The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed

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As a novice student of the Kabbalah, the first deck I read from was the Witches Tarot.  The deck was intended to be a study aid but I read from it for clients for decades.   What I loved about the deck is that the artist included imagery that related to the spiritual pathway of the Kabbalah.  There is the Kabbalah spread where the cards are laid out in the map of the Kabbalah.  In English these doorways are known as Desire, Clarity, Will, Vision, Heart, Courage, Joy, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Spirit.   Anything can be put on the Kabbalah.  For my example the pathway of frying an egg.  It starts with Desire.  'I'm hungry.'  Moves to Clarity 'What am I hungry for?' It takes an act of Will to get up and go make the egg and Vision to see how to make the egg.  The pathway to enlightment and success goes through the heart.  The act of love (in this case self love) to fulfill the desire.  It takes some degree of Courage to make the egg and there is Joy in fulfilling the desire of the eating the egg.  Finally there is the Knowledge gained in the act of preparing the egg and Wisdom gained through this knowledge (what to do different next time).  Spirit is about the final outcome or primary motivator for the reading.

 

In understanding the flow of the Kabbalah map, considering the placement of the cards reveals a lot about the querent and their situation.