TAROT - MAJOR ARCANA
The Fool’s Journey
8-week Online Series
Monday evenings 7pm-10pm GMT
March 22nd - May 10th,
Online via Zoom
Book your place:
This is an online course held via Zoom.
An 8-week series - led by Helen Reddin
Helen has followed a traditional shamanic wisdom path for over 20 years.
She has a particular interest in the wisdom of the Tarot coming from the Western Magical Tradition, and also in Jungian depth psychology, as ways to explore our deepest self, and has been a student of both for over 30 years.
Helen has given workshops and lectures for the Jung Centre for a number of years on the Tarot, and also on Egyptian and Sumerian mythology.
Summary
‘I have seen an Ancient Path, an ancient road traversed by the rightly enlightened Ones of former times.’
- Buddha
The Major Arcana illuminate an organised sequence of steps to help us to identify and access the different stages on our journey towards Wisdom. The 22 images of the Major Arcana reveal an inner path laid down countless millennia ago by the Ancestors. It is a path upon which all humans have walked and continue to walk as we evolve and grow in consciousness.
Traditionally, this path was undertaken consciously by the initiate as part of a dedicated spiritual practice. Now, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are all called to embark consciously on this inner work. Mother Nature has compelled us both individually and collectively to turn aside from our normal preoccupations to understand how to draw on the resources of our deepest self to become what we were meant to become from the beginning.
This journey takes us into the Underworld and out again to confront the Powers of the Collective Unconscious as the ceaseless flow of Nature that propels us out of our comfortable lives to undertake the task before us.
Resistance is futile so we might as well act with good grace and begin.
In this series of 8 lectures we will concentrate on the arcana of Justice VIII, The Hermit IX, The Wheel of Fortune X, Strength XI, The Hanged Man XII, Death XIII and Temperance XIV as the symbols most useful to us now. We will take in aspects of the Western Magical Tradition, Mythology, Alchemy, Jungian Psychology, Indigenous Shamanic Traditions, Vedantic Philosophy and the Bhavachakra of Buddhism to explore the next steps of our human journey.
‘As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.’
- C.G. Jung
Content
The Path takes the seeker into the ancient origins of the human mind to encounter the archetypal forces of evolution.
Over the course of 8 weeks, we will look at all 22 keys but in particular we will concentrate on 7 of these keys Justice VIII, The Hermit IX, The Wheel of Fortune X, Strength XI, The Hanged Man XII, Death XIII, Temperance XIV which will be the most vital to us now as we navigate the uncertainty and upheaval of our times.
Equilibrium is the Basis of the Whole
The Mystical Guide and the Light of Wisdom
Maya and the Wheel of Becoming Part 1
Maya and the Wheel of Azoth Part 2
The Central Shadow Projection and Eros
The Sacrificed Gods and the Cosmic Pillar
Love, the White Rose of the Alchemists
The Divine Apportioner and the Human Flowering Tree
The slide sets from all 8 lectures will be made available to each participant. Traditionally, knowledge of the Path was only transmitted in ceremony therefore recordings of these lectures will not be available.
- Bookings and fees for Jung Centre Events are non-refundable.
If you’re unable to attend an event that you have booked, we would be very pleased to offer you credit towards any other event of your choice in the future.