THE TAROT & JUNG
ONLINE BEGINNER’S COURSE 2024
led by Helen Reddin
6 Tuesday evenings - 7pm-9pm (Ireland / UK time)
April 9th - May 14th 2024
Course fees: €210 *Video Modules now available
A Jungian Approach to Tarot Divination
Introduction
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.
Helen Reddin has worked with the Tarot for over 30 years and has an in-depth understanding of its esoteric and psychological significance as well as its practical application to our personal lives. Helen is a regular contributor to lectures for the C.G. Jung Centre and has facilitated workshops in Ireland, Wales, and Germany on the Tarot and on the Celtic Magical Tradition.
Class 1: The Tarot and the structure of the Psyche
Contents include:
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 as the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana including the Court Cards.
Brief history of the Tarot and Rider Waite Smith deck.
Course work: Single card reading each day. Starting a Tarot Journal.
Class 2: Major Arcana
Contents include:
Jung’s theory of Synchronicity and Divination
Introduction to the 22 Major Arcana.
Course work: Major Arcana exercise - choosing your birth year card.
Class 3: Minor Arcana and the personal unconscious
Contents include:
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.
Course work: 4 Elements exercise. Continuing daily card reading and journaling.
Class 4: The Court Cards, the Anima and Animus, and exploring the elements in more depth.
Contents include:
Introduction to the Court cards as characters within our psyche, Masculine and Feminine qualities within us.
Jung’s Anima and Animus.
Further exploration of the 4 Elements.
What are symbols? How do they relate to our inner work?
Course work: Minor Arcana exercise.