the year, or a brief phrase.) This name or text is in Prompt #3 from the Order Form below.
This year there will be an optional $8 add-on that includes 4 videos:
Continue reading “2023 Metaphysician’s Day Planner: Pre-Order”
So if you saw me share this video earlier but it was the same video as the one on the Day Planner pre-order page about how to upload to Lulu, then you saw the wrong video. I took that down and re-uploaded with the correct video. Serves me right for naming both video files “2022 day planner how-to.” Totally confused me this morning when I went to upload to YouTube.
THIS video walks you through how I’m filling in the different page sections of the day planner. Sorry, it’s been one of those weeks. I’m frazzled and fried. Going to go take a nap now. Thanks.
The World Divination Association, founded by the amazing Toni @thecardgeek, hosts the annual World Divination Association Conference, a virtual event that brings together an impressive roster of authors, creators, and modern mystics. I’ll be one of the speakers this year, sharing my learned experiences and insights into reading tarot professionally for others.
For those who heard previous info about me doing a course on Freud and Jung, and how to apply psychoanalytic and analytic theory to tarot readings, due to some tech obstacles, I’m changing my workshop topic. The Freud and Jung workshop would have been PowerPoint intensive, along with a massive workbook, tons of researched reference materials, etc., and it wouldn’t have worked in the virtual event setting.
So I’m pivoting and going with a talking-head-video-livestream format where I’ll be talking about reading tarot professionally for others– not the business aspect, no, but the actual tarot reading part of it all. The heart and soul of reading tarot.
Continue reading “How I Read Tarot Cards: Workshop at the World Divination Conference”
The 2022 Metaphysician’s Day Planner is now open for pre-orders.
As it is with every year, you’ll get a portfolio of different cover designs to choose from, so you can fully customize and personalize your Day Planner.
The above are the selected covers for the Guidebooks to 2022, complimentary books that come with every order of the Day Planner.
Mid-December, 2021
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General Admission: $100
Generosity Rate: $125
Reduced Rate: $75
Sign up for an all-day online tarot workshop with me, via Zoom, and hosted by the California Institute of Integral Studies:
November 6, 2021
10 am – 5 pm
1 hr. break for lunch
I’m so excited to be conducting an all-day workshop at the Cal. Institute of Integral Studies. More than that, the admission rates go to support an incredible educational program. The Cal. Institute of Integral Studies does so much for the community, and gives sanctuary to brilliant, peculiar minds who otherwise have felt like they don’t belong anywhere else.
You can be a total tarot beginner or a seasoned practitioner. That’s because at the heart of it, this workshop is about where tarot card meanings come from, and the source of archetypes, instinct, and intuition. And yet tarot is very much an empirical, learned knowledge that asks for your focused study.
This course is about both mysticism and philosophy. A semiotic study of the tarot means embodying both the mystic and the philosopher, and that’s what we’ll do through a series of collaborative reading exercises.
After an overview of history and the development of different tarot designs, along with a brief introduction to reading mechanics, we’ll explore techniques for cultivating transformative personal spirituality, from divinatory readings for yourself to birth cards and pathworking.
You’ll team up with classmates to workshop your personal readings. You’ll also be reading for each other, to hone professional cartomancy skills. I’ll share my insights and insider tips, acquired from two decades of experiences in reading tarot for others. Explore your role as a channel for guiding others toward attaining wisdom and an improved quality of life.
Here’s a tentative rundown of the day’s schedule:
| MORNING SESSION | |
| 10:00 am | A Beginner’s Introduction to the Tarot |
| 10:30 am | History and Origins of the Cards |
| 11:00 am | Differing Tarot Designs and Systems |
| 11:20 am | Break – 10 minutes of guided relaxation (Video Clip) |
| 11:30 am | Sources and Evolution of Card Meanings |
| 12:00 pm | Philosophy, Psychology, and Mysticism |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch Break (1 hour) |
| 1:30 pm | Casual Tarot Chit-Chat (optional, if you prefer a 30 min. lunch) |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |
| 2:00 pm | The Mechanics of a Tarot Reading |
| 2:30 pm | Breakout Sessions |
| 3:30 pm | Break – 10 minutes of guided relaxation (Video Clip) |
| 3:40 pm | Reflections and Discussion |
| 4:10 pm | Your Tarot Archetypes and What They Reveal |
| 4:45 pm | Q & A Session |
| 5:00 pm | END |
I’ll be showcasing six Lenormand deck recommendations, each one different from the others in art style. Four of them are indie and two are traditionally published. These are decks that have been sent to me and for these types of collection showcases, I typically choose only from the decks sent to me for my collection.
Let’s take a look at how the Lenormand is illustrated in six different art styles. The first is what I’ll call contemporary kawaii cutecore; the second is Western European medieval art; the third is inspired by the Italian Renaissance; then the Lenormand in a black and white Victorian illustration style via digital collage; children’s picture book fairytale art; and fin-de-siècle, rendered through digital collage of illustration works by Pamela Colman Smith.
If you haven’t jumped onto the Lenormand bandwagon quite yet and you’re interested in learning a bit more about the system, I have a nutshell summary write-up from seven years ago, here (“The Lenormand: Nutshell Summary of the Petite Lenormand, from History to Practice“).
When I was growing up in the tarot world, the only Asian I knew of in this field was Robert Wang. Times have changed some, and I’m pleased to share with you many who are contributing incredible work to the tarot community.
In no particular order, here’s who I’ve been fangirling hard over as of late:
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