Tag Archives: Tarot
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 39: Tarot Storytelling
Tune in for the final episode of the current season of our original series, “Tarot @ Teatime” as we discuss Tarot Storytelling.
Episode 39: Tarot Storytelling
In this episode we talk about Tarot storytelling, and why this is so important to both developing as a reader as well as to providing querents with a really powerful, compelling narrative.
Narrative – storytelling – is an important part of a Tarot reader’s toolbox, and in fact, Tarot readers have traditionally been storytellers, tellers of tales that they see in their cards.
We talk about how Tarot readers can develop this skill, and how they can use their cards to begin developing a narrative — a story that is unique and germane to their querent.
“Tarot @ Teatime” is broadcast on Thursdays and Sundays at noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.
This is the final episode of the current series of Tarot @ Teatime. You can find the existing shows in the series on Mixcloud.
A new series begins on Sunday, April 14th. In each episode, Honey Heart will discuss one card from the popular Rider Waite Smith deck, covering several different aspects of the card and including a sample 3‑card reading featuring the card in the key position in the layout. Watch this space for more information.
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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 28: Astrological Correspondences
In Episode 28 of our original series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, Honey and Willow explore the correspondences between astrology and the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana of the Tarot as conceived by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the late 19th century magical order that had a great influence on the popularity of the Tarot as well as building on its esoteric significance.
The programme airs on Thursdays and Sundays at noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific from October 1st to the 12th.
Book mentioned:
Stephen Arroyo, Chart Interpretation Handbook, CRSC Publications (April 2004), ISBN10: 0916360498
Deck used:
Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Centennial Edition
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Smith-Waite-Centennial-Tarot-Deck.html
Weds 5th July: Join us for a live Tarot Talk at 1pm SLT
On Wednesday July 5th at 1pm SLT, join Virtual Community Radio at our SL20B headquarters on SLB Breathtaking, or tune in to http://main.vcradio.org for a special live “Tarot Talk” in which Honey Heart, Tarot expert and co-host of VCRadio’s original series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, discusses her recent research into Tarot reading, in conversation with Elrik Merlin. Having been a Tarot reader for 40 years, Honey has recently completed some original, detailed research into the Tarot, looking at what exactly goes on during a Tarot reading. Today’s presentation sheds new light on the potential possibilities for using the Tarot in transpersonal counseling and in other fields.
In addition, don’t miss the special SL20B edition of “Where Have You Been?” at 12 noon and 4pm SLT, where we look at some of the exhibits at the show and present some strategies for getting the best out of your visit. And “Engines of Our Ingenuity” from the University of Houston, every fourhours from 4am SLT/Pacific.
Throughout the day we are featuring music written for, inspired by, or contemporaneous with, the works of William Shakespeare, including both period and modern instrumentation.
VCRadio Presents… Live Tarot Readings at SL20B
Honey Heart, co-host of the original Virtual Community Radio series “Tarot @ Teatime” will be on hand at the VCRadio installation on SLB Breathtaking to give Tarot readings to visitors — free of charge — from 1 to 2 pm SLT on Saturday June 24th and Friday June 30th. Don’t miss this opportunity for a personal reading!
Readings are for entertainment purposes only.
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 8: The Reader As Storyteller
Here’s another chance to hear Episode 8 of Virtual Community Radio’s popular original series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, with Willow Moonfire and Honey Heart.
Episode 8 introduces the role of narrative in reading: the Tarot reader as storyteller.
We discuss the significance of narrative in a reading and how to create a narrative that is meaningful and clear.
Tune in at http://main.vcradio.org/
The episode goes out at Noon and 4pm Pacific on January 1st and 5th.
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.
