ON-DEMAND COURSE

Jungian Perspective on the Tarot

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Ken James
TOPIC
Divination
Format
5 class course
DURATION
5 Hrs

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Deepen your understanding of the Tarot and learn how to read it from a Jungian perspective

In this beautiful 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.

Course Description

This 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 were 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.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Use a synchronistic tool of divination to understand Jung’s Model of the Psyche more deeply.
  • Enhance your understanding of the structure and dynamics of the psyche through Jung’s Analytical Psychology paradigm.
  • Recognize how luck, fate, and hazard contribute to a clearer understanding of Jung’s Model and your own individuation process.
  • Feel more at ease accessing non-rational ways of understanding your life and relationships.
  • Learn to work with it as a tool to support your inner work and individuation process whether you are new to Tarot or experienced.
  • Establish and maintain a connection to your inner and outer growth through Tarot journaling and Tarot reading.
  • Better grasp the role of synchronicity and use it to live more consciously in the present moment.

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
5 videos & 5 audio recordings
Handouts & recommended reading
Accurate subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Ken James

Kenneth James, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Along the way, he studied vocal music at the American Conservatory of Music, and learned a modality of music therapy known as The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music at the Institute for Consciousness and Music in Baltimore, Maryland.

Scholarships

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