Even if you have not worked with the concept of archetypes before – I am sure you have seen them, even if you did not know at the time what they were. They are everywhere throughout literature, books, folk stories and movies. Archetypes can be described as an agglomeration of characteristics and energies which are embodied and displayed through a character, or a role. An archetype represents the purest expression of certain characteristics which we all have within us. Carl Jung described archetypes as being a part of our Collective Unconscious, in which we store our memories and beliefs about each archetype. (Image by John Collier, In the Forest of Arden, 1892)

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Divination is a way to predict and sense information about the future, what is unknown and hidden. The Tarot is one of many tools used to practice this art. There are 78 cards in a tarot deck – all having different meanings and energies. They are shuffled and laid out in a spread which is then read by the tarot reader. Tarot can be used in many different ways, for journaling, divination, path work (a type of meditation where you enter into the card’s landscape) and is also used in writing stories for visual inspiration. Tarot is most often used as a tool to reflect on our inner world, psychology and sometimes this can also lead to divination.

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When I first introduce people to the art of tarot reading, there is often some confusion as to what it actually is and what it can help us with. Many of us have imprinted in our mind this image from movies, of psychic, intuitive or tarot readers which are shrouded in mystery. We often have the expectation that tarot is mostly predictive in nature or that it is dark in some twisted way. Yet, it doesn’t have to be how intuitive readings go.

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