Tarot or Other Symbol Cards, As a Symbolic and Intuitive Tool
The Rorschach Test and the Thematic Apperception Test (picture interpretation technique) were designed to explore personality dynamics in mental health clients and to better understand their motivations, beliefs, and inner conflicts. Similarly, tarot and other symbol cards have been used by adventurous and creative psychotherapists as a tool for change.
I sometimes use tarot cards or other symbol cards as a psychospiritual instrument to assist my clients activate their own intuitive experience, explore and process unconscious material, and access higher levels of consciousness.
Carl Jung, who is well-known for his work in psychology and spirituality, came to the conclusion that life has a spiritual purpose beyond material goals. Tarot cards are considered to be one of the spiritual tools he is known to have found useful because his teachings suggest that they can provide doorways to the unconscious, and may also be a way to explore synchronicities, archetypes, and symbols.
Tarot cards have been used by mystical societies for thousands of years, possibly making their first appearance in Egypt.
They describe man's passage from spiritual sleep to an awaken state. ~ Ron Kurtz and Hector Prestera, The Body Reveals
I believe that we don’t know what we don’t know. However, sometimes, we just know, even though we don’t know, how we know. Intuition is a skill that we all have, a GPS of sorts, though not all of us trust it as real because what we sense, feel, or see in our minds bodies, and hearts, may not have a logical explanation.
A great deal of the work that I do with my clients relies heavily on teaching them how to listen to themselves by employing their body as an intuitive compass and direct pathway to their spirit, mind, and heart; thus, ultimately they are empowered by being able to move through life with more ease and self-assurance.
Tarot or other symbol cards as a symbolic and intuitive tool can:
I sometimes use tarot cards or other symbol cards as a psychospiritual instrument to assist my clients activate their own intuitive experience, explore and process unconscious material, and access higher levels of consciousness.
Carl Jung, who is well-known for his work in psychology and spirituality, came to the conclusion that life has a spiritual purpose beyond material goals. Tarot cards are considered to be one of the spiritual tools he is known to have found useful because his teachings suggest that they can provide doorways to the unconscious, and may also be a way to explore synchronicities, archetypes, and symbols.
Tarot cards have been used by mystical societies for thousands of years, possibly making their first appearance in Egypt.
They describe man's passage from spiritual sleep to an awaken state. ~ Ron Kurtz and Hector Prestera, The Body Reveals
I believe that we don’t know what we don’t know. However, sometimes, we just know, even though we don’t know, how we know. Intuition is a skill that we all have, a GPS of sorts, though not all of us trust it as real because what we sense, feel, or see in our minds bodies, and hearts, may not have a logical explanation.
A great deal of the work that I do with my clients relies heavily on teaching them how to listen to themselves by employing their body as an intuitive compass and direct pathway to their spirit, mind, and heart; thus, ultimately they are empowered by being able to move through life with more ease and self-assurance.
Tarot or other symbol cards as a symbolic and intuitive tool can:
- Give you a fresh perspective to a stuck situation
- Reflect current themes or lessons
- Help you connect to yourself and work on everyday or specific circumstances
- Illustrate the healing journey in a metaphorical way
- Offer multiple perspectives of symbols and meanings
- Help you tap into experiences that may be otherwise difficult to verbalize
- Provide an opportunity for deep conscious transformation
- Connect you to your intuition about how a specific image plays a major role in your life
- Enhance archetypal energy psychotherapy
- Make the unconscious conscious
- Take you to the next level of your healing process
Your discovery journey is your own, though if we work together, I will be by your side supporting you and showing you different innovative and effective ways to access whatever you are ready to explore. I am not here to offer you a tarot reading as there are plenty of tarot readers out there you may consult. Instead, utilizing tarot or other symbol cards as a psychospiritual tool, if you choose to include it in your healing process, can help you to address themes such as working with the shadow, developing compassion for self and others, addressing guilt and codependence, creating balance, and striving for the life you envision having, among many others.
I am located in northwest Austin, and also provide online sessions. If this is something that resonates with you, I offer a free 20-minute online consultation to hear about you and what you are looking for, answer any related questions you may have, and if it's a good fit, get an idea of how we would like to move forward together. Contact me to book your free 20-minute online consultation! - Lina
