A Guide to Tarot Cards: The Original Memes

Understanding the tarot cards, astrology, and cosmogony. Delving into the elements, planets, and signs and their relation to the tarot. Tarot, as a set of essential archetypes constitutes one of the original sets of memes (literally relatable images and words that mirror the psyche). I also read from Aleister Crowley's Magick and look through my deck Symbol : The Gift of Thoth

Shot and edited by a founding partner of MemeAnalysis, Jana Kurta.

Comics: @aeoniccomics on instagram

[Omadayus]

You’re looking really good physically man, I’ve been watching your content for some time now, just wanted to say you’ve come a long way, mentally and physically

[winstonbicklebert]

Absolutely classic meme analysis style. A trimphant return to the originary force.

[tiagomiranda]

the Bob Ross of magick, exceptional work as always.

[lolshrkhappiness]

please do more of these videos on tarot, esoteric, and magic related topics. you make learning about these topics simple and straightforward!!! :)

[MonsieurWorldwide]

The oldest surviving deck of Marseille had the exact same number of cards as the letters in the Hebrew alphabet and referenced pieces of God's miracles from the Old Testaments in every card, it was one of the first practical applications of the Sefirot from esoteric Kabbalah to be widely printed

[jacobweeks]

4:17 everytime Chris does an impression of a philistine, it cracks me up properly lol

[TheTimecake]

Regarding the 4 elements being the four states of matter, I think it's even more general than that. They are the possible relations of things that retain their form or don't retain their form, and things that change the form of other things or are themselves changed by the form of other things. This is what Aristotle meant by 'dry', 'wet', 'hot', and 'cold' in On Generation and Corruption.

If 'form' here is taken in the Neoplatonic sense (Aristotle _was_ a student of Plato, after all), one can see that this is a much more expansive notion than one might first assume.

Also, I think the reason there's seven planets instead of eight in the planetary system is the same reason why there's three mother letters instead of four: the observer, or the matter that is affected by the other three _is_ itself the fourth/eighth element/planet. In this sense, the Western system takes an inside-out perspective, while the Eastern system of the I Ching takes an outside-in perspective.

[linussundstrom]

I love the simplicity of The Gift of Thoth. Using it I found out that the occult significance of barbecuing steak is Taurus over Fire, i.e. you aim the Will towards enjoyment in the material world.

[marcopivetta]

Studying Natural Philosophy is so much fun, dude

[daniel]

Would happily pay for an online tarot course by you in vid/lecture form :D

[josueramirez]

Big shoutout to your founding video editor! They have a good sense of when to bring up images to complement what you are saying.

[SGBD]

This video is perfectly timed for me.. Very synchronistic 👏

[AAllen-brit]

I was so invested and that "beautiful big cards" caught me so off guard 😂 you broke this down so well. Do you know how long it took me to research trying to figure all this stuff out on my own? And I still didn’t understand things this concisely until now. You're the best.

[Rev_Danielle]

Love this video. I'd definitely recommend getting a reading with Chris he knows his stuff better than most.

[eastsidelegend]

I wouldn't mind longer videos on these subjects for a deeper dive. Always found these ancient ways of thinking incredibly fascinating.

[CynicalScorpio]

I'm glad you made this. I've been watching you for the meme stuff, and I hardly know anything about Tarot cards. Wouldn't mind seeing more videos like this, maybe one on how to actually do a reading

[sleepysroom]

would love for you to delve in depth into each of the major arcana.

[MayorMercury]

This is great. The four elements meaning the four states of matter is so obvious now that i hear it.

[kabooki]

An excellent video. Interesting for me especially was the suits as the 4 states of matter, something I never considered. I've always used Tarot with a narrative focus, I'd love to see more on Tarot with an elemental focus

[ojkb]

I've been seeing many fun coincidences lately surrounding tarot, so I've been investigating the symbolism with full intent lately and this video is very timely for me. As of this commen will have to watch it later but I just wanted to say it had always just been largely in the background for me up until the last few weeks. One senior gentleman I knew revealed recently that he had been doing tarot readings for decades and attributes the information it reveals to his success in life. I can't remember why the topic came up and he didn't even strike me as the type.