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Video: What is Jungian/Analytical Psychology?
A new video – the first of two parts – where I talk about my thoughts on Jungian/Analytical Psychology, and (coming up in the second video) how I bring and apply it to my work. Click the video below to view.
Read More Tarot: Dreaming While You’re Awake
As with dreams, tarot prefers to communicate using symbol and metaphor. Often, it is a language that on the surface appears nonsensical, but which we find we can understand once we become willing and able translators. Elements that would make strange dance partners in our everyday life move together with harmony and fluidity; and we take it all in. There is a part of us that is adept at moving in the same rhythm, and it is this part that takes over when we work with tarot.
Read More No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Pt. II
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ~ Joseph Campbell. The entrance to the Hell Fire Caves in West Wycombe, Bucks. Consider this a quasi-Part-II to the “No Guru, No Method, No Teacher” post I did earlier this month about forging one’s own path. Up until a year ago, I…
Read More “No Guru, No Method, No Teacher”, Part I
For a very long time, I considered myself a bit of a charlatan.
I’ve been a jack of all trades; and a master of none. I have talked about, and worked with, tarot, but I have never managed to fully tread the path of the adept in anything tarot-related.
Read More Is Your Life Falling Apart? Or Is It Trying To Come Together?
One of the greatest gifts that a Jungian approach to tarot – and to my own life – has given me has been indescribably precious: The understanding that the crisis and breakdown that I was plunged into aged 34 was not only normal, but a rite of passage.
Read More When the Teacher Becomes the Student – A Lesson in Humility
This week, I came face-to-face with another learning lesson, in a very personal way. And this time it wasn’t a lesson in doubt and awe, but a lesson in humility.
Read More Tarot is a Verb, Not a Noun
I believe that when we look at a reading, we are looking at an aspect of the unconscious. And when we become aware of the unconscious, the unconscious becomes aware that we are aware of it.
Read More Pedestals and Projections: A Tale of Growing Up
I can remember a moment when my style of tarot reading changed significantly. Actually, it was more than that: it was the moment when I started to relate differently to what I once thought was separate from me.
Read More [YouTube] Sympathy for The Devil
An Update; A Personal Story
As you may have noticed, there’s been a distinct lack of rhythm to the publishing of The Tarotcast over the past couple of months. This, in part, is why.
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