I wish I would've had you for a teacher when I was in school! Professor Kel Bearingtons' course on "the metaphysics of English literature" is fab! cool British accent, long flaming red hair wonderful speaking voice and a master of waffling, what more could you ask for in a cool college professor!!
What a wonderful video for me to unwind with this Friday afternoon! One of the quickest hours of my week on the subject I don't think I will ever tire of! 🥰 Thank you, Kelly for such a great and thorough resource and great-great tips on what happens to be the tarot tradition dear to my heart! ❤❤❤
Vincent Pitisci at tarot maps has been KEY to my learning, especially in keeping it simple. Great videos and books and decks he’s created. Truth in Story has great videos on numerology in TdM.
Vincint Pitisci has so much tarot knowledge and experience under his belt, it's so impressive. I enjoy his videos but haven't checked his channel out for a wee while. I really like the look of his decks too, I've had his Black Keys version of his Marseille deck on my wishlist since he released it (so many decks, not enough pennies!) I wish I could have added all of them to my video but wanted to keep it (somewhat) succint to avoid overwhelming beginners, but this is exactly why I asked folks to share their resources here in the comments. Thank you for sharing yours Laura.
Hello, Awesome video, Many Thanks. Regarding Tarot Books, the one that helped me the most in my Tarot studies is not really a Tarot book. More of a Tarot reading based Novel. Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies. A small Novel, but Oooooh Gosh. That little book changed my Tarot Readings and my whole life as a Tarot Reader.
I've been meaning to pick up a copy of that book for years, I really do need to get around to that because so many tarot readers recommend it. The premise sounds so cool too. I appreciate you sharing your recommendation, and thank you for watching. :)
Kelly! I so appreciated this video, because I was struggling to learn TdM through Jodorowsky's book before I knew he was problematic, and was almost thinking of abandoning the system. His book is just 🙃 not great lol. So many weird aspects that put me off. Luckily I have much recs now thanks to this video and others' recs too. So thank you for this!
Your video was also part of what prompted me to make this. I wrote a long comment on your video but for some reason it hasn't posted (my internet was playing up that morning so it may very well may have dropped out when I pressed reply and I didn't realise). I'm glad you have plenty of recommendations to help you on your TdM journey. x
Omg, thank you for sharing Charlie’s kickstarter. I’ve been waiting for this deck since they announced it but am currently on a IG break, so I almost missed it! 😮❤
Honestly there is so much wisdom in the methods of Marseille that RWS only readers have no idea about and tend to think they are “wrong.” I feel like… I have t heavily studied marseille but it seems like the marseille traditions don’t really focus on “right or wrong” so much
It truly is so versatile and maleable and magical in a way I did not expect when I first started learning the system. I still love my RWS decks but Marseille has really stolen my heart.
Loved this! I fell in love with TdM thanks to Tom Benjamin, fan girl here too. This is exactly the kind of video that I needed when I was first learning TdM. Very solid recommendations . It’s difficult to decide what’s a good reference material when you’re not knowledgeable about the topic and there’s so much rubbish available to confuse the matter more. Trusted content providers can really help newbies with their opinions on good resources. I have a friend who’s just dipping her toes into learning TdM. I’m gonna recommend she add this video to her must-watch list!
I am obsessed with the Squid Cake and the Midnight deck. If I were to give a couple of things to someone who said they wanted to learn Marseilles, it would be The Marseilles Tarot Revealed and the Squid Cake, as well as a historical Marseille of some kind. Love this, thanks!
Hi Kelly Bear, new subscriber here. So glad i found your channel. Just bought Tarot Classic 1974 from ebay and super excited to learn TDM. Btw, I'm loving your style 😊
Hello! Welcome aboard! 🚢 Oh the Tarot Classic is a fave of mine, nice pick. I wish you all the best on your TdM journey, always feel free to ask me any questions on it. Awh, and thank you! 🥰 x
Great video I have these main books and a few decks now, squid cake, marshmallows marseille and tarot sirène ans a few from artisan tarot, and I backe the metaonia Marseille from bouchette designs! I’ve slowly started putting keywords on my marshmallow Marseille as I ended up with 2 copies!
This is unrelated to the content in your video, but please consider wearing a microphone in your videos, I often have to watch your videos with my volume at full blast and even then I still have a hard time hearing you (and yes, I also watch with captions, but those don't always translate accurately). Other than that, thank you for creating this helpful resource video for TdM.
Thank you for your feedback, I've had several folks pointing this out to me lately and I apologise that the volume seems so low. I've been having problems with my sound these past few month, despite using the same microphone that I upgraded to a couple of years back (and it having been fine before). I've even switched to trying just the webcam mic to see if that helps. I can't seem to figure out why it's dropped in volume but am trying to get to the bottom of it. I'm glad you found the TdM video helpful.
So many good resources! I have to bookmark this video for future reference as I'm still waiting for the tarot de sirene to come back to print, as it is the only marsielle that speaks to me 😅 In the meantime I have pip deck that I would like to explore. It doesn't really follow any of the systems, so I don't really know what resource to use to learn it?
Hiya! I'm glad you found this video useful! With regards to your pip deck there are possibly two ways to tackle it. You could still read using the Marseille system (for the Trumps, Courts and the numerology for the pips) but you'll have some different image connotations because the pip cards will not have the same decorative details/layout. Or, you could look into playing card style meanings and try using those. The Untold Tarot book I mention in the video has both more classic Marseille and more playing card/cartomantic options in it, so that could be a good book for you to start with. I hope that helps, I'd love to know how you get. Thank you so much for watching. x
@@lilpinkbear So helpful. I have Untold Tarot on order, watching Magdalena, and reading Jack’s blog. I’m really taking your advice and trying to keep it simple so as not to get overwhelmed. One book, one blog, one channel and one deck! For now anyway! 😜😘 💕
Looks like you had a similar experience with YBD and Caitlin Matthews that I’m having. I like the open reading, but am having a lot easier time with Untold Tarot. Coming from RWS I’m finding pip decks less difficult than I thought they’d be. Just requires a slightly different approach, especially if you’re including the pips and court cards, and not just reading with the trumps.
Yay for Untold Tarot, honestly, that book got me so excited for reading pips. I know it covers a few different ways of viewing/reading them but that's what I enjoyed about the book. My current fave TdM book is the seperate guidebook you can buy for the Gay Marseille by Charlie Claire Burgess, that book kind of blew my mind and gave me really refreshing and exciting ways to see the Marseille. Always stuff to learn, right?! Tarot is so much fun for that. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. x
I’m not a big Marseille fan as I don’t care for pips. However I do like the artwork of more traditional decks as I love Medieval artwork and I’m very interested in tarot history.
That's a really good point. I think that was partly what made TdM easier for me. At first I had two books and that was it for a good while. I certainly overwhelmed myself with all of thr RWS resources I ended up trying to read/work through when I was leanring.
Hi Laura. The spread I mentioned is the Tirage en Croix, Marilyn from Tarot Clarity has a couple of excellent videos where she demonstrates the spread: tinyurl.com/9wscs8js and Serge Pirotte has a great blog post about it too: cartomancier.com/en/2018/06/23/french-cross/ And yes, the New Choice TdM was my first ever Marseille deck and what sent me down this wonderful rabbit hole. I don't use it as much as I used to as I have other decks I reach for more.
@@lilpinkbear I don’t know Serge Pirotte, but I certainly will be checking him out. That’s the spot. I thought you were talking about that RUclips subtitles had a really hard time with it. Lol thanks for the commenting back. I really appreciate it. You did a great job.
I wish I would've had you for a teacher when I was in school! Professor Kel Bearingtons' course on "the metaphysics of English literature" is fab! cool British accent, long flaming red hair wonderful speaking voice and a master of waffling, what more could you ask for in a cool college professor!!
Haha, you are too kind, truly. I don't think I'd have the patience to teach college students tbh. lol
What a wonderful video for me to unwind with this Friday afternoon! One of the quickest hours of my week on the subject I don't think I will ever tire of! 🥰
Thank you, Kelly for such a great and thorough resource and great-great tips on what happens to be the tarot tradition dear to my heart! ❤❤❤
Thank you for your kind words Mascha! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. X
Vincent Pitisci at tarot maps has been KEY to my learning, especially in keeping it simple. Great videos and books and decks he’s created.
Truth in Story has great videos on numerology in TdM.
Vincint Pitisci has so much tarot knowledge and experience under his belt, it's so impressive. I enjoy his videos but haven't checked his channel out for a wee while.
I really like the look of his decks too, I've had his Black Keys version of his Marseille deck on my wishlist since he released it (so many decks, not enough pennies!)
I wish I could have added all of them to my video but wanted to keep it (somewhat) succint to avoid overwhelming beginners, but this is exactly why I asked folks to share their resources here in the comments. Thank you for sharing yours Laura.
Pitisci is awesome. I listen religiously to his channel. He really knows his stuff. Love him ❤
Hello, Awesome video, Many Thanks. Regarding Tarot Books, the one that helped me the most in my Tarot studies is not really a Tarot book. More of a Tarot reading based Novel. Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies. A small Novel, but Oooooh Gosh. That little book changed my Tarot Readings and my whole life as a Tarot Reader.
I've been meaning to pick up a copy of that book for years, I really do need to get around to that because so many tarot readers recommend it.
The premise sounds so cool too.
I appreciate you sharing your recommendation, and thank you for watching. :)
Kelly! I so appreciated this video, because I was struggling to learn TdM through Jodorowsky's book before I knew he was problematic, and was almost thinking of abandoning the system. His book is just 🙃 not great lol. So many weird aspects that put me off. Luckily I have much recs now thanks to this video and others' recs too. So thank you for this!
Your video was also part of what prompted me to make this. I wrote a long comment on your video but for some reason it hasn't posted (my internet was playing up that morning so it may very well may have dropped out when I pressed reply and I didn't realise). I'm glad you have plenty of recommendations to help you on your TdM journey. x
Omg, thank you for sharing Charlie’s kickstarter. I’ve been waiting for this deck since they announced it but am currently on a IG break, so I almost missed it! 😮❤
Oh I am glad! It looks like a great deck, I can't wait!
finally got to watch this awesome video. Thanks lovely 🩷🙏🏻
Awh, thanks lovely. I hope it was helpful. I really enjoyed making this video.
Honestly there is so much wisdom in the methods of Marseille that RWS only readers have no idea about and tend to think they are “wrong.” I feel like… I have t heavily studied marseille but it seems like the marseille traditions don’t really focus on “right or wrong” so much
It truly is so versatile and maleable and magical in a way I did not expect when I first started learning the system. I still love my RWS decks but Marseille has really stolen my heart.
Thank you so much for the shout-out! I appreciate you and your practice!
Hi! You're welcome, I really learned a lot from you and wanted to share my joy.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
Loved this! I fell in love with TdM thanks to Tom Benjamin, fan girl here too. This is exactly the kind of video that I needed when I was first learning TdM. Very solid recommendations . It’s difficult to decide what’s a good reference material when you’re not knowledgeable about the topic and there’s so much rubbish available to confuse the matter more. Trusted content providers can really help newbies with their opinions on good resources. I have a friend who’s just dipping her toes into learning TdM. I’m gonna recommend she add this video to her must-watch list!
Awh, thank you! I hope your friend finds this vide helpful.
I had never wanted to read TDM before, but you’ve changed my mind. Thank you.
Oh wow, that's quite the compiment, thank you!
Ahhhh, well timed video because TdM has finally captured my interest. Can't wait to see what you have to say
SO many helpful helpful tips! I haven't gotten into studying the TdM system yet, but have always wanted to so this is perfect. Thanks Kelly Bear 💜💜💜
You are most welcome. I'm glad you found it useful.
I am obsessed with the Squid Cake and the Midnight deck. If I were to give a couple of things to someone who said they wanted to learn Marseilles, it would be The Marseilles Tarot Revealed and the Squid Cake, as well as a historical Marseille of some kind. Love this, thanks!
It's just so cute and fun while maintaining the Marseille system. Your recs are solid, a historical TdM for study is always handy.
What good timing this video is! I just bought squid cake, mostly because of the guidebook, and now i have more of a direction to go!
Oh nice! I love the Squid Cake Marseille so much, I hope you like it too.
Happy reading! x
Thank you Kelly! 💝💝💝
thank you, this was very helpful video!
Thank you for watching and for your feedback. :)
Hi Kelly Bear, new subscriber here. So glad i found your channel. Just bought Tarot Classic 1974 from ebay and super excited to learn TDM. Btw, I'm loving your style 😊
Hello! Welcome aboard! 🚢 Oh the Tarot Classic is a fave of mine, nice pick.
I wish you all the best on your TdM journey, always feel free to ask me any questions on it.
Awh, and thank you! 🥰
x
Great video I have these main books and a few decks now, squid cake, marshmallows marseille and tarot sirène ans a few from artisan tarot, and I backe the metaonia Marseille from bouchette designs! I’ve slowly started putting keywords on my marshmallow Marseille as I ended up with 2 copies!
Sounds like you're building a nice TdM toolkit there.
I love that you're putting keywords on your extra copy of the Marshmallow, great idea!
This is unrelated to the content in your video, but please consider wearing a microphone in your videos, I often have to watch your videos with my volume at full blast and even then I still have a hard time hearing you (and yes, I also watch with captions, but those don't always translate accurately). Other than that, thank you for creating this helpful resource video for TdM.
Thank you for your feedback, I've had several folks pointing this out to me lately and I apologise that the volume seems so low. I've been having problems with my sound these past few month, despite using the same microphone that I upgraded to a couple of years back (and it having been fine before). I've even switched to trying just the webcam mic to see if that helps. I can't seem to figure out why it's dropped in volume but am trying to get to the bottom of it.
I'm glad you found the TdM video helpful.
So many good resources! I have to bookmark this video for future reference as I'm still waiting for the tarot de sirene to come back to print, as it is the only marsielle that speaks to me 😅
In the meantime I have pip deck that I would like to explore. It doesn't really follow any of the systems, so I don't really know what resource to use to learn it?
Hiya! I'm glad you found this video useful!
With regards to your pip deck there are possibly two ways to tackle it. You could still read using the Marseille system (for the Trumps, Courts and the numerology for the pips) but you'll have some different image connotations because the pip cards will not have the same decorative details/layout.
Or, you could look into playing card style meanings and try using those.
The Untold Tarot book I mention in the video has both more classic Marseille and more playing card/cartomantic options in it, so that could be a good book for you to start with. I hope that helps, I'd love to know how you get.
Thank you so much for watching. x
A thousand thank yous!
You are welcome, I hope it's helpful.
@@lilpinkbear So helpful. I have Untold Tarot on order, watching Magdalena, and reading Jack’s blog. I’m really taking your advice and trying to keep it simple so as not to get overwhelmed. One book, one blog, one channel and one deck! For now anyway! 😜😘 💕
Looks like you had a similar experience with YBD and Caitlin Matthews that I’m having. I like the open reading, but am having a lot easier time with Untold Tarot. Coming from RWS I’m finding pip decks less difficult than I thought they’d be. Just requires a slightly different approach, especially if you’re including the pips and court cards, and not just reading with the trumps.
Yay for Untold Tarot, honestly, that book got me so excited for reading pips. I know it covers a few different ways of viewing/reading them but that's what I enjoyed about the book. My current fave TdM book is the seperate guidebook you can buy for the Gay Marseille by Charlie Claire Burgess, that book kind of blew my mind and gave me really refreshing and exciting ways to see the Marseille. Always stuff to learn, right?! Tarot is so much fun for that.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. x
I’m not a big Marseille fan as I don’t care for pips. However I do like the artwork of more traditional decks as I love Medieval artwork and I’m very interested in tarot history.
Tarot history is so interesting. And just think, by participating in it we are also a part of that which is to be written on it!
A beginner’s mind is goals for life for me.
I'm playing with RWS, but finding TdM easier to learn because there are fewer resources available.
That's a really good point. I think that was partly what made TdM easier for me. At first I had two books and that was it for a good while. I certainly overwhelmed myself with all of thr RWS resources I ended up trying to read/work through when I was leanring.
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Two question: what is the name of the French spread you spoke about twice? Do you have the New Choice TDM? Tysm
Hi Laura. The spread I mentioned is the Tirage en Croix, Marilyn from Tarot Clarity has a couple of excellent videos where she demonstrates the spread:
tinyurl.com/9wscs8js
and Serge Pirotte has a great blog post about it too:
cartomancier.com/en/2018/06/23/french-cross/
And yes, the New Choice TdM was my first ever Marseille deck and what sent me down this wonderful rabbit hole. I don't use it as much as I used to as I have other decks I reach for more.
@@lilpinkbear I don’t know Serge Pirotte, but I certainly will be checking him out. That’s the spot. I thought you were talking about that RUclips subtitles had a really hard time with it. Lol thanks for the commenting back. I really appreciate it. You did a great job.
@@laurabondurant5096 I mention his IG and blog in the video, so you will find links to him in the description box too. I really loke his blog. Enjoy!