Working with the Witches Wisdom Tarot
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Today we’ll be exploring how I work with the Witches Wisdom Tarot and how I developed my understanding of the structure of the deck.
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I really enjoy videos where a deck is being reviewed after someone has worked with it for a while, it’s really informative and helpful. Thank you!
Me too, I love watching videos of how people work with their decks. I always find that so interesting. I'm glad you enjoyed mine! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
Omg me to. So important. Fabulous review
Always learn something from your vids! Excellent demo, and I did the same - put the RWS side-by-side and saw quickly that the same concepts were there, just portrayed in another way. I always love it when something makes me see the cards in a different way and with expanded meanings! You are always so good about demonstrating how you use your decks, rather than just doing a walk-through and that's the end of it. I'm sure other readers who have this deck will be happy to see this video!
I am so glad you enjoyed it! I agree, my favorite decks are often the ones that encourage me to look at the cards in a different way and step outside my comfort-zone. I am (slowly) working on trying to share more in-depth about the working decks in my collection. I always like to see how other people use their decks so I thought it might be helpful to also share how I use mine. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
You are such an excellent teacher. I have this deck, and have avoided working with it because I knew it would require an adjustent - you will make my journey with this deck so much easier - and yes, I have read all of Phillis Currott's books - all three of them.
How wonderful, I am so glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful. Let me know how your journey with your deck goes! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I think it's a beautiful deck but also a bit of a complicated deck. Now I understand much better! Thanks for your clear video! 💜
I am so glad you found it helpful! I do hope you enjoyed working it. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I've always seen the majors as a cycle - a circle rather than a line reaching up or down.
I agree! I see it as lifes journey for wholeness within ourselves
That's a wonderful way to look at it, I see it a bit as cycle as well across lifetimes. Although I think we can be anywhere on the path at any time too, I know I've had a couple of big Tower moments in my life! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
While Dawn Michelle was talking about breaking the idea of a linear mindset when it comes to the Major Arcana/Transcendence I found myself wondering if maybe as we go through life we find that journey completed in different aspects. So that life is made up of these cycles. And we're never in the same place within those cycles. You could go as literal as relationships/work/money/family harmony/creative dreams with each of these representing a cycle that's summarized by the Majors as we aim for The World (transcendence). But my mind went to a psychological translation (since I'm doing Jungian shadow work) of each cycle being a struggle/trigger/stressor that we're trying to overcome. Some of those cycles I completed at different times in my past and I've come to recognize and accept them, I've healed and found peace. Some of those I'm in the active process of working on. And some will be in my future.
This tarot deck never really appealed to me apart from the packaging. And now I'm happy and motivated to watch the whole thing again. Thank you very much. I like that you don't have a dogmatic view about card interpretation. As you say, everyone reacts differently to the images and symbolic language. When it comes to the creation of the RWT, one also have to take into account the time at which it was created. It always amazes me when spiritual people make judgments about others. As soon as religion or male energy triggers me, I don't have to devalue it but ask myself where my judgment comes from. I will definitely check out your posts on the RUclips channel and see what helps me. Thanks.
I stumbled upon this video today, quite by accident, but I'm so grateful to have found it. I fell in love with The Witches Wisdom deck a few years back & bought it immediately. But I've struggled to connect with it, & use it, despite many attempts. As soon as you suggested ignoring the numbers, I was able to move forward & to use it and with great effect. Thank you for this! I also LOVED the idea of writing up a bit of a journal on the deck, with comparisons to the more traditional RW Deck, and key pieces of wisdom from the incredible wisdom within this deck.
I’m so glad you found it helpful and enjoyed the video! ❤️
I like how you mention that our paths aren't linear, so true. I realized this deck adds nuance to the RWS and I CAN read with it! I can't wait to get it, thanks for the GREAT review.
Very interesting and very well articulated. As an avid learner of all things and even labeled "expert" by many in the field (nothing like this haha, although it would be fun), I am a big believer that we should never stop learning and it's always beneficial for all to remain open to other methods and thought processes. Your journals are all so inspirational. Thank you for sharing!
I agree! I love to learn new things and I'm always open to looking at things from a new perspective. I am so glad you enjoyed the video and my journals. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I wasn't sure if I was going to like this deck at first but it's become one of my favs since using it
How wonderful, it's a really interesting deck. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I really enjoyed this video thank you for taking the time to explain this lovely deck!!
thanks for sharing your experience. I've had my copy for a year and was hesitant to keep it or give it away. much love!
you made me fall in love with it all over again! I wanted to make sure before I opened my package. I have it sitting on my computer. so glad I found your video!!!!!!! thanks for your bonding experience tips for the majors!
I am so glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️
I’ve only had this deck for a week and find it reading more like an oracle deck than tarot. I love the concept that divine spirit is right here on earth in all of nature. We can become enlightened by living life in harmony with and reverence for all beings/nature -not waiting until we die (hope I explained that right).
I think you explained it beautifully. It's a lovely deck for that connection for sure.
Thank you for watching. ❤️
I'm going to use this as an oracle deck too now, I see your point.
This is a great review, I want to buy a nature related deck for my readings and this deck seems to be the perfect choice now
This is a beautiful nature-based deck. I do hope you enjoy it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️
The order of the Major Arcana makes much more sense to me this way than in the standard RSW. Just ordered the deck.
This video is so helpful. I'm new to tarot and purchased this deck bc it's so beautiful. As I'm still learning RWS, I feel I'm not quite ready for this deck, tho, I love to stare at the cards. (Every time I see the 8 of water, I want to shout out "go little turtles, go!") I will probably revisit this in the near future. I've been enjoying your videos. xo~Patricia
How wonderful, I am so glad you found it helpful and have been enjoying my videos. Thank you for watching. 🥰
This is such interesting insight into this deck and one way to work with it/learn it. I have been looking at this deck for a few months and am going to head out today to purchase it. I read tarot very intuitively, while still using a loose structure of tarot system….which I know is unusual but it is how I’ve approached the tarot in general for years. So I think this deck will work well for me. I love the idea of doing a notebook for this deck in particular.❤️ ~Krislynner
It works beautifully with an intuitive reading style so it sounds like it'll be a good fit for you. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️
Half way through watching this video I ordered the deck! It’s beautiful 😍 I’m a witch and I’m familiar with Phyllis Curott having read some of her work years back. I don’t pay attention to numbers or the order of the Major cards or the astronomical side of things, I’m purely a pictorial reader I was getting so much from the images while watching, a great 👍 review on how you work with this deck I can’t wait to receive this deck!
How wonderful, I think this will be a fantastic deck for pictorial readings! There is so much detail and energy in each of the images. I look forward to hearing how you get on with it. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
i love your decor and vibes of this video!! 🥰
I am so glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
I definitely agree with your assessment of the major arcana. I almost feel as though the journey is like the apple peeler you clamp to the counter. We move through the journey again and again and with each cycle we are getting closer to our core - our true self or our truth, our Self. Thank you for sharing your experience in embracing this deck.
That's a wonderful way to look at it! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
This was really interesting thank you!
I am so glad you enjoyed it! It was a really interesting video to create for sure. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
Although I am just beginning my journey with Tarot, I have found myself reading different with different decks. So, I think the different numbers aren't that Bad. It is just that this deck expresses itself different from another one. Especially the earthy and grounded feel is wonderful! Thank you for expressing your thoughts about this deck - it became a lot palable for me!
I think it's fantastic to read decks differently, really helps to broaden your understanding of the Tarot. My own perspective is years of study from various decks and resources that gets integrated with my own personal associations and intuition. I am glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I think I will use white out on the numbers of the major arcana
That's a good idea! I'm still considering trimming mine to just turn it into an oracle.
🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️
I am working my way back and I realize I am late to comment, haha. BUT I love the Witches Wisdom because it is a new perspective on the RWS structure. I do not think that it is meant to be read from Fool to World, even if that is what you are comfortable with. Of course you could, it's your practice! But it is a challenge on structure and norm and I really cherish that about this deck. It taught me that sometimes it seems like I am stepping backwards in my journey, but really we can approach our path from both ways.
I love your explanation. I can use them as a base.im going to read as if it were a tarot deck. Thank you
When I first learned tarot it was through the BOTA , Kabbalah system . But I do not read using that system anymore . I use my own personal belief which is a combo of beliefs.Love this video . Thank you . I just bought this deck but haven’t gotten it yet .
Who was your teacher? Mine was Ellen Goldberg, we used the BOTA, Kabbalah system too.
Just a piece of info, the "Father's heaven and Mother's womb" is actually more of a pagan thing than a Christian one. Many belief systems with multiple dieties use "Father Sky, Mother Earth" references so for me I get the intention of the phrase. Words may not have been chosen well.
That is a very good point, I tend to forget that (especially as I have been diving into some other decks that approach the Tarot from Catholic Mysticism... talk about a 180!) Thank you for reminding me... I'm going to make a note of that in my journal so that I can dive deeper into that as well. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I truly enjoy the Witches Wisdom tarot. I use it for personal readings as well as for clients.
It's one of the few decks that I feel has a natural connection to Mother Earth and I use it for my wheel of the year and sabbat readings.
Also, my small working deck collection is becoming more "non-system influenced" and moving away from the RWS influenced decks.
This has truly expanded the way I work with the tarot.
I can bypass the numbers and just focus on the energy of each card.
But I believe the numbering was left to make the deck accessible for those who are versed in the RWS so the individual can cross over that knowledge with the Witches Wisdom.
Thank you for sharing this video, Michelle. 😊🌹✨🕯
I agree, it has such a beautiful natural energy to it and I love the overall shift away from the RWS (especially as that's not really how I read.) But I do think it's great that they included the numbers to help people make that transition. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I'm still hoping for a smaller version, this is just too big for me to really use it.
Great review, thank you for sharing your experience!
Same here, it's such a struggle to physically work with. I still might end up trying to trim my down some to make it smaller. The cardstock is just a bit too thick for for big the cards are. Beautiful artwork tho. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
That was an extremely useful and very interesting video. I’m such a rank beginner that I probably wouldn’t have even realized the fool should have been first and wasn’t. Or if I did it wouldn’t have phased me! But I really connected with the art,so I have it high on my wish list. After listening to your review, I think I’ll move it up a little higher! Thank you.
It’s a really wonderful deck and I do highly recommend it, especially if you are drawn to the artwork (which is amazing!) 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
your handwriting is so prettyyyyy
Thank you so much, some days it's better than others. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I love the book with this deck and the artwork and finish of the cards is GORGEOUS, but I find the large size of the cards, combined with the number of cards in a tarot to be utterly unshuffleable. (Which, shuffling is a big and important part of my practice in tarot) so I have just been able to use them for pathworking.
I wish she would come out with a pocket size like Dreams of Gaia did so that I can actually use the deck as a deck because you can’t really trim the sides down to make them more narrow to shuffle more comfortably.
A person can dream lol.
Same here! I have such a hard time actually working with this deck as a Tarot mostly due to it's size. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a pocket edition (on a little more flexible cardstock with any luck) as well. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
One of my favorite decks! ❤️
It's a really interesting one! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
Love your insights! I don't have the deck yet, but it's good to have known about this.
Bonjour, C'est tellement bien présenté que nous avons un réel imaginaire qui arrive et envie de plonger dans cet univers bien particulier , merci pour ce beau partage
It is a fantastic world to explore in this deck for sure! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I'm a newbie, having one year of experience in tarot card reading. Should I buy this deck or not? I'm not a Christian I am Hindu.
There are so many references in tarot card reading that I connect with Hinduism.
The judgement card for me represents the Krishna's energy in Geeta/Mahabharata when Krishna gave the knowledge of life and spirituality and that knowledge is uplifting everyone's soul ( people coming out from grave, representing people realising that their is life beyond relations, attachments and materialism)
I will buy this deck for sure and will do my study.
Mam, your video was really helpful thankyou.
Tarot represents life journey.
10 of swords represents= Bheeshm pitama in battlefield
Tower- draupadi's rape attempt in front of the court
Death- The end of the war
And many many many references 😭😭
I think if the deck resonates with you then it would be a good one to get to know and try working with. The guidebook is wonderful too.
Thank you for watching. ❤️
Great lesson 👩🏻🎤ive had this deck for a while but hesitated using. I know I’ll do a side to side with the RWS 💜
It's a really interesting process and if you have the time, I highly recommend it. It really opened the cards up for me. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
Morning. Thank you for sharing your way of dealing with the Major Arcana of the Witches Wisdom. I was a quarter way through when I put my belief system to the test. This is my way of thinking. I look at the so called progression from the Magician all the way to the World/Universe as a time relating to one life. Hopefully there is a certain wisdom one gains. I see the reverse order of the Major Arcana as the more enlightened soul now going back to Earth to try again perhaps. What he needs to do en route, is disconnect with all the issues that he dealt with in that life and withdraw all the ties so he can start fresh again in a new life. So for me this deck is really one up in understanding. I think this deck will be useful when clearing past life issues. Did you know that the Ancestral Tarot reverses the typical hierarchical structure of the Minor Arcana number cards? #10 comes after the Page/Princess and ends with the Ace. Aces symbolise the raw elemental power of each suit.
That is a really fascinating way to look at the journey... I really like that! Thank you so much for sharing your insights, I always love how I get to learn new things with each video too. That's really cool about the Ancestral Tarot, I'll have to give those minors a look again. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I feel that in the court cards the goddesses actually represent the queens and the craftsmen represent the kings - imo the author just sees queens as the masters of the suit. What do you think?
Thank you! This is helpful. Do you have a video demonstrating how you use this deck as an oracle for groundwork and pathfinding?
I think the only video I have about this deck is talking about the majors, although I might have done some more member videos. I don’t actually have this deck anymore so unfortunately I can’t make any more videos on it. 😊
@@DawnMichelleTarot Thank you!
i love the artwork so much but I am not sure if I like the practise of it - to me it is more like and oracle deck and the meanings of each card from what I can see don't match a true tarot definition - so not sure whether to buy - your video is really great !
You see more of the "progressing to the male godhead" thing if you work with the Qabala and the tree of life along with the tarot, and that stuff kind of peeves me -- how you're supposed to be "ascending," and working any other way is relegated to the "left-hand" or "sinister" path, which of course is associated with the female. Personally, I view it like you do -- life is messy, and the path is rarely linear. I also figure that we are simultaneously a human having a spiritual experience (desiring to move upward) and a spirit having a human experience (and which wants to experience the "lower" portions of the tree.) I do find it refreshing to view the majors as individual experiences, not necessarily as the "standard path," because I think that's how life is.
I agree, life just really isn't that simple and nothing ever follows a clear path. I love the way you described the human experience being both spiritual and mundane, that's totally how I see it too. It's so interesting to dive deep into these decks and see what emerges. If I did it again in another month or two, I'd pick up on other things, which is so cool to me. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
She doesn't go backwards for the major arcana, but Rachel Pollack, in Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, presents her meditations on the minor arcana in reverse order -- from King, Queen, Knight, Page 10 through 1. I always struggle with that presentation.
I've seen a couple of books do that over the years, sometimes it throws me off too. Although Pollack's book was one of my foundational reads. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
i have been watching for this deck to be reviewed, more than just walked through (though those are also valuable in their own ways!) and you shared some great insight; i struggle with the re-numbering of the majors, basically because i am just getting to understand the connexion *numerologically* between the majors and minors, and trying to learn this deck at the same time, so "ignore the numbers on the majors" is way better than my idea of taking a sharpie and adding numerals after the name! one thing tho' after *lots* of contemplation, and reading the guidebook, i thought in the shapeshifters (courts) the goddesses are queen energy, and the craftsmen, kings...any thoughts? also, are there any other videos you think go a little deeper with this deck? you kinda mentioned that there are, but i kinda only find unboxings, which are great, but i am looking to "compare notes" as it were...anyway, thanks again, love your videos
I'd have to double check on the queens and kings, because I haven't really used the deck in the "proper" way for some time. I thought the Goddesses were listed as the highest elevation of the suit, but I can't remember now that they associated that with King or Queen. In some decks, the Queen is placed above the King, so that could be the case as well. In my practice, I see them as being equals, representing the duality of completion and elevation, but that's just me. :) There is a good video with the deck author where she talks about creating the deck that is really good. That's the one that comes to mind at the moment. In some of the walkthroughs, I've seen people give their thoughts on the cards, but I don't recall if that was before they started working with it or after. Sorry, I don't feel I was much help there! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
I bought this but idk why i hate the energy i get every time i use them. They feel judging and mean which is a shame cause they are so beautiful and unique
I can understand that, I’ve had decks where the energy just doesn’t feel right to me too. Usually they go find another home.
Could you try whiting out the numbers?
I could try whiting them out, not sure if it would eventually chip off as you work with them, but that might be worth a try just to see. Thank you for the suggestion! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
Love your journal. Curious about your process for getting lovely color reproductions of the cards in the journal- and they vary in size. Do you have a video that goes over this? Wondering if you have a fancy color copy machine and also if you paste the images into a store bought journal. The result is lovely.. thanks
The short answer is, I pop them onto my color copier/printer and I print a copy of them (sometimes reducing the size to make them smaller so they fit better on my journal pages. I do talk about in my 3-part video series on "How to Start a Tarot Journal" there should be a playlist for that. I think it might have been in the second video, but to be honest, I don't remember now. I do hope that helps! 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
Hi, Dawn. Thank you for a frank and very informative review. I just found you and I have already purchased this set from the same Amazon location that you refer to here. I was excited to learn about the deck from a more advanced Tarot reader, Dawn. However, after paying a great deal for the deck, I was shocked to see how different and lovely your guide book is. Unfortunately, my book looks nothing like yours. It's all plain typeface, like a textbook. The personal writing style seems to have been deleted. It has no page marker and the corners are squared not rounded. A very cheap looking product, which disillusioned me. Is it possible that I received a knock off of this deck?
I think they did a new edition not too long ago and the book and deck was changed I do believe. I don’t have the newer version so I’m not sure what the changes actually were. It’s too bad if they changed the book, it was lovely before.
Girl omg this video gave me life watching it!!! I’m quite curious what method you use to read tarot because you’ve mentioned that you don’t follow The Golden Dawn system, at least in a superficial form… I’m not sure about astrologically, Kabbalistically or alchemically speaking though because I tend to individualize the different systems depending on what kind of reading I’m doing anyway so as not to confuse myself, at this point in my tarot learning process I’m 100% not ready to combine all these associations 😂😂😂😂
I've kinda developed my own little way of reading which is based on a process that was passed down through a friend's family and then layered with years of study and sprinkled with a bit of tradition and my own understandings and intuition. I am working on a video series on it (as well as a book!) So hopefully I'll be able to share that in the near future. 🙂 Thank you for watching! ❤️
@@DawnMichelleTarot I’ll keep an eye out!! I’m intrigued lol
where did you get the small cards for your journal? did you copy and print at home?
Yeah, I just scan them into my computer, resize and print them. :) I've seen other people use one of those mini printers like the cannon ivy to print them as well which seems to work really well.
@@DawnMichelleTarot I’m going to make one for the light seer‘s and found all images on her webpage 💙
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I’m curious, though. You say that you don’t really read in a RWS manner and yet … you were unable to connect with and read Witches Wisdom until you aligned it with RWS. Could you say more about that? It seems contradictory.
That would probably take a whole other video. 🙂 But the short answer was I wanted to understand why they chose to change the system and to do that I had to first compare it to the RWS. It wasn't so much a reading it in terms of RWS as it was comparing it to the traditional system. I read it more like an oracle now, but at least I feel like I got better sense of the structure. I hope that helps!
🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️
Appreciate your reply. Thank you!