Monday, November 24, 2014

Jung and Tarot: The Star

Jung and Tarot brought all the pieces and symbols of the card together. It was extremely detailed and left nothing unaccounted for. The poem before the chapter didn't make much sense to me until much later after I'd read it. "As above so below" refers to the idea that what is above is achievable for everyone and there's always hope. I did like the ideas presented. Every star is unique just like every person is unique, and when someone dies their soul "is elevated to heaven where it shines eternally as a star." However, Nichols kept going back and forth between different ideas - this is both a positive and a negative. She presents different suggestions and beliefs to provide insight and allows the reader to take their own standpoint, but it becomes confusing when she talks about one idea and then another totally separate idea and then back to the original idea. Overall, she had the same concepts and meanings for the card that The New Tarot Handbook gives.