Table of Contents



The Magician, the Fool and the Empress
The Tarot Cards in the cycle of life and in therapy
Ruth Netzer, Modan Publishing House, 2008


Acquaintance with the Tarot
The name Tarot
The primary subjective encounter
Readiness for an encounter with the Tarot
Sanctity and completeness
Speculation and prediction
Synchronicity
Jung's reference to using consciousness tools based upon synchronicity

The Major Arcana cards tell about themselves

The Minor Arcana cards
The four symbols of the series
The Court cards
The Ace cards – the first cards of each series
The cards of the four series, second to tenth

Tarot and other approaches
The alchemical background of the Tarot
The expression of Alchemy and the Tarot through the pictures
Various influences – the transition from Alchemy to the Tarot of today
Tarot and Taoism
Tarot and Judaism
Tarot and Astrology

Symbols, archetypes and myths serving individuation – a Jungian approach of interpretation
The self-symbols in the Tarot The symbols of the Self in the Tarot ****

The archetype of order
Stages in the development of the soul in the culture

The dialectical impulse of concealment and consciousness– on personal and individual fields
The urge for consciousness during the 20th century

The dialogue between the conscious and the unconscious

The journey of the hero ****
The quest for the Self

The journey of the heroine – the feminine archetype and retrieving the suppressed feminine ****awakening
Ruth – Torah – Tarot
Androgyny and the Sacred matrimony and the symbols of the Self marriage *****

The archetype of Hermes in the Tarot
The Magician
The Fool
The Hanged Man
The Joker archetype, the Trickster archetype and the trio Magician, Fool and hanged Man ****

Selected archetypes
The numbers and their significance
Colors
Circularity and cyclicality
The infinity loop and the fusion
The snake
Animals

Spirituality and shadow
Tarot and the temple of the soul

The missing component of the Tarot – the interpersonal dimension

The Tarot in therapy
Shuffling the cards and choosing a card in Tarot
The question and the answer
Selected instructions for self-consultation with the cards
Using the Tarot in psychotherapy – examples
Tarot in guiding supervisen of therapists – examples *****
The creative workshop