Retreat on the Tarot

Image credit:N0cturbulous While Buddhism, Sufism, shamanism and other traditions offer us outstanding tools for our spiritual unfoldment, they also require learning about foreign philosophy, culture, and sometimes even language. The tarot’s archetypes are something that all Westerners have grown up with since infancy (even if we didn’t realize it), and thus they are more easily accessible. The Tarot archetypes – such as the Fool, the Empress, and the Chariot – allow Westerners to do depth work and find greater meaning in our lives, relatively easily. The Tarot claims unique status as part of the Western Mystery tradition. It offers a powerful and concise path of liberation that draws on our own life experiences as Westerners and our native intelligence to help unfold the deeper wisdom and understandings of our mystical life. In this two week-long retreat, participants learn to use the 22 cards of the major arcana of the Tarot deck as a resource for reflection, visualization and self-discovery. Each card embodies the characteristics of an archetype, aspects of which exist within each of us, and each card contains symbolism through which transformation can occur. In this retreat, daily teachings focus on the knowledge base of the tarot tradition, which leads us into deeper meditation on the archetypes and energies therein. Through these teachings and meditations, we discover what aspects are stronger and weaker in our being, ultimately teaching us how to integrate them more fully into our daily lives. Exercises incorporate art, music and movement to help us contact […]