Do you ever go to the cards confused, heartbroken, lost, and walk away feeling even more confused, heartbroken, and lost? We all know the transformative power of the tarot. You likely discovered it yourself in your first reading, when the Magician, the Hermit, the High Priestess looked you in the eye and told you exactly who you were. And then, as the story usually goes,
This is the one technique that has totally transformed and deepened my tarot practice. We’ve all had the experience of being “haunted” by a tarot card, pulling it again and again over days, weeks, even years. And of course, we wonder if there’s something more we’re supposed to get about the card, if there’s something we’re missing, and that intuition is usually very right. Because
Jungian archetypes are one of the most tragically misunderstood things in the spiritual community. With a quick Google search, you’re likely to pull up infographics listing 8, 12, 16 Jungian archetypes labeled things like “The Artist”, “The Caregiver”, “The Rebel”. And while these are absolutely archetypal patterns we recognize in stories and within ourselves, they really have nothing to do with Jung. Jungian archetypes are
We tarot readers are so focused on how to best interpret the cards, that we totally overlook the actual process of reading them. And this is why many beginner professional readers lose the wonder and feel only stress when pulling cards for clients. Without proper preparation, we can become suffocated by the expectation, distracted by our own projections, or disconnected from our intuition. We throw
In our modern world, the line between psychology and spirituality is ever-thinning. We orient our magic just as much towards inner development as cosmic direction, and we are seeing more and more clearly that psyche and matter are cooperative sides of the same whole. And though we might not consciously see our magic and spirituality as a practice of psychology, it’s all about the lens.