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Learn how to read tarot cards from tarot expert Ellen Goldberg, M.A. in these Howcast videos.
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I’m both a psychotherapist and a mystic. I’ve been studying tarot for over 40 years and it’s been one of the most important tools in my personal development. For 27 years I’ve been a teacher of tarot and the Western Hermetic Tradition both in my own school here in …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to this moment of tarot with the school of oracles. In this segment we’re gonna take a brief overview of the four Pages, though it’s hard to be brief with the Pages because they are complex cards. We don’t actually use Pages as significators in, uh, …
Transcript Hello I am Ellen Golberg and I welcome you to this tarot moment from the school of of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a brief over view of the four kings, the court cards from the four suits of the minor arcana. The kings belong in the Tiphareth – in the tree …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we are going to take a brief overview of the four queens of the minor arcana court cards. All queens belong to the realm of bena [SP], the Great Mother. They all are subconscious …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to this Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re gonna look at the four knights of the four suits. The knights are also on the Tree of Life. All of the court cards are on the Tree of Life, just like the …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to a tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re gonna look at an overview of the tens of each of the suits of the Minor Arcana. The tens are a comeuppance of the suit. They belong to Malkuth and they are a …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to a tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re gonna take an overview of the nines of each of the suits of the minor arcana. The nines belong to the sphere of Yesod, and Yesod returns us to the middle pillar on …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a Tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re gonna have a brief overview of the four Eights of each of the suits of the Minor Arcana. The Eights, in relation to the Tree of Life, belong to the Sphere of Hud, …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome to this taro moment from the School of Oracle. In this segment, we’re gonna look at the sevens of the four suits of the Minor Arcana. The sevens belong to Netzach, the sphere that is the lowest sephira on the pillar, the masculine pillar on the right …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to this moment of tarot from the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re gonna look at the sixes of the Minor Arcana in the four suits. The six of Wands is called the Lord of Victory and we see it’s astrological attribution is victorious in …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and welcome to A Tarot Moment with the School of Oracles.In this segment we’re gonna take a brief overview of the fives of the four suits of the Minor Arcana. The fives belong to the Sephira called Gevurah, which is severity. This is the tough love Sephira on the Tree …
Transcript Hello, this is Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a “Tarot Moment” with the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a brief overview of the “Fours” of each of the suits of the Minor Arcana. The Fours belong to the Sophitia on the Tree of Life called “Chesed”, and …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to tarot moment with the school of oracles. In this segment we are going to take a brief overview of the threes of the minor arcana. The threes are associated on the tree of life with the third sephirah, Binah the great mother, the sephirah which …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a brief overview of the Twos of all the four suits of the Minor Arcana. The Twos belong, or are associated with, Sephira Chokmah, the second Sephira Chokmah on the …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and welcome to A Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re gonna take a brief look at the four aces. The four aces are the leading card of each of the four suits and they embody the element in their purest form. In fact, their name …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you on behalf of The School of Oracles to this moment of taro. In this segment, we’re going to look at the Whirl card. The final card in the entire Major Arcana. How wonderful it is to see the world answer here. She seems to have no …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to this Tarot moment with this School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a look at the judgement card. This card is the card of the sixth stage of spiritual evolution and it is called realization. Now it is the first stage of …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this tarot moment with the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to look at the sun card and what a beautiful card it is. This is the fifth stage of spiritual unfoldment and it is the fool as the wisdom child; naked, devesting …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and welcome to this Tarot Moment with the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to talk about the moon card. This is a night time card and it suggests things about sleep and what happens during sleep. It’s also about evolution and we see a roll rising out …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this tarot moment on behalf of the school of The School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to look at the star card. One of the most beautiful cards in the deck. In fact one has earned this card by having gone through the …
Transcript hello im ellen goldberg and welcome to this tarot moment with the school of oracles in this segment we are going to look at the card the tower the tower is the second stage of spiritual awakening in fact it is called awakening ,and usually this is a rude awakening as you can see …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to a tarot moment with the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to look at the devil. Someone with whom one must have a conversation, the dweller on the threshold, as you progress, because some time or other we must confront our shadow. This …
Transcript Hello! I’m Ellen Goldberg and welcome to this taro moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to take a look at the temperance card, one of the most wonderful cards of the deck. This card is the card of the holy guardian angel. The angel pictured in this card is …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to this tarot moment from the School of. In this segment, we’re gonna take a look at the death card. Sometimes people get frightened when they get this card, but they shouldn’t. It’s far less about physical death than it is about the kind of death …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to a Tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we are going to look at the card The Hanged Man. This card comes as part of the triptych, the three cards, that are in the very center of the major arcana. The hanged …
Transcript Hi, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this tarot moment with the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to look at the card of justice. Here we are, in the exact center of the deck and how amazing that it should line up with the Hebrew letter lamed which means …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to A Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to take a look at the Wheel of Fortune. Here we’ve come to the mid point of the deck of the major arcana, of course. Actually, the mid point are three cards: …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome to a tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In thissegment we’re going to look at the card of the hermit. The hermit is the ninth card in the series oftarot trumps, the major arcana. And nine is the number of completion as it is the last …
Transcript Hello. This is Ellen Goldberg with Moment of Tarot from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re gonna take a look at the strength card. This card is strength in a very interesting way because it is not the women taming the lion that is the strength. It’s their mutual interaction and their …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to A Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to look at the card of the chariot. The chariot is a very ancient image. This very same symbol has been used for time and memorial all over the world, and in …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to “A Tarot Moment” on behalf of the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a look at the lover’s card. What a wonderful card it is. Here we have a card of love. Both human love and divine love, and love on …
Transcript Hello I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re gonna spend a little time with a hierophant and what a worthy fellow he is. The hierophant, the word itself, was the title of the high priest at the Eleusinian Mysteries and it …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome to you to a Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to take a look at The Emperor. The Emperor is the divine consort of The Empress. One might say that they are the Magician and the High Priestess once they have …
Transcript Ellen: Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to, A Tarot Moment from The School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a look at The Empress, and what a pleasure it is to look at her because she is pleasure itself. This card is ruled by Venus. Her letter is …
Transcript Hello, I”m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment, we’re going to take a peak at the high priestess. The high priestess is the chief feminine elder. She and the Magician, and the Fool, are actually the only three characters in the entire …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this Taro Moment with the School of Oracles. In this segment, we can learn a little bit about the magician. The magician is the first card of the number series. We’ve already talked about the full which is the zero and as you know, the …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and welcome to a tarot moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we’re going to take a peek at the fool card. The fool is the first card of the Major Arcana. Its number is zero and that means that the zero, which is the ellipse of spirit, …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a Tarot Moment for the School of Oracles. This segment is a variation on one segment we’ve already done. Check out the segment on the three card reading. There we use it on the one we’ve done previously on how to use it for the …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. 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 cabalistic, but in how it is used …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a Taro moment with the school of Oracles. This segment is about what can you expect from Taro readings or from the Taro cards. Making friends with the taro is like having a wise sage for your personal friend, right in your pocket literally if …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to A Tarot Moment with the School of Oracles. This segment is on how to pose a question to the Tarot. Forming the question that you are going to ask the cards is of utmost importance. In fact, if you form your question well, you may …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg, and I welcome you to this tarot moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is on how to choose a significator for yourself when you’re doing a reading. A significator is the card that you use to announce yourself to the tarot tomb, and it’s also the card you …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and welcome to this Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is on how to make invocation when we’re about to read the cards. Invocation is a calling forth a spirit. Calling forth of the energy or the intelligence that is behind the cards. This intelligence is the …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this Terro Moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is about how to shuffle and cut the cards. Well there are many ways, and it’s nice to have a few different ways at your disposal so that you can choose, sometimes just on your …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to a tarot moment with the school of oracles. This segment is about reverse cards: How to read them, what do they mean, and should one use them. When you do a reading and we have a segment on how to shuffle and cut cards, you …
Transcript Hello. I am Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this tarot moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is to introduce the suit of pentacles. The tarot has four suits: wands, cups, swords, and pentacles. The wands being vitality and beginning, the cups having to do with emotions, psychic events, the swords …
Transcript Hello, this is Ellen Goldberg. And I welcome you to this taro moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is to introduce the suit of swords. Swords are also a masculine suit. The suits alternate in their identity as masculine, feminine, masculine and feminine. The taro is so egalitarian and completely equally in …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and welcome to a taro moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is an introduction to the suit of cups, one of the 4 suits of the minor arcana. The cups are the receptive suits. They’re feminine and as you see the picture of the cup, the holy spirit …
Transcript Hello, I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this taro moment from the School of Oracles. This segment is about the 4 suits of the minor arcana. The wands, the cups, the swords, and the pentacles. Each of these suits have very particular concerns that cover the vast array of the events and …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and I welcome you to this taro moment from the school or oracles. This segment is on an introduction tot he minor arcana. As I’ve mentioned, the taro is divided into two basic groups. The 22 groups of the major arcana which portray the major archetypes of the laws of …
Transcript Hello. I’m Ellen Goldberg and welcome to a Tarot Moment from the School of Oracles. In this segment we are going to introduce the tarot. What are tarot cards? Well, you might think they are simply a deck of cards, but they are much more than that. The tarot is actually…a book of wisdom …
Transcript Hello, I’m Helen Goldberg and I welcome you to a from a school of oracles. This segment is about a very important card reading that everyone can easily learn to do and that is a vast importance to anyone’s personal process. It’s the three card cluster or the three card reading. It’s based on the …
