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Ten numbers, zero through nine. Work down the page in order, one video at a time, and by the end you'll have a way into all seventy-eight cards.
Twelve hours in total. No hurry, no order police.
One small thing: I mention video numbers here and there. Ignore them and just work down the page — the order is right.
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Download: The Root Numbers at a Glance
The whole series on a single page. Print it and keep it beside your deck.
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THE ROOT NUMBERS
How to Learn All 78 Tarot Cards by Learning Just 9
16 minutes
Where we're going, and why it works. Tarot through the lens of number — with numerology, mythology, sacred geometry and the Enneagram along for the ride.
How to Find Your Tarot Birth Card (and What It Means)
54 minutes
Work out your own Birth, Personality and Shadow cards from your date of birth, and find out what they have to say to you.
Why Tarot Starts at Zero: The Fool and the Birth of Number
29 minutes
The mysterious, mystical beginnings of tarot numbers, cards and characters.
The ACES in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Magician
30 minutes
Beginnings, initiatory energies, and the power of magic.
The TWOS in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The High Priestess
29 minutes
Duality, polarity, and the affirmation of intuition.
The THREES in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Empress
35 minutes
Fertility, fecundity, and the planning stages of growth.
The FOURS in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Emperor
25 minutes
Stability, structure, and a platform for manifestation.
2 Tarot Spreads for Reading Your Birth Card
24 minutes
Two layouts to use with the birth cards you calculated earlier.
Tarot and the Enneagram: The Heart Triad (Types 2, 3, 4)
40 minutes
A detour into the Enneagram, and where it meets the cards. The Heart Triad first.
The FIVES in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Hierophant
28 minutes
Tension, adjustment, and the adoption of a human perspective.
The SIXES in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Lovers
33 minutes
Connections, cycling, reliability, and a brief return to source.
The SEVENS in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Chariot
42 minutes
Expansion, experimentation, and the power of imagined possibilities.
Tarot and the Enneagram: The Head Triad (Types 5, 6, 7)
33 minutes
The Head Triad — types Five, Six and Seven.
The EIGHTS in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | Strength
33 minutes
Embedded organisation, sure foundations, and a connection to infinity.
The NINES in Tarot: Four Suits, One Pattern | The Hermit
41 minutes
Integration, deep awareness, and the preface to a brand new beginning.
Tarot and the Enneagram: The Gut Triad (Types 8, 9, 1)
42 minutes
The last of the three — types Eight, Nine and One.
GOING FURTHER
TAROT COURT CARDS: Some Approaches
51 minutes
The Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings — the part of the deck most readers find hardest. Several ways in.
TAROT TABLEAUX: Reading the Whole Deck at Once | The Missing Majors
70 minutes
Laying out the entire deck, and what that reveals about the Majors sitting outside the root-number pattern.
The Tarot Decks and Books I Recommend
90 minutes
The decks and books actually worth your money. Recorded in 2018, so a few of my recommendations have moved on since. The classics haven't.
One more thing, if you want it
This series covers what the cards mean. It doesn't cover what to do on a Tuesday evening when something's gone sideways and you don't know what you think.
20 Self-Care Tarot Spreads is twenty layouts for exactly that. The stalled project. The decision you keep postponing. The flat week with no obvious cause.
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