Tarot & the Kabbalistic Tree of Life | Tarot Cards Video Lecture | Tarot Reading: Read Tarot Cards to know all the Answers - Professional Skills

hello I'm Ellen Goldberg and I welcome
you to a tarot moment from the school of
Oracle's in this segment we're going to
take the fastest journey through the
Tree of Life probably ever we're going
to look at the Tree of Life not in a
traditional Kabbalistic way but in how
it is used in the Western Hermetic
tradition and especially how it impacts
the meaning of all of the PIP cards the
aces the tens in the Minor Arcana for it
is the tree that gives rhyme and reason
to the meaning of these cards each card
in the minors is going to have one
Saphira that it is associated with like
all the Aces belong to the top of the
tree Keter the crown all the tools
belong to hokhmah which means wisdom the
threes belong to be na the great mother
which is understanding all of the fours
belong to has said the sphere of mercy
all the fives belong to give Ordaz
severity all the sixes take their
meaning from TIF eret beauty they're in
the very center of the tree the sevens
belong to net saw victory the eights
belong to HUD splendor the nines belong
to yes odd foundation and all of the
tens belong to mal coot which is the
kingdom our kingdom Keter is unmanifest
it is pure spirit it's the divine before
it has any division in it at all and so
it's both masculine its feminine it's
before even masculine and feminine it's
just
pure essence of life in fact the kabbala
scroll at the beginning of the whirlings
you'll notice when we talk about the
aces that they are always called the
root of the powers of the element root
of the power of water and so forth
one of my favorite sayings about the
tree is that the Tree of Life is a tree
that grows upside down and its roots are
in heaven and those are the roots they
refer to in the Aces hokhmah the first
reflection back to Keter the second
spear on the tree of life wisdom is
showing is going to show us the elements
in their purest form because it is the
first manifestation Keter hokhmah and B
na that top triangle on the tree is
called the supernal triangle it's the
divine course the whole tree takes place
in manifests and a lightning flash but
we have to look at them sequentially so
we see that Keter manifests hokhmah the
Great Father then is manifested by now
the Great Mother and notice how on the
tree the divine is equally divided
between God the Father and God the
mother the inner roots of these mystic
paths are not as patriarchal as the
outer forms all the threes because they
have a feminine as' connected to B
naught and B naught is ruled by the
planet Saturn the first Saphir are to be
actually connected to a planet Keter is
called the beginning of the whirlings
hokhmah is represents the entire so diac
but here we have with the great mother
Saturn
her sphere is dark like the darkness
inside the womb in viña also means the
great dark sea
she is the Great Sea out of which
multiplicity will come all the threes
are a fulfilment and about to give birth
to something then the energy crosses
over what is called the abyss because
you see there's a large space between
veena and the next Saphira that it goes
across the tree to the fourth one that
blue sphere has said Mercy Mercy is home
or on a lower arc it's ruled by Jupiter
a Demiurge it is the rulership of the
world with kindness it's the fourth so
all the fours have a certain stability
which can never be upset and we will see
in all those fours very stable aspects
of their suit the energy travels across
to give water severity and all the fives
are going to be testing cards difficult
cards because guevara judges and
assesses all those polarities on the two
outer pillars of the Tree of Life work
in pairs we can see right away hawkman
be now the father and the mother adhere
in has said and cavora I always think of
them as good cop and bad cop has said is
gratuitous kindness the world was
created with Just Giving regardless of
the merit of the receiver but not so in
Guevara
it's a tester and every card that's a
five is going to bring you to your
limits after the five we return to the
center pillar on the Tree of Life the
middle path and it is the most beautiful
Center TR Saphira T ferret the Sun and
ruled by the Sun indeed I guess you
could guess that Guevara was ruled by
Mars seeing how
it was TIF eret and all the sixes being
called beauty or the most beautiful form
of their suit possible and we will see
an idealized form of each suit in the
six the energy then moves down into net
sock victory it's ruled by Venus and has
much to do with in with love emotion and
the desire nature the sevens will show
us many things about desire and about
things that we want when we cross to the
other side of the tree we have its
partner HUD which is the intellect the
eighth sphere on the Tree of Life ruled
by mercury and all the eights will have
some mental attributes and show us
something about the way the mind works
then we come back to the middle pillar
and we have the ninth sphere
yes art yes odd is the collective
unconscious it is the soul sphere in
fact it is actually the bottom of the
Tree of Life our earth which you see the
tents fear hangs like a pendant
underneath is really the fruit of the
tree the tree in actuality ends with the
ninth sphere foundation ruled by the
moon it's the astral plane the plane of
magic when Shakespeare said we are such
things as dreams are made on he was
referring to the ideas expressed in your
side and all the nines are going to take
that suit to the enth degree sometimes
they're beautiful sometimes they're
difficult but we will see extremes of
the suit in the nines
and then we come to the tens all the
tens or a form of completion they belong
to the earth and to mal coot they're
also a resting place a place that turns
around and so we will see not only a
completion in the tens but the
possibility of new beginnings and what
things will lead to next but they will
also be a sum up ins they alternate the
tens both in positive and negative
meanings because well we're here on
planet earth and we know what life is
like here it's equally divided between
the difficult and the easy and the
wonderful