The Tarot: The name originally came from the Brescian "Tarocho" - Part IV

LEARNING THE TAROT: TOO COMPLICATED? Let me teach you how to read Tarot

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Anne Vos
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Is learning the Tarot too complicated? Let me teach you Tarot!

In these videos we will break down the Tarot step by step, starting at the Basics. This video is perfect for the beginner Tarot reader!

This first Tarot lesson is all about the structure of your Tarot deck: What is the difference between the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana? What is the meaning of the 4 Suits?

I like to link the tarot to several other spiritual tools, like Astrology, Numerology, Mythology, and so on. If you want to join me on this adventure, please don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on Instagram!

Anne Vos
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Anne Vos

There are a lot of  Tarot channels on YouTube. This is just one of them. It's an ongoing study, and this was the first program. I think to really understand how to use them, you would have to seek instruction or from a book. What struck me here is that Anne Vos is very knowledgeable and thorough, and incorporates other disciplines such as numerology or astrology.

The Complete 78 Tarot Cards List with their True Meanings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pentagram and Brescian-Camunian nexus

I think it's interesting that there is an indirect Brescian Tarot-Camunian pentagram link. The likely oldest pentagrams have been discovered in the Val Camonica. They showed up in the "mainstrem" so to speak, about 3,000 years ago. Ultimately, there had to be a pentagram first, before the pentacle. The pentagram is an earth symbol, and I interpret the circle surrounding a symbol as a circle of nature... making the pentacle a very powerful sigil. The Fibonacci tie-in was very interesting, and new to me.

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PENTACLES EXPLAINED: What is the meaning of the Pentacle suit? 

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PENTACLES EXPLAINED! Everyone has seen the Pentacle before, but what is the meaning of this mysterious symbol?

In this video I explain the meaning of the Pentacle in general, but I also walk through the pentacle cards one by one. Let me teach you everything about the Pentacle suit!

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Remembering Evelyn Paglini: Part VI

AB - Twelve Pack #6 - Evelyn Paglini Binge
 
Ghostly Matters

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10 hours and 45 minutes of Evelyn Paglini on the old Art Bell Show. I listened to the whole binge on my iPod.  You can use ListenToYouTube.com to save any YT video on an mp3 file. I've been doing that with a lot of them lately since much of YT is audio programs and podcasts now. I didn't take notes, but the late Dr. Paglini had a tremendous about of knowledge and wisdom beyond just magick. She referred to herself as a "Metaphysician," and was indeed a Tuscan Strega by tradition. 

Her website MysticalBlend.com is still up and running, and one of her old Art Bell programs and five of her newer Coast To Coast AM/George Noory programs are on their new YT page. That's at least twenty hours of listening right here. If anyone has any history, experience, or story about Evelyn, you may send it to camunlynx@live.com and it can be placed in this series, if it's long enough it may be posted as a separate posting. I know she has a much longer history than being a frequent guest on that popular radio program. I believe that she was a native of Illinois, but had long been based out of Sherman Oaks, California.

I had put up her bio from Mystical Blend, and I believe that they have updated it. There was one interesting part that I think is new: Dr. Paglini was the last in a thousand-year lineage of Strega Toscani occult practitioners. Those who are able to benefit from her power and guidance during this lifetime are indeed gifted, since hers is a destiny that can be acquired only by a chosen few.

"Every morning is an opportunity, so take it." -- Dr. Evelyn Paglini

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'Malleus Maleficarum' - "Hammer of the Witch"

Hammer of the witch || Malleus Maleficarum - The Book 

Unfolded Mysteries

The above video deals with the detailed study of the medieval book malleus maleficarum commonly known as hammer of the witch.

Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum (commonly rendered into English as "Hammer of the Witches"; Der Hexenhammer in German) is a treatise on the prosecution of witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, a German Catholic clergyman. The book was first published in Speyer, Germany, in 1487. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author, but some scholars now believe that he became associated with the Malleus Maleficarum largely as a result of Kramer's wish to lend his book as much official authority as possible.

Both purported writers of the work were Dominican clergy, and the work came about as “the result of a peculiarly Dominican encounter between learned and folk traditions, an encounter determined in part by the demands of inquisitorial office, and in part by the requirements of effective preaching and pastoral care.” In 1490, three years after its publication, the Catholic Church condemned the Malleus Maleficarum, although it was later used by royal courts during the Renaissance, and contributed to the increasingly brutal prosecution of witchcraft during the 16th and 17th centuries.

'Malleus Maleficarum' - Free PDF download



Vehmic Court

The Vehmic Court predated the 'Malleus Maleficarum' by as much as two centuries, although it overlapped and no doubt absorbed it in Medieval German speaking socieities. In the same way that there was great irony in that the Vehmic Court actually used ancient German pagan symbols as it's own; I was thinking that the "Hammer of the Witches" reminds me of the Odinic Hammer of Thor. Certainly some of these German magickal traditions were conflated with Odinic tradition, therefore instead of Witches being "hammered"... it could almost be a symbolic protest to these policies of this time period by attaching that to Thor's Hammer in some form. I always say that if someone takes symbols away from you which were yours to begin with.... don't be intimidated.... yank it back from them! "Recapture the flag."

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8-21-16 Addition: "Vehmgericht or Vehmegericht" simply means "Vehmic Court" in German. Also, in the section "Malleus Maleficarum" within the posting in the below link 'Legacies of Charlemagne', the year 400 for the Malleus Maleficarum was incorrect (he forgot the "1" in 1400). Lastly, I cannot find any reference to Charlemagne having founded any forerunner of the Vehmic Court, as it came into existence at least four centuries after his death. 

I just wanted to make note of the "Vehmic alphabet" for further study. As covered numerous times before on this blog, the powerful symbolism used by the Vehmic Court was taken from ancient German/European traditions. This, despite the fact that they were killing pagans for the crime of having the wrong religion; right along with thieves, murderers, rapists, etc. The logical next step is to find more reference to this alphabet, and discover its actual origin.


The Vehmic Alphabet

Craig Stanton - Miskatonic Debating Club & Literary Society - excerpt from 'Legacies of Charlemagne' - August 6, 2013

According to tradition, Charlemagne established the Vehmgericht in the German Catholic areas of his kingdom after 772 AD to enforce his will upon the recently suppressed Pagan Saxon tribes. As part of his war of attrition against them, he forcibly moved over 30,000 Saxons across the Rhine and replaced them with an equivalent number of devout “West Gauls” who became known as the Westphalians.

The Vehmgericht was established by five knights who enacted vigilante justice upon any Saxons who railed against the rule imposed upon them. The word “vehm” is said to derive from the German word for tree – baum – and is indicative of the tendency of this cadre to decorate forests with the hanged bodies of their victims. In time, this bloodthirsty unit attracted the attention of another organisation with similar interests, that of quelling non-believers – the Inquisition. It can be no coincidence that the Vehmic Alphabet and that adopted by the Inquisition bear marked similarities.

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