Tarot Beginner's Course

This course will examine the Tarot through the lens of Jungian psychology to understand the inner processes and structure of the psyche. This course will examine the Major and Minor Arcana of the Tarot to amplify the Jungian concepts of personal unconscious, collective unconscious, the Self, persona, anima and animus amongst others. These terms will be explained throughout the course.

This course will also explore how to use the symbols and images of the Tarot to gain a deeper understanding about the development of ego-personality as an adaptation to our inner and outer worlds, and to develop the skills to self-reflect on our habits of thinking, feeling and doing. We look at other people and think we know them, just as we look at ourselves and think we know who we are, but by consulting the Tarot through the lens of Jungian psychology we can come to know ourselves in a more fundamental way. We meet ourselves in the Tarot.

During the course participants will also explore the divinatory and oracular powers of the Tarot using Jung’s concept of synchronicity.

In between classes participants will be given various course work to do to deepen their understanding and insights of the arcana: starting a Tarot journal, using various practice spreads, exploring the elements with the 4 suits of the Minor Arcana, and using active imagination to understand the creativity of the Tarot symbols and images.

Consulting the Tarot is to consciously enter the transpersonal realm as the Tarot is concerned with patterns of consciousness. This makes the Tarot an ideal guide in the journey towards Individuation, Jung’s term for becoming psychologically whole. 

At the end of the course, participants will:

• Have an understanding of the structure of the Tarot deck as a reflection of the structure of the psyche.

• Know how to lay and begin to read 3 different spreads.

• Have a working knowledge of basic Jungian concepts such as archetype, complex, synchronicity, personal unconscious and collective unconscious, the Self, synchronicity.

• Understand how to use the Tarot as a guide to the inner processes.

• Feel more at home in the world of symbol and metaphor.

• Gain an understanding of how to work with the 4 Elements with the support of the Minor Arcana.

• Understand synchronicity and divination as activations of another order of reality.

• Have begun a Tarot journal.

 Class 1

Structure of the psyche according to Jungian psychology i.e. ego personality, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious and how they relate to the structure of Tarot

Brief history of the Tarot and Rider Waite Smith deck.

We will explore the Major Arcana cards

Course work: Single card reading each day. Starting a Tarot Journal. 

Jung’s theory of Synchronicity and Divination

Introduction to the 22 Major Arcana.

Discover your Year card

 Class 2

Introduction to the 4 suits of the Minor Arcana. How they relate to the 4 elements and the 4 functions of Jungian typology.

Jung’s theory of the complexes.

Active imagination

Discover your Destiny Card

Example of 3 card layout reading

Course work: Continuing daily card reading and journaling.

Practice doing 3-card layouts during the week

Class 3

The court cards,  Anima and Animus

Ying and Yang qualities within us

Discover your Persona card

Class 4

Ethics of reading for another.

Celtic Cross spread and other

Resources to further your learning journey

Class will run for four (4) consecutive Saturdays Starting on June 6 from 10 am to 11:30 am ending on June 27.

Class is limited to 6 participants, we will meet a Kemper Center in Kenosha

Tea will be available

Cost is $120

Must bring your own deck (Raider Waite Smith)

Must attend all four sessions, if you can physically attend any or the days you will receive material electronically and can schedule a call with me to review material.

Space is limited, must Pre Register

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