Thank you so much for your support through the years. If you want to find me on Patreon, for more livestream videos, classes, talks, and a sense of community with other practitioners, you can find me here: www.patreon.com/Damienechols
Please tell me that you will be doing videos describing the minor arcana! I'm learning so much! I was telling someone at work today your story and how I'd love to meet you one day! Truly someone I aspire to be!
I just started my spiritual journey 6 months ago after the trauma of losing my son & husband. I just attained self love a few days ago and I have never been happier in my life! What stage along the path would this be? Oh.. I also read Graham Hancock.. love his books! I also read Barbara Hand Clown, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions. While I was reading it I looked over at my plants and I could actually see the energy waves coming off of them. It was quite amazing! Have a blessed day!
Moved cat tip: Set the kitty up in a closet, bathroom, or similar small sized room with food, water, box, etc,. Kitty will learn the lay of the land and scent their room so it becomes "home base". After a day or two open the door into another area of the house. It's ideal if it can be done in increments but the most important thing is for them to have a little kitty cave that is their territory so if they get startled they have a lair where they feel safe.
00:00 Waiting for people to join, introduction to Tarot and the Arcana 09:14 0 - The Fool 14:30 I - The Magician 20:50 II - The High Priestess 24:50 III - The Empress 27:30 IV - The Emperor 29:36 V - The Hierophant 32:15 VI - The Lovers 37:54 VII - The Chariot 42:19 VIII - Strength 44:53 IX - The Hermit 48:30 X - The Wheel 50:55 XI - Justice 53:33 XII - The Hanged Man 55:35 XIII - Death 1:02:53 - Audience Questions
Your the magician in my tarot deck, thank you for touching my life and affected my reality all the way from the control tower. Sending love to u guys ❤️
The hanged man card represents giving up things that don't serve you. People who don't help you achieve your goals or hold you back. What if your goals are to help those suffering, which basically means most of humanity. Can't cut yourself off from those suffering if your goal is to end suffering. Helping others is helping yourself and vice-versa far as I can see. Win win in my book
Learned so much from this & the followup video. Would so love to see you do a series on the minor arcana. You are an thoughtful & insightful teacher. Thank you so much.
What a gift is was (accidentally) coming across your YT channel this morning. It's been 20 years. It's so good to see you again! That's right Damien, we are far from helpless, we've been socially engineered & propagandized to believe that. That is not who we are inside, unless we choose to be. Our reality is an illusion until we're able to open our eyes, mind & heart and begin slowly peeling back the layers. :)
I don’t have the words to articulate how much I love this video! I’m going to watch part II right now. Thank you so much for the time and energy you put into this! ❤️🌟
Thank you sir 🙏 . Deep bow. I’m sorry for your loss. Lobsang rampa had his familiar Mrs. Fifi Greywhiskers, I had also my pack pass on. Love and respect ✊
"Funny" synchronicity when you mention how when you were released from prison you were shattered and had to start your life all over... with how we started about how a cat handles moving to a new location.
I, here, did not want to watch this video. I was pulled to it. I dreaded a lot of realizations that this video brought to light and am truly humbled by the knowledge granted. We are getting through this. Thank you for assisting me in my studies and giving the energy that you do to help. I am I and you are I.
Thankyou for your content Damien it helps me alot when I get anxious i watch your vids and hearing the sound of your voice makes me feel a sense of peace. Thankyou 🙂
The trick to mastering desire is so simple that most people don't believe it: What you desire, search for the Feeling that HAVING that you think achieving that desire would give. Imagine having the desire and fish for that Feeling of HAVING IT. Once you've grasped it even a little, sit down and close your eyes and get to work on cultivating that Feeling inside you. Skip the desire itself and go directly for the bone. You will be surprised to learn that you can actually invoke / summon the Feeling and make it part of you without ever chasing it by pursuing the desires you THINK will give you that Feeling. This is Mastery 1-0-1. The Kingdom of Heaven is available to you Now and Here; you've just closed yourself off to it by NEEDING it instead of EMBRACING it.
This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much! Throughout my life I have picked up the tarot and put down the tarot. But this time it feels different. I have been watching a lot of people's videos and I will say that the way you explain the major arcana is probably the best and easiest to follow that I've come across. It's clear that your knowledge of the tarot is superior to most, and I am eternally grateful for you sharing your insights with us 🙏
I am one of those who have thrived during the pandemic and I was living in my car when it happened. Now I’m in a house making more money than ever. Ty for your fabulous videos! I really want to go to your school someday.
Wow. I cannot come close to expressing my gratitude and appreciation for your videos, for sharing your knowledge, wisdom, and time. As a beginner, these videos are truly invaluable and the way in which you explain things makes so much sense & clicks. I have a few books on learning tarot and yet I’ve learned so much more (and it be of heavy substance) watching just a few of your videos than I have reading how to books. Again, thank you kind sir. Your wisdom is very much a gift.
Thank you very much Damien. Last year many hermetic situations and happenings turn my life around. I found the hidden spark and got rid of thorns. I wanted to pursue the path of initiation but was always doubting me. I know I lack discipline, it is one of my biggest defects. For now, at least, I've decided that I can't continue the pursuit of a hermetic lifestyle. I learned a lot of things, and for that I am grateful. But I need to grow more, mentally, physically, emotionally, and psicologically. I can live magic through your eyes and I count that as a blessing.
This is one of your best talks. I have read and listened to other teachers on the Tarot, but none have explained it in the context of initiation and this adds so much clarity and integration to my understanding. Thank you!
Beautiful wisdom and have been through every single card so far. On a life level and where I am now. Just got to pay those bills so I can keep spending my time being a student - of Magick and Life. No longer 'in the job' or 'socially active' and other things that are a theme of the monk-life. Respect.
Dude watching you here, on 1.5x I spose, the rate of knowledge you're conducting into me, visual and audio, allows me to zone out into ecstatic trance just like when my thumbs are flowing words into My Book on Reddit. And only on The Empress!! Wonder how High I can get before I tap out and go ground lmao Super glad you exist with me now homie and really happy to see/hear the exponential increase of energy in you compared to 10months ago in the vid about fear I just watched:) still good content but it hurt to see you so wounded. Made me wanna be all: Pick up thy bed and walk and be healed! in case I could do dat lol Kk anyways back down the rabbit hole We go!
This video is sooooooo good. There is so much teaching here that you are offering us with these cards so much so that it reminds of the amount of teachings I receive from dharma talks. Not even joking. Thank you for doing this!
Omg I learn so much from Mr. Damien Echols than from some of the books I started reading on tarot. That's so insightful! The way he breaks it down in order and the way he puts the connections of each major arcana cards just started clicking to me. I am so glad I stumble on this video. I am definitely going to use your video as reference to my learning process on my studies of the tarot. I am your new fan now. And I will get your book soon when I can! I am hooked! Sir Echols definitely knows what he is talking.
Thank you so much for the work you have put out there for us all to pour over, the information you have shared has helped me to develop greatly in my own eyes over what has seemed to be a relatively short amount of time, thank you again, I always look foreword to new content.
This is profoudnly accurate. I've noticed that we can cycle in and out of these stages. Every word as you say it sticks within myself. This essentially builds on itself, you will go through these processes over and over again. In a loop. It's hitting me in such a strange way.
This happened with my daughter's cat too. Just be patient and you and Lorri give her some extra love and attention. Things will get better! Very sorry for your loss D. Losing a pet is painful 😣❤️🐾
Damien, tonight as I was watching UA-cam, I saw an advert for a mobile game called Arcane Legends and I remembered this video's title which I have seen many times previously when scrolling through your video list. I felt a pull far too strong to ignore and go back to watching what I was before. Watching this video and learning the information you wonderfully explain has been my Wheel of Fortune moment. I know what I have to do to create my world and how to do it. It will require some long paragraphs to explain to my friends and family, but I simply can't follow the alternative of remaining in the confines of this world. Thank you for introducing me to Ceremonial Magick, I haven't yet begun practicing but I'm making the changes to give myself the facilities to do so. Despite this, the content of your videos has already been life-changing for me, and for the first time in my life, I have a cohesive vision of what I want my future to look like. Thank you for everything, Damien, especially the fact that I'll be able to tell people I dropped out of uni to become a wizard. :)
very in depth as always. one of my favorite books on this is "understanding the Thoth Tarot" by Lon Milo Duquette it is pretty much perfectly in line with Damien's analysis but is able to go a little further in depth at times. great stuff!
Love your videos as always. One of several things that irks me about this particular deck is the placement of Strength at 8 in the sequence. Far more fitting and appropriate at 11 after the Wheel of Fortune, the beggining of the next decibal series. She mirrors The Magician figure at number 1.
Thank you for sharing your ideas so eloquently. Everything you say pings truth in my experience, not based on theory, but on how things turned out when I made some very energetically powerful decisions to start a magical life in my late teens. We're in a new time now, as always is, but this magic thing now has more elders with experiences to share. It helps the grounding of the currents. The setup of the world is so twisted by various devils it's going to be hell somehow to wake up. I only half realized what I was doing when I was feeding emotionally charged ritual mojo infused devotions to various destructo phase entities, Kali, Shiva, Eris in the first manifestation of my life on Earth as a practicing artist with magic in it. BOOM! You homeless! Congratulations on your graduation from childhood. One thing is I never did practice more than once or twice the invoking Earth pentagrams and same with the Rose Cross ritual. LBRP is all I could remember after the Fall. Information in another vid of yours about the Qabalistic Cross clarified an idea that was not explicit in my first approach to energy work. Sealing the aura; all the banishing, it whipped up a fury of anger with it. I only ever did the Rose Cross once, I still remember it brightly, the smoking stick of incense, the crosses and circles, the names. Just hearing your take once brought it back. What I did was to open myself to attack and dissipation, got taken into the political traps of Liberal woke victimhood bad. Past life things, or just aggregates of energy seeking resolution, the terror of just what's happened since the French Revolution so called, the witch burnings, the rise of the Church of Pure Reason; open the magic box and it comes with all the devils and booby traps that were put on it over the ages.
The cautionary nugget of my tale is that once I opened the magic box, it was a fool's bargain to lose the basis of the key rituals so as to keep my energy field firm and able to suss out the true and false. The Rose Cross also absent for most of my path; I think it might be a fail safe device placed in it by good people as it activates the Cosmic Christ current. Without that magic can easily turn into a tyrannical terror fest.
This was so helpful. All of f your explanations are perfectly in alignment with my two favorite books on the Tarot: "Meditations on the Tarot" by Anonymous and "The Tarot" by Mouni Sadhu. I believe both of these can be found in PDF format pretty easily if anyone would want to pick them up.
I just want to send healing love and light to you right now ⭐you have a heart Crystal that I gave to Lorri at the Neptune in Seattle at any time you can hold this and feel the love from the Great Mother, the Holy Spirit, feminine Magdalene energy... it's there to comfort you at any time,💎 it is endless 💫 and can never be drained much love to you. Cats spirit is with you strong 🌠
I would like to hear about your mentors in life. Have you made a video like that? Wouldn't it be great if folk learned early and were empowered in their youth?
Hi. Cats get much attached to the place they live. I had to leave one of my cats in the previous appartment..cause she didnt want to move with us. Sorry for the elder one of yours💚..but she had a good long life. Great video👍💛
1. I like that there’s 2 Star Wars quotes in here. 2. CrOwley never worked a day in his life and relied on patronage, so maybe not the best one to be saying anything about working hard haha 3. Thanks ever so much for doing what you do Damien 🐍🥚👶
Hey. Sorry to hear about your cat. It's awful when a beloved pet paasses on. They are a member of the family. Big hugs to you and the family. In regards to your cat that's on edge currently, you can get the 'feline' equivalent to CBD oil that us humans can get in health stores. CBD oil for cats is fantastic in that it works with your cats endocannabinoid system to promote good health and regulate bodily functions etc. Helps nausea, pain, anxiety, skin problems seizures and other ailments so check it out. You can get bottles where you can add a droplet in the water bowl. Hope this helps. Also helps to relax if nervous about fireworks on bonfire night or new years etc.. Great video....took more notes in my journal for tarot. Been really helpful. Thank you. Hope your ok. Looking good as ever.. Have a nice week. Take care x
Hi guys. I know this is an older video but I have recently stumbled upon a book about the Oswald Wirth deck, the book is called “Wisdom of the Tarot” by Elisabeth Haich. Can anyone shed any light on the significant difference, as far as I understand, the Oswald Wirth deck predates the Rider Waite deck. It was designed and coloured by Oswald Wirth at the dictation of a young initiate, Stanislas de Guaita. I would love if Damien could do a video on it, as I imagine he would have a great perspective on the differences and reasons. Love and blessings
DAMIEN 🐈😻🐈⬛ For mitigating the kitty moving stress I recommend buying some kittles cat treats in bulk so you can put a drop of tinkle tonic on each treat... this is an herbal urinary Tract support med... let the drops soak in for 24-36 hours before storing in a jar. Use 5 treats 2-3x a day for helping heal heal them from cortisol and lack of fluids. Use this for 2-3 months straight. Also, get cat condos so kitty can climb up and have vantage points for scanning environments, better window views, and de-stressing.
Yea I like how you called it a siddhi (the supposed loa). All siddhis can be fun while they are happening, but none will lead you anywhere by clinging to them. Not that the loa can't be a path like anything else, using it as a means to climb up the ladder into higher consciousness, or using the claires for the same reason, but if your using them just to see spirits and feel energy then your still not going anywhere. Reminds me of what every guru 'ever' has said.... (Don't pay attention to the astral and the siddhis, keep going past that until you are enlightened). There is a reason, all things can trap you back into stagnation and settling instead of focusing on your highest goal. Same with satori experiences. Alot of people that meditate and ignite a satori experience and discover that they can get super high like taking ecstacy with certain types of meditative states start chasing that like a drug addiction and get trapped for years in that. I had one about two years ago, it was bliss for hours and then I read up on it and gurus saying yea that's not the point! Let go of satori experiences because then your just chasing highs again. That was enough for me to realize that it wasn't what I was looking for.
I was wondering whether you would start from The World or The Fool... Both directions are important Journeys to take. One is the Great Inhalation, the other the Great Exhalation.
How do you feel about practicing with herbs with learning the tarot, to me this is a way I've been learning more extensively as in plants within the cards and the actual meanings you can match up with floral/herbal meanings in some cases with the cards also color is a big one also along with the numeral meanings. I have found some interesting things about the cards using these...when I first started the first two cards I ever pulled were the high priestess and the magician...I didn't quite understand what that meant at first and really still don't to the fullest, but I'm hoping I can get a really great meaning with study down the road for me remembering these two cards were the very two cards I had pulled whenever I started down this journey...I mean I know the card meanings but I'm looking for something deeper I guess that it could mean in the future tense and in a spiritual sense...
Thank you so much for your support through the years. If you want to find me on Patreon, for more livestream videos, classes, talks, and a sense of community with other practitioners, you can find me here:
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Please tell me that you will be doing videos describing the minor arcana! I'm learning so much! I was telling someone at work today your story and how I'd love to meet you one day! Truly someone I aspire to be!
Damien your astrological chart is phenomenal all that Jupiter wow⚡l would be including jupiter into your rituals it's protecting you in this lifetime.
I just started my spiritual journey 6 months ago after the trauma of losing my son & husband. I just attained self love a few days ago and I have never been happier in my life! What stage along the path would this be? Oh.. I also read Graham Hancock.. love his books! I also read Barbara Hand Clown, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions. While I was reading it I looked over at my plants and I could actually see the energy waves coming off of them. It was quite amazing! Have a blessed day!
Clow.. not Clown.. dang auto correct! Lol
Moved cat tip:
Set the kitty up in a closet, bathroom, or similar small sized room with food, water, box, etc,. Kitty will learn the lay of the land and scent their room so it becomes "home base". After a day or two open the door into another area of the house. It's ideal if it can be done in increments but the most important thing is for them to have a little kitty cave that is their territory so if they get startled they have a lair where they feel safe.
00:00 Waiting for people to join, introduction to Tarot and the Arcana
09:14 0 - The Fool
14:30 I - The Magician
20:50 II - The High Priestess
24:50 III - The Empress
27:30 IV - The Emperor
29:36 V - The Hierophant
32:15 VI - The Lovers
37:54 VII - The Chariot
42:19 VIII - Strength
44:53 IX - The Hermit
48:30 X - The Wheel
50:55 XI - Justice
53:33 XII - The Hanged Man
55:35 XIII - Death
1:02:53 - Audience Questions
Thank youuuuu
Thank you!
Your the magician in my tarot deck, thank you for touching my life and affected my reality all the way from the control tower. Sending love to u guys ❤️
So nice 💗💓
The hanged man card represents giving up things that don't serve you. People who don't help you achieve your goals or hold you back. What if your goals are to help those suffering, which basically means most of humanity. Can't cut yourself off from those suffering if your goal is to end suffering. Helping others is helping yourself and vice-versa far as I can see. Win win in my book
Learned so much from this & the followup video. Would so love to see you do a series on the minor arcana. You are an thoughtful & insightful teacher. Thank you so much.
You truly produce a master class. I could listen to your knowledge all day long. Thank you Damien for sharing your knowledge 🥰
Hey Brothers & Sisters, I Love You All!
I see you on here all the time
@@FayAlexGG Many Blessings unto You!
@@johnashenhurst857 May Peace be unto You!
What a gift is was (accidentally) coming across your YT channel this morning. It's been 20 years. It's so good to see you again! That's right Damien, we are far from helpless, we've been socially engineered & propagandized to believe that. That is not who we are inside, unless we choose to be. Our reality is an illusion until we're able to open our eyes, mind & heart and begin slowly peeling back the layers. :)
I really am enjoying this.
Graham Hancock has been such a pivotal influence in my younger years - and remains so to this day - the epitome of a true seeker of gnosis
I like Graham Hancock a lot
I don’t have the words to articulate how much I love this video! I’m going to watch part II right now. Thank you so much for the time and energy you put into this! ❤️🌟
Thank you sir 🙏 . Deep bow. I’m sorry for your loss. Lobsang rampa had his familiar Mrs. Fifi Greywhiskers, I had also my pack pass on. Love and respect ✊
Thank you for this detailed master class! 🎉
Quoted Graham Hancock, another legend
"Funny" synchronicity when you mention how when you were released from prison you were shattered and had to start your life all over... with how we started about how a cat handles moving to a new location.
This was so good, thank you!!! I can't wait for the second half!!🙏🏼
Thankyou Damien for this upload on utube, appreciate your knowledge and wisdom. I need to hear to push through the practice
Brilliant! Gratitude for your insights and wisdom.
Im Hungry.... Is This Dinner, IS Severed??? Im Bout'To Dance THE DANCE.
I would listen to you for 4 hours at at time. Every time we get to the hour make. I say oh nooooo!
I, here, did not want to watch this video. I was pulled to it. I dreaded a lot of realizations that this video brought to light and am truly humbled by the knowledge granted. We are getting through this. Thank you for assisting me in my studies and giving the energy that you do to help. I am I and you are I.
Thankyou for your content Damien it helps me alot when I get anxious i watch your vids and hearing the sound of your voice makes me feel a sense of peace. Thankyou 🙂
The trick to mastering desire is so simple that most people don't believe it: What you desire, search for the Feeling that HAVING that you think achieving that desire would give. Imagine having the desire and fish for that Feeling of HAVING IT. Once you've grasped it even a little, sit down and close your eyes and get to work on cultivating that Feeling inside you. Skip the desire itself and go directly for the bone. You will be surprised to learn that you can actually invoke / summon the Feeling and make it part of you without ever chasing it by pursuing the desires you THINK will give you that Feeling. This is Mastery 1-0-1. The Kingdom of Heaven is available to you Now and Here; you've just closed yourself off to it by NEEDING it instead of EMBRACING it.
Thank you Damien, I love they way you explain the cards, I’m learning so much. Can’t wait for the next video ☺️
This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much! Throughout my life I have picked up the tarot and put down the tarot. But this time it feels different. I have been watching a lot of people's videos and I will say that the way you explain the major arcana is probably the best and easiest to follow that I've come across. It's clear that your knowledge of the tarot is superior to most, and I am eternally grateful for you sharing your insights with us 🙏
I am one of those who have thrived during the pandemic and I was living in my car when it happened. Now I’m in a house making more money than ever. Ty for your fabulous videos! I really want to go to your school someday.
Persephone has been on my mind so much lately. Thank you for the confirmation.
Concise, comprehensive and enlightening. Thank you, Damien.
Good stuff Damien, I Love all the work you do. The archetypes were awesome to learn about.
Wow. I cannot come close to expressing my gratitude and appreciation for your videos, for sharing your knowledge, wisdom, and time. As a beginner, these videos are truly invaluable and the way in which you explain things makes so much sense & clicks. I have a few books on learning tarot and yet I’ve learned so much more (and it be of heavy substance) watching just a few of your videos than I have reading how to books.
Again, thank you kind sir. Your wisdom is very much a gift.
Thank you for what you do. Been with you since '98 but just found your channel on the youtubes. ⭐
I could listen to this all day, thank you
Hi, Damien I send you a big hug thanks for everything you do.
Thank you very much Damien. Last year many hermetic situations and happenings turn my life around. I found the hidden spark and got rid of thorns. I wanted to pursue the path of initiation but was always doubting me. I know I lack discipline, it is one of my biggest defects. For now, at least, I've decided that I can't continue the pursuit of a hermetic lifestyle. I learned a lot of things, and for that I am grateful. But I need to grow more, mentally, physically, emotionally, and psicologically. I can live magic through your eyes and I count that as a blessing.
Thank you for making this information free and available. I appreciate you 🙏🏻
Mind-blowingly helpful!! Thank you so much. Keep doing what you do. You are a divine gift to us all.
Enjoyed this immensely thankyou for this
I am devouring all this content, thank you so much Damien you are a great teacher
This is one of your best talks. I have read and listened to other teachers on the Tarot, but none have explained it in the context of initiation and this adds so much clarity and integration to my understanding. Thank you!
Beautiful wisdom and have been through every single card so far. On a life level and where I am now. Just got to pay those bills so I can keep spending my time being a student - of Magick and Life. No longer 'in the job' or 'socially active' and other things that are a theme of the monk-life. Respect.
Dude watching you here, on 1.5x I spose, the rate of knowledge you're conducting into me, visual and audio, allows me to zone out into ecstatic trance just like when my thumbs are flowing words into My Book on Reddit. And only on The Empress!! Wonder how High I can get before I tap out and go ground lmao
Super glad you exist with me now homie and really happy to see/hear the exponential increase of energy in you compared to 10months ago in the vid about fear I just watched:) still good content but it hurt to see you so wounded. Made me wanna be all: Pick up thy bed and walk and be healed! in case I could do dat lol
Kk anyways back down the rabbit hole We go!
Love this. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for your work! I love it
This video is sooooooo good. There is so much teaching here that you are offering us with these cards so much so that it reminds of the amount of teachings I receive from dharma talks. Not even joking. Thank you for doing this!
Omg I learn so much from Mr. Damien Echols than from some of the books I started reading on tarot. That's so insightful! The way he breaks it down in order and the way he puts the connections of each major arcana cards just started clicking to me. I am so glad I stumble on this video. I am definitely going to use your video as reference to my learning process on my studies of the tarot. I am your new fan now. And I will get your book soon when I can! I am hooked! Sir Echols definitely knows what he is talking.
Thank you so much for the work you have put out there for us all to pour over, the information you have shared has helped me to develop greatly in my own eyes over what has seemed to be a relatively short amount of time, thank you again, I always look foreword to new content.
The best videos I´ve seen about magick. Thank you Damien.
This is profoudnly accurate. I've noticed that we can cycle in and out of these stages. Every word as you say it sticks within myself. This essentially builds on itself, you will go through these processes over and over again. In a loop. It's hitting me in such a strange way.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for walking deosil brother, blessed be
Thank you damien ! I really appreciate your wisdom and insight
This channel is amazing. Thank you Damien 🙏🏽
I love that you mention Graham Hancock!
😁
This happened with my daughter's cat too. Just be patient and you and Lorri give her some extra love and attention. Things will get better! Very sorry for your loss D. Losing a pet is painful 😣❤️🐾
So are 3 children a sad loss too if you get my drift
@@zephyrolson803 Yes it's very sad 3 kids were murdered! But Damien didn't kill them!😡
Damien, tonight as I was watching UA-cam, I saw an advert for a mobile game called Arcane Legends and I remembered this video's title which I have seen many times previously when scrolling through your video list. I felt a pull far too strong to ignore and go back to watching what I was before. Watching this video and learning the information you wonderfully explain has been my Wheel of Fortune moment. I know what I have to do to create my world and how to do it. It will require some long paragraphs to explain to my friends and family, but I simply can't follow the alternative of remaining in the confines of this world. Thank you for introducing me to Ceremonial Magick, I haven't yet begun practicing but I'm making the changes to give myself the facilities to do so. Despite this, the content of your videos has already been life-changing for me, and for the first time in my life, I have a cohesive vision of what I want my future to look like. Thank you for everything, Damien, especially the fact that I'll be able to tell people I dropped out of uni to become a wizard. :)
Hello damien...really enjoyed your talk...regards too all on your channel...look forward to the rest of the card lessons..thank you..
very in depth as always. one of my favorite books on this is "understanding the Thoth Tarot" by Lon Milo Duquette it is pretty much perfectly in line with Damien's analysis but is able to go a little further in depth at times. great stuff!
Hi Damien,
Thank you for for your insight on the Major Arcana would you please consider doing a teaching on the Minor Arcana?
Thank you,
Jeff Chambers
Hello Damien, can not thank you enough for this. Thank you man and god bless you
This is the best walk thru of the Major Arcana I have heard. I have a better perception of the initiation role of the Tarot
Love your videos as always. One of several things that irks me about this particular deck is the placement of Strength at 8 in the sequence. Far more fitting and appropriate at 11 after the Wheel of Fortune, the beggining of the next decibal series. She mirrors The Magician figure at number 1.
Wonderful Overview
Damien, thank you for sharing the eternal wisdom for liberation! VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN
Excellent!
Thank you for sharing your ideas so eloquently. Everything you say pings truth in my experience, not based on theory, but on how things turned out when I made some very energetically powerful decisions to start a magical life in my late teens. We're in a new time now, as always is, but this magic thing now has more elders with experiences to share. It helps the grounding of the currents. The setup of the world is so twisted by various devils it's going to be hell somehow to wake up. I only half realized what I was doing when I was feeding emotionally charged ritual mojo infused devotions to various destructo phase entities, Kali, Shiva, Eris in the first manifestation of my life on Earth as a practicing artist with magic in it. BOOM! You homeless! Congratulations on your graduation from childhood. One thing is I never did practice more than once or twice the invoking Earth pentagrams and same with the Rose Cross ritual. LBRP is all I could remember after the Fall. Information in another vid of yours about the Qabalistic Cross clarified an idea that was not explicit in my first approach to energy work. Sealing the aura; all the banishing, it whipped up a fury of anger with it. I only ever did the Rose Cross once, I still remember it brightly, the smoking stick of incense, the crosses and circles, the names. Just hearing your take once brought it back. What I did was to open myself to attack and dissipation, got taken into the political traps of Liberal woke victimhood bad. Past life things, or just aggregates of energy seeking resolution, the terror of just what's happened since the French Revolution so called, the witch burnings, the rise of the Church of Pure Reason; open the magic box and it comes with all the devils and booby traps that were put on it over the ages.
The cautionary nugget of my tale is that once I opened the magic box, it was a fool's bargain to lose the basis of the key rituals so as to keep my energy field firm and able to suss out the true and false. The Rose Cross also absent for most of my path; I think it might be a fail safe device placed in it by good people as it activates the Cosmic Christ current. Without that magic can easily turn into a tyrannical terror fest.
Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to see more videos from the Tarot Series.
Thank you I’ve learned so much!,, wow!
Towards the end in the Q&A you mention ? Family. Getting stuck etc.. What family?
Thanks
I'd really love to see this exact same video again yet with the thoth deck
Brilliant! I love this channel! Last episode on the Tarot 101 and I've ordered 4 books to add to my pile of 20+ books to read. 😬
pile of 20 books! you must be new here! :D
This was so helpful.
All of f your explanations are perfectly in alignment with my two favorite books on the Tarot:
"Meditations on the Tarot" by Anonymous
and
"The Tarot" by Mouni Sadhu.
I believe both of these can be found in PDF format pretty easily if anyone would want to pick them up.
Bless you Lorri 😊
Fascinating!
I see the lovers also as (the (creation in full) in the process! moving forward with choices being made within the creation).
Thanks for the knowledge. I have the wand in air and the dagger in fire in my altar. Should I change it? Thanks
Thanks Damien!
I just want to send healing love and light to you right now ⭐you have a heart Crystal that I gave to Lorri at the Neptune in Seattle
at any time you can hold this and feel the love from the Great Mother, the Holy Spirit, feminine Magdalene energy... it's there to comfort you at any time,💎 it is endless 💫 and can never be drained much love to you.
Cats spirit is with you strong 🌠
I have a lot to learn. Moving can beat you down please take care of yourself and cats can also pick up on energies have you been doing any blessings?
That was very informative,
I love this, thank you so much ❤️
I would like to hear about your mentors in life. Have you made a video like that? Wouldn't it be great if folk learned early and were empowered in their youth?
There is Freedom within for sure.
Hi. Cats get much attached to the place they live. I had to leave one of my cats in the previous appartment..cause she didnt want to move with us. Sorry for the elder one of yours💚..but she had a good long life.
Great video👍💛
I’m so sorry about your cat. That’s a long life! Travel well little one. 🤍
1. I like that there’s 2 Star Wars quotes in here.
2. CrOwley never worked a day in his life and relied on patronage, so maybe not the best one to be saying anything about working hard haha
3. Thanks ever so much for doing what you do Damien 🐍🥚👶
Hey.
Sorry to hear about your cat. It's awful when a beloved pet paasses on. They are a member of the family. Big hugs to you and the family.
In regards to your cat that's on edge currently, you can get the 'feline' equivalent to CBD oil that us humans can get in health stores.
CBD oil for cats is fantastic in that it works with your cats endocannabinoid system to promote good health and regulate bodily functions etc. Helps nausea, pain, anxiety, skin problems seizures and other ailments so check it out. You can get bottles where you can add a droplet in the water bowl. Hope this helps.
Also helps to relax if nervous about fireworks on bonfire night or new years etc..
Great video....took more notes in my journal for tarot. Been really helpful. Thank you. Hope your ok.
Looking good as ever..
Have a nice week. Take care x
LOVED this!! 😍
Hi guys. I know this is an older video but I have recently stumbled upon a book about the Oswald Wirth deck, the book is called “Wisdom of the Tarot” by Elisabeth Haich.
Can anyone shed any light on the significant difference, as far as I understand, the Oswald Wirth deck predates the Rider Waite deck.
It was designed and coloured by Oswald Wirth at the dictation of a young initiate, Stanislas de Guaita.
I would love if Damien could do a video on it, as I imagine he would have a great perspective on the differences and reasons.
Love and blessings
Thank you my spiritual friend :)
Hello Damien, I have no idea what you’re talking about but when you talked about the initiation I’m ready. Can you direct me as to how to get started?
DAMIEN 🐈😻🐈⬛ For mitigating the kitty moving stress I recommend buying some kittles cat treats in bulk so you can put a drop of tinkle tonic on each treat... this is an herbal urinary Tract support med... let the drops soak in for 24-36 hours before storing in a jar. Use 5 treats 2-3x a day for helping heal heal them from cortisol and lack of fluids. Use this for 2-3 months straight. Also, get cat condos so kitty can climb up and have vantage points for scanning environments, better window views, and de-stressing.
Yea I like how you called it a siddhi (the supposed loa). All siddhis can be fun while they are happening, but none will lead you anywhere by clinging to them. Not that the loa can't be a path like anything else, using it as a means to climb up the ladder into higher consciousness, or using the claires for the same reason, but if your using them just to see spirits and feel energy then your still not going anywhere. Reminds me of what every guru 'ever' has said.... (Don't pay attention to the astral and the siddhis, keep going past that until you are enlightened). There is a reason, all things can trap you back into stagnation and settling instead of focusing on your highest goal. Same with satori experiences. Alot of people that meditate and ignite a satori experience and discover that they can get super high like taking ecstacy with certain types of meditative states start chasing that like a drug addiction and get trapped for years in that. I had one about two years ago, it was bliss for hours and then I read up on it and gurus saying yea that's not the point! Let go of satori experiences because then your just chasing highs again. That was enough for me to realize that it wasn't what I was looking for.
I looove your videos,they get me out of my bad norm
I was wondering whether you would start from The World or The Fool... Both directions are important Journeys to take. One is the Great Inhalation, the other the Great Exhalation.
25:45 The Persephone legend is very similar to Inanna going to the underworld to confront Ereshkigal and then going again to rescue her husband.
Damien can we get a video of that glassware?
Wow I’m learning so much!
I love these tarot videos. Can you do one on different card combinations? Love you Damien...you're such a gentle soul
Sorry for your loss...
How do you feel about practicing with herbs with learning the tarot, to me this is a way I've been learning more extensively as in plants within the cards and the actual meanings you can match up with floral/herbal meanings in some cases with the cards also color is a big one also along with the numeral meanings. I have found some interesting things about the cards using these...when I first started the first two cards I ever pulled were the high priestess and the magician...I didn't quite understand what that meant at first and really still don't to the fullest, but I'm hoping I can get a really great meaning with study down the road for me remembering these two cards were the very two cards I had pulled whenever I started down this journey...I mean I know the card meanings but I'm looking for something deeper I guess that it could mean in the future tense and in a spiritual sense...