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How many tarot cards can you find in this music video, “The Wheel” by Roseanne Cash? List them in the comments. Go HERE if you want to see the video without the distracting ad (sorry, I can’t find a way to embed the ad-free version).
Rosanne Cash – The Wheel (Official Music Video) –
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June 10, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Donnaleigh
Absolutely delightful! So beautifully done! I’m going back to watch it again!
Thank you for posting this!
June 10, 2009 at 7:12 pm
shadowfoxtarot
I am so enjoying this – thank you so much for posting it!
June 10, 2009 at 7:38 pm
mkg
I need to thank my friend Kel in Portland for telling me about this video. Thanks, Kel.
So everyone, why don’t you start listing in these comments the cards you see in the video. Let’s see if we can get them all.
June 10, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Kel
Glad you enjoy it!
K
June 10, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Kel
I spot 13 cards, possibly 15. Shall I list them now, or let the others guess first?
June 10, 2009 at 9:14 pm
mkg
Kel – Why don’t you list a couple of the more difficult ones now and some more after one or two others name a few.
June 10, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Debi
This was fabulous and fun! Literally and symbolically, I saw 25.
June 10, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Kel
A couple of the more difficult ones I see include the Two of Wands and the Six of Cups.
June 10, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Kel
I now count at least 20 or more!
June 10, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Kel
Okay, so maybe the Six of Cups is not so difficult in light of some of the others.
June 11, 2009 at 1:45 am
Nisaba Merrieweather
THE FOOL (How long was I asleep?)
THE MOON (When did the sky turn black?)
THE TOWER I(‘ll pick it all up piece byh piece)
The WHEEL (And the wheel goes round and round)
THE SUN (And the flame in our souls it will never burn out)
The HIGH PRIESTESS (I am a river with a voice)
THE LOVERS (I come into your life by choice)
JUDGEMENT (And none can judge the way it feels)
TEMPERANCE (You are a messenger from God, you are the angel I forgot)
ACE PENTACLES (and none can say it isn’t real)
THE FOOL again (I’m not looking for your answers)
SEVEN CUPS (Just to know the question is good enough for me)
THREE SWORDS (Take up the hearts you came to heal)
KNIGHT SWORDS (Put down your dagger and your shield)
TEN CUPS (You need hide nothing now from me)
EMPEROR (I see the essence of the man)
TWO CUPS (I stand before you as a friend)
JUSTICE (The truth moves through us even when we sleep)
Hmmm … quite a lot, really.
June 11, 2009 at 2:34 am
abbee
HAHA she would’ve included the entire deck if she could!
These are just some of the few cameos I enjoyed:
Knight of Wands
4 of Wands
2 of Cups
The Hermit
2 of Swords
6 of Wands
6 of Cups
Justice
Queen of Cups
Ace of Cups
Ace of Coins
6 of Coins
Knight of Cups,
The Hanged Man
3 of Cups
5 of Cups
5 of Swords
4 of Swords
Queen of Coins
Temperance
^_^
June 11, 2009 at 2:38 am
abbee
There’s also the World, too.
June 11, 2009 at 7:29 am
Kel
The Fool is further into the video. He even has his dog with him. I do not see the Fool in the opening at all.
June 11, 2009 at 9:41 am
Dawn Jones
oh what a cool video! Some that I spied:
4 of swords
Knight of Wands
2 of Wands
2 of swords
4 of wands
Hierophant
Hermit
Knight of Cups
6 of wands
6 of cups
6 of pentacles
ace of pents
Queen of cups
Temperance
Hanged man
2 of cups
ace of cups
5 of cups
7 of swords
10 of pents
9 of swords
queen of pentacles
the world
June 11, 2009 at 10:41 am
Beth Owl's Daughter
This is fabulous! Thank you so much!
June 11, 2009 at 10:49 am
Marcus Katz
Images in Video (some more literal than others)
4 Swords
World (Singer with garlands)
King Swords & Page of Swords
2 Wands
2 Swords
Lovers
Hierophant
Hermit
6 Wands
6 Cups
6 Pentacles
Justice (Scales)
Ace Pentacles (Coin)
Queen Cups
Knight or Page Wands
Ace Cups (pouring out)
Hanged Man
2 Cups
5 Cups (Spilt)
5 Swords
10 Pentacles (Figure with dog)
Queen Pentacles
Temperance
Lyrics (mainly interpretative!)
How long was I alseep? (4 Swords)
When did we plan to meet? (2 Cups)
Have you been waiting long for me? (Hermit)
When did the sky turn black? (9 Swords)
Do you still want me back? (Judgement)
I’ll pick it all up piece by piece. (Blasted Tower)
And the wheel goes round and round. (Wheel)
And the flame in our souls will never burn out. (Ace Wands)
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round. (Wheel)
I am a river with a voice. (High Priestess)
I came into your life by choice. (Magician)
And none can judge just how that feels. (Hierophant)
You are a messenger from God. (Star)
You are the angel I forgot. (Temperance)
And who’s to say that it isn’t real? (Fool)
And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.
I’m not looking for the answers. (Devil)
Oh, darling don’t you see (Justice)
That just to know the question (Ace Swords)
Is good enough for me. (9 Pentacles)
Take up the hearts you came to heal. (3 Swords)
Put down your dagger and your shield. (4 Swords)
You need fear nothing now from me. (Ace Cups)
I see the essence of the man. (King Pentacles)
I stand before you as a friend. (2 Cups)
The truth moves through us even when we sleep. (Moon)
And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.
June 11, 2009 at 10:59 am
Kel
Marcus Katz wrote:
“Images in Video (some more literal than others)…
World (Singer with garlands)”
Whoa, you’re right! I never thought of that one!
“How long was I alseep? (4 Swords)”
Yes, yes!
June 11, 2009 at 11:10 am
Crystal
Yes, this was awesome! It prompted me to do some more research on her wesite. What an incredible lady!
Crystal
June 11, 2009 at 11:12 am
Marcus Katz
Kel
Yes, I watched this several times before seeing the obvious World allusion all the way through! I kept wondering why they’d had the singer against that pole, before realising that this was just to get the garlands hanging around her like the World card! And when it turns to colour, the colours of the materials are very appropriate, if not quite fully the Golden Dawn colour correspondences!
Marcus
June 11, 2009 at 11:21 am
Kel
Excellent, Marcus, excellent!
I’ll post my observations later.
June 12, 2009 at 10:33 am
Geraldine
Mary — this is WICKED!
By the way, Roseanne Cash is really quite spiritual and mystical. Check this out:
http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Music/2006/03/Rosanne-Cash-Surrenders-To-Grief-And-Love.aspx
She has also had lots of difficulties in life, including a brain tumor, a grwoth on her vocal chords, death of two parents … etc. Wowweee … this is really extraordinary.
June 12, 2009 at 6:16 pm
melanie
This is lovely. I saw it linked from Joanna’s Gaian tarot artist blog, and I’ve blogged it myself too!
June 13, 2009 at 4:07 am
Beth Owl's Daughter
Yes, I’m blogging it today, too!
I am really impressed, y’all, for finding SO many of these cards. I have to go back now and watch it again (and again and again)! Thank you again, Mary!
– Beth Owl
June 14, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Andalusia
Geraldine, thanks for that link!
I agree with Roseanne Cash — Annie Lennox’s “Why” song is spiritual for me, too.
June 25, 2009 at 10:58 pm
JoAnn
We found 22…watched it at least 15 times..It was great fun.. Thanks…
JoAnn and Linda
June 30, 2009 at 11:01 am
Cynthea Kinnaman
My tarot teacher, Caterina Paris, posted this too, as a contest and I can’t remember when I enjoyed a contest more! It taught me to look closely at body language in the imagery for impressions connected to the images of the Rider/Waite deck. Remember the wreath flying through the air near the end — there’s the WHEEL!
Here’s my list. Some literal, some impressionistic. I’m too of the opinion that they would have used every card in the deck, if they could have!
1. 9/Swords
2. 4/Swords
3. Ace/Wands
4. II/High Priestess
5. VII/The Chariot
6. 9/Pentacles
7. 2/Wands
8. XXI/The World
9. Knight/Swords
10. Page of Swords
11. 2/Swords
12. 5/Wands
13. 7/Wands
14. 4/Wands
15. 2/Cups
16. IX/The Hermit
17. Knight/Wands
18. Page of Wands
19. 6/Wands
20. 0/The Fool
21. 6/Cups
22. 6/Pentacles
23. XI/Justice
24. Ace/Pentacles
25. Queen of Cups
26. XVII/The Star
27. XII/The Hanged Man
28. Knight/Cups
29. 5/Cups
30. VI/The Lovers
31. 5/Swords
32. 10/Pentacles
33. X/Wheel of Fortune
34. 7/Pentacles
35. XIX/The Sun
36. Queen of Pentacles
37. XIV/Temperance
38. Page of Pentacles
September 25, 2009 at 6:20 am
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