ASMR Learning Tarot (soft spoken)

[@redwitch95]

Since you asked - I'm from the UK and I had never heard that tarot is derived from a card game, let alone that it's still played! It'd be fascinating if you did a video on the game, I'd love to hear more about it.

[@mega-byte]

Ditto

[@SilentPaaw]

I second this - would love to see a video on how to play the game! :)

[@sueannhaag4349]

Ditto Ditto. Would be interested in follow-up video on how the Tarot Deck can be used to play card game(s). PS) I know it would be outside your usual geographic map tracing, still.... no matter the topic, it's your delightful ASMR technique I appreciate!

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Our standard 52 had to come from somewhere... It has it's roots in tarot.

[@Alignedwithmyself]

Playing cards probably originated in China and are much older than tarot. The first documented tarot cards were seen in wealthy Italian family homes and used to play tarocchi. So the suits of tarot are based on playing cards, not the other way around.

[@theseventysevenmiles]

Naipes in Spanish came from the word deputy in Arabic. Around the 1300's the Mamluk Deck from Egypt made its way into Europe and became very popular. The Tarot and subsequent playing decks were then westernized over time into court decks with face cards as the Mamluk deck did not contain face cards. The tarot and the court decks then split and mostly tarot cards went one way and the court decks went another eventually becoming western playing decks. Cards of all kinds in Europe became a "problem" and in various places bans were enacted. They were also wildly popular with every strata and demographic of medieval Europe. I believe the oldest full playing decks are housed at the Met Cloisters and at a museum in Vienna. Doing this all from memory because I am a fan of Caravaggio and he painted The Cards Sharps in the mid 1590's and I did a deep dive on the history of cards a few years ago. You can see his painting of The Card Sharps in Fort Worth, TX.

[@theseventysevenmiles]

Kunsthistorisches is where a few of the oldest playing decks are housed. The Court of the Hunt deck is one of them if I recall correctly. Great video. Thank you.

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you for mentioning the decks from the KHM! There's a shop that sells copies of them, so I got one and we can have a look at them together after the summer break 🤍

[@theseventysevenmiles]

@@MelangeASMR Oh wow. Thanks for putting up with all that. I will endeavor to purchase a deck or two myself. It appears card history started in China then to Persia and on into Europe. I got pretty excited when I thought I had something to add, incoherent as it was. Thank you for carving out a low key peaceful area for so many to gather and share.

[@MelangeASMR]

They might be a bit tricky to find. All three are from Piatnik, a Vienna-based company - Ambraser Hofjagspiel, Ambraser Hofämterspiel and the Flemish Hunting Deck from the Met - and it looks like they were limited editions released in the 70s and 90s respectively. I found a second-hand one at a decent range, but otherwise the prices can be a bit steep. Unfortunately they only ship to Central Europe 😬 www.piatnik.com/en/historicalcards/ambraser www.piatnik.com/en/historicalcards/ambraser-jagd www.piatnik.com/en/historicalcards/flemish-hunting-card-game Thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it and honestly, I'm just super happy that the comment sections look the way they do, with everyone being respectful and sharing interesting bits and pieces. It's sad that it feels like an outlier online these days.

[@cessily89]

Shout out funky town ;p

[@charlottep09]

I grew up playing tarot (in France) and only later learned that it is also used for divination! It's still my favourite card game today

[@celeberyn]

Same here and I am french too. Tarot is a very nice game that was used to play with money.

[@BeeJski]

How do you always post videos about subjects I'm so interested in?? It's always such a wonderful notification to see that you have posted!

[@MelangeASMR]

Aw thank you, I hope you'll find it interesting 🥰

[@bridgiesue7]

PLEASE do more tarot! I've been wanting to learn more, but all the beginner videos online still make me feel like I need to have prior experience or have a vasic u derstanding already. Thos was so perfect!

[@mattbridgman3120]

I find your voice and style of videos to be a perfect combination. Very relaxing and great for sleep assistance

[@MelangeASMR]

It always makes me happy to hear that. Sleep well!

[@AllTheHappySquirrels]

Me: Don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Also me: 😴😴😴 I would love to try to stay awake during more videos as you learn tarot. So good!

[@MelangeASMR]

A good night's rest is absolutely more important than tarot! Sleep well 💛

[@alspeks]

I would recommend The Living Tarot workbook by T. Susan Chang as a great way to learn tarot.

[@patriciaolds7675]

I have been working with tarot cards for a few years now and it's always refreshing to rekindle the basic meanings without interpretation to people, since I usually give readings to friends when we're all hit by that insomnia demon. My only qualm about them is how in most of the cards everyone is nude. Just a personal preference but I like them /not nude./

[@MrFredstt]

I personally don't mind the nudity. You said you do readings so are you a legit diviner (if that's not the official name for a tarot practitioner then my apologies I'm not well versed) and if you are where did you learn how to accurately do it?

[@LoFIJak]

One of my favourite subjects. I have a few decks and I love your oversized deck!

[@kashikitsune8724]

This is the kind of asmr video that i prefer. None of that annoying tapping or flailing hands around in front of the camera for 5 minutes like so many other asmr videos ive seen. I dont understand how tapping is calming so im glad it was just you, tarot cards and a nice calming relaxing voice. 👍

[@MelangeASMR]

Yeah there are a lot of different styles. Like "aggressive" ASMR doesn't really do anything for me either other than make me nervous haha, but different stroke for different folks. I think one of the issues these days is that we're so used to algorithms automatically presenting us with just the right kind of content, that there's little tagging or community organising anymore. Anyway, glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@Kututwo]

as a professional tarot reader seeing this pop up from you made me so excited

[@malitiloti]

oh yay, this is wonderful. Tarot cards are beautiful and you are wonderful melange.

[@carolineb.11.17]

One of my favorite vids you have done so far! Both interesting and relaxing, my favorite combination! 10/10!!!

[@eschsoapy2809]

Another wonderful video. For the longest time I thought the alchemical tarot came long before the playing cards and gambling accessories, but it's the other way around as you point out. One sort of nitpicky thing is that you can see quite a bit of alchemy in the surviving tarot decks that were the products of very wealthy patrons in the late Renaissance, mostly the Dukes of Milan but there were others.

[@r_r_r_r]

Tarot’s been in my life for 25 years-since I was 15! Incredible tool, enriched my life so much with self-reflection, meditation, and yes, magic. Happy shuffling!

[@SamuraiMujuru]

Long ago my family had an exchange student from Spain who gave us a nice deck of the pre-tarot playing cards. (Even had a nifty cork clamshell carrying case)

[@candykitten7589]

Lovely video as always. Reminds me of your art history videos which I really enjoy and I’m very interested in tarot. Perfect 💖

[@naturalexplorer]

Great choice of deck especially getting the larger size for the most easily accessible to learn Rider-Waite. Lots of resources out there for Rider-Waite to more rapidly learn tarot. So relaxing to hear you present them - beautiful. So much feeds into tarot and in my view it is very ancient to possibly being primordial for human learning. Interesting for me is your connection with the Queen of Wands. I find connections with the cards changes and evolves over time depending upon what is happening. Glad you have already begun to connect with specific energies. Would love some spreads later on as you become more familiar with the cards. There are 3 decks in the overall 78 cards - Majors, Minors and Royals. Great you have connected up with friends to discuss aspects of the cards. My first tarot learning book beyond the actual first deck I got was Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen. This has comprehensive information for a new learner that is largely focussed on the Rider-Waite. - lots of spreads. I still use it from time to time. There are many others to choose form and no doubt you will find what connects with you. Enjoy the journey - gateway into the western magical tradition unfolds. ♥🙏

[@dovic86]

love the hermit tarot, it was used by Led Zeppelin back in the 70s

[@gamemoviezone]

I was thinking, Melange, you’re so cool, but why do you have such deluxe size cards? Then she drops the reason. Touché. I’ve done the same thing a hundred times.

[@MelangeASMR]

Hahaha I was mortified when I opened the box!

[@mimist2]

​@MelangeASMR, these larger cards are nice for learning the details depicted in the artwork. No trouble seeing them as you describe each one. 😊

[@spuriusbrocoli4701]

This was a lovely video. I especially like the end note abt how Tarot can be used more as a meditative & reflective practice rather than strictly divinatory. There's a reason Jung would bring a Tarot deck (particularly, iirc, the Major Arcana) & pull cards to discuss them w/ patients. That therapeutic practice is still the root of modern therapeutic models like psychodynamic therapy. Simply talking through things & gaining internal & external insight can help us process our thoughts & emotions in a powerful way, but the Tarot simply provides a lens for understanding what was already inside oneself. Personally, I've def had readings that I "threw out" bc the cards were simply not resonant or applicable to my situation. Ales gutes! Tschuss! ^^

[@benberlin57]

I've collected a few decks from artists I support. Initially I just got them because of the art, but recently I thought to myself, it might be interesting to learn HOW to use them.

[@blancol4104]

In Honduras we called something like this chalupa but it’s more of a bingo style

[@Eyelashviper]

This is magnificent. Both tingle-inducing and interesting (if you can stay awake long enough)😌

[@MartinFinnigan]

I need this right now, work was so ugh 😑. Would love to hear you talk about mysteries and stuff, like bigfoot stories, ghost stories, UFOs etc. You have that voice I that would love to hear around a campfire telling stories 😁

[@themarlboromandalorian]

I bought a deck a few years ago... The Dave Mckean Vertigo deck. Beautiful artwork. Been putting off learning to read, primarily because I know I'll end up learning too much.

[@benmuller8050]

Cooles Video ich freue mich schon auf die deutsche Version❤

[@MelangeASMR]

Das deutsche Video im Juli wird zum Alten Ägypten sein. Zwei schaffen wir leider grade nicht, tut mir sehr Leid :( Wenn das Interesse da ist, können wir aber gern später noch mal was zu Tarot machen und dann schau ich, dass wir auch eine deutsche Version erstellen.

[@benmuller8050]

@@MelangeASMR 🫶

[@sambuccino4213]

I love your different interests! I wonder if you'd ever do a dive into astrology?

[@shastablacketer2993]

Ooh YES! I agree!

[@jeniferschetting6992]

Great video! I didn't want it to end 🥰

[@saralisalundalfheim5469]

Absolutely loved this one❤

[@u_relaksa]

Well done! Very relaxing! 👍☺️

[@Fev333r]

The size of the cards cracks me up so much.

[@larrykirby5036]

I can't wait to watch this. ❤

[@mr.spaceman7106]

I think if a card comes upside down you must obey what the universe put before you. Just read the booklet and do your best to interpret, but you can be missing out on very important info that may align more with your life

[@bakedzd4933]

Yay more Melange!

[@ashsara9233]

Love love love this ❤ thank you 🙏🏼

[@MelangeASMR]

💜💜💜

[@peppermintsara]

Ooooh I have a collection of tarot cards that I don't know how to read 😅 I used to play cards with my Italian neighbours and they used different cards too, somewhere between regular playing cards and a tarot deck.

[@abigail10ification]

Pamela Coleman Smith was not American nor had Jamaican roots… She was born in England . She moved to Jamaica (Kingston)due to her father working for the West India improvement Company, they eventually moved to Brooklyn,New York in America. But later moved back to England and passaway, she is buried presumably in an unmarked grave in Cornwall .

[@xavierhenriques1116]

Fascinating Thank you, Ms 🙏

[@BJBlaskovichGaming]

Persona Confidant arcanas (the major arcanas).

[@gironimo8835]

Mega spannende Topic! Auch als nächstes deutsches Video? 😄

[@nancyagrimes]

I love this deck and checked on the website you linked, but I don’t seem to find it. I am bummed.

[@MelangeASMR]

Hm that's odd. Maybe they're out of stock at the moment, but you should be able to easily get this particular set of cards from other vendors. It's pretty much the classic tarot deck. Just search for Rider Waite tarot.

[@juliehilton1701]

Perfect thank you

[@mcjohnston2010]

I just want you to know that for some odd reason I’ve been seeing a lot of news about Gustav Klimt lately, and the only reason I know who that is is because of you.

[@simonfernandes6809]

There's a Klimt tarot deck - covered in gold bling!

[@wendynordon6796]

There are two versions of tarrochi one using the whole 78 cards

[@MelisJoy]

It's been extremely hard for me to get this far in vid bc I'm usually passed out lol but wanted to say the Chariot card is on wheels, you can see it's just a front angle. Also I imagine the Sphynx are pulling it instead of horses & they are resting bc of your ASMR being so relaxing 🤣

[@travisyoder6984]

It's funny that this video popped up after just seeing Nightmare Alley (1947) in which tarot cards play a significant part.

[@fahrenheit2101]

Weird - every time the video reaches 34:45 for me, it pauses... (it doesn't actually, just making a reference lol)

[@thenorseguy2495]

I’m early. I hope you’re doing good Melange 🥰

[@MelangeASMR]

Glad to see you! Thanks, I'm so ready for a vacation tbh, the heat is no joke...

[@thenorseguy2495]

You really deserve a vacation. Come to Norway. It’s been around 15C here today.

[@MelangeASMR]

If Ryan Air still had their cheap flights, I'd be there in a heartbeat. 15C sounds like dreamweather!

[@musicalintentions]

wonderful video!

[@johnshereiguess]

sis u full of wonderful ideas🥳respect❤

[@zeltrax8767]

Mohammed Avdol approved

[@Astrongaverage]

Your voice is soo relaks.n...😴

[@Ookamiryoshi]

...Welcome to the Velvet Room?

[@MrFredstt]

Oh wow I had no idea it was an actual card game

[@MaSa-kn7yy]

Wow I instead have runik tarot 😊

[@TheMentorOfMomos]

5:24 wait what?! In spain we have a traditional deck of cards made out of the same things, maybe they are connected somehow?

[@MelangeASMR]

Yes, probably! Here they're very common playing cards and the tarot decks like the one in the video are based on them.

[@TheMentorOfMomos]

​@@MelangeASMRThis made me go through a Wikipedia deep-dive that made me discover that the classic Spanish deck was inspired by a Turkish ottoman deck, which was extended to many places in the territories under the crown of Spain and Portugal, mostly their colonies, the low countries and Italy, which the Sicilian version was used for divining and which was the one that got popularized for tarot

[@MelangeASMR]

Oh neat, I didn't know about the Spanish decks. Something to remember if I make another tarot video haha

[@cloudsingh3147]

🙏

[@rsvihla]

Your nail polish matches your shirt. Coincidence?

[@madelaineyassin3117]

Das auf Deutsch wäre großartig ❤❤❤❤

[@barco99]

Watch SpongeBob to get what the fool means.

[@Kenrico317]

Jojo reference

[@no-nowu5444]

Those who know Tarot from Persona 🗿 Those who know Tarot from JoJo’s 💪🗿

[@Abdulrahman1997A]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MelangeASMR]

That was incredibly fast! 💜

[@Abdulrahman1997A]

My pleasure I activated the notification bell of your channel Thank you so much! 💜🖤

[@MelangeASMR]

You're awesome!

[@marka7759]

ohhhh could you tell some fortune to us viewers :D?

[@Demigord]

You accidentally ordered that size? Ha, well, I guess you can't say you got less than you thought you were paying for

[@wespaisley257]

Canook iam from da sout

[@EddieLeal]

Divination is dangerous ground if you allow it to be. Whatever you may see, It is not written in stone. Your actions/behavior will dictate what WILL happen.

[@alessialogan]

Ci sono molte informazioni scorrette in questo video, riguardo ai tarocchi

[@malitiloti]

oh yay, this is wonderful. Tarot cards are beautiful and you are wonderful melange.