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„The Tarot in itself is an attempt at representing the constituents of the flow of the unconscious, and therefore it is applicable for an intuitive method that has the purpose of understanding the flow of life, possibly even predicting future events, at all events lending itself to the reading of the conditions of the present moment.” C.G. Jung

There are multiple ways how to engage with the unconscious, how to access the psychic structure of reality. One of those ways is Tarot, a card game rich in symbolic language that describes psychological journeys through different aspects of life. In this event we will explore how Jungian psychology fits into 78 cards.

“After all, miracles no longer happen in our world, and we think that something should happen now to provide an answer or a way out. And now these UFOs appear in the sky.” C.G. Jung

What comes after all the ghosts and devils left nature and the divine was banished from its holy places? According to Jung, people started to notice lights in the sky. As always in the psyche, things are not gone, they just manifest somewhere new.

“All our split-off parts return, all the people we meet in life who have a fascination influence upon us are really split-off parts of ourselves, things we have repressed which are brought back by other people, and that is the great value and the great danger and difficulty of human relationship.” - C.G. Jung

Who we meet and befriend is not random, it follows a deep psychological drive that is likely completely unknown to us. There is something there that could lead to a transformation of our whole personality.

“In the symbol of the dying and resurrecting god, man expressed a psychological phenomenon into which he projected himself at a time when, emotionally, he was still identical with nature. But through development he became aware that it was not the spring outside, it was the spring or the vanishing of spring in himself which concerned him.” C.G. Jung

The beginning is the end. On death follows rebirth.

“Comparing modern psychology with modern physics is not just empty talk. Despite their diametrically opposed fields, both disciplines have one highly significant point in common: both approach the previously “transcendental” sphere of the invisible and untouchable, the world of pure analogical thinking.” - C.G. Jung

Jung’s relationship to physics is more profound that most people know. Starting with his friendship with the world famous physicists Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Pauli to his mythological insights into the psychological significance of numbers.

“Completeness belongs to the nature of your best effort; it must contain the irrational as well as the rational, the unconscious as well as the conscious attempt. Therefore magic means are often exceedingly grotesque. Think of the magic medicine of the Middle Ages, for instance, or the secrets of the alchemical kitchen, or the contents of magic amulets-like the ground-up bones of a bat-it all seems the sheerest nonsense, but that simply proves the sincerity of the effort. And the means are legitimate inasmuch as they represent acknowledgment of assistance from the other side.” - C.G. Jung

The world is more than we see and understand, to allow in things that might not fit or seem confusing is the other side of the coin. Jung made this experience at his midpoint in life and what started by him building castles of sand, just as he did as a child, led to him changing the field of psychology.

“An anima relationship is never a normal relationship, but always something fantastical. A man sees his female face in the anima, and that is dangerous; the anima transforms everything it touches. Wherever it is active, it visualizes one’s own image, a man’s own image, and this is his female being, an invisible minority that he carries inside himself.” C.G. Jung

A man’s drive comes from a deep place and can wreak havoc on him and his surroundings when he can not keep it in check. The 1983 movie Scarface tells the story of such a man and his downfall.

„Man’s effort to achieve wholeness correspond, as the divine myth shows, to a voluntary sacrifice of the self to the bondage of earthly existence.“ C.G. Jung

Given his surname, Jung (young) saw it as ironic that he was engrossed by transformation and rebirth in his investigations, same as the Freud (joy) was so focused on sexuality. But to be reborn, something needs to die first.

“Eros without the Logos inside never understands, there is nothing but blind relatedness. Such people can be related to God knows what - like certain woman who are dissolved completely in little happy families - cousins, relations - and there is nothing in the whole damned thing, it is all perfectly empty.” C.G. Jung

Who could have thought that breakfast eggs could be of such psychological significance? This romantic comedy allows a peak into the inner workings of what Jung called the relationship function: Eros

“Nobody will ever become conscious if he does not hit his head on something.” - C.G. Jung

Consciousness act as the center point for Jung’s model of the psyche, as something so important that everything else that exists needs to be put into reference to it: The unconscious, the things that are not in consciousness. What it is, how it works and what’s its purpose is will all be part of this event.