In this beautiful live webinar course Jungian Analyst and teacher Ken James will take you on a tour through the world of the Tarot. You will be able to read the tarot and work with it from a Jungian lens gaining insights about the Tarot and about your own inner process.
This live webinar course examines the Tarot not only as a tool of divination, meditation, and active imagination but also as a way to explore the structure and dynamics of the psyche as understood in Jungian psychology. The set of 78 cards which comprise the Tarot will be examined using significant concepts from Jungian Psychology, including the Self, archetypes and complexes, the structure of the dream, and the synthesis of personal and collective energies in life. Participants will move between the Tarot and Jung’s Model of the Psyche as they increase their understanding of both.
The course will also explore both the enactive and receptive uses of the Tarot for personal growth and to facilitate the process of individuation. Correspondences between the various “sub-decks” of the Tarot and arenas of personal experience will be described, and the major aspects of personality as understood by Jungian psychology will be explored through the major and minor arcana.
The suits of the minor arcana (cups, wands, swords, and pentacles) will be compared to Jung’s typological categories and the quaternity of medieval elements, and an exploration of the underlying implications of the “challenge” and the “gift” cards will be discussed.
In each class, participants will be given various activities to perform with the cards in between sessions to deepen their understanding and insights both into the Tarot and into their inner process.
Beginning with a Tarot journal, activities will include discerning one’s court card, constructing a life narrative, and generating a synchronistic autobiography. Various Tarot spreads (arrangement of cards) will be explored, and ways to read the cards for oneself and others will be considered.
Participants are requested to bring their own Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck to each class. This will be the deck that will be used for instructional purposes.