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Tarot @ Teatime: The Rider Waite-Smith Deck
We’re pleased to introduce the new season of our original series, Tarot @ Teatime, which airs every Sunday and Thursday at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.
In this new season, your host Honey Heart, PhD* progresses through the Waite-Smith deck — the most popular of all Tarot decks — one card at a time.
For each, she discusses a number of features of the card: the Cardinal Direction associated with the card, its Numerological symbolism, the Astrological influences, the Elemental connections, and the relationship with Jungian archetypes. She even relates the card to Shakespearian characters. Heart then casts and interprets a demonstration 3‑card reading featuring the card and provides hints and tips to help you gain your own understanding of the cards.
The Waite-Smith deck is the most popular Tarot deck available, and features the artwork of Pamela Colman Smith (illustrated, from an image in The Craftsman magazine). Honey Heart’s commentary includes a discussion of the features of the card illustrations, and it may assist you in catching the subtle nuances of these classic illustrations to have today’s card in front of you. If you don’t own a RWS Tarot deck, you can find the card illustrations here.
Smith’s illustrations were influenced by many sources, notably the Sola Busca tarot, the earliest known complete Tarot deck.
In 1907, the Busca-Serbelloni family donated black-and-white photographs of all 78 cards to the British Museum (see Queen of Batons, right), where they were likely seen by A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, inspiring their own tarot deck (1909 example Temperance, left).
The similarities between the artwork of the Minor Arcana of the Waite-Smith deck and Sola-Busca’s plain suits has led some scholars to suggest that Colman Smith drew inspiration from the earlier work. Smith created the art for her deck two years after the acquisition of photographs of the Sola-Busca deck by the British Museum, and likely saw the cards on display there. Notable similarities include the Three of Swords card and the Ten of Wands card in the Rider deck, which is very similar to the Ten of Swords card in the Sola-Busca deck.
*Honey Heart in first life has a doctorate in transpersonal counseling, with her dissertation written on a phenomenon observed in Tarot.
Tarot @ Teatime, Episode 17: Tarot History
Welcome to Episode 17 in our popular original series, “Tarot @ Tea Time”. This will be broadcast on April 30, and May 4, 7 and 11, at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT.
In Episode 17, Honey and Willow explore the fascinating 600 year history of the Tarot. They discuss significant places, people, and dates, as well as when occult systems such as astrology, Kabbalah, Egyptian mythology, and alchemy came to be associated with Tarot.
Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 7
On Dec 11, 15, 18 and 22, we’re rebroadcasting another episode in our twice-monthly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Honey Heart and Willow Moonfire. The show airs on Thursdays and Sundays at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific Time (8pm and midnight in the UK), and another episode is broadcast every two weeks.
Episode 7 covers the Court Cards of the Minor Arcana. We discuss the significance and function of the Court Cards in the four suits and different ways of thinking about them.
The primary resource mentioned is the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck. It is available from the publisher, US Games Systems, Inc. and numerous bookstores and online book sellers.
Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 6
It’s time for another episode in our twice-monthly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Willow Moonfire and Honey Heart. The show airs on Thursdays and Sundays at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific Time (8pm and midnight in the UK), and a different episode is aired every two weeks.
Episode 6 covers Part Two of the significance of numbers in the Minor Arcana. We present qualities and keywords associated with the numbers six through 10.
The primary resource mentioned is the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck. It is available from the publisher, US Games Systems, Inc. and numerous bookstores and online book sellers.
Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 4
Here’s an opportunity for a second chance to hear Episode 4 of our original series on the Tarot, “Tarot @ Teatime”, with Willow Moonfire and Honey Heart. The show airs on Thursdays and Sundays at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific Time, and this episode goes out on Oct 30, Nov 3, 6 and 10.
Episode 4 covers Part Two of The Four Elements. We present qualities and keywords associated the elements of Air and Earth, which are represented by the suits of Swords and the suit of Pentacles.
The primary resource mentioned is the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck. It is available from the publisher, US Games Systems, Inc. and numerous bookstores and online book sellers.
Another chance to hear Tarot @ Teatime
While Tarot @ Teatime is on hiatus, we are repeating the original season of our series of programmes looking at the Tarot, beginning at Episode 1.
In Tarot @ Teatime, we explore the history and meaning of the Tarot, and discuss a variety of techniques for reading the cards.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded three more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 37, “De-Mystifying the Tarot”; Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 15: Hello Kitty Tribute Theme Park; and The MOST — Music from the Original Sound Track, Episode 10.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded two more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 34, on Tarot Etiquette; and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 12: Elven Forest.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded two more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 33, on the Occult Tarot; and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 11: The Pilgrimage.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded three more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 32, on the Tarot de Marseille; Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 10: May The Art Be With You, and the second in our new series on the Musical Theatre: The Magic Of The Musical: Showboat.
