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0:00with my new tarot series The learn tarot
0:02series you're going to learn how to read
0:05the cards without memorizing anything
0:08get comfortable get cozy get your tarot
0:11Journal out get your tarot cards out
0:12because you are going to learn tarot
0:14once and for all yes everything you need
0:18to know to start reading tarot
0:19everything hi my name is Joe Monteleone
0:22I'm a modern Mystic and metaphysical
0:24Misfit and founder of the tower
0:26mysticism Academy an international
0:28school for advanced Tower training
0:30mystical philosophy and a million and
0:32one other things I'm super excited to be
0:34working with you today and to get you
0:36reading tarot so what will you need for
0:39this course four things one you're going
0:42to need a Tarot Journal that can be a
0:43virtual Journal like Google Docs or a
0:46physical Journal you need one don't skip
0:48this
0:48seriously my tarot Journal is now
0:50hundreds and hundreds of pages like I
0:52could probably publish it the second
0:54thing you're going to need is a Tarot
0:56deck
0:56obviously the third thing I've made a
0:59couple guides that will support your
1:00learning in this course as well as give
1:03you more information for the next step
1:05in your Tower education Beyond you can
1:07download those guides in the links in
1:09the description below and finally the
1:11last thing you need is your attention it
1:14might sound corny but tarot doesn't
1:16exist outside of you the art form of
1:18tarot is a subjective discipline all the
1:22methods all the techniques all the
1:24skills are things you generate and grow
1:26within you within your attention and
1:30your focus
1:31that's why card number one is the
1:33magician it's all about attention focus
1:36so if you have your Tarot deck if you
1:39have your Journal if you have the guides
1:41and you're ready to give me your
1:43attention we can begin let's do it now
1:45you might know the elements are ready
1:47but I highly recommend you go through
1:49this thoroughly because what I'm going
1:50to describe here is the foundation for a
1:54lot of more advanced tarot work
1:57I will also have another video I will
1:59link below on a more advanced and
2:02mystical interpretation of the four
2:03elements but don't go there until you've
2:06really taken your time to move through
2:07this video because there's a lot here to
2:09cover the four elements were popularized
2:12in the west by a philosopher named
2:14impedicles they found their way into
2:16tarot through various interesting
2:18philosophical and esoteric Roots but
2:20have become a way through which we can
2:23organize our experiences especially our
2:26human life experiences as opposed to
2:28what we'll get to that in another video
2:31so the four elements are life and what
2:34aspects of Life do they represent the
2:36big four how do I get paid how do I get
2:39laid how do I stay unafraid and how do I
2:42enjoy life's parade the four elements
2:44fire water air and Earth are represented
2:49by the four suits of the tarot the Two
2:52of Wands the suit of Cups the suit of
2:54swords and the suit of Pentacles discs
2:56or coins
2:57I am using the Ryder weight Smith deck
3:00in this course you can use any Tower
3:01deck you want most tarot decks are based
3:04on this Rider weight Smith System many
3:06tarot decks are also based on the Thoth
3:08tarot tradition and I have courses on
3:11that on my channel and of course there's
3:12the Marseille tradition and I'm sure
3:14many others but the cool thing is once
3:16you understand the four elements you
3:18could really use them with almost any
3:19deck we're starting with the suit of
3:21Wands which is the element of fire the
3:23suit of Wands shows us the part of our
3:26lives that are actively creative now I'm
3:30saying actively creative because the
3:32thing is everything is a creative
3:34process you watching this video now is a
3:37creative process you're interpreting
3:39your thinking you're sensing your
3:41processing you are creating an
3:44experience for you it's important to
3:46note is that the whole Tarot deck is an
3:49expression symbolically archetypally
3:51esoterically of a creative process and
3:55that creative process is you and your
3:59life that creative process starts
4:01symbolically with a suit of Wands and it
4:04is active because it is what initiates
4:06the whole process the suit of Wands
4:09shows us our life purpose our career our
4:14passions our desires our will our goals
4:18and generally what we want to achieve
4:21for ourselves it often shows us what we
4:23are meant to do what we are meant to
4:25contribute to this world and because of
4:28that oftentimes it manifests as career
4:31as job as business the suit of Cups
4:34which represents water on the other hand
4:37is passive creativity I use the word
4:40passive creativity to give the context
4:43of reactive creativity in the sense that
4:47in the suit of Cups we're looking at
4:49collaboration
4:50the suit of Cups and the element of
4:52water symbolize our relationships uh the
4:57people in our world our family our love
5:00our emotions unlike the suit of Wands
5:03where we are initiating and actively
5:05directing a creative force in the suit
5:07of Cups we are taking that creativity
5:10and working with it through others
5:14whether that's falling in love making a
5:18family collaborating with friends in a
5:20suit of Cups we are not alone and so it
5:23requires more listening and
5:25responsiveness and responsibility now
5:28something really cool happens when these
5:31two elements get together and this is
5:33what you don't learn as much in Tarot
5:35books so pay attention
5:36when you have will and you have personal
5:40desire and you have a creative process
5:43that you initiate whether that's your
5:44life purpose or a business or a talent
5:47that you want to cultivate when you take
5:49that and you combine it with other
5:52people with relationships with
5:54collaborators that appear in the suit of
5:56Cups you start to form a personal
5:59identity
6:01and that identity is represented by the
6:04suit of swords and the element of air
6:08the element of air is the element of the
6:10mind it's the element of logic and the
6:13intellect and the ego and in a larger
6:17scale it's the element of society which
6:20is itself a large-scale expression of
6:24the mind like if you study the fluid
6:26dynamics of
6:28cities and urban planning and
6:30engineering and stuff you will see that
6:32that's like a model of
6:34the mind the intellect
6:36so in the suit of Swords we begin to
6:40build an identity and a set of ideals
6:44and belief systems around what we are
6:47creating and Desiring and who we are
6:50creating with
6:51now that set of ideals that set of goals
6:56identifications and even ego begins to
7:00shape our material world and our
7:03material world is expressed by the suit
7:06of Pentacles and the element of Earth
7:09the gag is everything you experience
7:13physically in your world including your
7:16body including the things around you
7:18including your financial situation
7:20has a direct relationship with your mind
7:24with your thoughts I'll get into all of
7:27that in more detail on my other video on
7:29the mystical analysis of the four
7:31elements but for now we can just notice
7:34how the physical world the material
7:38world is either a result of your mental
7:43world or at least has a strong
7:45correlation if you don't want to go that
7:47far the suit of Pentacles representing
7:49Earth also represents our physical body
7:51our Wellness our health and also money
7:55it symbolizes money because money is an
7:58abstract measurement of stuff of
8:02material of effort and energy and work
8:05which is another attribution of the suit
8:07of Pentacles now the next exercise I'm
8:09going to teach you is going to show you
8:12how to understand the meaning of over
8:15half the Tarot deck without memorizing
8:18anything what I'm about to teach you is
8:20something I developed to help new tower
8:23readers start reading the cards without
8:25having to memorize a million and one
8:27things without having to memorize
8:29symbols and history and systems and
8:31numbers and all this stuff all you have
8:33to know like I said are the four
8:36elements now this works for the minor
8:37Arcana the majors we're going to get to
8:40in another video Two Steps step one
8:43you're going to notice the suit symbol
8:45and recall the element step two notice
8:49the relationship between that suit
8:51symbol and the rest of the card
8:54where is that suit symbol in relation to
8:58the other symbols of the card how is
9:00that suit symbol Incorporated in the
9:03illustration
9:04that relationship will give you the
9:06context to the subject matter of the
9:09element which makes the divinatory
9:12meaning it's so simple
9:14you're gonna love it let's look at an
9:16example
9:17the Two of Wands step one notice the
9:21suit symbol we see the ones and recall
9:24the element fire we know that wands and
9:27fire represents career life purpose
9:31passion will
9:34now let's notice the relationship of the
9:37suit symbol with the scene we notice
9:40somebody holding one of the wands and
9:43the other wand is bolted to a castle
9:46the person holding the first wand is
9:49also holding a globe and he has his
9:52sights sit onto some location could also
9:54interpret him as looking out into the
9:56distance thinking of something looking
9:59in a specific Direction
10:01so we might say that this is somebody
10:03who holding firmly to their career to
10:07their passion to their life purpose is
10:10Now setting their sights on a new
10:12location on a new goal we can interpret
10:15this wand being bolted to a castle as
10:19symbolizing somebody who has firmly set
10:22up their career in a successful way who
10:25has built something for themselves that
10:27brings them power that brings them
10:29protection that brings them direction
10:32another way to interpret it is that the
10:35energy of the wand which symbolizes fire
10:38and career and purpose is running
10:41through his hands to his eyes and into
10:44his Mind's Eye into his intention into
10:46his goal wherever he is looking at
10:49whatever he is focused on and notice how
10:51I didn't use any esoterica I didn't use
10:54any Kabbalah any numerology all I'm
10:57using is the suit symbol and the scene
10:59you can also use this method to draw in
11:04some more esoteric influence without
11:07having to study a bunch of occult books
11:09I'll show you how you can notice that on
11:12this crenellation of the castle there
11:14appears to be a red rose and a white
11:17lily
11:18you can interpret this as a number of
11:20things and everything from opposites to
11:23Sex Magic to passion and Purity you
11:27could take any of those things and say
11:29that the balance of these two extremes
11:32draws in energy
11:34going through the wand through his own
11:37passion through his own will through his
11:39own purpose and allows him to set his
11:41sights somewhere on the globe in part
11:43two of the series we'll be going through
11:45the suit of Wands using this technique
11:47to generate divinatory information for
11:50each car so make sure you subscribe and
11:53look out for that if you have any
11:54questions let me know and I look forward
11:56to seeing you in part two much love