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I agree with Dee's comment on the bandage used to keep the jaw closed on a corpse. I worked in a hospital as an aide when I was young, and sometimes getting the body ready to go from hospital bed to the morgue requires binding the jaw to the head just like that.... I am no expert on farming techniques, but I have never heard of scythes being used to turn soil, only about their use to cut grain stalks just above the ground to enable drying the stems holding the grains, thus making it easier to winnow the grains , i.e., separate them from the plant stalks. Thus cleaned of the inedible (to humans) stalks, the grains can be dried and stored for later use through the year, keeping the people alive at least through the next harvest, and in good years, enabling sales of excess abundance to others who would perish without this bounty. Perhaps my understanding is "too much of a niceness", with my notion that to "turn soil" you need shovels/spades, or in modern times, wheeled soil turners/cultivators/combines.... A mental image that makes me realize suddenly that the skeleton in the Death card is not cutting down grain plants such as wheat, corn, oats, etc. Instead we see little broadleaf plants, not grain plants like oats, wheat, corn, or even rice. These images might as well be small lettuces or herbs, not grains at all. I don't know how to interpret that distinction, but looking at all these varied cards, it strikes me as something obvious that has escaped notice for a long time.

What a fantastic review! I came across an image of these cards in a reading and was drawn to them immediately! So I found your review to delve a little deeper into them. This looks like such a wonderful deck, the accompanying book looks great too. Thank you! ☺️

A great deal to think on here. Thank you for the whole series. I'm looking forward to hearing more about the importance of sound with this suit

Thank you for sharing your process, really beautiful. I'm in my 60s and retired so I often go slow and take my time with readings (some I leave out all day), and I thoroughly appreciate using your We'Moon datebook as a check-in pre-reading; love it; I've been using We'Moon for nigh on 30 years now and it's become a precious, familiar, insightful companion. Again, this was wonderful, thank you. I tend to spend a lot of time reflecting and journaling after readings. Blessings!

Great video Sadhana. I struggled a long time with "pip" minors. I had to have an expansive tarot vocabulary before I started to feel comfortable with them. Pagan Otherworlds was a great bridge deck for me.

You may have just convinced me to swap my annual purchase of the Llewellyn Astrological Almanac for the We'Moon one. It looks to have all the astrological information I like to have along with all the fabous extras!

So interesting to hear your astrological comments. Very sad about the WeMoon calender not being available in a southern hemisphere version. Our diary isn't nearly so good imo! Amazing reading by the way. Loved it.

Looking at the cards at approximately 17:30, you ask the question about "are we looking at the penis" or whatever: No, I don't think so, at least not in the cards you are showing... The fashion for a long time was for the leggings to have a "codpiece" or flap for the convenience of men to be able to urinate upright without having to drop their pants entirely. Fashions existed back then, and often the codpiece was colored differently than the leggings, thus accentuating the masculinity of the wearer via contrast. The higher the status of the wearer, the larger/gaudier/more emphatically eye-catching the codpiece was made to be (Royalty were particularly outrageous about this!). These fellows in the old Marseilles style tarots were sometimes shown as impoverished, but not always... If the codpiece had been removed in order to add more "shame" to the victim's experience, their flaccid genitals would likely have flopped via gravity, thus visibly pointing downwards to the ground. Or, the excitement (?) of being tortured might have made their genitals "stand up", but either way, the appearance from the onlookers' POV would not have differed much...

I really enjoyed listening to you. Tarocchi Fine dela torre has been on my wishlist for a while, I think should pull the trigger before it goes out of print again. Thanks beautiful Sadhana 🩵🩶🩷

Hi Sadhana, I really enjoyed these readings. Listened to them in the evening. Thank you

Very inspiring, Sadhana! Great idea to incorporate the decan card in your reading, I am going to experiment with that myself!

La Force XI Triumph. Jean-Claude Flornoy's book 'Seeing the World Tarot Signposts on the Path to Perception; describes: "Force. Key to the Arcanum: Self-Making within and through the World of Matter". This is as good a description as any. I prefer the title Force, not Strength because I like the meaning "bring about by unusual effort". Etymology ~ " From c. 1400 as "compel by force, constrain (someone to do something)." Meaning "bring about by unusual effort" is from 1550s;" but if I'm "constrain"(ed) then I don't object to "fortitude (n.) late 14c., "moral strength (as a cardinal virtue); courage,". By the 18th c. the image of La Force is "stabilising" in the historic Tarot de Marseille decks, and "The emblematic Maiden and Lion is the most familiar scene" Laetitia Barbier. Earlier images of 'brute force' include Samson or Heracles killing wild beasts in Italian decks. And Samson shattering the pillars of the Temple gradually disappears. Occasionally the Maiden holds or leans on a pillar but in the end " The Maiden isn't looking for supremacy by projecting her dominion on the Lion through aggression and mortal combat. Something more subtle is at play in this image, a subduing in which the beast keeps its integrity, an encounter where the energy is derived from negotiation, not strife" Laetitia Barbier. Their relationship develops, and is brought "about by unusual effort" both physical, mental and spiritual. Her Force or Strength comes from the 'infinite source' of Fortitude. St. Thomas Aquinas describes Fortitude as "an inner strength in which we courageously go toward what we fear, what might hurt us, in order to preserve the good". In her book Tarot and Divination Cards A Visual Archive by Laetitier Barbier, she comments "the Maiden and the Lion trope prevailed over time because it revealed something more profound", and not just the brute strength or aggressive force of Samson or Heracles.

❤ thanks for all the great videos ❤ I really enjoy the series. Thanks 🙏🏻

Dear Sadhana, these 'Tarot Books' videos are a great resource for an absolute beginner to the tarot aficionado. Many thanks ~ Dee.

As you were working to be receptive to the messages from the cards of question 2, my intuition said: You just need to be. And you are.

Your reading was so powerful and watching how you broke your readings down how you actually practice this was inspiring and I learned from your video which as you said is something I want to see from deck videos too. Thank you for sharing this! ❤

La Roue de Fortune. The 10th Triumph, the culmination of the first cycle and the opening of the new decade.The Wheel of Fortune is a unique Trump because of what it is not. It is not a Virtue, Angelic or an Archetype it's just a Fact. It symbolises (typifies) the experience here on Earth. The inevitable 'widdershins' (counter clockwise) turn of La Roue de Fortune, and its progress leaves us with one choice, how do we respond? J M David, suggests in his book 'Reading the Marseille Tarot'. "There are, then, three distinct aspects that we are lead to consider in the workings of the wheel: the weavings appointed in the personal and social fabric of our individual lives; the vicissitudes of life’s random events; and the cyclical movement of the wheel’s turning, season by season, day by day. And our own individual response to the way in which these permeate our heart, our thinking and our will-force or acts." Tangential links to this fascinating subject? thehistoryjar.com/tag/wheel-of-fortune/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche#Greco-Roman_Tyche www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652533/#:~:text=At%20a%20higher%20cognitive%20level,Peeters%20%26%20Czapinski%2C%201990

Dear Sadhana, I'm sorry I missed the 2nd question. A message for/to yourself that was very clear, so much so it took away your breath, and a little of your sweet composure? A gift from the gods? Please take this message in the spirit it was given ~ Love. anandastrology.com/sept-new-moon-divine-remover-of-obstacles-vedic-astrology

I hoped you'd do this tag Sadhana -it's such a searching one. I do look forward to following your episodes for the next while. And would you mind telling me what is the moon diary that you use? It's probably no use for where I live anyway but it looked as if it covered a lot of information. Thank you.

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This was great Sadhana, wish I could have caught the live.❤

Sometimes the Tarot just says, I am putting you on a roller coaster ride 😂 The cards pulled for the 2nd question.... But I loved your process ❤

Thank you soooo much for your so important and generous offerings 😊

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I've always loved the tower power. It helped me A LOT when I was brainless in the head. Had the tower power not intervened, i would have continued not been able to progress in life. Thank you tower

Wow, LOVING, LOVING, LOVING this series! So many layers of juiciness about each card in every episode!! Thank you, Sadhana, for sharing your personal insights with us. This is one of the many reasons I love tarot. Endless layers, endlessly fascinating!!!

The Tower is one of my favourite tarot cards. Your selection is so diverse its amazing how you can see different things in all. I particularly love the Pholarchos tarot card 🙂

Alana Fairchild decks are helping heal my heart - especially RUMI Oracle. Thank you for sharing ❤️

I appreciate your perspectives on the Tower. It's a given that towers provide protection, but I don't think I've ever considered that as it relates to the tarot Tower. Thank you! A Shining Tribe/Motherpeace deep dive would be incredible. I've spent some time with the Daughters of the Moon, but find the other two more balanced then Daughters of the Moon from a gender perspective. I think they would be a great pair to look at together.

This was such a great video! Just an FYI that Tarot Deciphered and Tarot Correspondences are available on Everand, for anyone who has a subscription. Shipping print books to my country is like buying them twice, so I always choose ebooks where I can.

Around the 36:20 point in the video, Sadhana, you point out that the naked and loosely blindfolded Fortune in the IJJ Swiss, who is turning her face away from the wheel she turns, and the well-dressed man at the top almost appears to be pushing his female companion off the wheel into the nearby abyss, and you had already even mused that the other figure on the right going down headfirst into the abyss might be their offspring… Well, (I do apologize for shouting, but I am compelled to do so) THAT’S WHAT MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS BEEN!!!, right on up to the early 20th Century: the repeated cycle of women dying in or soon after childbirth, children often not surviving into adulthood, and husbands (who probably never would have ever wanted things to be so horrifying) would nevertheless find themselves repeatedly marrying again and again to replace their wives who died either birthing or in the first few months or years thereafter. Back then, it was not uncommon for wealthy or even just well-off men to be serially married to 5 or more wives through their lives, because the women would just keep dying to pregnancy and childbirth problems and diseases that few doctors had any clue as to how to save them from death or disability at all. No wonder women have historically been treated as disposable brood mares in so many places and eras. For all it visual elegance, this card cuts very, very deep. QUESTION: Can you tell what the flower is between Fortuna’s feet and the Wheel itself? I’m wondering it if has any specific meaning relevant to this card…

Dear Sadhana, whilst wandering around following The Hermit I found a link to "Lancelot in Exile". I know you have a fondness for Wales (the country in the UK), and in the future intend to study The Arthurian Tarot therefore this will interest you at least? www.tarotforum.net/threads/legend-the-hermit-lancelot-in-exile.35606/ I found the thread in 'Aeclectic Tarot', and it includes some stuff about The Hermit and lots about The Arthurian Tarot. But my Cornish husband would vehemently argue King Arthur was a Cornish man (if he existed) so you, and many others are way 'off the mark' about the Arthurian story hailing from Wales. Tintagel Castle in Cornwall is the Kingdom of Arthur 'The Once and Future King'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintagel_Castle The Cornish are a very proud 'Celtic' nation, whatever that might signify? sinceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts#:~:text=Celtic%20cultures%20seem%20to%20have,also%20called%20the%20Celtic%20nations.) Here are a few more links including The Hermits Hour Glass and Crowley's take on this venerable gent. www.tarotforum.net/threads/hermit-with-hourglass.92693/ www.tarotforum.net/threads/the-hermit-ix.14103/ tarotwheel.net/history/the%20individual%20trump%20cards/el%20gobbo.html

Thank you so much for doing this series! I wish more people would review tarot books on Tarot Tube. Chang and Meleen are such a powerhouse of knowledge.

I'm really enjoying this series!

Tyldwick and Herbcrafters were left on the shelf, but I definitely thought about including them. As a Pacific Northwest card, blackberry is so on point. When I go to Seattle or Portland, both cities have walls of blackberry brambles. They are impassable. Tyldwick is just a little dark for what I was going for in my video, I was trying for the lighter side of the "Lightbringer." 👹

What you said about the shameful parts of ourselves resonated so very deeply with me, dear Sadhana! And I just 'devoured' the part of your video, Sadhana, where (not to give away it here in the comments) you spoke about Krishna and Arjuna! 💓 Throughout the series I have learnt from you and I'm so grateful for your presence and deep insights you so generously and lovingly share on your channel. Thank you! 🙏💙

Thanks for this video. Personally I’ve never purchased a counterfeit deck and refuse to but I’ve noticed another market for these counterfeits and that’s in the papercraft community. I’m starting to see them pop up as collage fodder here on KZbin purchased on Temu but these people seem to have little or no idea what Tarot cards are let alone that they are counterfeit ones.

P.S. This article by M J Cullinane illustrates what the creator of many beloved decks feels about counterfeit decks, and the powerful, huge (unscrupulous) publishers. crowtarotshop.com/blogs/the-curious-crow-blog-mj-cullinane/the-hidden-costs-of-counterfeit-decks-a-personal-insight-from-a-tarot-and-oracle-deck-creator?s1clid=31665867b5ef48b4a84ed6cb7dff5086-fca2404626a0e0ab79bd2a98e80dba482205211f

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Thanks Sadhana for taking the time and helping with this indepth talk about the different aspects of the tarot and how to navigate the process of divination and understanding through the process with such a huge amount of information. This sharing your experience, expertise and knowledge is immense and will help provide a wide strong foundation for the process of getting familiar with this complex and intriguing subject. Thanks Sadhana for your guidance and generosity ❤

We still have mail delivered to our homes and yes, there are stories of how it was a job of prestige ....they all dressed well with polished shoes....now unfortunately they arr taken for granted ....as a third world baby, it fascinates me that such order exists 😢😂

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