Tarot to Transform Your ... Problems?
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When I introduced a three-month small-group coaching program designed around tarot, Tarot to Transform Your Life, I designed it around embracing the full potential of tarot as a structure and support in mapping your life and specific projects you want to pursue.
It’s a tool to help you see yourself and understand what’s reflected; to help you articulate your strengths, weaknesses, and patterns of moving through the world; to help you identify opportunities and challenges through strategic forecasting and assess their alignment with what you know about yourself; and finally to help you use the lessons of the tarot structure to help you actually get things done in a way that’s natural and effective for you. And all the while, you’re deepening your relationship to tarot.
In short, Tarot to Transform Your Life is a program for exploring how to use tarot as a tool for inner knowing of the self, outer knowing of cycles and forecasts, and aligned activation between the two.
Surely, I thought, this is good and useful stuff for everyone, at least everyone who reads tarot.
But I marketed the program based on how I learned to use tarot to overcome a personal problem. I marketed it based on the main problem I had found in my evolving years of tarot reading: analysis paralysis and information overload.
I had just assumed that most diviners, like me, were good at collecting information from the cards, but they didn’t know when to stop, and eventually we all would learn that sometimes more is not better. Just processing the information is all we can handle, so there’s nothing left for acting on that energy.
At that point, what’s the point of forecasting? Sitting in the anxiety of what could be?
Anxiety around what’s coming is something I hear from clients who seek out predictive readings, such as my Portals of Being year-ahead readings and the month-ahead readings that are available to patrons over on Patreon (included monthly with Sovereign and Sage tier membership). Some want to know what’s coming so they can plan ahead to minimize the impact or set expectations around things that might not work out. Others want to know when something good is coming but get major anxiety when something bad is likely.
Well, wouldn’t you know it? When I opened the latest newsletter from Truity, there was a post about burnout by Enneagram type that resonated on both these fronts. According to them, overload and anxiety are key burnout triggers for Enneagram Types 5 and 6, respectively, in high-pressure careers. Others, such as indecision (Type 9) and neglecting their own needs (Type 2), are also relevant to the work we do in Tarot to Transform Your Life. In fact, it turns out that there’s something—no, there’s a lot—in Tarot to Transform Your Life for everyone who’s been slinging cards for more than a couple months.
(Full disclosure: I currently have zero affiliation with Truity. It’s just a website featuring lots of blog posts keyed to different personality types, but I started subscribing to their newsletter because they helped me understand my Enneagram type in a way that helped me think about how I move through the world, which none of my Enneagram-dabbling friends had done. I ignore most of their non-Enneagram content.)
Let me just say that I’m very excited to share more about the way that I think intentional use of tarot (or any form of multifaceted, structured divination) can help you transform your life, whether you’re an Enneagram 5 like me or not.
What follows is my take on tarot as a tool for managing the core trigger areas for each of the Enneagram types (at least as identified by Truity—I’m not the expert on Enneagrams). And if you couldn’t care less about Enneagrams, there are still useful considerations here about how to use tarot in general and about Tarot to Transform Your Life as a program. The Enneagram thing is a framework for organizing this post and providing coverage from outside of my own primary experiences.
Of course, if you don’t already know what Enneagrams are or what you are, it might be fun to read through this, go find your dominant Enneagram, and then come back to see how yours compares to your own findings. What parts of this seem most useful and relevant to you? And what should, based on your Enneagram?
Read on at HermitsMirror.com to learn how your Enneagram's core fear and overwhelm pair with transformative tarot.
