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Tarot and Kabbalah with Rachel Pollack

Tarot Bytes

Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:spirituality

4.9936 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Episode 98: Tarot and Kabbalah with Rachel Pollack. The Rider Waite Smith deck is steeped in mysticism. Did you know that the Kabbalah is part of the rich symbolism in this popular deck? In this episode of Tarot Bytes, the legendary Rachel Pollack joins me to talk about the Kabbalah and its role in tarot. Soon you'll see the Tree of Life not only in the Ten of Pentacles but also in the Three of Cups and Five of Pentacles. Get ready to go deep and get inspired by Rachel! Books mentioned in this episode: The New Tarot Handbook: Master the Meanings of the Cards 78 Degrees of Wisdom

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0:00.0

The Hello and I'm the author of the Terrell coloring book and your host for this podcast series.

0:26.6

This is episode 98 of Terrell Bites, the podcast where I just shout short, entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to

0:33.9

re-tero and for today's episode our topic is

0:37.3

Carol and Kabbala and I've got a very very special guest it's someone that

0:41.8

I talk about quite often in this

0:44.1

podcast I'm speaking with Rachel Pollack the author of 78 degrees of wisdom

0:49.8

welcome Rachel oh, thank you.

0:53.0

I am so excited to talk to you today, so thank you for being here.

0:57.0

And Kabel, I think, is a very challenging thing for a lot of Tarano newbies that's mentioned you know throughout your

1:04.3

book so you know for people who are maybe never heard the word before can you explain in

1:10.0

a nutshell what kabala

1:12.4

uh... well i in a nutshell what Kabbala is? Well I can maybe explain in a several nut shells.

1:17.0

The thing about the word Kabbala is that it needs different things to different people.

1:22.0

So the

1:22.7

the Kabbalah that's found in Tarot is a tradition called

1:27.0

Western or her meda Kabbalah, which has been transformed from what we could call the original Kabbalah which is Jewish.

1:35.0

Kabbalen means received, so to receive wisdom to transmission from generation to generation.

1:42.0

But Kabbal is a very transmission from generation to generation.

1:43.0

But Kabbal is a very dense, kind of like esoteric construction of the universe.

1:50.0

To understand, you know, the workings of the divine throughout creation.

1:56.4

In Tarot, Kabbalah is kind of a linkage to a system of ideas that are organized into a pattern.

2:08.0

The pattern usually is called the Tree of Life, which is for people who know the

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