Divine Divination Blog June Archive

Some schools of symbolic study or occult thought, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, view the tarot to function as a textbook and mnemonic device for their teachings.

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Tarot Readng; Psychological

Carl Jung was the first psychologist to attach importance to tarot symbols. He may have regarded the tarot cards as representing archetypes: fundamental types of person or situation embedded in the subconscious of all human beings. The Emperor, for example, represents the ultimate patriarch or father figure.

The theory of archetypes gives rise to psychological uses. Because the cards represent this different types of people, ideas of the subject's self-perception can be gained by asking them to select a card that they 'identify with'.

Equally, the subject can try and clarify the situation by imagining it in terms of the archetypal ideas associated with the card. For example, someone rushing in heedlessly like the Knight of Swords, or blindly keeping the world at bay like the Rider Waite Smith Two of Swords.

The Tarot has been said to be a kind of language of the "subconscious" , allowing it to be analyzed at the conscious level. Like many "New Age" therapies, however, tarot cards are not used by psychologists.

Although Jung and Freud are still seen as important innovators, the majority of psychologists today are still quite critical of many aspects of their theories.

There are no known university programs that teach this practice and there is no empirical evidence of therapeutic use or benefit. There are also no scientific papers published on their use in any professional journals.

More recently Dr Timothy Leary has suggested that the Tarot Trump cards are a pictorial representation of human developement from a baby to a fully grown adult. The Fool symbolising the new born infant, The Magician symbolising the stage at which an infant starts to play with artefacts etc.

In addition to this Dr Leary also considers the Tarot Trumps to be a blue print for evolution in general and that the latter half of the major arcana represent the future evolution of humans. Your can explore his ideas in his book "The Game of Life" which explains each of the Tarot Trumps in psychological developmental language.

Tarot Reading; Divination

Tarot reading revolves around the belief that the cards can be used to gain insight into the current and possible future situations of the subject.

Some believe they are guided by a spiritual force, such as gaia, while others believe the cards help them tap into a collective unconscious.

The Distinct Usages of Divinity and Divine in Religious Discourse:

• To refer to a godlike being or deity or Power
• To refer to forces and powers are universal, or transcend human capacities
• To refer to qualities of individuals who are considered to have some special access or relationship to the divine

Overlap occurs between these usages because godlike entitues and deities are often identical with or identified by the powers and forces that are credited to them - in many cases a deity is merely a power or force personified - and these powers and forces are often extended or granted to mortal individuals.

For example, throughout much of the Old Testament Yahweh is closely associated with storms and thunder: He is said to speak in thunder, and thunder is seen as a token of His anger. This power was then extended to prophets like Moses and Samuel, who caused thunderous storms to rain down on their enemies.

Divinity in monotheistic faiths always carries connotations of beauty, goodness, beneficence, justice, and other positive, pro-social attributes. In these faiths there is an equivalent cohort of malefic supranormal beings and powers, such as demons, devils, afreet, etc., which are not conventionally referred to as divine; demonic is often used instead. Pan- and polytheistic faiths make no such distinction; gods and other beings of transcendent power often have complex, ignoble, or even irrational motivations for their acts.

Divinity

Divinity and divine, are broadly applied but loosely defined terms, used variously within different belief systems and faiths - and even by different people within a given faith - to refer to some transcendent or transcendental power, or its attributes or manifestations in the world. The root of the words is literally "Godlike" (from the Latin "Deus," Dyaus, closely related to Greek "Zeus"), but the use varies significantly depending on the underlying conception of god that is being invoked. See Wikipedia: Divinity Tags: transcendent • manifestations • 0 Comments. - Permalink