Carl Jung, Synchronicity & the Esoteric History of Tarot

Published 2024-06-20
Host of ‪@CreativeCodex‬ , MjDorian returns!
This week, we explore the psychology, philosophy and esoteric history of Tarot.
According to legend, the Tarot may reach back as far as ancient Egypt. Origins aside, the Tarot orbits numerous fascinating historical figures and events. Its archetypal symbolism is incredibly deep and is carefully tailored around major elements of western esotericism. Some of which stretch back to neoplatonist geniuses like Proclus.
And, oh yeah, there's even a wizard battle or two in this episode.

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All Comments (21)
  • @Mountain_Spirit
    I have never believed in any divination, however I study Jung and read about I-Ching and decided to get the book. At that time I was trying to decide whether I need to go to the grad school to become a therapist so I asked the I Ching about it skeptically and the answer I got was so clear that I couldn’t deny the power of the I-Ching anymore. It answered me so specifically (with the exact amount of years I will be studying) that I took a plunge and applied. This was the best decision in my life and made it because the divination was so clear about it. it really tricked me out and i am very skeptical of using it on a regular basis.
  • I've been into tarot and cartimancy for 30 plus years. The accuracy still blows my mind. I don't understand really how it works, I just know it does and I certainly trust it.
  • I’ve been reading tarot for over 30 years now... They most definitely draw on the unconscious mind and our ability to crystallize manifest reality... we are choosing the cards, meaning the person for whom the reading is for, some time in advance... and the entire thing is happening at an unconscious level. The cards speak to us in the same language that dreams speak to us in.. The main way the cards work is by acting as a bridge between the waking mind and the dreaming mind, allowing us to speak directly with our unconscious minds, a potent and useful accomplish ment that is just not possible by any other means that I'm aware of.
  • These videos are also in conversation with the highest self. We reach the perfect reminder at the process time. I find this regularly when I put a video in my que. It always finds me in the perfect vibration.
  • @whichcraftnow
    Just when you think you know anything at all about a topic, something like this presents itself, and suddenly you realize that you don't know a damn thing. Ha! This video was a magical treasure to have stumbled upon. Thank you both! 💜
  • This is so on point. I've been working with the Tarot for the last couple of months and picked it up like it was an old bike in the garage from my childhood. I absolutely love the Tarot and what it does for deep, authentic introspective work and you guys are hitting all of this stuff right on the head. Thank you! ❤🙏
  • @user-lp8uo7qo1k
    The tarot, like the i-ching, and when witch doctors throw sticks and chicken bones and analyze the position each have meaning. It's what we believe in. Imagine throughout the universe and time how many forms of tarot there could've been. ALOT. because they believed, facts. This tool has been around longer than we can comprehend
  • @akerr5823
    Laetitia Barbier is a great tarot ( and cartomancy) historian and teacher out of NYC if anyone is looking ~ I loved her online courses ~
  • I just got a few decks recently. I've never tried it but I'm a long time listener so I figured I'd try. Holy shit. This is an insight generator. Keep up the good work my friend.
  • It wasn't one person that started the tarot. I can give background on it. So, in my school, they have info on this that the normal internet and public doesn't. The symbolic language that became tarot, originally spoken through key symbols, then later expounded by more adepts became tarot. It was invented by adepts in far back traditions (way before the first PUBLICLY known tarot decks). So the known esoteric training decks meant for initiates that are the oldest that people know about are the Marcielle deck, the bohemian tarot, and another French one that I can't remember right now, but the techniques of symbolic figging into the mass subconscious hail from back in Egypt systems and probably even farther back using symbols on objects for the same type of function in consciousness. Eventually schools started passing these, and other techniques down and refining them to fit the day and age that they were refined for. The tarot wasn't meant for future gelling, but for training initiates in the powers of mind, training in the stages of awakening and training in understanding universal powers. Secondarily it was used for divination. So for instance, the rider waited was a second hand knock off of the original Golden dawn tarot that had some of the original symbology obscured and others committed and then sold in public as a card game to keep people from batting an eye when they were used in public by initiates, but they caught popularity as a mystical divinity device (not what they were intended for). The ommited material was to work in the way much like blinds work: (the initiates knew the real symbology behind the cards, including what was ommited, but enough of the symbology was still in tact to pull up the meanings of uses from the subconscious while using in public.
  • @questarc1978
    Always buy your own cards,let them guide you to them in the store, and between 3-5am is the best time to be curious with them when the Vail is lifted between worlds,it's best to shuffle them with your washed hands and relax clear your mind completely, choose 8 cards first, place them front down then ask a question, choose randomly let them guide you to each card ,after words all together they will tell you the story.
  • I believe synchronous events has to do with a quality of time. It’s more than just the meaning we make of it. Sometimes we just notice the quality and then we have a moment of clarity.
  • @Johngradycole
    This is fortuitous timing, my friends. Thank you for this awesome discussion. Tarot is truly fascinating
  • Beautiful work of helping humans. Thank you. Love and peace to all specially humans
  • This topic was broached in a very respectful and sincere way... while still dignifying scholars and practitioners. There is so much that is unknown... even today scientists and archaeologist discover remnants from the past that make us rethink our very own recorded history. I believe that whatever tool we feel comfortable that allows us to break the wall of that which blinds us or by design has been kept occult, well I say... use it, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear and especially if you are not afraid of the truth that will be revealed along the way. Thank you.. excellent interview.:face-red-heart-shape:
  • @sonordstrom
    Hahahaha. I woke up to an alert for this video, after spending my week comparing and contrasting four books on tarot to help me understand and read them better. I just started reading the little red book on Monday. lol. Fuckin synchronicities. Cheers!
  • Use Tarot since 25 years, used only one book for Interpretation. A book based on Jung s archetypal concepts, only about the great arcana,just to be the book he presented here 😊
  • @G66627
    Such an interesting conversation, thank you for sharing