critical role major arcana tarot card set

The girl has the sign of vitality on her hat. 11 StrengthĪ young girl opens the mouth of a lion. Human being as ball of the wheel of fortune. 9 The HermitĪn old man walks with a stick. Compensation between nature and the force of a man. In the right hand she has a sword, in the left, a balance. Beauty, cross-road, way inward or outward. The woman on the left is wreathed with a vine. The woman on the right has a golden garland on her head. The young man stands in a corner where two streets come together. Two men are kneeling before him: one is red, the other black.

The two columns are standing on the right as law, on the left liberty. The Hierophant leans on a three fax cross. In the right hand he is holding the scepter. In the right hand she has an eagle, in the left a scepter.

The bearing of the hand shows right activity, left passivity. The Magician has, in the right hand, a golden ball, in the left a stick. Comparing these two texts will clarify what ideas Jung added. However, Jung seems to have added several keywords from his own psychological lexicon as I noted above. These notes are simplistic but were obviously only meant to be a starting place for further exploration.ĪDDED: Japanese tarotist, Kenji, discovered that Jung’s descriptive text comes almost directly from Papus’ Tarot of the Bohemians (thank you, Kenji). Notice also his interest in what’s held in the right and left hands as indications of masculine/active or feminine/passive (I prefer ‘receptive’) energies. If you are familiar with Jung’s core concepts you’ll find several of them referred to directly or indirectly: Self, Shadow, extraversion, intraversion, conscious, unconscious, fate, center, inflation, compensation, sacrifice, etc. I have corrected obvious errors in language, but kept these changes to a minimum. They are based on cards from the Grimaud Tarot de Marseille, which he felt most closely contained properties he recognized from his reading of alchemical texts. What follows is Jung’s verbal description of the Major Arcana. A friend of hers made a literal translation into English, typing it onto large file cards. It contains brief notes Hanni Binder took of Jung’s descriptions, in German, when he spoke to her about the Tarot cards. As an update to my earlier post on Carl Jung and Tarot, I just received a paper from the Jung Institute library in New York.

Critical role major arcana tarot card set