"Mythology, resistant to time and age, has long instructed humanity in the ancient truths of life's mysteries. The Tarot, as a mythology of human existence, is no different. Mythology, within a psychotherapeutic framework, functions through personification." ... "The use of the Tarot in therapy is therefore parallel to the use of projective tests such as the Thematic Apperception Test. The Tarot arguably holds an advantage over the TAT in that it is inherently encoded with cultural, psychological, and philosophical symbolism." (Quotes from Bryan De Justin's book, the focus of this episode.)
Excited by these quotes? So am I!! Join me for a rich conversation with author, life coach and hypnotherapist Bryan De Justin as we speak about:
-What is Tarot Psychology?
-The psychology of our species
-Projections in Tarot and mythology to engage with it
-Our different bodies and their perspective
-Symbolic thinking
-What a Freudian perspective in this case means
-Hypnotic portals !
-How the Gods are US
-The Imaginal Symbol Induction Technique
-Eye fascination
-The most important number three !!! and what it represents and how 3 is the basis of our psychology
-Unmet develpmental needs and how to use tarot for that
-Engaging with the unconscious -and not to let other's unconscious effect your interpretation
-The importance of the therapist's own journey with the tarot
-The hidden warning in each card
-Tarot is myth and it explains us
-Psychological unity
-Involuntary celibate
-The upsurge of the Demiurge
-Chiron in sagittarius (remember, we only touch on a few key points, there are many more meanings to such an archetype)
-I also mention the generation that Bryan belongs to, and I love how he also reminds us of the shadow side of uranus in aqurius -being super intelligent yes, but there are real challenges in too high a mind, that is not embodied like the challenges we see in AI.
I hope you enjoy this, TRULY RICH interview, but just one last wonderful quote from Bryans book:
"The foundational premise of all psychoanalytic psychotherapy is that the unconscious knows all that consciousness does not. If one cannot accept this (as many cannot), then one cannot accept psychoanalysis at all. The fact remains that there are deep and repressed aspects of the human being that are as dark and minacious as the profundity of the sea. These aspects exist within all individuals, and it is one of the chief tasks of life to venture into the darkness of the earth in order to confront the darkness within oneself and emerge transformed."
Thank you for being with us! Stay transformed till next time.
-Mannah
LINKS:
the book we speak on today: https://a.co/d/00HTEGnN
Bryan: https://www.bryandejustincoaching.com
Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
Youtube edition: https://youtu.be/9lt-Nd4Kcc0
