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The 22-Week SoulCollage® Tarot Journey
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"We meet ourselves time and again in a
thousand disguises on the path of life."
- Carl Jung
Introduction
Welcome to our 22-week journey through
the 22 archetypes of the Tarot’s Major
Arcana, where we will get to know
ourselves better and one another as
sisters on the journey. I am so excited to
take this journey of transformation with
you. Here we go!
The purpose of this course is to provide a
playful means of self-discovery and self-
exploration by studying the archetypes of
the tarot
trump
cards and by creating our
own SoulCollage® versions. This course
is envisioned as a contemplative journey,
a pilgrimage, if you will, that doesn’t
require you to show up at any particular
time or place, but instead allows you to
show up for yourself by reading,
contemplating, and creating, whenever it
is convenient for you.
You could easily devote just an hour or
two a week feeling into the archetype and
making a card. If you like the extra bonus
of seeing others’ cards and sharing your
own, as well as taking part in lively
discussions in our secret Facebook
group, you are welcome to join in, but it is
not required. If we’re not already friends
on Facebook, friend me here and I will
add you into the SoulCollage-Tarot
Journey group:
www.facebook.com/
stephanieandersonladd
Some of you may be very familiar with
the Tarot and others not so much. There
is no one, definitive way to read the Tarot
and to understand the archetypes.
It is
part of the enigma of the Tarot cards that
each has myriad meanings, and each can
be interpreted in countless ways.
I offer
some tools and a perspective based on
my studies, worldview, and understanding
that may help you think, feel, and intuit
your way into the archetypes, and, of
course, you will have your own unique
lens to see and interpret their meaning as
well.
The 22-Week SoulCollage® Tarot Journey
I consider myself an archetypal explorer
that began with my love of myths and
fairy tales as a child and continued with
my study of Jungian psychology and the
occult mysteries as an adult. I have long
been interested in The Tarot, particularly
the 22 archetypes of the Major Arcana. In
creating this course, I bring my own
background and experience as a
psychotherapist, writer, artist, and
student/teacher of the mysteries to the
cauldron, but know that we are all cooks
here. Feel free to add or subtract
ingredients to suit your taste and palette
along the way. I very much look forward
to your contributions and wisdom as you
create your own archetypal reflections
and we make this a journey of mutual
teaching and learning.
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A Bit About the History of Tarot
The Tarot has been around since at least
the 14th century, ostensibly used as a
gambling card game known as
Tarrochi,
played by Italian nobility. The Tarrochi
referred to the 22 trump cards added to
the 14-card suits we know today as
hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds. Our
modern playing cards have their origin in
this early deck, although the original
symbols and meaning have been
obscured. it is thought that many card
games that involve trumps and tricks,
such as Bridge, derive from it.
The earliest tarot cards existent are the
Visconti-Sforza decks (no complete deck
remains), believed to have been hand-
painted by Renaissance artist, Bonifacio
Bembo, in 15th century Italy. He is
thought to have been an initiate of a
secret occult society, perhaps the Priory
of Scion, as DaVinci was believed to
have been, whose mission was to protect
the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary
Magdalen. (DaVinci’s famous subject,
The Mona Lisa, aka Princess Isabella Da
Argon, Duchess of Milan, was a Sforza.)
The tarot artists of the time brought this
esoteric and heretical story to the
creation of the 22 trump cards, originally
unnamed and unnumbered.
Bembo included specific emblems,
crests, and symbols of the powerful
dynasties of the Visconti and Sforza
families so it appears they were
commissioned by the family joined in
marriage, possibly as a wedding gift.
However, the cards also included hidden
symbolism and well-known archetypal
medieval figures such as the pope and
papess, emperor and empress, as well as
occult symbols of that time.
The Renaissance was a time of great
interest in the occult sciences, alchemy
and astrology, and even the Church
tolerated it for a period. Then as the
Church reasserted its power, the Tarot
was declared heresy in Italy and France
due to the hidden meaning embedded in
the imagery and its growing popularity.
The 22-Week SoulCollage® Tarot Journey
According to Margaret Starbird, in her
book,
The Woman With the Alabaster Jar:
Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail,
the 22
trump cards of The Tarot tell the secret
history of the
Sangraal
or holy bloodline
and the message of the repressed truth
of the Grail, which saw the lost bride of
the divine feminine taking her rightful
place alongside the divine masculine.
Inherent in the story is the promise of a
New Day when the patriarchy will be
upended (the repressive structure of The
Tower falling) and balance restored (The
dancer on The World).
So while the 78-card deck was used as a
popular parlor game for several centuries,
its secret message was also being
conveyed and preserved throughout the
courts of Europe and with the common
folk who held to the precepts of the
Hidden Church.
It was not used for divination until the
18th century, when it began to be used as
an instrument of fortune-telling in France,
perhaps by the Gypsies, who carried on
the tradition of the underground faith--the
Grail heresy. Modern day gypsies in the
south of France to this day celebrate the
Dark Madonna and Saint Sarah, believed
to be the daughter of Christ and the
Magdalen and heiress to the legacy of
the Holy Grail.
It was during this later period that the
names and numbers of the trump cards
were assigned and the tarot archetypes
began to change in keeping with the way
more modern adherents understood and
practiced occult and esoteric traditions.
For example, the Pope became the
Hierophant, the Papess became the High
Priestess, and the Juggler became The
Magician.
Arthur Waite & Pamela Colman Smith
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There are correlates between the 22
trumps of the Tarot and the 22 letters of
the Hebrew alphabet, some of which
appear on the cards, and the 22 paths of
the Tree of Life, which are part of the
Jewish mystical teachings of the
Qabalah, which means “to receive.” This
arcane body of knowledge has its roots in
ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and
Greek mystery schools.
Enter Arthur Edward Waite, occultist,
mystic, scholar, and member of the secret
society, the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn, whose teachings were a
combination of the aforementioned
mystery schools, alchemy, Qabalah, and
mystical Christianity. Waite commissioned
Pamela Colman Smith to illustrate his
version of the tarot, published in 1910.
The 22-Week SoulCollage® Tarot Journey
His was the first deck to add scenes to
every card of the Minor Arcana and not
just portray numbered suits. His purpose
in “rectifying” the original tarot was to
bring back the true meaning of the cards,
amplify the archetypes of the Major and
Minor Arcana (arcana means secret
knowledge), and carry the hidden
message of its origins forward.
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You might ask, what is the benefit of
consulting the tarot? Those of you who
are familiar with SoulCollage® already
know how satisfying it is to ask a question
and pull one of the cards from your deck
to find an answer to a life question based
on the image you have created. It is a
way to access the Soul, Inner Guide, or
Higher Self to discover the wisdom
residing within each of us.
Images, metaphors, and archetypes are
the language of the soul. Archetypes
serve as one-dimensional models for
being, representing both divine and
human qualities and attributes, containing
light and shadow elements that we see in
ourselves. They can be viewed as
familiar guides from our memories,
dreams, and reflections, and part of the
collective unconscious we all share.
I will be using the Rider-Waite-Smith
(referred to as RWS) deck as the main
point of comparison and understanding of
the tarot archetypes and symbols, but I
encourage you to use whatever tarot
deck you feel comfortable with and enjoy
using to play along.
Reflections and Suggestions for
the Journey
Many tarot decks since the Rider-Waite-
Smith deck came onto the scene have
incorporated these iconic images in one
form or another; however, there are a
wide variety of decks now that offer
unique thematic versions of these
archetypes, one of which will be
highlighted each week in this course. As
you create your own rendition using
SoulCollage®, see which symbols call to
you and ask to be a part of your card. Let
your own imagery and way of seeing the
archetype come through with your
imagination and intuition as your guides.
If you don’t have a tarot deck, here is a
link to download a free set of tarot cards
to print, including the RWS and others:
http://www.tarot-cards-reading.net/
printable-tarot-cards.html
Bohemian Cats Tarot
The 22-Week SoulCollage® Tarot Journey
I recommend that each week you pull the
trump card for that week from your deck
and study it, placing it on your altar or
other prominent place where you can see
it all week. What is the first thought,
feeling, or word that comes to mind when
you look at the image on the card? Take
note of that. Practice reading the cards by
studying the images and intuiting their
meaning in your journal.
Read the pdf study guide that arrives
each Sunday morning and contemplate
the meaning of the archetype and where
you are on the journey, make a
SoulCollage® card as you feel inspired,
and add it to your altar. Allow yourself to
try on or
shapeshift
into the archetype for
7 days. How does it feel to be The
Magician? To embody Strength? To roll
with The Wheel of Fortune? To practice
Temperance? Notice how that archetype
shows up for you in your daily life, how it
reminds you, guides you, or challenges
you. Pay attention to your dreams and
write them down. There is a good chance
these archetypes will make their
presence known as you bring them into
conscious awareness.
Ask a question each day with the trump
card before you. For example, you might
ask, What do I need to know to bring The
Empress into full being today? or What
shadow aspect of Justice am I needing to
consider? or How can the High Priestess
help me with ____.” The journal prompts
offered at the end of each week’s study
guide may help you dive deeper.
You will notice that there are themes in
the tarot journey that come up over and
over again, such as the question of
duality, including the poles of conscious
and unconscious, inner and outer,
innocence and experience, life and death,
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feminine and masculine. Clarissa Pinkola
Estes reminds us that “The soul has no
gender.” These energies are active in
both men and women. Some of the
archetypes portrayed on the cards are
male and some are female (7 of each; the
rest of the cards either show both a male
and a female or something else).
As women, we are considering both the
inner feminine and masculine parts of us
as we work with these archetypes and
think about how we might project these
qualities out to the world and see them in
others. There is nothing wrong with
changing the gender in your cards by
making a female Hermit or Hanged
Woman or a masculine figure for Justice
and Strength, for example.
As with us humans, the archetypes carry
shadow characteristics--the disowned or
missing parts, that are often difficult to
see until we shine light on them. Those
qualities and instincts we have relegated
to the shadows could be positive aspects
we have suppressed (e.g., the artist) or
negative aspects we don’t want to look at
(e.g., jealousy). It is useful to look at both
sides and work to integrate the shadow,
not deny it.
Generally, pulling a tarot card reversed
indicates some shadow element at work
and it needs to be considered in terms of
either what is missing, not being
expressed enough or what is in excess.
As we take the journey through the
trumps over the next 22 weeks, we will
want to consider the gifts of both the light
and the shadow as teachers.
For those of you who have already made
a number of SoulCollage cards, look to
see if you might have some of the
archetypes of the Major Arcana in your

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