The Spirit Keeper’s Tarot is an homage to our ideals, our aspirations, and a tribute to personal excellence.
May the voice of your Holy Guardian Angel come through. May the secrets of heaven, earth, and humanity be revealed to you.
The Book of Readings: Introduction
Comes as a free, complimentary digital workbook file with all orders of the Revelation Second Printing. If you would like the digital workbook but only have the First Printing of the Revelation, you can buy the e-book for $15 usd (see below for more info).
The Book of Readings is a workbook of 22 guided journaling prompts and divinatory readings with the SKT: Revelation deck, building from the Immortal Order your deck is affiliated with.
Along the way, you’ll master essential basics in Hermetic Qabalah, numerology, astrology, and the Ba Gua trigrams of the I Ching. Follow through with this course and you will attain conversational proficiency in these subject areas.
You’ll pick up foundational knowledge on key concepts in Western occultism, such as the 72 Shem HaMephorash angels and their correspondences, the Olympic spirits, influences from Babylonian mythology and Zoroastrianism, and the Holy Guardian Angel.
Inspired by world history and the diverse civilizations of our ancestry, you’ll arrive at your own insights about who you are, where you’re from, and the best that is in store for you.
What You’ll Need:
- SKT Revelation deck
- SKT Revelation’s Little White Book (LWB)
- SKT Revelation Book of Maps (BoM)
- Your Book of Readings workbook/journal
- Pillar candles (rec: white) and incense (rec: sandalwood, cedar wood, frankincense, or myrrh)
- Optional: Colored pencils (for coloring in the Tree of Life)
Though this course is self-paced, I would estimate that it will take about six moons (or six months) to complete.
The Eight Immortal Orders
There are Eight Orders based on the eight trigrams (fundamental or archetypal building blocks of the universe) and Eight Immortals of East Asian lore, not unlike the Ogdoad (eight primordial deities) of Ancient Egyptian lore. You’ll also find the Ogdoad in Hermetic and Gnostic traditions.
For the second print run and onward, all decks will be cast into one of the Eight Orders. The decks in each Order are endowed with an additional portfolio of blessings, strengths, and predominant traits, which, if you believe in the magic of synchronicity, is the deck that has come to you because these are the blessings, strengths, and traits you most need to embody your ideal Self.
In this preliminary guided reading exercise, you’ll learn more about your deck’s Order and, more importantly, why you’ve been connected to this Order.
Your SKT Deck’s Affiliated Order
For the Second Print Run of SKT: Revelation, each deck will be sorted and assigned into one of eight Orders. The Orders are based on the eight trigrams (fundamental or archetypal building blocks of the universe), Eight Immortals of East Asian lore, and the Ogdoad (eight primordial deities) of Ancient Egyptian lore. You’ll also find the Ogdoad in Hermetic and Gnostic traditions.
The decks in each Order are endowed with an additional portfolio of blessings, strengths, and traits. The Order will reveal the archetype that is the core essence of your deck, which will be noted on each deck’s Certificate of Authenticity.
SKT: Revelation First Print Run Decks. Click here for the step by step tutorial on how to divine an Order for your current first print run deck. This is a prerequisite step for working with the Book of Readings (you’ll see why once you start the workbook).
Buy the Book of Readings for the SKT First Print Run Deck
If you ordered a Second Print Run Revelation deck, then the Book of Readings is free to you. No need to read further in this section.
If you only have the First Print Run of the Revelation and you want the Book of Readings workbook, send $15.00 (Fifteen Dollars, US) via any of these methods:
- Venmo (@bellwen),
- PayPal to abelldelivers@gmail.com, or
- Zelle to abelldelivers@gmail.com
Then promptly email abelldelivers@gmail.com to let us know that you’ve sent the $15 for an order of the Book of Readings workbook. If your payment account name is different from your e-mail account name, please let us know this in your e-mail so we can match the two transactions.
We will e-deliver your Book of Readings PDF file to your email inbox in 7 (seven) days. [If you do not hear from us in 7 days, please follow-up with an e-mail to let us know; wires somehow got crossed and we need to re-sort.] The email will include a private hyperlink to a Lulu.com listing where you can order a physical print copy of the Book of Readings. However, feel free to print and bind a physical copy locally, if that is a more economical and viable option for you.
Book of Readings Objective
Your main objective: self-exploration and self-discovery. It’s that simple. The divinatory reading prompts in the workbook take you on a journey within. You’ll apply a diversity of ancient mystical systems to help you contextualize your self-exploration and self-discovery.
A secondary objective is to endow you with a working, conversational knowledge of various metaphysical systems, such as the I Ching, Ba Gua eight trigrams, Hermetic Qabalah, to learn practical application of elemental correspondences and astrology in tarot, and how to work with the Olympic Spirits through the cards.
The third objective is to get to know your Spirit Keeper’s Tarot deck. After working through these 22 exercises with your SKT, you’ll have familiarized yourself with the imagery, how to navigate the Book of Maps, and you’ll have read most if not all of the Little White Book.
To acclimate with the SKT, check out this video playlist on YouTube:
SKT Video Series
Note, however, that the earlier videos cover just the black and white First Edition, then the sepia-toned Vitruvian, and the later videos feature the full-color Revelation.
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